SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES

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Articles are reviewed on the understanding that they are submitted solely to this journal. If accepted, they may not be published elsewhere in full or in part without the Editors’ permission.
To ensure anonymity in the review process, do not include the names of authors or institution in the abstract or body of the manuscript. Send a separate file including the title of the manuscript, full names of the author(s), the name and address of the institution from which the work originates, and the telephone number, fax number and e-mail address of the corresponding author. 

Please include a short abstract of no more than 150 words and up to six keywords. 
This file should contain the main body of the manuscript. Articles should normally be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in length, including abstract and references, but longer articles will be considered.

FUNDING INFORMATION

Details of any funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgments' section and should include the full official funding agency name and the grant number.

COPYRIGHT

Upon acceptance, authors will be invited to complete a copyright licence to publish form.

It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI). This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the licence agreement, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that State Crime is acknowledged as the original place of publication and Pluto Journals as publisher.

REFERENCES

The Harvard system should be used, with author and date cited in the main text (e.g. Author 2001: 71–2), and with references listed alphabetically at the end of the article. Do not include works in the references list that are not cited in the main text. Broadcast, film and internet sources can also be listed. Where authors cite their own works, they should cite them as XXXX + date of publication, to maintain authorial anonymity. Notes should be used sparingly.

It is of great help to the publisher if references are listed in the following style:

Books: Author, A. N. and Co-author, A. N. (2001). Book Title: Book Subtitle. Place: Publisher.

Chapters in books: Author, A. N. (2001). Chapter Title: Chapter Subtitle. In Book Title: Book Subtitle, ed. A. N. Editor. Place: Publisher.

Journal articles: Author, A. N. (2001). Article Title: Article Subtitle. Journal Name,  5(1), 123-126.

Newspaper articles/websites: Author, A.N. (2001). ‘Article Title’. Newspaper, 1 May. Available online at www.newspaper.co.uk/010501/article6.htm (accessed 1 May 2011).

JOURNAL STYLE

State Crime uses UK spellings (e.g. organize, analyse, labour).

Double quotation marks are used throughout, with single quotation marks used only for quotations within quotations (e.g. He stated that “this is not a ‘war on terror’”).

Minimal capitalization is preferred, particularly for words that occur frequently (e.g. state, government).

ILLUSTRATIONS

The use of diagrams, graphs and tables is not encouraged. Where they are deemed necessary to the argument, only essential data should be presented. They should be numbered consecutively, titled, and mentioned in the main text. Tables must contain editable text.

Diagrams and graphs should be supplied as separate editable files where possible (preferably in EPS, Illustrator or Excel format) and in greyscale, not in colour. Picture files such as jpegs are unsuitable. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission to reproduce any illustrations that may be subject to copyright, and sources should be indicated appropriately in the accompanying captions.