SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please read these guidelines and then send your article, essay, review, research notes, conference summary, etc. to the appropriate Associate Editor (see below).
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Value and Uniqueness of PSJ
- The Peace Studies Journal publishes rigorously peer-reviewed academic work of the highest quality.
- The Peace Studies Journal provides the utmost respect, love, and care during the review process.
- The Peace Studies Journal is a free-to-access electronic journal.
- The Peace Studies Journal charges no fees for publication.
- The Peace Studies Journal supports and encourages submissions that are excluded from mainstream journals, including the use of photographic, videom MP3, and new media work.
- The Peace Studies Journal, while an academic journal provides space and place for activists contributions.
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We Seek
- research articles and essays – 2,000 to 10,000 words
- student final papers – no more than 10,000 words
- course/class summaries – no more than 2,000 words
- research notes - no more than 2,000 words
- commentary – no more than 2,000 words
- tactic and strategy analysis – no more than 10,000 words
- academic development – no more than 10,000 words
- lecture summaries - no more than 2,000 words
- conference summaries – no more than 2,000 words
- protest summaries – no more than 2,000 words
- action alert summaries – no more than 2,000 words
- film, book, art, and media reviews - no more than 3,000 words
- interviews and dialogues – between 1,000 to 10,000 words
- poems – no more than 10,000 words
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Style
- All submissions should have appropriate references and citations. Manuscripts should be single line spacing, 12-point font and conform to the Harvard style format.
- Submissions must be sent in Microsoft Word format. Submissions in other software formats will not be reviewed.
- Authors should remove all self-identification from their submissions, but all submissions must be accompanied by a title page with author(s) name and affiliation, name of type of submission (e.g., article, review, conference summary, etc.), contact information including e-mail, postal address, and phone number.
- Authors must include an abstract of no more than 150 words that briefly describes the manuscript’s contents.
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Format
- You should cite publications in the text: (Best, 2006) using the first named author’s name or (Best and Nocella, 2006) citing both names of two, or (Best et al., 2006), when there are three or more authors. At the end of the paper a reference list in alphabetical order should be supplied:
- For books: Surname, Initials (year), Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication. e.g. Gray, J. (2002), Straw Dogs, Granta Books: London
- For book chapters: Surname, Initials (year), “Chapter title”, Editor’s Surname, Initials (Ed.), Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication, pages. E.g. Greenbrier, T. (2006) “Against Civilization, For Reconnection to Life!”, in Best, S. and Nocella, A.J. II (Eds) Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, AK Press, Oakland, pp. 198-203.
- For journals: Surname, Initials (year), “Title of article”, Journal Name, volume, number, pages. e.g. Cudworth, E. (2008), “’Most Farmers Prefer Blondes’: The dynamics of anthroparchy in Animas’ becoming meat”, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, pp. 32-45.
- For published conference proceedings: Surname, Initials (year of publication), “Title of paper”, in Surname, Initials (Ed.), Title of published proceeding which may include place and date(s) held, Publisher, Place of publication, Page numbers.
- For unpublished conference proceedings: Surname, Initials (year), “Title of paper”, paper presented at Name of Conference, date of conference, place of conference, available at: URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date).
- For working papers: Surname, Initials (year), “Title of article”, working paper [number if available], Institution or organization, Place of organization, date.
- For encyclopaedia entries (with no author or editor): Title of Encyclopaedia (year) “Title of entry”, volume, edition, Title of Encyclopaedia, Publisher, Place of publication, pages.
- For newspaper articles (authored): Surname, Initials (year), “Article title”, Newspaper, date, pages.
- For newspaper articles (non-authored): Newspaper (year), “Article title”, date, pages.
- For electronic sources: if available online the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as a date that the resource was accessed.
- Standalone URLs: i.e. without an author or date, should be included either within parentheses within the main text, or preferably set as a note (roman numeral within square brackets within text followed by the full URL address at the end of the paper).
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Review Process
- Upon acceptance for review, the Peace Studies Journal editors will send manuscripts, under a double-peer reviewed process, to no less than two, and generally three reviewers. Reviewers provide their recommendations to the editor, who makes the final decision to accept the manuscript.
- The Peace Studies Journal holds to the utmost respect, love, and care when reviewing manuscripts. While we do take off the names of the submitter, we do ask the reviewers to keep their name and e-mail contact on the Reviewer’s Comment Sheet in-order for the author to contact the reviewer directly for assistance and advice. This we feel and argue is the most productive and useful review process for advancing the field of peace studies.
Submissions will be assigned to one of the four following categories:
1. accept without revisions
2. accept with editorial revisions
3. revise and resubmit for peer review
4. reject
- Every effort will be made to inform authors of the editor’s decision within 100 days of receipt of a manuscript. Authors, whose manuscripts are accepted for publication, will be asked to submit a brief biography that includes their institutional or organizational affiliations and their research interests. The Peace Studies Journal only publishes original materials. Please do not submit manuscripts that are under review or previously published elsewhere.
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Copyright, Republishing, and Royalties
- All Work published by the Journal is copyrighted by the Peace Studies Journal.
- Republication of Contributor’s Submitted Work may be assessed a reasonable fee for the administration and facilitation to other presses. Such fee shall be determined at the discretion of the Peace Studies Journal.
- Royalties: Contributor agrees and acknowledges that no royalty, payment, or other compensation will be provided by the Peace Studies Journal in exchange for or resulting from the publication of the Submitted Work.
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Please send submissions to appropriate Associate Editor (see below)
- Publishing Date – August 1, 2010 CLOSED
Dr. Paul J. Magnarella
Warren Wilson College
pmagnarella@warren-wilson.edu
- Publishing Date – December 1, 2010 OPEN
Dr. Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
SUNY, Cortland
Andrew.Fitz-Gibbon@cortland.edu
- Publishing Date – March 1, 2011 NOT OPEN YET
Dr. Rita Verma
Adelphi University
VERMA@adelphi.edu
- Publishing Date – June 1, 2011 NOT OPEN YET
Dr. Jason Del Gandio
Temple University
rhetoric4radicals@gmail.com
- Publishing Date – September 1, 2011 NOT OPEN YET
Dr. Victoria Fontan
University of Peace, United Nations
vfontan@upeace.org
- Publishing Date – December 1, 2011 NOT OPEN YET
Dr. David Gabbard
East Carolina University
gabbardd@ecu.edu



