Instructions
to Authors
Submission
of manuscripts
(en
français)
Only
original articles are accepted for publication.
Submitting manuscripts to the CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY AND
CRIMINAL JUSTICE implies authors' commitment to publish in the
JOURNAL. Authors must certify in writing that neither the article
submitted nor a version of it has been published, nor is being considered
for publication elsewhere; such certification must accompany the manuscript.
Authors thereby agree to transfer their copyright to the publisher
of the JOURNAL.
N.B.:
Manuscripts which do not adhere to requirements set out below will
be returned for revision. Only articles which meet the requirements
will be sent out to assessors.
Focus
The JOURNAL is a peer-reviewed forum for original contributions and
discussion in the field of criminology and criminal justice. It is
concerned with the theoretical and scientific aspects of the study
of crime and with the practical problems of law enforcement, administration
of justice and the treatment of the offender. Preference is given
to articles with Canadian content and to those related in some way
to a Canadian project, institution, practice, etc.
Language
Articles written in either English or French are published by the
JOURNAL. The Abstracts of articles are published in English and French.
Abstracts which are submitted in only one language will be translated
by the JOURNAL.
Style
Texts should be clear and concise and should have been reviewed to
preclude the necessity of correcting spelling or other editing. Use
of italics and quotation marks for emphasis is discouraged. Short
and meaningful subheadings should be used to break up long texts.
Anonymity
Authors are asked to keep identifying material out of the manuscript.
They should make every effort to avoid giving clues as to the author's
identity. A cover page, giving authorship, institutional affiliation,
acknowledgements, and the date of submission of the article, should
be included in a separate file. In the file containing the remainder
of the manuscript and abstract, only the title should appear.
References which are likely to suggest the identity of the author
(e.g., to unpublished work by the author) should be avoided. If they
are included, they should be cited in the body of the text as "Identifying
reference [number]", and listed on a separate page in the file
containing the cover page and other identifying information - not
in the appended list of References. Upon acceptance of the article
for publication, the author will be required to provide a revised
version of the text in which identifying references have been integrated
into the text and the References appendix (see below).
Authors are cautioned that word processing software as MS Word automatically
attaches identifying information such as the author's name and institutional
affiliation to every file created or revised; e.g., in the Properties
area of the file. Authors should remove such information before submitting
files to the JOURNAL.
Manuscripts
The JOURNAL publishes regular articles, research notes, commentary,
and book reviews. Regular articles are normally 20-30 typed pages
long (5,000 - 7,500 words), exclusive of tables, figures and references.
Research notes and commentary are normally considerably shorter than
regular articles.
The instructions for authors of book reviews are available separately
on the JOURNAL's web
site, or at www.utpjournals.com ,
and are also available from the Secretariat, at the address given
below.
Manuscripts should be submitted as files prepared in MS Word. Files
prepared in Wordperfect or plain text are also accepted. Electronic
submission as attachment to an e-mail addressed to ccja@bellnet.ca
is preferred. Manuscripts may also be submitted by regular mail, in
one hard copy of the document and a diskette containing the
files, to Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 1750
Courtwood Crescent, #308, Ottawa, ON K2C 2B5. The author should also
keep a copy to guard against loss. The JOURNAL will acknowledge receipt
of the manuscript and eventually communicate the decision of the Editorial
Committee. No manuscript will be returned to the authors, once the
process of assessment has been started.
Texts should be formatted for 8½ x 11" (21.5 x 28 cm)
paper, double spaced, with 1" (2.54 cm) margins on both sides
of the page. An abstract of 200 words or less, and 3-6 keywords, should
precede the body of the text, on a separate page.
Tables and illustrations
Tables should be prepared in Word (not Excel) using the Tables
function( i.e., not created manually using drawn lines, tabs or spaces).
They should be numbered consecutively throughout the article and included
on separate page at the end of the manuscript. Insert a location note
at the appropriate place in the text, e.g., "Table 2 about here".
Each table must include a descriptive title and headings to columns.
Gather general footnotes to tables as "Note: " or "Notes:
", and use a, b, c, etc., for specific footnotes. Table footnotes
are appended only to a specific table. Asterisks * and/or **
indicate significance at the 5 percent and 1 percent levels, respectively.
Illustrations should be submitted on separate pages, following the
Tables, with clear and complete legends and with indications of the
preferred location in the text; e.g., "Figure 2 about here".
