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Author Guidelines

General guidelines:

• Submitted manuscripts must be original and not published or under consideration elsewhere
• Submissions are generally open to those with specialist interest in environmental, rural social justice and indigenous issues. Periodically the journal will publish a special issue on a theme.
  
• All articles will be reviewed by the editor and two peers.
• All correspondence must be carried out via e-mail and should be addressed to:

Specific Guidelines

Manuscripts must be submitted in .doc or .docx format. Any other formats will be returned to the author for reformatting.

An ‘abstract’ of no more than 300 words must precede the body of work.

Include a list of ‘keywords’ at the end of the article.

There is a word limit of 8,000 words for each article, not including footnotes (though footnotes should be limited to citations and directly relevant tangential or extraneous matter) and appendices.

Use Trebuchet MS style font throughout the text, for headings, body, footnotes, quotes, tables, bibliography, and header and footer.

Black typeface throughout (no colour for body text or headings, footnotes, etc.).

Set left and right margins at 3 cm and right margin at 2.5 cm. Select A4 document size

No more than three levels of headings (capitalise only first letter of first word in headings):

• Body text (normal): font: Trebuchet MS, 10 pt, line spacing: exactly 13, spacing before each paragraph at 6 pt (no indent at the beginning of paragraphs)
• Heading 1: font: Trebuchet, 14 pt, bold, line spacing: single, space before paragraph 18 pt, space after paragraph 6
• Heading 2: as for heading 1 but using 13 pt font and space before paragraph 12 pt
• Heading 3: as for heading 2 but using 11 pt font
• Headings should not be numbered

Lists should be set at the margin for the first level. Use single spacing within the list (space before list set at 6 pt).

Each table, illustration and figure must have a consecutive number and caption (e.g. Table 1: xyz, Table 2: abc, Figure 1: ghi, Figure 2: jkl). Place tables, figures and illustrations at appropriate place in the body of the article (not at the end).

As a convention, follow Australian English (choose this option 'English (AUS)' for your online word dictionary).

Enclose quotes with less than three lines in single quotation marks (eg, Within the context of the theme; for example, ‘xyz said “abc”.’), but indent quotes of more than thirty words 1cm at left and right of text margins (do not use italics or enclose such quotes in quotation marks) and reduce font size to 9.

Use italics or quote marks to emphasise text (not bold or underlined).

Use the Australian Guide to Legal Citation for referencing. This guide can be found as a .pdf at: mulr.law.unimelb.edu.au/files/aglcdl.pdf. If using URLs, unlink them.

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.

1. 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).
   
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx)format.
   
3. Use the style specified in the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (Third Edition) for referencing. This guide can be found as a .PDF at: mulr.law.unimelb.edu.au/files/aglcdl.pdf.
   
4. The text uses a 10 point trebuchet font; is exactly 13 pt spaced; employs italics, rather than underlining for emphasis; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are consecutively numbered and placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
   
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
   

Copyright Notice

Authors, upon submission, communicate their acceptance of the following conditions:

• The work, upon publication, becomes the property of the International Journal of Rural Law and Policy.
• Upon publication, the work is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial_No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
• Permissions for subsequent publication/reprint and/or derivative works must be obtained from the Editors of the Journal of Rural Law and Policy

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