How to Submit a Manuscript

1. Formatting

Initial submissions must adhere to the following requirements:

  • The entire document, including footnotes but excluding figures and tables, must be double-spaced and in 12 point font.

  • All notes must be footnotes, not endnotes.

  • To maintain the authors’ anonymity, authors should limit the number of citations to their own work prior to the article’s acceptance. Instead of omitting self-citations or using placeholders such as “author,” authors must include citations to their own work in the third person.

  • Whenever possible, authors should err on the side of providing specific page ranges.

  • Figures and tables must be placed in-line and close to the first reference made in the text.

  • Before submitting a manuscript, authors should ensure that it conforms to the highest standards of proper attribution. Manuscripts that fail to conform to these standards, however inadvertently, may face summary rejection.

  • If you are submitting in LaTeX, please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you will also need to upload your LaTeX source files with the PDF).

 While initial submissions may use any standard citation format, accepted articles will be required to conform to the Security Studies style guide and citation format.

2. Cover Letter

Please submit a cover letter with your manuscript that highlights the manuscript's central argument, contribution, and significance.

3. Questionnaire

Please fill out this google form so that we can collect information on conflicts of interest and learn more about your submission.

This brief form will ask you to list individuals who may have a conflict of interest and thus should not review your manuscript. It will also ask you to select the substantive focus, methodological focus, and geographic focus of your manuscript from a list of choices.

This form will not take long to fill out. Security Studies will not consider your submission for review until you have filled out this google form.

4. Submission Portal

Security Studies uses the Taylor & Francis Submission Portal to manage the peer-review process. If authors have not submitted a paper to Security Studies before, they will be prompted to establish an account before proceeding. You should not enter this portal before you have composed a cover letter and filled out the google form questionnaire.