Upon acceptance of the article for publication, authors will be required
to provide tables and illustrations in a form suitable for typesetting.
Tables should then be put into a Word file which is separate from
the file containing the text of the article (one file for all tables).
Illustrations should be provided without their captions, either in
high-quality hard copy (e.g., a glossy photograph, preferably black
and white) or as a high-resolution graphics file (one file per illustration).
A separate Word file should contain the captions for all the illustrations.
TIFF and EPS are the preferred graphics file formats; high-resolution
JPEG is also accepted. For charts and line drawings (but not photographs),
PDF or Excel files are also accepted; each chart must be in a separate
file.
Producing tables, graphs, and illustrations is costly and authors
are asked to minimize their use without sacrificing clarity.
Footnotes and Endnotes
Acknowledgements should be put in a footnote to the title, on the
cover page, in the file containing identifying information. All other
notes should be in the form of endnotes. The footnotes and endnotes
should be prepared using the Footnote function of Word (i.e., not
created manually), and should be numbered consecutively throughout
the article with superscript Arabic numerals.
The use of content endnotes in which authors explain and amplify
their texts is discouraged. Providing long and complicated material
in endnotes is distracting and expensive; authors should include important
information in the text and omit irrelevant information. Authors may
include a short endnote stating that the lengthy material is available
from the authors, or may add an appendix. If an appendix is used,
the reference in the text should read, for example: "(See Appendix
A for complete information)". If, after an endnote occurs, it
is later mentioned, use a parenthetical note "(see note 3)",
rather than the superscript number.
References
References should be listed alphabetically by author's name in an
appendix at the end of the text.
1. In the text: All source references are to be identified at the
appropriate point in the text by the last name of the author, year
of publication, and pagination where needed. Identify subsequent citations
of the same source in the same way as the first. Examples follow:
a) If author's name is in the text, follow it with year in parentheses
("... Duncan (1959) ...").
b) If author's name is not in the text, insert in parentheses that
last name and year ("... (Gouldner 1963) ...").
c) Pagination follows year of publication after a colon and a space
("... Kuhn (1970: 71) ...").
d) Give both last names for dual authors. Give all last names on first
citation in text for more than two authors; thereafter use "et
al." in the text. When two authors have the same last names,
include initials in the text. For institutional authorship, supply
minimum identification from the beginning of the complete citation
("... (U.S. Bureau of the Census 1963: 117)...").
e) Separate a series of references with semicolons and enclose them
within a single pair of parentheses ("... (Burgess 1968; Marwell
et al. 1971: 386-87; Cohen 1962) ...").
f) If there is more than one reference to the same author and year,
distinguish them by the letters a, b, etc., added to the year ("
... Levy (1965a: 331) ...").
2. In the References appendix: List all items alphabetically by author
and, within author, by year of publication in an appendix titled "References".
The References appendix must include all references in the text and
must not include any items not cited in the text. The use of "et
al." is not acceptable in the References appendix; list names
of all authors using full first names (except for authors who
always publish using only their initials).
The first letter of each word in a book title should be capitalized.
Titles of books and journals are not printed in italics, so there
should not be underlining.
Give publisher's name in as brief a form as is fully intelligible.
For example, John A. Wiley and Sons should be "Wiley".
If the cited material is unpublished but accepted for publication,
use "forthcoming" with name of journal or publisher; otherwise
use "unpublished".
Examples follow:
1. Books: Faris, Robert E.L. and Warren Dunham
1939 Mental Disorder in Urban Areas. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
Frazier, E. Franklin
1932 The Negro in the United States. New York: Macmillian.
2. Periodicals: Bursik, Robert J., Jr. and Jim Webb
1982 Community change and patterns of delinquency. American Journal
of Sociology 88: 24-42.
Erickson, Maynard L.
1971 The group context of delinquent behaviour. Social Problems 19:
114-129.
3. Collections: Hayner, Norman S.
1942 Five cities of the Pacific Northwest. In Clifford Shaw and Henry
McKay (eds.), Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.
Gove, Walter R.
1985 The effect of age and gender on deviant behaviour: A biopsychological
perspective. In Alice Rossi (ed.), Gender and the Life Course. New
York: Aldine.
3. Cited legislation and cited cases (jurisprudence) should be listed
in (two) separate appendices, following the References appendix. These
should conform to the style of the McGill Guide.
