FAQ

Guidelines for Authors

The Exceptions journal is open access: all content is free to access and read. New content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0. There are no publishing fees.

 

SUBMISSION CHECKLIST

 

  1. Read the Declaration EXCEPTIONS. Our Identity, Our Aims to gain an overview and assess if your manuscript is suitable for this journal;
  2. Make sure that issues about publication ethics, copyright, authorship and references format have been appropriately considered;
  3. Ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript.

 

LENGTH OF PUBLICATIONS

 

The EXCEPTIONS journal has no restrictions on the length of manuscripts, provided that the text is concise and comprehensive.

Manuscripts submitted to it should neither be published previously nor be under consideration for publication in another journal.

EXCEPTIONS accepts (among others):

  • Articles
  • Case studies
  • Book reviews
  • Conference reports

 

SUBMISSION

 

Please use the OJS system to submit your paper. The submitting author is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer-review process. The submitting author must ensure that all eligible co-authors have been included in the author list and that they have all read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript.

Submissions should contain abstracts (no longer than 300 words), 3-5 keywords and short biographies of all authors (no longer than 100 words each).

 

EDITING GUIDELINES

 

The entire document should be set in Calibri, 12 pt. The title should appear in bold.

Quotations of fifty words or more should be formatted into a block quote, whether in the body of the text or footnotes. Initial and terminal quotation marks should be omitted. A block quote should be separated from preceding and subsequent text with two hard returns so that one blank line precedes and follows the block quote.

 

References

For references please follow OSCOLA 4th edition. Please see the OSCOLA Quick reference guide here:

Authors must supply the full names of authors, texts (i.e. book and/or article name), journal name, additional publication information (i.e. editors, volume number, edition number), case names, court information, and year of publication.

Authors must provide specific page numbers for all cited materials. Any citation that does not come from a specific page range within a cited work must be cited as See generally.

Subsequent citations to the same source must be signalled by Ibid.

Subsequent citations to a previously used source must be signalled by the source author’s last name, followed by note (footnote number of first use in brackets) and [page number].

Acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms should be defined the first time they appear in the text. When defined for the first time, they should be added in parentheses after the written-out form.

 

PUBLISHING ETHICS

 

Please provide the following information at the bottom of your paper:

Acknowledgements

You may acknowledge individuals or organisations that provided advice, support (non-financial). Formal financial support and funding should be listed in the following section.

Financial Support

Please provide details of the sources of financial support for all authors, including grant numbers. Where no specific funding has been provided for research, please provide the following statement: ‘This research received no specific grant from any funding agency, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.’

Competing interests

All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their manuscript. Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations. If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors. If no statement is present in the published article, no competing interests were declared.

 

CITATION POLICY

 

Authors should ensure that where material is taken from other sources (including their own published writing) the source is clearly cited and that where appropriate permission is obtained. Authors should not engage in excessive self-citation of their own work.

Authors should not copy references from other publications if they have not read the cited work.