Updated 05/02/07

Editors

Randall Shelden Department of Criminal Justice UNLV 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 455009 Las Vegas, NV 89154 Tel: 702-895-0251 [profrgs@cox.net]

Elizabeth Brown Criminal Justice Studies (HSS 236) 1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94610 Tel: 415-405-2692 [lizbrown3@gmail.com]

Manuscripts for the Justice Policy Journal should be submitted in MS Word format as an e-mail attachment to: [profrgs@cox.net] during the academic year and to [lizbrown3@gmail.com] during the months of June, July and August.

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts submitted to the Justice Policy Journal should be original, unpublished material not submitted or under consideration for publication elsewhere. In all cases, manuscripts should be submitted in the format outlined below and failure to do so will constitute an automatic rejection by the editors. A typical article is under 40 double spaced pages. The editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter manuscripts, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication.

Presentation

Manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced (including footnotes and references), with at least one inch margins, and standard 12 point font (i.e. Times New Roman, Arial, etc.). All pages should be numbered consecutively centered at the bottom of the page. Numbers should not appear on page one and should begin to appear on page two.

Manuscripts should be arranged in the following order of presentation. First Page: Title, Author's names, email addresses, postal addresses, phone and fax numbers, and institutional affiliation. Respective affiliations and addresses for co-authors should also be provided. Second Page: Self-contained abstract of the manuscript of approximately 100-200 words. The word "Abstract" should be centered, bolded and underlined. The abstract content is single-spaced with a first-line left indent. Third Page: 100-200 word narrative about the author(s). The words "About the author(s)" should be aligned with the left hand side of the page and bolded. The narrative description of the author(s) is single-spaced and also aligned with the left hand side of the page. An empty line separates title from narrative. Fourth Page: Beginning of the manuscript body. The title of the manuscript should be clearly displayed at the top of the page, centered, bolded and underlined. After the title, authors should place the word "Introduction", bolded and underlined, and then begin the manuscript. Subsequent Pages: Remaining body of the text, double spaced with the first line of paragraphs indented. Reference Pages: See below.

The text should be organized under appropriate section headings, and should clearly indicate the "introduction" and "conclusion" portions of the text. Section headings should be marked as follows: primary headings should be bolded and underlined; secondary headings should be bolded and italicized; tertiary headings should be italicized and indented by half an inch. Authors should refrain from using subsequent headings, unless not doing so would detract from the overall article. If necessary, subsequent headings should be indented by half an inch and numbered.

Authors are encouraged to write as concisely as possible, but not at the expense of clarity. Descriptive or explanatory remarks which are necessary as information by which are not integral to the text of the paper should be placed in footnotes. Where possible, however, footnotes should be avoided.

Tables and figures should be embedded within the text of the paper where appropriate, and listed in numerical order. Lists included within the text of the paper should be either numbered (where appropriate) or bulleted, single spaced and indented by a half an inch.

References

References should begin immediately following the text of the paper. This section should be clearly marked by the word "References" in bold type-face and aligned with the left hand side of the page. References should be formatted in APA style. References should alphabetized, single spaced and with a hanging half inch indent. A blank line should be placed between each reference. Examples are listed below. In the event that question about proper citation style arises, refer to the citations provided by articles in previous editions of the journal first, and the APA Style Manual second.

In-text Citations

Shelden (1992) indicates…

Literature on the prison industrial complex… (Beckett 1997; Davis 1998a, 1998b; Mauer 1995).

Book

Beckett, Katherine. (1997). Making crime pay: Law and order in contemporary American politics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapter

Lucas, Tim. (1998). Youth gangs and moral panics in Santa Cruz, California. In T. Skelton and G. Valentine (Eds.), Cool Places: Geographies of youth cultures (pp. 145-160). New York: Routledge.

Journal Article

Briggs, Charles L. and Clara Mantini-Briggs. (2000). "Bad mothers" and the threat to civil society: Race, cultural reasoning and the institutionalization of social inequality in a Venezuelan infanticide trial. Law and Social Inquiry 25(2), pp. 299-354.

Article in an Internet Only Journal

Alasti, Sanaz. (2007). Comparative study of stoning punishment in the Religions of Islam and Judaism. Justice Policy 4(1), 1-54. Retrieved April 1, 2007, from http://www.cjcj.org/jpj/.

Newspaper Article with no Author Named

"Lawmakers reach deal for $7.3 billion prison overhaul." (2007, April 26). San Francisco Chronicle, p. A1.

Electronic Reference

Corcoran, Megan. (2007). What a California sentencing commission might do. Retrieved April 1, 2007, from http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/02/what_a_californ.html.

Peer Review Policy

All manuscripts will be reviewed by two referees. In the event that a conflict arises over whether the manuscript should be accepted or rejected, it will be sent to an additional referee on the editorial board for final consideration. The final decision on whether to accept or reject an author remains with the Editor.