Author Guidelines

Thank you for your interest in submitting your manuscript to Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. Refuge accepts original articles that are not under consideration by another publication at the time of submission.

Manuscript Format

• Articles may be submitted in either English or French and will be published in the language of submission. They must not exceed 7500 words.
• Papers must include an abstract of approximately 100 words, highlighting the central arguments and/or findings of the paper. This abstract will be translated into French, so that abstracts appear in both languages of the journal.
• Book reviews may be submitted in either English or French and will be published in the language of submission.
• Please avoid using computer codes, other than those concerning font and line spacing. Use hard returns only at the end of a paragraph.
• All authors must include a biographical statement following this format: <name> is <position> at <affiliation>. The author may be contacted at <email address>. This should not exceed two sentences and must be submitted separately from the manuscript itself. 
• Please ensure that all author identification is removed from the manuscript (including endnotes, personal information and details in the 'properties' of the document) before submitting so as to allow anonymous reviews. 
• Acknowledgements for funding, research assistance and/or scholarly contributions can be included in a footnote as a brief statement not exceeding two sentences.
• Refuge encourages all authors to review the ‘Common Errors That Authors Make’ document.

Computer Software

• Manuscripts should be in electronic form, either in Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, text or RTF formats.

Accuracy of Citations

• Authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of all citations.

Reference Style

• It is the authors' responsibility to carefully check and keep to the reference style of Refuge. For social science papers, Refuge adheres to the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., following the style given for endnotes with full bibliographic detail given in the endnotes (no footnotes, no bibliography, and no use of the author-date parenthetical notation style).
• Papers in the legal discipline should also adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., except where inconsistent with the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 8th ed. (i.e. for citations).
• For all questions relating to Chicago formatting please refer to the following websites for guidelines and examples: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/
  http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/contents.html

Book Reviewer Guidelines Only

Please note: This is not for people submitting a regular manuscript.

1. Book reviews are a vital component of the journal and provide an important service to the field as a whole. Reviewers are encouraged to take the opportunity to explain how the book advances forced migration studies in the contemporary world. We encourage critical evaluation both of the specific content of the book and of its significance within a broad framework of current thinking in forced migration. Reviewers may be asked to consider the content of the book in relation to a narrower topic for special thematic issues.
    
2. Unless the book review editor has stated otherwise, the length of a review should be 1000 words.
    
3. Please cite full publication details as follows:
   - Full title including subtitle.
   - By author.
   - Place of publication: publisher, year of publication, and number of pages.
   
   Example: Inhabiting Borders, Routes Home: Youth, Gender, Asylum. By Ala Sirriyeh, Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013, pp. 230.
   
   For edited works state “Edited by ...” For multi-authored works give all authors’ names in the order first name, surname
    
4. Limit citations of books not being reviewed. If it is necessary to cite another work, however, please provide the full reference including name, title, publisher, date of publication and page number as an endnote, following Refuge citation style. 
    
5. To quote material from the book being reviewed, please give page number in parentheses and use double quotation marks.
   
   Example: The problem, according to Long, is that “territorial state entities and ‘national’ identities are often mismatched” (20).
    
6. Give your name and affiliation at the end of the review.
    
7. Please remember that Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees is a multidisciplinary journal. Accordingly, it is helpful if the wider value and relevance of the book can be considered.
    
8. Proofs of reviews are sent to reviewers. Your timely attention to proofing the final copy helps us to keep publication deadlines.
    
9. The Managing Editor strives to send a copy of the published review to the reviewer and to the author/editor of the work being reviewed.
    
10. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees allows authors to self-archive the final, typeset PDF that has been approved by Refuge, as long as they provide the DOI. (The DOI is more stable than URL, and this provides the direct pathway to the original file).
     
11. Reviewers should direct any questions regarding their review to the Book Review Editor, with copy to the Refuge editorial office (refuge@yorku.ca).