Volume 2, Issue 1 - Winter 2011

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Submission Guidelines

Important Notices | Guidelines for Specific Article Types

Important Notices

When it comes to publishing your papers, we're a stickler for following guidelines. So, be sure to read the submission guidelines below before you submit to us. And remember, Infinity Journal is not a foreign policy publication or international relations journal. We are a peer-review strategy journalzine. Be sure to read the guidelines carefully. Contact us if you have any questions.

A few notes:

Deadlines: Rolling submissions, with articles being selected for specific Issues.

All articles go through a double-blind peer-review process. We will do our best to offer explanations should a paper not be accepted.

Your article may not be published in another publication unless you receive our written consent. If you have any questions, contact us before your piece is published.

Please do not submit dissertations/theses unless they have been properly reworked to fit the IJ framework. This includes focusing on 'Strategy' (the ethos of the journalzine) as well as style and word count (3,000).

If you have any questions at all, please contact us at any time. We will respond as quickly as possible.

Lastly, do not send us a proposal. If you have something to say on Strategy, follow the submission gudielines and simply submit it.

Guidelines for Specific Article Types

IJ Articles

Infinity Journal Submission Guidelines for Articles

What we want

· Articles containing no more than 3,000 words.

· Articles in English.

· Articles on strategy specifically - and in relation to - Policy, Tactics and Operations.

· Articles on Strategic History, but not Military History.

· Articles do not have to be footed unless necessary (e.g. quotes, stats). Articles using endnotes must use a recognized system.

· Articles that use evidence and empirical observation over opinion.

· Articles that are well written, structured, intelligent and even provocative or witty, without being simplistic, vacuous, slanderous or rude.

· Articles re-butting or disagreeing with previously published articles in IJ are very welcome. See IJ’s ‘Letters to the Editors’ section.

NOTE: Please keep rigid language and complexity to minimum and comprehensible language and simplicity to a maximum. Our goal is to get your work read by the widest possible audience.

What we do not want

· No articles that exceed 3,000 words.

· No articles that seek to predict the future. No political prognosticating or foreign policy predictions.

· No articles on military training, organization, capability or technology.

· No articles representing political opinion.

· No articles that are exclusively on tactics and/or operations.

· No articles that exclusively seek to analyze or comment on a specific nation’s foreign policy, unless it is in the wider context of Strategic History. IJ is not an International Relations journal – it is a strategy journalzine.

Article and submission details

· Your question/argument should be in your title. Keep it short and succinct.

o E.g. “Is the strategy of targeted killings effective?”

o E.g. “The strategy, or lack thereof, of peacekeeping operations.”

o E.g. “Winning hearts and minds: Strategy or myth?”

· Articles are to be submitted via email to the address below. Please include 2 copies, one with a cover sheet and one without for the blind, review process.

o Click here to email your article to IJ's publisher

· Your cover sheet should include your name, date, a very short author bio and your email address. Your email address will not be made public unless you authorize us to do so.

· Please refrain from inquiring about the status of your article – we will work hard to inform you of the verdict at the earliest possible time.

If you have any questions, concerns, comments or suggestions, simply click here to contact us at any time. You may also visit our FAQ page by clicking here.

Letters to the Editor

Infinity Journal Submission Guidelines for Letters to the Editor

What we want

· Articles containing no more than 2,000 words.

· Articles in English.

· Articles that rebut a previously published piece in one of IJ’s issues.

· Articles that focus on the main point(s) of the previously published piece.

· Articles do not have to be footed unless necessary (e.g. quotes, stats). Articles using endnotes must use a recognized system.

· Articles that use evidence and empirical observation over opinion.

· Articles that are well written, structured, intelligent and even provocative or witty, without being simplistic, vacuous, slanderous or rude.

NOTE: Please keep rigid language and complexity to minimum and comprehensible language and simplicity to a maximum. Our goal is to get your work read by the widest possible audience.

What we do not want

· No articles that exceed 2,000 words.

· No articles that seek to put forth a new argument without addressing the piece being rebutted.

· No articles that seek to predict the future. No political prognosticating or foreign policy predictions.

· No articles representing political opinion.

· No articles that attack an author personally.

Article and submission details

· Your question/argument should be in your title. Keep it short and succinct.

o E.g. “A strategy of targeted killings is ineffective, and here’s why.”

o E.g. “Peacekeeping operations are not only effective, they are vital.”

o E.g. “Winning hearts and minds is not a strategy, it’s a myth.”

· You may refer to an author’s name in your title. This is acceptable.

o E.g. “Stahl and Owen are wrong: TK’s do not work.”

· Articles are to be submitted via email to the address below. Please include 2 copies, one with a cover sheet and one without for the blind review process.

o Click here to email your articles to the editor.

· Your cover sheet should include your name, date, a very short author bio and your email address. Your email address will not be made public unless you authorize us to do so.

· Please refrain from inquiring about the status of your article – we will work hard to inform you of the verdict at the earliest possible time.

If you have any questions, concerns, comments or suggestions, simply click here to contact us at any time. You may also visit our FAQ page by clicking here.

IJ Exclusives

If you are submitting an article for the IJ Exclusive section, please follow the same guidelines for “IJ Articles”, along with the additional points below.

IJ Exclusive articles will be published on the Infinity Journal website, not the quarterly PDF. This is a highly specific section that deals with strategy, which the writer ties to current and or contemporary events.

As this is a strategy journalzine, articles must be about strategy (ends, ways, and means).

All articles are peer-reviewed.

Please note the following, which slightly differs from IJ Articles:

1. Word count: maximum of 2,000 words

2. Must be on current/contemporary issues or events

Example: “Strategic Perspectives on the Armed Rebellion in Libya”

Click here to submit an IJ Exclusive

If you are unsure of a topic, feel free to shoot over a short proposal and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Click here to email your proposal to IJ.

Disclaimer: Infinity Journal is solely distributed through its official website. It may not be shared through other websites as a whole or in any part. As a free publication, this is key to maintaining the journalzine. Membership, which is free, is required. Explicit permission by Infinity Journal must be granted to the author for the republication of any article. The decision for republication is solely left to the discretion of Infinity Journal. Moreover, if quoting from an article in Infinity Journal, please ensure that Infinity Journal is properly sourced.

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