SUBMISSION AND STYLE INFORMATION

Submission

Manuscripts may be submitted to Police Journal ONLY through Editorial Manager (www.editorialmanager.com/pj): Submissions by email outside Editorial Manager are discouraged and hard-copy (paper) submissions will not be accepted.

You may, after submission, use the Editorial Manager site to check the progress of your submission, simply log in and follow the links.

On receipt, each article is assigned an identifying number which will be used throughout the review/ revision/ publication process.

You will receive a notification of that number shortly after submission. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an email containing that number within 7 days of submission, please contact pj@vathek.com as a matter of urgency.

Authors should prepare, as separate items, the following files: A cover sheet containing each/all authors' full contact details; An abstract (max 250 words) prepared for cutting and pasting during the submission process; The main manuscript which should include the abstract at the head; All tables (optional); All figures (optional); Each of the foregoing will require separate upload during the submission process. Key words will be required during submission.

Submitted articles must be accompanied by full contact details and will be returned to authors for amendment if these details are not included in the submission process

Anonymity

Identifying data must not be included in the body of the main manuscript file. Please ensure that a Cover Page, containing each Authors' full contact details is submitted as a separate item during the submission process.

You will be asked to confirm that such identifying data are not included in the manuscript file.

Articles

The main manuscript should not normally be more than 5000 words long, including references. A 150 word abstract providing a concise statement of the purpose of the article and a broad indication of its findings or conclusions, must be submitted. Where documents (books, journal articles, legislation, web based documents and any other such items) are cited in the text, full details in acordance with the Harvard system of referencing must be included.

Tables, figures or diagrams must be presented on separate sheets with an indication of their location given in the text. Each should have a self-explanatory title and be comprehensible without reference to the text. Except by previous arrangement with the editor, and as a general rule, authors should avoid having - in total - more than 7 tables/ figures embedded in any article.

Referencing

The referencing format for the journal is Harvard.

Style/Layout

NB: In the body of the text, with the exception of direct quotations, spelling should be British English.

Text should be double spaced and set to the left, not justified left and right.

Headings in the following form may be used:

Title heading is BOLD CAPS IN LARGE FONT,
the first level of subheading is Title Case Bold
the second level is Title Case Non-bold Italic
the third level is Sentence case non-bold italic.

Titles of organisations etc. (e.g. acronyms) should be spelt out and followed by the acronym at first instance, then just the acronym thereafter. No full stops (periods) should be used in the abbreviation e.g. USA, ACPO, UK, FBI, ACJS, etc.

Measurements, including data in tables and figures, should be in units of the international system and confined to two decimal places.

Copyright

It is a condition of publication in the Police Journal that following acceotance of the article for publication authors sign and return to the editor (by regular mail) a publishing licence granting an exclusive licence to Vathek Publishing permitting them to reproduce and/or disseminate the author's contribution or elements of it (e.g. abstract, metadata). In signing the licence authors retain the right to use his, her or their own material and Vathek Publishing asks that International Journal of Police Science and Management is acknowledged as the original place of publication. Normally this docuement will be sent bu email to authors for completion and return. If necessary, the licensing agreement may be downloaded here.

Authors bear the responsibility for checking whether material submitted to the Police Journal is subject to copyright or other ownership rights (e.g. photographs, illustrations, trade literature and data).

Where use is restricted the publisher must be informed at the time of submission of the material to the Journal and evidence provided that permission has been obtained to use the material

Copies of the Journal

Authors will receive a final published courtesy PDF of their article (which may be duplicated) and one printed copy of the Journal in which their contribution appears. Further copies may also be ordered on acceptance of a paper for publication in the Journal.

Proofs

Authors are sent a PDF proof of their article. Minor amendments may be possible.

Book reviews

Book reviews are up to 1000 words in length. Very brief book reviews are also acceptable.

LAYOUT

NB: The following Notes for contributors may be downloaded by clicking here

End notes
End notes should be collated at the end of the article. End notes to the text should be indicated as 1, 2, 3 etc. and indicators in the text should follow any closing punctuation, e.g. '…limitations are possible.1'

References and bibliography
The Harvard author-date system is used for citing external research sources. All sources cited in the text should be listed in references at the end of the article. Where items of further interest are to be included, all citations should be listed in a bibliography. Citations are not given in full in notes; see endnotes[link].

