Submissions

Author Guidelines

How to submit your manuscript?

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically to our solicitations editor by e-mail: merkourios@urios.org

Articles can be submitted at any time throughout the year. However, as our journal works with themes, it is advisable to consider the forthcoming theme as phrased in the call for papers before submitting. If you do submit a work that does not fit within the current theme, we will keep your article on file to consider at a later stage.
 
Merkourios encourages authors to contact the editorial board with ideas for articles or case notes they are planning to write. The editorial board is more than happy to discuss these ideas and how well they fit within Merkourios with the authors.

Preparing your manuscript

  • Length limitations
    Merkourios strongly prefers manuscripts between 6000 and 15000 words, including footnotes. (manuscripts exceeding 15000 words may be published in extraordinary circumstances)
  • Titles, subtitles and bibliography
    When submitting an article please include full title, names, academic or professional affiliations and complete addresses of all authors of the article. In the title and subtitles, footnotes may not be included. Both titles and subtitles must be brief.
  • Abstract and keywords
    When submitting a manuscript the author must include a short summary of the text with a maximum of 200 words. In addition to the abstract, five to eight keywords should be included that describe the essentials of the text.
  • Citation format
    Manuscripts must be submitted with footnotes; endnotes will not be accepted. Footnotes should conform to the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities 2006 (OSCOLA). Please use the following OSCOLA PDFs for guidance:

Examples
The examples below may be considered as an addition to OSCOLA regarding citations of books, contributions and articles. When writing an article it is imperative that all authors use OSCOLA as the main guideline.

Books

  • Citation:
    Author, Title in Italics (series title, edition publisher, place, date) page number.
    Example:
    H Olásalo, 'The Triggering Procedure of the International Criminal Court' (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2003) 134.
    With multiple page numbers: 134 - 139.
  • Cross citation:
    Author last name (n and number of citation which is referred to).
    Examples    :
    Same page number: Olásolo (n 70).
    Different page number: Olásolo (n 70) 135.
    Different page numbers: Olásolo (n 70) 135-139.

Contributions in compilations and edited volumes

  • Citation:
    Author, 'Title of contribution' (eds) Title of volume in Italics (edition publisher, place, date) page number.
    Example:
    M Cottier, 'War Crimes' in Triffterer (eds) Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Beck, Hart, Nomos 2008) 286.
    With multiple page numbers: 134 - 139.
  • Cross citation:
    Author last name (n and number of citation which is referred to)
    Example    :
    Cottier (n 14) 287.

Articles

  • Citation:
    Author, 'Title' (date) issue number, Journal page number.
    Example:
    P Burbidge, 'The Role of Law in Resolving Colombia's Civil Conflict' (2008) 8 International Criminal Law Review 557-585.

 

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.

  1. 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).

  2. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

 

Copyright Notice

Each article is copyrighted © by its author(s) and is published under license from the author(s). When a paper is accepted for publication, authors will be requested to agree with the Merkourios License Agreement which can be found here.

Authors will also be requested to agree with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For further information on this license, see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

 

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ISSN: 0927-460x