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Polices and Submission Information

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Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in International Dialogue provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

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General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to International Dialogue, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at International Dialogue. If you have concerns about the submission terms for International Dialogue, please contact the editors.

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Formatting Requirements

International Dialogue has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

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Peer Review Process

There is a double-blinded process for research articles. Once an article is submitted, the editor-in-chief will assess whether it adheres to the requirements for submission. If it meets these formal requirements, it is then assessed by that editor (who may consult with Editorial Board members) as to whether it is appropriate for the journal in terms of topic, length, scope, and originality. If so, the editor-in-chief then invites 2-3 peer reviewers who have the appropriate expertise to evaluate the submission. Once these reviewers are secured, they review the submission based on criteria shared with them, based on the aim and scope of the journal issue. The peer review process is double-blind, as the identity of the authors is hidden from the reviewers and vice versa. The editor-in-chief reviews the feedback from the reviewers and makes a decision on the submission: to accept, accept with minor revisions required, accept with major revisions required, or reject without the option to resubmit. The decision is shared with the authors, as is the feedback from the reviewers. If the authors then resubmit a revised version, the editor (who may consult with the initial reviewers or Editorial Board members) determines if the revisions are satisfactory for acceptance or if further revisions are required. Once accepted, the editor ensures that the submission meets all standards for publication before including it in an issue.

For discussions, review essays, reviews and other submissions we use an editorial board process to ensure submissions meet required standards prior to their publication.

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Policy on self-archiving 

International Dialogue encourages authors to deposit copies of the final article in their institutional repository, website, or any other repository requesting that proper citation and a link back to the original article are provided with deposit.  Creative Commons licensing should also be included with the deposit where applicable. 

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Long-term Preservation Policy 

International Dialogue currently uses LOCKSS through Digital Commons by Elsevier for long-term preservation. For more information on Digital Commons preserving content with LOCKSS visit Elsevier’s information page here. For more information about LOCKSS visit their website here. 

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Rights for Authors and DigitalCommons@UNO

As further described in our submission agreement (the Submission Agreement), in consideration for publication of the article, the authors assign to DigitalCommons@UNO rights to first publish the article.

Attribution and Usage Policies

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License unless the author has selected an alternate Creative Commons License. Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein are subject to the terms of applied license. DigitalCommons@UNO, requires a link to DigitalCommons@UNO and the original first published article. (e.g., DigitalCommons@UNO © 2024).

People seeking an exception, or who have questions about use, should contact the author or editors.

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General Terms and Conditions of Use

Users of the DigitalCommons@UNO website and/or software agree not to misuse the DigitalCommons@UNO service or software in any way.

The failure of DigitalCommons@UNO to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between DigitalCommons@UNO and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.

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Submission Instructions

Submissions are fully peer-reviewed by a review board composed of the editors, their designees, and members of the editorial boards.

Email your submission to: Rory Conces, Editor-in-Chief, rconces@unomaha.edu.

The editors will notify authors within approximately 90 days of their decision. Manuscripts submitted to ID must not have been previously published or under consideration by any other publication while under review by ID editors. All manuscripts by should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief in English (i.e., American, not British). For spelling, punctuation, and style refer to the “Submissions” page, as well as the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Those authors whose primary language is other than English should consult with the Editor-in-Chief as to whether a non-English language version of the manuscript can be published along with the English translation. Authors whose second language is English will be responsible for an acceptable English translation.

The length of research articles should be between 3500 and 10,000 words, with the length of discussion notes, which are comments or responses to research published in the journal and elsewhere; book and film reviews; review essays, and interviews varying between 1500 and 5000 words depending upon the type of submission.

Submission Procedure

Manuscripts (English language version) should be submitted in Microsoft Word similar word processing format in order to ensure proper processing and should be arranged as follows:

  1. Title page, to include the title of the submission, name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, and contact information, including e-mail address, and fax and telephone numbers, of the author(s). The name(s) of the author(s) should not appear on the manuscript itself.
  2. Abstract page, to include the title of the submission followed by an abstract of 100–150 words.
  3. Biography page indicating in no more than 100 words the author(s) institutional affiliation, research interests and the activities and publications they consider important.
  4. Text
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Notes: Notes take the form of endnotes, not footnotes, and should be kept to a minimum and marked clearly in the text at the point of punctuation by superscript Arabic numbers. The use of endnotes is to be limited to instances where the author wishes to make a substantive point related to the main text. The referencing style should be that of citations below.
  7. References: A full list of references in alphabetical order should appear at the end the article. Please make sure (a) that all references cited in the text are given in the reference list and (b) that the reference list does not include works that have not been cited in the text.

