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 is made prior to the deadline of 1 April (Issue 2) or 1 October (Issue 1) in any given year. 
• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
• The submission is compliant with the SCR Author Style Guide. The SCR does not have the capacity to provide copy-editing or reformatting services. Submissions that depart significantly from the Style Guide (e.g. with false or incomplete referencing) will be returned to the author for revision.
• The submission contains complete and accurate references, providing all relevant bibliographical data so that the source can easily be found (author, title, publisher, year, page numbers, etc.) in accordance with the Style Guide.
• The submission is compliant with the SCR Policy on AI use. Failure to comply may result in rejection, requests for revision, withdrawal of accepted work, or retraction of published articles.
• The submission must be the author(s) own original work, and the author(s) must have the right to publish the content. Authors also acknowledge that their submission does not infringe, and if accepted for publication that all reasonable exploitations by the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion of the submission will not infringe, another’s copyright or moral rights in any copyright territory. Authors acknowledge that the submission does not violate rights of privacy.
• For submissions based on empirical data, authors will be required to provide the SCR with details of the institutional ethics committee that approved the study and the unique approval or protocol number assigned to the project.
• The submission is written in clear, concise and accessible English. Authors whose first language is not English should have their manuscript read by a native English speaker before submission. We encourage authors to have their manuscript reviewed to ensure appropriate use of style, punctuation, grammar and spelling. If AI is used for this purpose, it should be declared and described as per item 5 in this checklist. If authors hire a language reviewer or if a colleague/student reviews their manuscript, this too should be acknowledged.
• The submission file is in a Microsoft Word .doc or .docx file format, and the file contains the title of the submission.
• The submission file contains four to five keywords followed by the title.
• The word limit is respected: 10,000-12,000 words for Articles (including footnotes); 2000-2,700 words for both Critiques and Comments (including footnotes) and Case Notes (including footnotes); 2,000-2,500 for Book Reviews (including footnotes).
• For Articles only:
  a. The submission file also contains an abstract of 100-150 words.
  b. The submission file is anonymised and should not contain any reference to or information about authors. Authors are to send biographical information in a separate document.
• Critiques and Comments, Book Reviews, and Case Notes are submitted directly to the relevant Editors; Articles (and articles only) are submitted through the online platform.