The Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ) accepts submissions throughout the year on a rolling basis. The Editors welcome submissions on any business and human rights-related topic from scholars, judges, practitioners and civil society actors representing all parts of the world and working in any relevant field.
BHRJ publishes scholarly articles, short ‘Developments in the Field’ (DiF) pieces, and book reviews. The recommended length (including footnotes) is 9,000–12,000 words for articles, 2,000–3,000 words for DiF pieces, and 1,000–1,500 words for book reviews.
We recommend anyone submitting to the journal for the first time reads these tips.
Content Types
Scholarly Articles
All articles should examine an issue concerning the intersection of business and human rights from a theoretical, empirical or policy/reform-oriented perspective and make an original contribution to scholarship.
Development in the Field (DiF) pieces
Please refer to BHRJ’s additional Guidelines for Development in the Field Submissions.
Book Reviews
More information on submission of book reviews can be found here.
Special Issues
Guest Editors of a potential Special Issue should follow these Instructions for Special Issues.
Blog pieces
The journal also hosts a companion blog. Interested individuals should read these Instructions for Blog Authors.
Style
All manuscripts sent to BHRJ must follow the guidance about 'style' and 'citation' laid out in this Business and Human Rights Journal Style and Citation Guide.
Submitting your manuscript
Once you have prepared your manuscript, please follow the instructions on how to submit your paper via ScholarOne here.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary materials. Supplementary materials will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary materials may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will be published with the same metadata as your parent article, and are considered a formal part of the academic record, so cannot be retracted or modified other than via our article correction processes. Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please make sure you are familiar with our detailed guidance on supplementary materials prior to submission.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.