Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing invites contributions from researchers and others who wish to publish policing-related articles.
Research articles are subjected to a double-blind peer review process. The articles present new insights, are in a form that make the results replicable or applicable for new research, are in a written form and has a distribution that makes it accessible for most researchers that may have interest in it. Research articles that are peer reviewed should not exceed 50 000 characters (with spaces), including footnotes and references, and should include an abstract in the authors native Nordic language, as well as an abstract in English. See below for more information about the peer review process.
Debate articles,
essays and
book reviews are evaluated by the Editorial team. Debate articles are theoretical and/or analytical discussions about topics related to the journal. Essays may be reflections on practice related to the topics of the journal. Essays may also be short descriptions of police relevant projects, including main findings, conclusions, and future developments. Book reviews should present books from Nordic countries or otherwise include Nordic perspectives. The word limit for debate and essay contributions is 10 000 characters with spaces. Book reviews should be no more than 6 000 characters with spaces.
In the new Guide for Authors maximum length of the manuscript is 50 000 characters, when earlier it was 70 000 characters. The NJSP is flexible to accept submissions of manuscripts longer than 50 000 characters until the end of 2020. This is reasonable, because these manuscripts have been mostly prepared by following previous guidelines. However, if it is possible to shorten the manuscript before submitting it, we would warmly recommend it.
SUBMITTING A MANUSCRIPT
All manuscripts for the
Nordic Journal of Policing Studies must be submitted through this ScholarOne-site:
https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/uf-politi.
Submitting
confirms that the work has not been published (partially) elsewhere or is not under consideration for publication in another journal or book.
Before you submit please ensure:
- The topic is relevant to the journal
- The manuscript is in English
- Manuscripts must be anonymized by the author(s). E.g. explicit self-references. Front side and information about the author(s) must be given in a separate document.
- The number of characters does not exceed the limits stated underneath
- Notes and references comply with the author guidelines
MANUSCRIPT STANDARD
Title should be short and precise. Please make an effort to select a title that arouses interest.
Titles: If numbered, use (1., 2., 2.1.; 2.2.; 2.2.1.), not with letters (a, b, c, iv, xii). Use maximum three levels of headings
Try to avoid
abbreviations, because they have a negative influence on the legibility of the text. Write them in full the first time and put the abbreviation between brackets.
Submitted manuscripts should contain the following:
- Title
- Abstract: Provide a brief abstract of max. 150 words in both native Nordic language and English
- 4–6 keywords
- The manuscript
- Notes should be numerical and organized as footnotes
- Literature references in alphabetical order
In separate documents:
- Numbered figures and tables (each one at a separate side)
- Title page: Submit a separate title page with the following information: title, author(s) information (institution), date, number of characters, and acknowledgements. Please provide an orchid ID https://orcid.org/
REFERENCE SYSTEM
The journal uses APA 7
th edition style guide for references. Introductions to this style can found here:
http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx
Also, a basic tutorial can be found here:
http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/index.htm?_ga=1.110702085.1883561832.1467455622
DOI-REFERENCES
References should always include a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) if applicable. A DOI should be a clickable URL,
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1894-8693-2019-01-01, inserted at the end of the reference in the literature list. If you are unsure of the DOI for a given reference, or whether a DOI for the reference is available, you can search for title, author name, etc. at
http://search.crossref.org/.
TABLES, FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
All figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, web pages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be submitted in electronic form. All figures should be of high quality, legible and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals.
Tables should be typed and included in a separate file to the main body of the article. The position of each table should be clearly labelled in the body text of article (e.g. Table 3 about here) with corresponding labels being clearly shown in the separate file.
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published (partially) elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for online format. Please include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting your paper. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
QUOTES
A quotation should be put between double quotation marks and put in italic. When a quotation is longer than 40 words, you turn it into a block quote. Then you don’t use quotation marks, and the text is indent.
NOTES
Notes in the manuscript should be organized as footnotes, when using regular text processing software.
The references in the text to the footnotes should be made
before the last character(s) of the text, sentence or part of the sentence where it refers to this document. The dot follows the footnote, it does not precede it.
PUBLICATION ETHICS AND PUBLICATION MALPRACTICE STATEMENT
All content in the journal should be characterized by scientific integrity and follow current laws and ethical guidelines. It is expected of authors, reviewers and editors that they follow the best-practice guidelines on ethical behavior.
Authors that submit manuscripts to
NJSP must guarantee the following:
- The manuscript as a whole is not published other places. If parts of the manuscript is published elsewhere (e.g. master thesis/report) the author needs to inform about this in a footnote with reference to the original text/work.
- The manuscript is not under evaluation in another journal or quoted in other journals.
- Authors have included relevant information about finance, sponsorships, institutional ties, potential conflicts of interests.
- All persons mentioned in the manuscript have given their consent.
- The welfare of experimental animals has been respected.
- That requirements with regard to copyright have been followed.
- Required permissions for publishing have been obtained. That references are listed - also for secondary publications.
The editorial board ensures that content published in the journal maintains a high scholarly standard and complies with international ethical standards for academic publishing. The journal complies with the guidelines formulated by the
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Complaints will not be processed by Editor-in-Chief or Assistant Editor connected to the same research institution. Please note that the research institutions are usually responsible for allegations of misconduct.
To avoid conflicts of interests, it is recommended, that the guest editors don't contribute with papers in the same issue which they are editing.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
The journal uses double blind reviewing of article manuscripts, whereby both two reviewers and the author remain anonymous to each other. The review process may take some time, but we will inform you during the process. Should you have any questions, however, please ask.
Articles written by researchers working at the same institution as Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors will be processed by someone else in the editorial team. Peer reviewers are concurrently not affiliated with the same institution as the author(s) and the editorial team makes an effort to choose at least one of the reviewers from different countries when possible.
After reviewing each author is required to give feedback in view of what was (not) changed in response to comments of the reviewers (e.g. via track changes in the integrated review). Authors should expect several reviews as well as an additional administrative editorial process before publication.