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ISSN: 1948-352X
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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. John Sorenson (jsorenson@brocku.ca), 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 four times a year:

• March
• June
• September
• December

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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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Formatting, Referencing and Submitting your Manuscript

Please download the guidelines here: PDF DOC

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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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