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General Guidelines

CRIA is published in English. Certain high quality papers may also be published in Russian provided that they are submitted with an adequate English translation.

CRIA publishes three categories of solicited and unsolicited material: research papers, comments and book reviews.

CRIA usually accepts articles from contributors as original contributions. If another version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission.

Authors are requested to give a brief biographical note in a footnote on the first page of the paper.

Submissions must be accompanied by a cover email containing contact information: postal address, telephone and fax numbers (if available), and e-mail address for each author (if the paper is co-authored). In this case one of the authors should be designated as the “corresponding author.

Manuscripts should be emailed as an attachment in Word to:

contact[at]cria-online[dot]org

Copyrights: Contributors will retain the copyright in their work. However, a submission of a paper to CRIA implies that the author grants an exclusive license to CRIA to publish his/her contribution. In granting this exclusive license, authors may later use their own material in any form in other publications provided that CRIA is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and is notified in writing and in advance.

Disclaimer: Articles published in CRIA do not represent the views of the Editors. The Editors do not accept any responsibility for the views expressed in any article.

Review process

CRIA carefully considers all manuscripts that it receives. We review pieces anonymously, without regard to the author's name, affiliation, prior publications, or pending publication offers. Each manuscript is individually peer-reviewed and evaluated.

There is no "best" time to submit a manuscript to CRIA. We will never reject an article for lack of space; rather, we will hold it over for consideration for the next issue. We encourage contributors to submit articles as soon as they are ready. For submission deadlines please refer to the relevant section below.

We will notify authors of the decision by email. We normally do not inform authors of the status of their manuscripts other than through email. As a matter of policy, we do not discuss the reasons for our publication decisions.

Research papers

Research papers should normally be within 3,000 to 9,000 words including all notes and references. All submissions must be single-spaced and written in Times New Roman regular font, 12 point throughout. Justified margins; top and bottom 2 cm, left and right 2 cm are required. An indented and italicised abstract of up to 150 words, describing the main arguments and conclusions, and 5-7 keywords, indicating the main themes of the manuscript, must precede the main text. An introduction should follow the abstract and the article should consist of sections with a conclusion. For referencing guidelines see the section “Style Guide”.

COMMENTS

Comments should mainly reflect personal thoughts of the author on the given topic. CRIA invites scholars, policy-makers and practitioners to submit comments. Comments should normally be within 1500 to 3,000 words including all notes and references. Compared to research papers comments need not be replete with notes and references, although it is up to the author to decide whether to use notes and references in the relevant parts of the paper. All submissions must be single-spaced and written in Times New Roman regular font, 12 point throughout. Justified margins; top and bottom 3 cm, left and right 2.5 cm are required. As in research papers, comments should also include an abstract of up to 150 words, 5-7 keywords, introduction, sections and conclusion. For referencing guidelines see the section “Style Guide”.

BOok reviews

Book reviews should assume that the reader has not read the book(s) under review and offer a very brief summary of the same. The review should position the book within the relevant field of literature, as well as give a few points of information on the author's background. It is imperative that the book review contain substantive analysis and comments on issues raised by the book(s). Books under review should be listed at the beginning of the review, with complete bibliographical information, including number of pages. Notes and references should follow the forms outlined in the style guide. Please note that page references to books under review should be incorporated into the text, in parentheses. Manuscripts may be up to 5,000 words in length, including all notes and references. All submissions must be single-spaced and written in Times New Roman regular font, 12 point throughout. Justified margins; top and bottom 3 cm, left and right 2.5 cm are required. The author is requested to give a brief biographical note in a footnote at the beginning of the book review. For more manuscript guidelines see the section “Style Guide”.

CRIA invites authors of reviewed books to respond. Reviews of books published in other main languages are also considered.

Style Guide

As a referencing style of manuscripts CRIA will apply the humanities system of the Chicago Manual of Style from the Spring 09 issue on. The contributors are asked to use full footnotes (not endnotes) and refrain from including a bibliography. Quotations should be placed within double quotation marks ("……"). Lengthy quotations (exceeding 40 words) should be displayed separately in the text in indented and italicized form. Titles and section headings should be brief and clear. Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. Tables and figures should have short, descriptive titles, and their position in the text should be clearly indicated. All footnotes to tables and their source(s) should be placed under the tables. Column headings should clearly define the data presented.

If copyrighted material is used in the article, it is the author's responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder. Names of the authors, places and publishing houses must be written in their original form. Original titles of the quoted books, edited volumes, newspaper and journal articles in a language other than English must be followed by an appropriate English translation in brackets, without italics or quotation marks. Parentheses may be used instead of brackets, but brackets more clearly distinguish the translation from publishing information in parentheses. For example:

Sebastian Mayer, Die Europäische Union im Südkaukasus. Interessen und Institutionen in der Auswärtigen Politikgestaltung [European Union in the South Caucasus. Interests and institutions in the foreign policy formulation] (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2005)

The style of references in footnotes should conform to the following examples (for more details please refer to Chicago Manual of Style):

Articles in print journals: Klinton W. Alexander, “NATO's Intervention in Kosovo: The legal case for violating Yugoslavia's national sovereignty in the absence of Security Council approval,” Houston Journal of International Law, vol. 22:3 (2000): 403-63.

Articles in online journals: Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach, “Competing Islamic Traditions in the Caucasus,” Caucasian Review of International Affairs, vol. 3:1 (2009), http://cria-online.org/6_6.html (accessed March 27, 2009).

Books: Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon Schuster, 1991), 209-210.

Edited volumes: Jonathan Hall and Ashok Swain, “Catapulting Conflicts or Propelling Peace: Diasporas and Civil War,” in Globalization and Challenges to Building Peace, ed. Ashok Swain et al. (London, New York & Delhi: Anthem Press, 2007), 45.

Working papers and other unpublished works: Deborah D. Lucki and Richard W. Pollay, “Content Analyses of Advertising: A Review of the Literature” (working paper, History of Advertising Archives, Faculty of Commerce, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1980).

Signed newspaper articles: William S. Niederkorn, “A Scholar Recants on His ‘Shakespeare’ Discovery,” New York Times, June 20, 2002, Arts section, Midwest edition.

Unsigned newspaper articles: New York Times, “In Texas, Ad Heats Up Race for Governor,” July 30, 2002.

Articles from online newspapers: Alison Mitchell and Frank Bruni, “Scars Still Raw, Bush Clashes with McCain,” New York Times, March 25, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/politics/25MCCA.html (accessed January 2, 2002).

Conference or meeting papers: Brian Efird, "Power Transition Analysis of the Caucasus Region" (paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 03, 2005).

Website: University of Georgia, "Points of Pride," University of Georgia, http://www.uga.edu/profile/pride.html (accessed October 30, 2008).

The typescript should be carefully checked for errors before it is submitted for publication. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of quotations and for supplying complete and correct references.

Propose a paper

If you have a manuscript that you would like to submit to CRIA, but you are not sure if it’s “right” for the journal, email us at contact[at]cria-online[dot]org to ask whether we are interested.

Please bear in mind that it’s impossible to evaluate manuscripts that we haven’t seen, but we can tell you whether, for example, we have just accepted another article on the same topic. We can also assess whether the topic is suitable for CRIA and whether the editors might have a particular interest in considering your paper.

Submission deadlines

We accept submissions on a rolling basis. The following deadlines, however, are worth keeping in mind in order for a paper to be considered for a particular issue:

For the Winter issue (end of January) - December 31;

For the Spring issue (end of April) - March 31;

For the Summer issue (end of July) - June 30;

For the Autumn issue (end of October) - September 30.