Submissions

We are currently accepting submissions for the inaugural edition of the Review. Please read the submission guidelines below and send a .doc or .rtf copy of your submission to submissions@uklsr.co.uk before 31 January 2012. By submitting your article to the Review, you accept that the work is your own and has not been published elsewhere.

In your email, please also include the following information: your full name, academic and personal email addresses and your current university. None of these details will be forwarded to the reviewers but are necessary should, for some reason, we be unable to contact you at one or both of your email addresses.

Since our editors will review your work anonymously, please ensure that your submission does not contain your name and ideally there should be no mention of your university.

The Review Process

• Review: Each submission will be anonymously reviewed by two members of the editorial board. If both editors feel that the submission is not right for the Review, the author will be contacted as soon as possible to notify them that their submission has been unsuccessful. All other submissions will be considered at a meeting of the full editorial board to determine which are most appropriate for publication. Thereafter, all authors will be notified as to whether their submission is to be published or not.

(If an author submits their article to multiple journals and agrees to being published at a journal other than UKLSR before we have contacted them to let them know of our decision, we would greatly appreciate an email to confirm that they have withdrawn their submission from our publication review process. If such authors' submissions are taken on by the Review, we expect them to withdraw their submission from other journals' review processes.)

• Editing: For the submissions that are taken on, the next phase is editing. Each article will be assigned an editor (in some cases two), who will ensure that the article meets the Review's style guidelines (including OSCOLA referencing). This stage may involve a number of drafts being exchanged between author and editor.

• Final Draft: The authors will get an opportunity to review and approve the final draft of their article following the editing phase.

• Publication: Each successful author will be notified individually of the Review being published and will be sent a link to the electronic version. They will thereafter be entitled to cite their article as Author, "Title" [2011] UKLSR x.

Guidelines

Length: we accept articles of all lengths up to 10,000 words. We hope to have a variety of shorter comments mixed with longer, detailed commentaries. If your article is longer than 10,000 words but you would like to be considered for publication, please contact editor@uklsr.co.uk to discuss your submission.

Referencing: all citations should be as footnotes and accord with OSCOLA. The full guide can be found at http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/published/OSCOLA_4th_edn.pdf. A brief reference page including examples of most sources can be found at http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/published/OSCOLA_Quick_Reference_Guide_001.pdf.

Subsequent citations: where the ibid form is inapplicable, please use the following format -  "Author (n x) y" where x is the number of the footnote where the work is first cited and y is the page number for the current citation. For example,

"FN1 Kelsen, General Theory of Law and State (Wedberg tr, Russell & Russell 1961) 111.

FN43 Kelsen (n 1) 116."

Punctuation: where a quotation is made directly within the author's own sentences, only punctuation forming a part of it should fall within the quotation marks. For example,

The author's text is "followed by a relevant quotation".

All footnotes should follow the final punctuation mark of the sentence except where that mark is a colon or semi-colon. Thus,

... final words of a sentence.⁵

... final words of a sentence⁶; following sentence ...

Abbreviations: full-stops should not be used to indicate abbreviations. For example,

v rather than v.

ibid rather than ibid.