Justice Research and Policy

We will consider only original manuscripts not published or under consideration by other journals. All submissions will be peer reviewed. Authors should expect to be notified with an acceptance, revision request, or rejection within four months after we receive the manuscript.

Manuscript

Manuscripts should be submitted on disk or by e-mail to journal@jrsa.org, preferably in Microsoft Word. They should be double-spaced and approximately 20 to 30 pages long. Style should conform to the guidelines set forth in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

Title Page

The title page should include the names of all authors, their affiliations, brief biographical information, the address of the corresponding author, and sources of financial support, if appropriate. If the paper was presented at a meeting, the name of the organization, the location of the meeting, and the exact date of the presentation should be listed. The authors' names should not appear elsewhere in the manuscript; the title page will be removed for peer review.

Abstract

Manuscripts should include an abstract of 50-100 words. The abstract should state the problem or issue being considered, the method used in the research (if appropriate), and the findings.

Tables and Figures

All tables and figures should be on separate pages at the back of the manuscript. Indicate placement by a notation in the text: for example, Insert Figure 1 here. Figures should clearly display data and be reproducible in black and white.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be used for substantive comments, not citation of sources. They should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript, and appear at the bottom of the page.

References

All sources must be acknowledged by a reference and all references must be cited in the text. Citations in the text should be within parentheses and include the surname of the author followed by the year of publication: (Smith, 1998). An alphabetical list of all references should appear at the end of the manuscript and should conform to the style set forth in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

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