Referencing Style for Submissions in English

This consists of (a) citations within the text that follow the Harvard style and (b) a list of references following the endnotes that give full details of each work cited.

(a) Citations

  • (Waltz 1979)
  • (Huntington 1991: 183–85)
  • (Soguk and Whitehall 1999: 682)
  • (Kaplan et al 2005: 45)
  • (2009: 245–48)

(b) References

Chomsky, Noam. (2003). Terror and Just Response, in James P. Sterba (ed) Terrorism and International Justice (New York: Oxford University Press), 69–87.

Donnelly, Jack. (1999). Human Rights, Democracy, and Development. Human Rights Quarterly 21, 608–32.

Gutmann, Amy and Thompson, Dennis. (1996). Democracy and Disagreement (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).

Manzo, Kate. (1999). Critical Humanism: Postcolonialism and Postmodern Ethics, in David Campbell and Michael J. Shapiro (eds) Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), 154–83.

Pejanović, Mirko. (2007). The Political Development of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the post-Dayton Period, trans. Borislav Radović (Sarajevo: TKD Šahinpašić).

UNDP (ed). (2000). Human Development Report, Human Rights and Human Development (New York: UNDP Publishing).

Style Considerations for Submissions in English

Abbreviations

  1. Avoid the use of abbreviations (“for example” not “e. g.”; “that is” not “i.e.”).
  2. Spell out acronyms on first use, placing the acronym in parenthesis immediately thereafter. Use the acronym for all subsequent references, except where it occurs at the start of a sentence.
  3. Use full points in abbreviations, initials of names, or acronyms (“Sec. 235” not “Sec 235”; “M. Walzer” not M Walzer; “U.S.” not “US”).

Capitals

  1. Headline-style capitalization should be used when noting the title of a work or when inserting headings to a manuscript. Accordingly, capitalize the first and last words and all words except articles, prepositions, the word to used as part of an infinitive, and coordinate conjunctions ( “and”; “but”; “or”; “nor”; “for”).
  2. Capitalize geographical regions where boundaries are clearly defined (“Central America”; Southeast Asia”). Where boundaries are not clearly defined, use lower case (“southern Iraq”; “eastern Afghanistan”). Capitalize political divisions that deal with the period since World War II (“the West”; “Western Europe”; “Third World”).
  3. References to such parts of a work as foreword, introduction, and chapter should not be capitalized.

Dates and Numbers

  1. Use the following date formats:

    8 August 1955 (date, month, year)

    1980s (no apostrophe)

  2. Inclusive numbers are separated by an en dash and page numbers should be abbreviated in the following way: 3–10; 100–104; 107–9; 1002–3; 321–26; 416–532; 1534–39. This also applies to inclusive year dates: the summer of 2005–2006.
  3. In the text, all numbers through one hundred and all round numbers that can be expressed in two words should be spelled out.

Foreign Words

  1. Italicize foreign words, unless they have been accepted into the English language.

Punctuation

  1. Use serial commas (“Americans, Europeans, and Asians”).
  2. An em dash is used to indicate a parenthetical statement (“It is understood that when a state fails in its primary obligations—maintaining security and a sufficient food supply for its people, it may temporarily lose its rights of sovereign immunity within the international legal system.”)
  3. An en dash is used to mean “to” or to indicate a closed range (“pages 25–35”; “January–March 2009”).
  4. The hyphen should be used where two or more words are used adjectivally (“vote-getting strategies”)
  5. Do not leave spaces before or after the em dash, the en dash, or the hyphen.
  6. The em dash and the en dash can be inserted in a text by choosing them from Microsoft Word’s menu of special characters.

Subheadings

  1. Subheadings are encouraged where their addition increases the clarity of the work. If the author elects to use subheadings, there should be a maximum of two levels of heading. The principal, or first-level, subheading is a centered heading in boldface, capitalized headline style. The second-level subheading is a centered heading, not in boldface, capitalized headline style.

Quotations and Punctuation

  1. Direct quotations other than block quotations require double quotation marks at beginning and end (with single quotation marks inside these for quotations within quotations). Double quotation marks within a block quotation are retained.
  2. Periods and commas should be placed inside quotation marks; semicolons and colons are placed outside quotation marks. Question marks and exclamation marks should be set outside quotation marks unless the question or exclamation is a part of the quotation itself.
  3. All interpolations must be enclosed in brackets [ ].
  4. An omission within a sentence is shown by an ellipse (a series of three points).

