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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

  • The manuscript is prepared in accordance to the relevant template:

    Research article (see also the pdf)

    Research note (see also the pdf)

     

  • The text, if submitted to a peer-reviewed section (e.g. Research Articles or Research Notes), has had the authors' name removed.
  • The manuscript is written in good English. Authors who feel their English needs to be checked are strongly advised to use a language editing service.

  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has not been used
    substantially in the research process (for instance, for conducting the literature review, formulating hypotheses of interpreting data).

    In case AI has been used for enhancing the clarity and the readability of the text, it is reported in the relevant section of the manuscript.

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

IdPS considers the following types of submissions:

Research Articles (7000-9000 words), which engage in theory-building or theory-testing.

Research Notes (5000 words max), featuring new empirical materials and methodological considerations, without necessarily engaging in theory-building.

Review Essays (5000 words max), that survey how a strand of literature is developing and which debates is feeding, also on the basis of recent publications.

Please not that IdPS does not longer publish Book Reviews

Special Issues

Interdisciplinary Political Studies also invites prospective guest editors to submit special issues proposals.

Special Issue Proposals, which should include the following elements:

• A concept note (3000-5000 words): the editors should present the main argument, ideas, or debate to be developed by the volume.

• A list of proposed papers (titles, authors, and abstracts).

• A curriculum vitae for each guest editor, and optionally for other contributors.

Originality

IdPS exclusively accepts original manuscripts, which have not been published elsewhere or currently under review by another publisher.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

The use of generative AI is strictly limited to enhancing manuscript readability and language. Authors are required to disclose the use of any AI or AI-assisted tools in the manuscript, specifying the software and its version.

Peer review

The editorial board evaluates the suitability of each submitted manuscript and may reject those which fall outside the scope of the journal. Suitable papers will be subject to a rigorous process of double-blind peer-review.

Article Processing Charges

There is no Article Processing Charge or submission fee to publish a work in this journal.

Journal License

Creative Commons BY-NC-ND.

Manuscript preparation

Once you manuscript has been acceptedthe production phase begins.

Please download the "Instructions for author" file and follow the general directions. Please number the pages consecutively. Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Long quotations of 40 words or more should be indented without quotation marks. Use the full name of a person, organization, program, or agency when mentioning it for the first time in your manuscript, and provide titles and explanatory phrases when appropriate. To enhance accessibility, avoid overusing abbreviations, initialisms, and acronyms. Use gender neutral language whenever possible. Double-check the spelling of non-English words, and include special characters such as accents and umlauts. Discriminatory language is forbidden.

Supplemental material

In case of self-reported data (i.e., transcripts of interviews, personal communications, focus groups, surveys, fieldwork notes), authors may be requested to send the journal editors an annex on the procedures and criteria that have been used to identify/recruit research participants. In case of quantitative data, authors may be requested to send the journal editors an annex including all documents required to replicate the analyses including the data source(s), the codebook and the code of the specialized software that has been used. The abovementioned annexes may or may not be published according to an agreement between the author(s) and the editors. Authors will be responsible for responding to enquiries about data replication.

Language editing

Authors whose first language is not English are encouraged to use the services of a professional language editor. Before publication authors may be requested to provide a language editing certificate.

Research Articles

Research Articles (7000-9000 words), which engage in theory-building or theory-testing.

Research Notes

Research Notes (5000 words max), featuring new empirical materials and methodological considerations, without necessarily engaging in theory-building.

Review Essays

Review Essays (5000 words max), that survey how a strand of literature is developing and which debates is feeding, also on the basis of recent publications.

Book Reviews

Book Reviews (2000 words max), whose main aim is to critically engage with the most recent scientific productions in the fields of Comparative Politics and International Relations.

Special section

Special section - “Security and Praxis”, that is particularly inspired by a critical epistemology and collects short articles shedding an eclectic light on topics dealing with the study of security.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain all rights to the original work without any restrictions

Authors who publish with Interdisciplinary Political Studies agree to the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Italy (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IT).

License for published content

You are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; remix, transform, and build upon the material.

Under the following terms:

- You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

- You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

- If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

- You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

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