Submissions

Author Guidelines

We accept submissions from graduate students, undergraduate students, and faculty who have taken courses or participated in Simon Fraser University’s School of Criminology. Collaborations are permitted in the Simon Fraser University Journal of Criminology.

Please ensure that your paper has not been previously published online or in print elsewhere. Multiple submissions are allowed, but only one paper will be chosen for publication per issue. 

When submitting, please ensure your paper meets the following guidelines to avoid a rejection status: 

• The paper must be written in English and employs the template provided by the journal. 

• • Please note that since the Journal is a Canadian undergraduate and graduate journal, we will standardize all spelling to Canadian English (using words such as “behaviour,” “centre,” or “favour”) 

• The submitted file is in an accepted format. Microsoft Word documents (.doc or .docx) are preferred.

• Standard APA 7 formatting (APA-style in-text citations and references).

• • As the Journal editorial team likes to review blind, please write your initials in place of your name on the title page. For example, if Jane Doe wanted to submit their paper titled “The Future of Criminology,” their title page would look like this: 
    J. D. 

• 2000 to 5000 words (excluding abstract and references). 

• Ensure that all the content in your submission is your own or that you hold the appropriate license for the intellectual property of others. For example, if your paper cites a scholarly article and uses one of the graphs as an element of your paper, you must have the right to use it. 

• • Frequently, papers are released under a license that allows for limited redistribution and reuse, or the original authors may be happy to permit you. 

• • If you cannot prove you have the rights to use someone else’s work, you will delay the entire publication process. 

• • If you have questions, please contact our editorial team via email.  

• Please maintain a copy if your paper relies on collected data and/or analysis scripts. The editorial team will likely ask to see them during the review process. 

• Co-authored papers can be submitted to the journal. In such cases, one author will complete the submission process, however, all co-authors must agree to the submission. The author must make a note of this agreement in the "comments for the editor" text box when submitting their paper.