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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please read these guidelines below and then send your article, essay, review, research notes, conference summary, etc. to: Dr. Richard White, Editor-in-Chief, Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS). For more information about the JCAS click here.

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Value and Uniqueness of JCAS

  • The Journal for Critical Animal Studies publishes rigorously peer-reviewed academic work of the highest quality
  • The Journal for Critical Animal Studies is a free-to-access electronic journal.
  • The Journal for Critical Animal Studies charges no fees for publication.
  • The Journal for Critical Animal Studies supports and encourages submissions that are excluded from mainstream journals, including the use of photographic, video and new media work.
  • The Journal for Critical Animal Studies, while an academic journal provides space and place for activists contributions.

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Publication Dates

JCAS is published 4times a year:

  • Winter Issue - January
  • Spring Issue – April
  • Summer Issue - July
  • Fall Issue – October

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We Seek

  • research articles and essays – 2,000 to 10,000 words
  • student final papers – no more than 10,000 words
  • course/class summaries – no more than 2,000 words
  • research notes - no more than 2,000 words
  • commentary – no more than 2,000 words
  • tactic and strategy analysis – no more than 10,000 words
  • academic development – no more than 10,000 words
  • lecture summaries - no more than 2,000 words
  • conference  summaries – no more than 2,000 words
  • protest summaries – no more than 2,000 words
  • action alert summaries – no more than 2,000 words
  • film, book, art, and media reviews - no more than 3,000 words
  • interviews and dialogues – between 1,000 to 10,000 words
  • poems – no more than 10,000 words

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Style

  • All submissions should have appropriate references and citations. Manuscripts should be double-spaced in 12-point font and conform to the Harvard style format.
  • Submissions must be sent in Microsoft Word format. Submissions in other software formats will not be reviewed.
  • Authors should remove all self-identification from their submissions, but all submissions must be accompanied by a title page with author(s) name and affiliation, name of type of submission (e.g., article, review, conference summary, etc.), contact information including e-mail, postal address, and phone number.
  • Authors must include an abstract of no more than 150 words that briefly describes the manuscript’s contents.

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Format

  • You should cite publications in the text: (Best, 2006) using the first named author’s name or (Best and Nocella, 2006) citing both names of two, or (Best et al., 2006), when there are three or more authors. At the end of the paper a reference list in alphabetical order should be supplied:
  • For books: Surname, Initials (year), Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication. e.g. Gray, J. (2002), Straw Dogs, Granta Books: London
  • For book chapters: Surname, Initials (year), “Chapter title”, Editor’s Surname, Initials (Ed.), Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication, pages. E.g. Greenbrier, T. (2006) “Against Civilization, For Reconnection to Life!”, in Best, S. and Nocella, A.J. (Eds) Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, AK Press, Oakland, pp. 198-203.
  • For journals: Surname, Initials (year), “Title of article”, Journal Name, volume, number, pages. e.g. Cudworth, E. (2008), “’Most Farmers Prefer Blondes’: The dynamics of anthroparchy in Animas’ becoming meat”, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, pp. 32-45.
  • For published conference proceedings: Surname, Initials (year of publication), “Title of paper”, in Surname, Initials (Ed.), Title of published proceeding which may include place and date(s) held, Publisher, Place of publication, Page numbers.
  • For unpublished conference proceedings: Surname, Initials (year), “Title of paper”, paper presented at Name of Conference, date of conference, place of conference, available at: URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date).
  • For working papers: Surname, Initials (year), “Title of article”, working paper [number if available], Institution or organization, Place of organization, date.
  • For encyclopaedia entries (with no author or editor): Title of Encyclopaedia (year) “Title of entry”, volume, edition, Title of Encyclopaedia, Publisher, Place of publication, pages.
  • For newspaper articles (authored): Surname, Initials (year), “Article title”, Newspaper, date, pages.
  • For newspaper articles (non-authored): Newspaper (year), “Article title”, date, pages.
  • For electronic sources: if available online the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as a date that the resource was accessed.
  • Standalone URLs, i.e. without an author or date, should be included either within parentheses within the main text, or preferably set as a note (roman numeral within square brackets within text followed by the full URL address at the end of the paper).

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Review Process

  • Upon acceptance for review, the editors will send manuscripts, under a double-peer reviewed process, to no less than two, and generally three reviewers. Reviewers provide their recommendations to the editor, who makes the final decision to accept the manuscript.

Submissions will be assigned to one of the four following categories:

1. accept without revisions

2. accept with editorial revisions

3. revise and resubmit for peer review

4. reject

  • Every effort will be made to inform authors of the editor’s decision within 100 days of receipt of a manuscript. Authors, whose manuscripts are accepted for publication, will be asked to submit a brief biography that includes their institutional or organizational affiliations and their research interests. The Journal for Critical Animal Studies only publishes original materials. Please do not submit manuscripts that are under review or previously published elsewhere.

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Copyright, Republishing, and Royalties

  • All Work published by the Journal is copyrighted by JCAS.
  • Republication of Contributor’s Submitted Work may be assessed a reasonable fee for the administration and facilitation to other presses. Such fee shall be determined at the discretion of Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS).
  • Royalties: Contributor agrees and acknowledges that no royalty, payment, or other compensation will be provided by Journal for Critical Animal Studies in exchange for or resulting from the publication of the Submitted Work.

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