AUTHOR GUIDELINES

The International Counter-Terrorism Review (ICTR) is a peer-reviewed, student-edited online journal dedicated to improving scholarship and discourse in radicalisation and terrorism studies. It provides a unique opportunity for students and young professionals to publish their papers, share innovative ideas, and develop an academic career in the field. ICTR solicits innovative analysis of contemporary and emerging trends in concepts, policies and practice relating to terrorism, counter-terrorism, insurgency, counter-insurgency, political violence, national security, radicalization and violent extremism.

Submitted manuscripts should be ideally between 2,500 and 5,000 words in length (excl. endnotes) and be compiled in the following order: • Title; • Abstract (no more than 200 words); • Keywords (up to 6 keywords); • Introduction, • Main body, • Conclusion; • Appendices (as appropriate); • Biographical note and full contact details.

• Submitted manuscripts should be written in an engaging style directed towards both a well-informed and a non-specialist audience; • Use American English consistently throughout the manuscript (e.g. radicalization not radicalisation); • Follow Chicago Manual of Style (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html)(17th ed.) for citations; • Use endnotes throughout for citations. Do not include a reference/bibliography section. • Endnotes should contain complete bibliographic information for any title (book, book chapter, article, report) when cited for the first time; if the item cited is available online, the URL or DOI should be added after the full citation.

Except where expressly provided otherwise, ICTR publications are published in open access format and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License,(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. All other rights are reserved. For commercial or any other use, prior written permission must be obtained from ICTR. Note: Authors whose work is published by ICTR retain copyright - but so do legal responsibility for any content - and are encouraged to post their work online. Views expressed in any authored contribution published in ICTR are those of the respective authors. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the statements they make and for checking the accuracy of all references.

All submissions to ICTR should be made electronically, in MS Word, and e-mailed as an attachment to i(mailto:ictr@ict.org.il?subject=ICTR Submission)ctr@ict.org.il (mailto:ictr@ict.org.il?subject=ICTR Submission)with the word “ICTR Submission” and the author’s last name in the subject line. All submissions should be sent with author’s contact information, as well as the author’s relevant experience. Authors are still permitted to send papers that have been previously submitted as part of an academic requirement. If this is the case, please kindly inform ICTR about the grade the paper has received. Authors are asked to provide alongside their submission a publishing agreement (https://af8fda25-2af2-4dd2-8ff8-e8ef47974647.usrfiles.com/ugd/af8fda_7c39f3845a524ffa87fa488a7f44522f.pdf)indicating that their submission is an original submission which is not under consideration for publication elsewhere and has not been published in any form or media, including on the internet. Any potential conflict of interest must be made clear to the editors at the point of submission. This includes any financial interests or connections related to the work, potential bias in the manuscript’s findings that reflect an author’s commercial, academic, or governmental affiliations. Download Publishing Agreement (https://af8fda25-2af2-4dd2-8ff8-e8ef47974647.usrfiles.com/ugd/af8fda_7c39f3845a524ffa87fa488a7f44522f.pdf)

Original manuscripts submitted to ICTR are reviewed initially by the editors and only those papers that seem likely to meet the required standards of the journal and fit within the aims and scope of the same, will be sent for peer review. Full drafts submitted upon first acceptance to publish should be fully and properly formatted according to the present guidelines for the peer review process to be initiated Accepted manuscripts will be evaluated by two reviewers with expertise in the subject matter of the manuscript, each delivering at least one report. External specialists in the topic in question may be requested to review selected contributions if these do not fall within the areas of competence of the members of the editorial board. The editors will make every effort to notify the authors of the decision on their manuscript within 60 business days. ICTR reserves the right to reject any submission at any stage of the review process.