Submissions

Guidelines for Authors

Thank you for your interest in submitting an article for publication in Emergency Management Revise (EMR). EMR welcomes papers that contribute to the understanding and debate around emergency management and its related subject areas, and that develop issues relating to theory and practice. Papers that make a clear contribution to such debates, and are of interest to academics and practitioners will be subject to a double blind peer review process. They should usually be between 3000 and 4000 words in length, be fully referenced, and provide a concise message for the journal's target audience.

Submissions must be in MS Word format and conform to the following guidelines:

 

Title Page

This should not be part of the document containing your article to maintain anonymity during the peer review process:

- The title of the manuscript, author names, institutional affiliations together with full postal addresses and an email address for each author. In order to enable the publisher to do everything to ensure prompt publication, please indicate the author in charge of correspondence and, in addition to their postal and email address, provide a telephone number if possible.
- A short author biography of 50-75 words for each author.
- Acknowledgements

 

Main Document Text

Please Note: To assure anonymous review, authors should not identify themselves, directly or indirectly, in any parts of the manuscript except for the cover page.

- All text should be in MS Word format in English. Authors whose first language is not English should ensure that their final draft is carefully checked by a competent person for accuracy.

- Text should be keyed in as simply as possible, without bold or centering (apart from headings).

- All text should be 12pt Arial, black text on white background formatted onto A4 portrait paper.

- Italic type should be used for foreign words/phrases not yet 'naturalized' into English, and (sparingly) for emphasis.

- The first section of the article should be headed 'Introduction'; this and all subsequent headings should be centred and in bold. Sub-headings should be italicized.

- Paragraphs should have a line space between them; the first line should not be indented. 'single' not "double" should be used for quote marks.

Abstract

Submission requires you to include an abstract and keywords for your paper.

 

References in the text
- Citations should follow the Harvard style, enclosed within parentheses ie (author surname, year) if not a natural part of the surrounding sentence.
- The year should be enclosed within parentheses if the names do form a natural part of the surrounding sentence.
- Citations of works by two authors should have ‘and’ between the names.
- Citations of works by three or more authors should have the first author followed by et al in italics with no trailing stop.
- Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with a, b, c (e.g. 2008a, 2008b) next to the year.
- Personal communications should be listed as such where they are cited in the text, and not listed in the references.Example: Since Paterson (1983) has shown that… This is in results attained later (Kramer, 1984). Results have been reported (Don Graham, 1989, personal communication).

Articles not yet published should show ‘forthcoming’ in place of the year (in both the reference and the citation) and ‘In press’ should be used in place of the volume, issue and page range details.
Example: Sharp Parker, A.M. (forthcoming) Cyberterrorism: An examination of the preparedness of the North Carolina local law enforcement. Security Journal, in press.

 

List of References
References are placed in alphanumerical order of authors. Examples of correct forms of references for alphabetical style:

Book
Slovic, P. (2000) The Perception of Risk. London: Earthscan Publications.

Edited volume
Smith D and Elliott D (eds) (2006) Key Readings in Crisis Management, London, Routledge

Chapter in book
Weick K and Roberts K (2006) Collective Minds in Organisations: Heedful Interewlating on Flight Decks. In: Smith D and Elliott D (eds) Key Readings in Crisis Management. London, Routledge, pp. 343 – 368.

Article in journal
Comfort L (1995), ‘Risk and Resilience: Interorganizational Learning Following the Northridge Earthquake of January 17, 1994, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 2(3), pp 174 – 188

Article in newspaper
Webster, B. (2008) Record bonus for Network Rail chief, despite Christmas chaos. The Times, 6 June: p1.

Newspaper or magazine article (without a named author)
Economist (2005) The mountain man and the surgeon. 24 December, pp. 24–26.

Online resource
Green Party. (2005) Greens call for attack on asylum ‘push factors’. Green Party report, 4 March, http://www.greenparty.org.uk/index.php?nav=new&n=1838, accessed 9 March 2005.

Conference proceedings
Sapin, A. (ed.) (1985) Health and the Environment. Proceedings of the Conference on Biological Monitoring Methods for Industrial Chemicals; 30–31 March 1984, Chicago, IL. Chicago: American Toxological Association.

Conference paper
Harley, N.H. (1981) Radon risk models. In: A.R. Knight and B. Harrad, (eds.) Indoor Air and Human Health. Proceedings of the Seventh Life Sciences Symposium; 29–31 October, Knoxville, TN. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp.69–78.

Papers/talks presented at a conference but not published
Norman, S.A., Coles, E., (2002) Order out of Chaos: A Critical Review of Co-ordination Strategies between the London Boroughs and Central Government. Paper presented at 15th World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, Australia, July 7-13

Dissertation/thesis
Norman, S.A. (2002) Co-ordination of Emergency Management Strategies between first responders in London and Central Government: A Critical Assessment, MSc Thesis, Coventry University, Coventry, UK

Research papers/reports/working papers
Coles E L (1996) Trends in Housing Benefit Fraud: A Pilot Study. Unit for the Study of White Collar Crime. Liverpool Business School, Liverpool. Research Paper

Notes
Keep textual notes to a minimum, indicate them with superscript numbers and provide the note text as a list at the end of the article before the references.

Please do not use footnotes.

 

Tables, figures and diagrams

- All tables, figures and diagrams must be discussed or mentioned in the text and numbered in the order in which they are mentioned.
- Each should have a brief descriptive title and should be understandable even without reference to the text.
- They should be included within the text, but the text should include a note of where they should be inserted, eg ‘insert Table 1 here’.
- All data should be defined in the column heads and all footnotes placed at the end of the table.

 

Abbreviations

- Avoid unnecessary and ambiguous abbreviations.
- Unfamiliar abbreviations should be explained on first occurrence.
- Generally, avoid full points after abbreviations and initials.

 

Quotations

- If there are fewer than 20 words, present this within the text with single quotation marks.
- If there are more than 20 words, present it on its own seperate line in double quotation marks, as per the example below:

Example

Finally, Rosenthal and Kousmin (1997) point out

“…that a key question regarding the necessity of a response to threatening inputs bears on the dilemma of restoration versus adaptation or innovation as the appropriate functional requirement” (p283)

 

Lists

- Generally, a bullet point should come before items in a list;
- If there is a sub-list, however, use (i), (ii) etc;
- If the items are fairly short, use semi-colons after each one; otherwise, use full stops.

 

Numbers

- Spell out numbers one to ten, unless it is a number range (5-6, for example). Thereafter, use numerals.
- Millions and billions should be in words.
- Include commas for five digits and above (i.e. 50,000).
- No numerals should start a sentence.
- Except when used in tables, 'percent' should be used rather than '%'.

 

Format of Dates

- Format dates as 5 May 1995.
- Use small capitals for AD and BC.
- Type out 'twentieth century' for instance in full rather than any abbreviation.
- Refer to periods in the format 1950s, for example, or as a range, 1950-1959.

 

Spelling

Spellings and other relevant features may follow either British or American practice, but must do so consistently.

 

Italics

Use italic type for:

- Titles of books, journals and pamphlets
- Foreign phrases not yet naturalized.
- For emphasis, but only if vital.  Do not use underlining for emphasis.