    “Politics is a craft or skill, and ought precisely not to be analysed…as the mastery of a set of principles or theories” (Geuss 2008:97).

  5. If other punctuation immediately precedes the ellipse, it is placed next to the word. “How can the peasant, the hardworking Egyptian fellah, maintain his dignity when, after sweating in the hot sun all day long, he has to stand in line to receive a frozen American chicken?...”(El-Guindi 1982: 21).
  6. If punctuation occurs immediately before a word that is preceded by ellipse points, that punctuation mark is set before the word: “Moral principles and legal commitments may be invoked to justify a policy…; but they do not determine the choice among different courses of action” (Morgenthau1970: 382).
  7. An omission following a sentence is indicated by four points, the first being the period. “We must return to that pure source from which those people derived their guidance…which is free from any mixing or pollution….From it we must derive our concepts of life, our principles of government, politics, economics and all other aspects of life” (Sayyid Qutb1978: 32–33).
  8. A quotation of two or more sentences that runs four or more lines of text should be set off from the text in single-spacing and indented in its entirety four spaces from the left margin, with no quotation marks at beginning or end. When the text of a block quotation begins with a paragraph in the original, it is given a paragraph indention of four spaces and the first word is capitalized. This means that the total paragraph indention is eight spaces from the left margin. Furthermore, the citation of a block quotation is placed after the last punctuation mark and itself followed by no punctuation mark.
  9. When omitting one or more paragraphs, indicate the omission by indenting four points and placing them on a separate line.
  10. The first word of a text that introduces a quotation, which ends with terminal punctuation or with a colon, is capitalized even though it is not capitalized in the original. The exception to this rule is when the quotation is joined syntactically to the writer’s own words. In this case the first word of the quotation is begun with a lowercase letter.

Spacing

  1. A single space should separate each sentence.

    Follow the below steps to submit a manuscript to the International Dialogue. Shortly afterward, you will receive an email confirming your submission.

The submission process consists of the following steps:

  1. Read below acknowledgements:

    By submitting via email, I grant the International Dialogue and the University of Nebraska at Omaha the right to publish and the non-exclusive right to distribute my submission ("the Work") over the Internet and make it part of DigitalCommons@UNO.

    By submitting via email I warrant as follows:

    1. That I have the full power and authority to make this agreement;
    2. that the Work does not infringe any copyright, nor violate any proprietary rights, nor contain any libelous matter, nor invade the privacy of any person or third party; and
    3. that no right in the Work has in any way been sold, mortgaged, or otherwise disposed of, and that the Work is free from all liens and claims.

      I understand that once a peer-reviewed Work is submitted to International Dialogue, it may not be removed unless the editors approve. If this action or other corrections are necessary, I assume the responsibility of contacting the editors of ID to make such a request.

  2. Ensure your manuscript is in the above format.
  3. Make sure the manuscript is in Microsoft work or another word processing format.
  4. Email your submission to: Rory Conces, Editor-in-Chief, rconces@unomaha.edu

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Submission Agreement

Warranties & Ownership Overview

Please review the following submission agreement ("Submission Agreement") and indicate the author's agreement below.

Thank you for submitting an article to International Dialogue (the "Journal").

To submit an article (the "Article"):

You must be the author, or the authorized agent of the
  • author(s) and copyright holder (if different from the author(s));
  • the author(s) must have approved the work for publication;
  • the author(s) must have agreed to submit the article to the Journal;
  • the author(s) must accept full responsibility for the content of the Article;
  • the Article must be the Author(s) original work and must not contain any libelous or unlawful statements or infringe on the rights or privacy of others or contain material or instructions that might cause harm or injury
  • the Article must not have been previously published, is not pending review elsewhere, and will not be submitted for review elsewhere pending the completion of the editorial decision process at the Journal.

By submitting the Article, you represent and warrant that the above are true.

Each article submitted will undergo the Journal's editorial decision process. The Journal is not under any obligation to publish the Article. We will send you notices at the email address associated with your account.

If the Journal agrees to publish the Article, in order to expedite the publishing process and enable the Journal to circulate your work to the fullest extent, you hereby grant International Dialogue the first publication rights. As the author you will retain your copyright but agree to Creative Commons licensing. The journal is automatically licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. If you wish to choose a different Creative Commons license you can do so in the submission process.

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