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Content: Flexible, including preliminary research findings, position papers and policy briefs.
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Length: Academic papers should be no more than 8000 words, including footnotes. Policy briefs may be shorter, around 2000 words.
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Structure: Headings and subheadings are encouraged.
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Style: Academic or policy oriented, but accessible to the non-specialist reader and carefully grounded in scholarly literature where appropriate.
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References: Sequentially numbered footnotes. The series uses Chicago style, it would therefore be preferable if authors used this format; there is no need to provide a separate bibliography.
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Review: Papers will be reviewed by two members of the LSE Women, Peace and Security Working Paper Series editorial board.
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Publication: Papers will be published in PDF on the LSE Women, Peace and Security website and LSE Research Online, with a limited print run.
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Public engagement: Authors are encouraged to write a post (750-1200 words) for the Centre for Women, Peace and Security blog to introduce their paper to a wider audience.
Submissions should be sent by email only to women.peace.security@lse.ac.uk.
Submissions must be in a Word document (not PDF), including the title, the names of the author(s), email address for correspondence, and the month and year of submission.