The International Spectator, established in 1965, is a peer-reviewed international affairs journal.

It is the journal of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome, Italy's leading foreign affairs institute and an active member of several international academic networks.

In its four annual issues, The International Spectator aims to provide academics, practitioners, opinion- and decision-makers, and interested laymen with thought-provoking and policy-oriented essays, opinions, and book reviews on a wide spectrum of foreign policy issues. The two kinds of articles published - the shorter "opinions" on topics of major current interest, and the more analytical and scholarly "essays" - undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial in-house screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two reviewers. Authors come from a broad geographic range, particularly Europe, North America, the Mediterranean and Middle East.

SUBMISSIONS

The International Spectator welcomes solicited and unsolicited submissions and book reviews on all aspects of international politics, economics and security affairs in the transatlantic and broader European/Mediterranean sphere. All may be submitted, along with author's cv, details of the author's affiliation, full mailing address and other contact information, to the editorial office by email: tis@iai.it.

Submissions must be original and should not be published or under consideration elsewhere at the time of submission, nor should their substance be drawn from previously published books or articles.

All submissions must be in English and in conformity with the journal's style. Guidelines are given below.

Essays should be a maximum of 5500 words in length, Opinions 2500 words, Book Reviews 1000 words. Articles and essays must include a 100-word abstract. The abstract should enter straight into the gist of the arguments and should not use the "this article discusses" style.

Submission Deadlines

First issue of year: 1 October of previous year
Second issue of year: 1 January of same year
Third issue of year: 1 April of same year
Fourth issue of year: 1 July of same year

HOUSE STYLE GUIDELINES

Example:

             “This,” George Templeton Strong wrote approvingly, “is what our tailors can do.”¹

                 This was obvious in the Shotwell series² - and it must be remembered.

             Angel Moratinos stated that “sending countries need an array of incentives”.³

The footnotes should be given in abbreviated form as last name, title (shortened if more than four words), pages.

 Example:

More than one note at a single location should be combined to create a single note. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum. For subsequent references in the footnotes, Ibid. may be used, but op.cit. should be avoided. Several pages or line references may be more conveniently placed in parentheses in the text rather than as a “garland” of Ibids at the bottom of the page. Care should be given to ensure that there is no confusion as to what is being referred. Newspaper articles should not be listed in the reference list and should only be introduced in the footnotes section (author's initial included). The reference list should be given in alphabetical order with the author's last name preceding the first name. For a repeated author or group of authors, the references should be listed in chronological order with the most recent listed first.

Examples:

Other Examples:

Abbreviations

• Avoid overuse of abbreviations ('that is', rather than 'ie')
• Spell out acronyms on first use, indicating the acronym in parenthesis immediately thereafter. Use acronym for all subsequent references.
• In general, use a full point for lower case abbreviations (et al., ibid., ed., art.), but no full point for upper case abbreviations (US, UN, Washington, DC).
• No points after abbreviations if the final letter of the abbreviation is the final letter of the word (e.g. Ltd, Dr, Mr, Mrs, edn, eds, but vol., ed.)

Capitalisation
Too many variables to give brief rules. Consult New Hart's Rules, if available. In general:

• keep capitals to a minimum
• keep in mind author usage and the context of the issue or article: eg. a special issue on Central and Eastern Europe might employ capitals throughout, while an article referring to that region in passing may use eastern Europe.

Commas

• Use a serial (Oxford) comma.

Dates

• 1 June 2004, 1990s, 21st century, mid-17th century (hyphenated)
• Use least amount of numerals for date ranges; use hyphen: 1756-63, 1990-2002

Names

• Give both name and surname the first time a person is mentioned in the text.

 Numbers

• one to ten, 11+, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, one million, 100 million, etc
• 500 km (space), 100 billion, 18 percent (but use % in figures and tables)
• Page ranges should be reduced as far as possible; use a hyphen: pp.22-3, 256-7, 207-8

Dashes

• Use hyphens, not dashes, for number ranges.
• Use spaced en dashes ( - ) when offsetting text within a sentence.

Headings

• Article title - main words have initial caps.
• Subheadings - A: Bold, "sentence" case, flush left; B: Italics, "sentence" case, flush left

Hyphens
Again too many variables to give brief rules. Refer to New Hart's Rules. In general:

• do not hyphenate: -ly adverbs fully operational; multiple words used as nouns day off; most prefixes, except where the word would be ambiguous or overly long
• hyphenate: compound adjective part-time course; noun-present participle combination decision-making; numbers/fractions when written in full Forty-five, two-thirds
• if in doubt, go with the author's preference if its consistent. If not, follow OED

Quotations

• Double quote marks; single within double.
• Punctuation should be outside quotation marks unless the quotation contains a grammatically complete sentence starting with a capital letter.

Spelling
UK spelling should be used throughout, using Oxford English Dictionary (www.askoxford.com/dictionaries/compact_oed/?view=uk)

Free article access
Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

Copyright
It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or licence the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.