SUBMISSIONS
To submit an article, authors are advised to follow these guidelines:
- Survival articles are around 4,000–10,000 words long including endnotes. A word count should be included with a draft. Length is a consideration in the review process and shorter articles have an advantage.
- All text, including endnotes, should be double-spaced with wide margins.
- Any tables or artwork should be supplied in separate files, ideally not embedded in the document or linked to text around it.
- All Survival articles are expected to include endnote references. These should be complete and include first and last names of authors, titles of articles (even from newspapers), place of publication, publisher, exact publication dates, volume and issue number (if from a journal) and page numbers. Web sources should include complete URLs and DOIs if available.
- A short author’s biography of one or two lines should also be included. This information will appear at the foot of the first page of the article.
- Survival has a strict policy of listing multiple authors in alphabetical order.
Submissions should be made by email, in Microsoft Word format, to the Managing Editor, Jeffrey Mazo, survival@iiss.org. Alternatively, hard copies may be sent to Survival, IISS–US, 2121 K Street NW, Suite 801, Washington, DC 20037, USA. Please direct any queries to Jeffrey Mazo.
The editorial review process can take up to three months. Survival’s acceptance rate for unsolicited manuscripts is less than 20%. Survival does not normally provide referees’ comments in the event of rejection. Authors are permitted to submit simultaneously elsewhere so long as this is consistent with the policy of the other publication and the Editors of Survival are informed of the dual submission.
Readers are encouraged to comment on articles from the previous issue. Letters should be concise, no longer than 750 words and relate directly to the argument or points made in the original article.