Citations in the references
In the references authors of sources are listed first, alphabetically by family name, followed by the date in parentheses and then the rest of the citation in the order: book or article or chapter, book or journal, edition/series or volume and issue numbers, and finally page numbers.

Examples are:

Articles in a journal:
Jones, A. and Smith, B. (1999) 'Crime Prevention' British Journal of Criminology 20: 136.

or with issue number:

Jones, A. and Smith, B. (1999) 'Crime Prevention' British Journal of Criminology 20(2): 136
Jones, A., Smith, B. and Bloggs, C (1999) 'Crime Prevention' British Journal of Criminology 20(2): 136.

Books (editions, series and working groups or committees)
Lloyd, F. (1998) Community Policing, 2nd edn. London: Blackstone, 354.
Spencer, A. B. and Hough, M. (2000) Policing Diversity: Lessons from Lambeth, Policing and Reducing Crime Paper No. 121. London: Home Office.
Metropolitan Police Service (1999) A Police Service for All the People, Ethnic Minority (Recruitment and Advancement) Working Group. London: Metropolitan Police.

Chapter in an edited book
Williams, S. (2000) 'Police Shooting Behaviour' in Hogg, C. (ed.), Police Use of Deadly Force. London: Butterworths, 687.

Citations in the text
In the text, and in any endnotes[link], sources are cited by the authors' name(s) (without initials) and dates, with any page numbers, in parentheses. This is so they can be found easily in the alphabetical list in the references.

References in the text
(Jones, 1999)
(Jones & Smith, 1999: 136)
(Jones et al., 1999: 136)

Cited in the commentary
Jones argued, in his (or her) essay (1999: 136), that …
Jones and Smith, in their essay (Jones & Smith, 1999: 136), argued that …
Jones and colleagues, in their essay (Jones & Smith, 1999: 136) argued that …
Williams argued in 'Police Shooting Behaviour' (Williams, 2000) that…
The Metropolitan Police Service argued in A Police Service for All the People (Metropolitan Police Service, 1999) that…
Spencer and Hough argued in their Home Office paper Policing Diversity (Spencer & Hough, 2000) that…

Styles for citing in text
References grouped in the text should appear in ascending year order. For example:

(Smith & Wilton, 1997; Smith, 1998; Wilton et al., 2000)

An ampersand should be used in a text reference with two author names, for example:

(Smith & Wilton, 1997)

NB: But the word 'and' should be used in the reference list.

The term 'et al.' should be used in text references with more than two authors, for example:

(Jones et al., 1999: 136).

Websites
The URL address should be cited in full and enclosed in brackets with no punctuation, for example:

<http://www.vathek.com/pj/home.php>

In references URLS should also be followed by the date of last access by the author:

Available at < http://www.vathek.com/pj/home.php> (date accessed 10 July 2008).

Cases
Cases should be cited in the following forms:

Quick v Taff-Ely Borough Council [1986] QB 809

Case 102/79 Commission v Belgium [1980] ECR 1473
or
Case C-337/89 Commission v UK [1992] ECR I-1613

If specific pages are referred to:

Quick v Taff-Ely Borough Council [1986] QB 809 at 811

No full stops should be used in the journal abbreviation, e.g. All ER, WLR, EGLR etc.

Quotations
Quotations within the text should use single quotation marks and quotations within quotations use double quotation marks. If quotations are three lines or more they should be separated out from the rest of the text and should not be enclosed by quotation marks.

Disclaimer
Publication in the Police Journal does not necessarily imply that opinions offered are those of the Editor, Associate Editors or of the Publisher. The Journal does not accept any liability for the accuracy of any comment, report or other technical or factual information. Efforts will, however, be made to ensure that all opinions, technical comment, factual report, data, figures, illustrations and photographs are accurate insofar as it is within its abilities so to do. The Publisher reserves the right to edit, abridge or omit material submitted for publication.