How to Submit

Critical Studies accepts submissions on a rolling basis. The journal welcomes submissions from a broad range of disciplines, both research papers and non-conventional forms of presentation. We encourage transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary contributions.

All contributions must be submitted in .doc, .docx or .odt file format and should be emailed to: CriticalStudiesResearch@brighton.ac.uk.

Contributions should generally be between 2000 and 8000 words in length.

Contributions should be in English. British spelling is preferred, but consistent American spelling is accepted. Submission of a contribution will be held to imply that it contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere.
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All suitable papers are submitted to double-blind peer review. 

Authors grant Critical Studies the right to publish the finally accepted text online and in print for an unlimited time. Critical Studies has the right to make necessary changes to the text, especially orthographical or grammatical changes. Authors retain the right to use and disseminate their text as long as they include a reference to the primary publication in Critical Studies. By submitting to Critical Studies authors agree that their work will be licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 International License.
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Format

Papers should be single-spaced. The first page of the paper should contain the following information: 

1. title of the paper
2. date of submission
3. full address(es), including email address(es), of all authors.

In case of several authors, the corresponding author should be indicated. 

The second page should contain the following information: 

1. title of the paper
2. date of submission
3. abstract (not exceeding 100 words)
4. keywords (up to five).

In order to enable double-blind reviewing, the first page will be suppressed when the paper is sent to the reviewers. For the same reason, papers should as far as possible be written such that the author(s) cannot be identified from the text.

Referencing

These are the standard referencing criteria Critical Studies upholds. They are based on the Chicago Manual of Style. When in doubt refer to their online quick guide.

Quotations and Paraphrasing 

• Quotations (word, phrases or passages) and paraphrased statements or ideas taken from an author or text should be referenced in footnotes.
  

• All quotations should be enclosed in quotation marks: “ ”. 
  

• Quotations that are longer than three lines should be separated by one space from the previous line and indented, with reference number following the last word.
  

• When using a direct quotation and omitting some words, use three full stops. For example: “… the store of religious ideas includes not only wish-fulfillments but important historical recollections.”
  

• Regular academic standards for using punctuation such as square brackets [ ] or academic expressions such as sic apply.

Footnotes

• Footnotes should include all quotations and paraphrased statements, numbered sequentially, as they appear in the essay from 1 onwards, in superscript.
  

• Regular academic standards for abbreviations such as ibid., cf., op. cit., and others apply.
  

• The first reference to a work in the footnotes should enclose the work’s full information as well as the page number if applicable. 

Examples

Books

Author’s first and last name, title, translator if applicable (city: publisher, date [original date if applicable]), page numbers.

Edward W. Said, Orientalism (London: Routledge, 1980), 79.

Jacques Rancière, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy, transl. J. Rose (Minneapolis, MN & London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999 [1995]), 33.

Chapters in Books

Author’s first and last name, “title of chapter,” title, editor’s name if applicable, translator if applicable (city: publisher, date [original date if applicable]), page numbers.

Judith Butler, “Violence, Mourning, Politics,” Precarious Life (London & New York: Verso Books, 2004), 19-49.

Giorgio Agamben, “Introductory Note on the Concept of Democracy,” Democracy in What State?, ed. G. Agamben et al., transl. W. McCuaig (New York & Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2011 [2009]), 1-5.

Journal Articles

Author’s first and last name, “title of article,” journal title, volume (date) issue, page numbers.

John Tosh,  “New Men? The Bourgeois Cult of Home,” History Today 46 (1996) 1: 9-15.

Internet Resources

Internet referencing should be the same as references for printed sources but followed by the <full website address> and date accessed.

James Bohman, “Critical Theory,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E.N. Zalta (2005), available at <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/>, accessed on 15th January 2014.