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Manuscripts submitted to The Journal of Human Rights must not have been previously published or committed to another publisher under a copyright transfer agreement, and must not be under consideration by another journal.

Submissions:

Manuscripts should be addressed as follows: In an effort to reduce unneccesary paper usage, we encourage and prefer electronic (e-mailed) submissions, which must be sent to: JHR@uconn.edu in either Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format in order to ensure proper processing. Paper submissions may also be sent to: Richard P. Hiskes, Editor, Journal of Human Rights, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, Box U-1024, 341 Mansfield Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1024, USA. Letters to the editor may be submitted via e-mail to: JHR@uconn.edu and should be identified as such in the subject header of the message. For more information, visit the journal's website at http://jhr.uconn.edu/.

Manuscripts should be arranged as follows:

• Title page, to include the name, affiliation, and contact information, including fax and telephone numbers, of the author(s). The name(s) of the author(s) should not appear on the manuscript itself.
• Brief biography of the author(s). (on its own page, separate from the title and abstract)
• Abstract of the article. (also on its own page, separate from the title and biography)
• Text, Endnotes, Bibliography: the full citation for all sources referenced in the paper should be listed in alphabetical order after the endnotes section.

Presentation:

All copy should be typed with left justification, and with no hyphenation. For spelling, punctuation, and style refer to the American Heritage Dictionary and the Chicago Manual of Style. The text should be double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font, including indented passages, tables, and endnotes, and printed on only one side of the paper. Each table and figure should be on a separate page, and should be referred to in numerical order in the text. Location notes (e.g., insert Table 1 here) should be provided in the text. Figures and tables must be camera-ready copy, and are the author(s)' responsibility. Manuscripts must include all necessary diacritical marks in both the text and the endnotes. Foreign words and names which are written with the Latin alphabet may be spelled either in the original language or in a commonly used transcription system, but must be transcribed if they are not written with the Latin alphabet. In general, it is easier to give common place names in their standard English form than in more complicated transcription systems. Acronyms must be spelled out at their first appearance in the text: Popular Movement for the Revolution (MPR).

Length:

The text of the manuscript should be no more than 30 typed, double-spaced pages. Manuscripts over 30 pages are discouraged, except in special instances. All manuscripts must be written in English, except by prior permission of the editor. Manuscripts submitted by authors whose major working language is not English will be edited and, if necessary, re-written prior to publication.

Endnotes:

Notes should be kept to a minimum and marked clearly in the text at the point of punctuation by superior numbers, and listed consecutively at the end of the article. They should not be used as footnotes to manuscript pages.

References:

These should follow the Harvard system, i.e. they should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name, with the year of publication in parentheses, e.g. Smith (1994): or if there are more than two authors: Smith et al. (1994). If several papers from the same author(s) and from the same year are cited, (a), (b), (c), etc. should be put after the year of publication. The references should then be listed alphabetically and in full at the end of the paper on a separate sheet in the following standard form:

GELB, Michael. (1995) An early Soviet deportation: Far Eastern Koreans. The Russian Review, 54, 389-412.
HOROWITZ, Irving Louis. (1980) Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books), p.17.
KARNER, Stefan, and MARX, Barbarba. (1995) World War II prisoners of war in the Soviet Union economy. In Bulletin du Comit international d'histoire de la Deuxime Guerre Mondiale, 1945 (Montreal: Consequences and Sequels of the Second World War), p.196.
KUPER, Leo. (1981) Genocide: Its Political Uses in the Twentieth Century (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press).

Reprints

Corresponding authors will receive one complimentary issue and complimentary PDF file of their articles. They will have the option to order offprints or complete issues at the proofs stage.