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Submission Guidelines

Papers are to be in English, well focused, well written, and reflect one or more of the following.

Guidelines for Submitting Manuscripts to Interdisciplinary Research on Terrorism and Political Violence

Each submission must be accompanied by the Author's Submission Checklist (available here).

The Checklist incorporates the following guidelines.

1. Submissions to Interdisciplinary Research on Terrorism and Political Violence must be accompanied by authors’ written statement that the work has not been published elsewhere in either printed or electronic form, and it is not under consideration elsewhere for publication.
   
   
2. Authors must obtain all necessary permissions, in writing and after acceptance and prior to publication, to reproduce any previously copyrighted works, including figures, tables, photographs, other images, and/or text exceeding 500 words.
   
   
3. For many of the journal’s readers, English is a second language. We would appreciate authors keeping sentences to two lines or fewer.
   
   
4. Manuscripts should be double-spaced within paragraphs and double-spaced between paragraphs, using one-inch margins and Times New Roman 12 point font.
   
   
5. A title page must include date of submission, its title, authors’ names, degrees, affiliation and contact information (address, phone number, and email address), the type of review requested (blind or open), and a running header of no more than 80 characters.
   
   
6. 60-word biographies of authors and co-authors are also required, placed at the end of the article.
   
   
7. An abstract of no more than 200 words is required, and must perform the traditional functions of an abstract. Between four and ten keywords or keyword phrases follow the abstract.
   
   
8. Tables and figures are to be numbered and placed in the text after the first reference to them. There is to be an average of two figures and one table per paper. Tables are to have letters no smaller than 3/32" (8.5 point) and symbols no smaller than 1/16". Tables may be no wider than 6.5" wide.
   
   
9. The editorial board will establish a common notation for the mathematical and logical material to the extent possible and assist authors to develop and apply appropriate notations.
   
   
10. Presentations at meetings or personal communications may be cited to show when a finding has been made, but not to refer to the substance of a study. Papers appearing in the same issue are to be cited giving the name of the author(s) and indicating that issue.
    
    
11. Authors are asked to cite papers from within the journal wherever possible, as well as from outside papers.
    
    
12. Since the issues are to be used as reference works, two separate, detailed, alphabetized indexes, one with the names of the authors cited and the other with the subjects covered in the paper, should be included along with the final, accepted version of each paper. The page numbers of that manuscript are to be listed in the indexes to facilitate our compilation. In the subject indexes, numbers of pages on which definitions of terms appear must be indicated with "df."
    
    
13. Unless these instructions advise otherwise, manuscripts must comply in all respects with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th Edition).

Interdisciplinary Research on Terrorism and Political Violence accepts only electronic submissions of manuscripts, which should be in Rich Text Format (RTF).

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We look forward to your submissions!

Our best,
Interdisciplinary Research on Terrorism and Political Violence Research Editorial Board