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Guidelines for authors: International Review of the Red Cross
14-04-2012 Article, International Review of the Red Cross
Guidelines for submitting manuscripts to the International Review of the Red Cross.
Important note: All manuscripts are submitted to an anonymous peer review process. The editorial team can therefore not guarantee publication of any submissions, be they solicited or spontaneous. Once the editorial team conducts its evaluation of a manuscript and takes into account the comments of the peer reviews, a notification of the acceptance, rejection or need for revision of the manuscript is given (generally within eight weeks of receipt).
I. Preparation of Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be submitted in Word format in 12 pt Times New Roman font with 1.5 line spacing (including for the footnotes).
- Length: Manuscripts submitted to the Review should be about 20 pages in length (approximately 5,000 – 7,000 words; footnotes included).
- Abstract: All manuscripts should be accompanied by a short abstract (less than 100 words) summarizing the main content/argument of the article.
- Key words: you may wish to identify a few key words for easy web search and referencing.
- CV: All manuscripts should be accompanied by a short biography (one or two sentences per author) describing the current function/affiliation of the author. You may want to add your email contact if you wish it to appear in the Review. This information will appear following the affiliation of the author, below the title of the article in the Review.
- Highlighting: No highlighting (bold, italics, underlined) should be used within the text body, except for italics for foreign language terms: e.g. a limine. Foreign organisations should not be set in italics.
- Headings: Please do not use more than 3 different levels of headings
- Title Level 1
- Title Level 2
- Title Level 3
II. Style
- Spelling: Please use British English spelling (labour, not labor; - judgement, not judgment (except in the case of legal judgments); but note -ize, not -ise).
- Punctuation:
- Punctuation points should be followed by a single space.
- Single inverted commas should be used throughout. Double inverted commas should be reserved for quotations within quotations.
- If the quotation forms a full sentence, the closing full stop should be inside the quotation mark.
- Quoted passages of more than about forty words should be indented, without quotation marks, and single-spaced.
- Ellipses '…' should be used to indicate an omission of words within a quotation.
- The first word after a colon should always be lower case.
- Percentages should always be given in figures (e.g. 7%).
- Centuries should be referred to as follows: twentieth century, unless at the beginning of a sentence. When used adjectivally they should be hyphenated (e.g. twentieth-century phenomenon).
- Capitals: Capitals should be used when
- A specific reference is intended (e.g. the Parliament);
- There is an abbreviation of a longer title/name, (e.g. the International Criminal Court, hereinafter the Court),
- Acronyms are used (ECHR)
- Abbreviations:
- Abbreviations should be used as rarely as possible in the article, and only when indispensable (e.g. too frequent occurrence of otherwise complex expressions)
- Abbreviations are generally followed by a full stop (Doc., Vol., No., Q.C.), except in the cases of acronyms (EU, USA, ECHR, UN).
- Abbreviations within footnotes and parentheses are permissible (e.g., etc., i.e., ibid.). Abbreviations of the Geneva Conventions and Protocols are also permissible (GC I/ GC II/etc./ AP I …).
- Please use (ed.) but (eds)
- Please use ff. instead of et seq..
- Dates: Use the following style: 10 February 1989.
- Numerals: Numerals below 100 should be spelt out, except for ages, which should always been given in digits.
- Italics: Case names and Latin expressions and abbreviations should be italicized (habeas corpus, mens rea, prima facie, ultra vires, de facto, cf., e.g., ibid., idem., i.e., cit.).
- Tables, graphs, and maps: should all have a brief descriptive title and a source.
III. Footnotes and Biliographical References
Please indicate specific page and paragraph references, using ‘para.’ for paragraph and ‘p.’ for page. (1) Page ranges should be indicated as follows: pp. 34–35; (2) separate page citations within the same work: p. 4 and p. 86.
- Books: Priscilla Hayner, Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity, Routledge, London, 2001, p. 100.
- Book chapters: Priscilla Hayner, ‘Fifteen truth commissions – 1974 to 1994: a comparative study’, in Neil J. Kritz (ed.), Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, Vol. 1, United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington, DC, 1995, p. 229.
- Journal Articles: Raoul Alfonsin, ‘“Never again” in Argentina’, in Journal of Democracy, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2011, p. 19.
- NGO Reports: Thierry Cruvellier and Marieke Wierda, The Special Court for Sierra Leone: The First Eighteen Months, International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) Case Study Series, March 2004, available at: http://ictj.org/publication/special-court-sierra-leone-first-eighteen-months (last visited 22 September 2011).
Human Rights Watch, Keeping the Momentum: One Year in the Life of the UN Human Rights Council, 22 September 2011.
- Internet References: For references available on the internet please indicate the website (the full website link) and the date of the last visit. […], available at: http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/international-review/index.jsp (last visited 1 January 2011).
- Blogposts: Ian Scobbie, ‘Operationalising the Law of armed conflict for dissident forces in Libya’, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, 31 August 2011, available at: http://www.ejiltalk.org/operationalising-the-law-of-armed-conflict-for-dissident-forces-in-libya/ (last visited 1 October 2011).
- Newspapers: Henri E. Cauvin, ‘Angolan rebels in disarray without leader’, in New York Times, 27 February 2002, p. 3.
- Judgments:
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), The Prosecutor v. Jean-Paul Akayesu, Case No. ICTR-96-4-I, Judgment (Appeals Chamber), 1 June 2001, paras. 37–45.
- International Court of Justice (ICJ), Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Judgment, ICJ Reports 1986 paras. 172–179.
- (note the Roman ‘v.’ in all cases)
- UN Documents:
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, UN Doc. E/CN.4/2005/7, 22 December 2004, para. 45.
- GA Res. 2857 (XXVI), 20 December 1971
- SC Res. 181, 7 August 1963
- Cross References:
- Where there are subsequent references to the same work, use the name of the author, followed by ‘above note 1, p. 4’ and not ‘supra note 1, p.4’..
- If more than one work of the same author has previously been cited in the same note, use a short form of the title work to indicate which one it is: e.g. T. Meron, ‘The humanization of international law’, above note 3, p. 4.
- ‘Ibid.’ is used where there are two or more consecutive references to the same work.
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