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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Essential title page information

  • Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
  • Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
  • Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that phone numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address. Contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.

 

Word Limits

Please include a word count for your paper. A typical paper for this journal should be no be between 4000 and 7000 words in length, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions, footnotes.

 

Abstract

A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.

Keywords

After the abstract, provide a minimum of 4 keywords and maximum of 6 keywords that will be used for indexing purposes.

 

References

References to books, journal articles, articles in collections and conference or workshop proceedings, and technical reports should be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order.

References to books should include the author’s name; year of publication; title; page numbers where appropriate; publisher; place of publication, in the order given in the example below.

Feinberg, J. (1984). Harm to Others. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

References to articles in an edited collection should include the author’s name; year of publication; article title; editor’s name; title of collection; first and last page numbers; publisher; place of publication, in the order given in the example below.

Wall, D.S., & Yar, M. (2017). Intellectual Property Crime Online in Asia. In Liu, J., Hebenton B., & Jou, S. (Eds.), Handbook of Asian Criminology, 83-97, Springer, London.

References to articles in periodicals should include the author’s name; year of publication; article title; full title of periodical; volume number (issue number where appropriate); first and last page number, in the order given in the example below.

Weber, J., & Kruisbergen, E. W. (2019). Criminal markets: the dark web, money laundering and counterstrategies-An overview of the 10th Research Conference on Organized Crime. Trends in Organized Crime, 22(3), 346-356.

Articles

One important expectation for publication is that articles must make a strong theoretical contribution. Meaningful new implications or insights for theory must be present in all articles, whether such implications or insights are derived from empirical research, or from the conceptual synthesis of recent advances and novel ideas into new theory. Submissions should clearly signal and communicate the nature of their theoretical contribution in relation to the existing literatures.

Copyright Notice

The authors retain the copyright in their articles. Articles are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License to allow others to freely access, copy and use research provided but the author(s) is correctly attributed. As you retain the copyright, you would be able to use the final published version of the article in any way you wished.

Then you may deposit your accepted/published manuscript at any point. For example you could deposit to the some places, for example: your institutional repository (the repository of the institution you are affiliated to); your personal or company website; Sherpa Romeo; and/or SSRN.

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