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Prepare your manuscript for Australian Feminist Law Journal.

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Article types

Review
Book Review
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Review Article
Systematic Review
Letter
Lectio

Readiness requirements

Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.

Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
  • Submissions should include an Abstract (200 words).

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Manuscripts must be completely de-identified - please remove all author names, biographical information, and identifying self-citation from the main document.
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  • Please use this reference guide when preparing your manuscript.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.
  • All the reviews should include the following book information at the beginning, following the Journal style: author, title and subtitle, publisher’s name and city, date, number of pages, price, and ISBN.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Manuscripts should be between 8,000-12,000 words (inclusive of all footnotes, tables and figure captions).
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  • If you include any illustrative material, provide a Figure Number and Title.

Funding statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
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  • Author details, affiliations, disclosure statements, funding details, and acknowledgements should be included in a separate document accompanying the submission.

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Ethics statement

  • Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Blinded manuscript

  • Include or confirm the blinded manuscript required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Cover letter

  • Include or confirm the cover letter required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Author contributions

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Article structure and word limits

  • No commas are required for numbers below 10,000.
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
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  • The piece should meaningfully and critically engage with the book’s arguments and main contributions.
  • It should not be restricted to providing a summary of the reviewed work.
  • Review / Book Review: Authors interested in reviewing books should contact our Book Review Editor(s)- Rafael Carrano Lelis and Surbhi Karwa – at aflj.bookreviews@outlook.com.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • A number that opens a sentence should be expressed in words, regardless of quantity.
  • Use an en-dash ( – ) for an interruption or a pair of en-dashes for an aside – such as this one – within a sentence.
  • Use a hyphen (-) between numbers or for compound words.
  • Use commas to separate items in a list of more than two.
  • Include a comma between the last two items if necessary to avoid ambiguity: eg, She thanked her parents, the prosecutor, and the witness.
  • Nouns used in a general sense should not be capitalised: eg, the courts tended to favour plaintiffs in this area.
  • Images should also be provided separately from the Word document, in as high resolution as possible.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • In addition to a critical and analytical examination of the book’s central contributions, the piece should offer argument(s) building on the analysis of the reviewed book and placing it in dialogue with the broader field of scholarship on the topic.
  • Use ‘program’ (not ‘programme’).
  • Use capitalisation consistently.
  • Review / Book Review / Review Article: Please include the following information in your email: the details of the book you wish to review, the intended type of review (short Book Review or long Review Article), and the expected submission date.
  • The range of languages is limited by the AFLJ ’s Board capacity to access and read the material being reviewed.
  • Submissions which do not comply with the style guide will be returned to the author.
  • Do not begin or end quotations with an ellipsis (…).
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Language and text style

  • Indent quotations longer than 30 words; these do not require quotation marks.
  • Review: The review piece itself should always be submitted in English and can optionally include an additional version in the language of the reviewed book.
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  • Use gender-neutral or non-discriminatory language where appropriate.
  • Do not use full stops to denote abbreviations: eg, CJ, US, UK, CLR.
  • Use single quotation marks: eg, She wrote, ‘Blah, blah, blah’.
  • Use double quotation marks only inside quotations: eg, She wrote, ‘It is common to say “blah, blah, blah”.’.
  • Use an ellipsis to indicate where words have been omitted from a quotation: eg, She wrote ‘blah … blah’. (Note use of space before and after ellipsis.).
  • Use square brackets to indicate where an alteration or addition has been made to a quotation.
  • Use the following abbreviations for states or provinces: ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA, NT, Cth, NY, MA.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).

Manuscript structure

  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 12,000 words
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Funding, Acknowledgements, Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.

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