Overall Style Articles should be written in clear, jargon-free English with adequate but not excessive documentation. We aim to be accessible to a variety of readers: scholars from diverse disciplines, policy-makers, and journalists, among others.

Textual style generally follows the Chicago Manual of Style. House style sheets may be sent to authors as part of the revision process.

General Agreement Authors will retain copyright and sign a license to publish with The Carnegie Council and Cambridge University Press.

PRINT JOURNAL SUBMISSIONS

Features (Refereed)

• Manuscripts should be approximately 7,000 to 8,000 words (not including notes). Longer manuscripts will be considered only in exceptional circumstances.
• Manuscripts should be original works and must not be submitted elsewhere while under consideration by Ethics & International Affairs.
• Articles will be desk reviewed by the Editors and will be forwarded for peer review upon their assessment.
• Endnotes (not footnotes) in Chicago note style should be used. Notes should be kept to a minimum, and lengthy notes are strongly discouraged.
• An abstract should be included, not to exceed 250 words, as well as a list of keywords and a competing interest statement for each author.

Competing interests 

Authors should include a competing interests declaration at the end of their manuscripts. However, if a declaration contains identifiable information, authors should email their declaration to the relevant editor instead of including it within their manuscript - to preserve the anonymity of their manuscript. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article. Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations. If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors. 

Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author A is employed at company B. Author C owns shares in company D, is on the Board of company E and is a member of organisation F. Author G has received grants from company H.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”. 

Essays (Non-Refereed) The journal encourages the submission of shorter articles of a timely nature. These should be approximately 2,500 to 3,500 words in length and require few citations. They will be reviewed only by the Editors, and will generally appear more quickly than those subject to the peer-review process.

Reviews and Review Essays Unsolicited book reviews and proposals for book reviews are not accepted. The Editors welcome proposals for review essays, which consider two or three recent books together and aim to develop a standalone argument.

Responses The Editors welcome responses to Features and Essays published in Ethics & International Affairs. Responses should be no longer than 1,000 words.

Proposals for Special Sections and Symposia Ethics & International Affairs accepts proposals for roundtables, symposia, special sections, and book symposia that explore in depth a particular topic from a variety of perspectives. Proposals should include a description of the project, a list of contributors, and abstracts for the various contributions, if available. Several formats and approaches are possible:

• Roundtable: A group of four to six non-peer-reviewed contributions, each approximately 3,000 to 5,000 words in length, on a particular topic.
• Symposium: One lead article (often peer-reviewed, but not necessarily) of 6,000 to 8,000 words and three to five responses of approximately 3,000 words each.
• Special Section: Three to six full-length peer-reviewed articles, up to 8,000 words each, on a single topic.
• Book Symposium: A group of four to six essays of 3,000 to 5,000 words dealing with issues from a recent notable book in the field. The topic of a book symposium should be the topic addressed by the book; the topic should not be the book itself. Each essay should work as a standalone piece, independent of the symposium and should be accessible and valuable to a reader who has not read the book in question.

ONLINE-ONLY SUBMISSIONS

Online Exclusive Essays The journal welcomes online exclusive submissions to appear on our Carnegie Council for International Affairs website, eiajournal.org. These should strive for a more informal tone than submissions to the print version of Ethics & International Affairs. Online essays generally run from 1,000 to 2,000 words, although longer submissions will be considered.

Proposals for Online Book Symposia The journal welcomes proposals for online-only book symposia to appear on our Carnegie Council for International affairs website, eiajournal.org. This format consists of an introductory essay of approximately 1,500 words by the book author(s) summarizing the major arguments of the book, along with responses of 1,000 to 1,500 words each from three to five scholars.

ETHICS

This journal publishes in accordance with Cambridge University Press’s publishing ethics guidelines, which apply to authors, peer reviewers, the editorial office and the journal as a whole. Anyone who believes that these guidelines have not been followed should raise their concern with the editor or email publishingethics@cambridge.org