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Papers submitted for publication are entered into a double-blind peer review system and normally read by at least two assessors as well as by one of the Editors.  The Editors'decision will be final. Articles submitted to the Journal should be an original piece of work, not been published before and not being considered for publication elsewhere in its final form either in printed or electronic form.

The BJS uses the  to verify the originality of content submitted before publication. The iThenticate software checks submissions against millions of published research papers, documents on the web, and other relevant sources. Authors can also use iThenticate to screen their work before submission.

To assure the integrity of the double-blind peer review process, papers should not be accessible via Google or other search engines and should not appear in any form on websites.

BJS follows the Wiley-Blackwell  and is a member of the .

1. Manuscripts should normally be approximately 8,000 words in length (including the Notes/Bibliography section). Please note that overly long papers will be returned without review at the Editors' discretion.
2. Research notes/commentaries making contemporary contributions to the Journal's fields of interest will also be considered by the Editors but these should not be longer than 2,500 words.
3. Review essays: Discursive book review essays, situated within current debates, will be commissioned and will normally be between 5-5,500 words. They will be peer reviewed and the guidelines set down below for articles should be followed for layout purposes.

General Notes

1. Papers: All submitted work should be provided in PDF files and set in double-line spacing and conform to the BJS housestyle set down below.

2. Papers identified as appearing to be in an early draft form will be returned to authors and removed from the assessment system.

3. The Journal employs a peer review process where both authors and assessors are anonymous, authors should therefore ensure that their identities are not revealed in any way within their submitted articles and where this is not done authors will be asked to resubmit a version which hides their identity.

4. Authors are permitted to suggest between 3 and 5 potential assessors for their papers. If this option is exercised, at least 3 names must be suggested so as not to jeopardize the integrity of the blind review process. Only one of the suggested assessors will be approached at any one time and the use of named assessors will be at the discretion of the Editor responsible for the paper in question (please note that here is no guarantee that any of the suggestions will be used). For each assessor suggested authors should include the full name, position, email address and a sentence explaining why the person named is qualified to review their paper.

5. The online system will prompt you to upload PDF copies of:

   - a covering letter, containing assessor suggestions,

   -a title page (stating only the title, number of words and date of submission),

   - a copy of the article text. Please ensure you enter the title of the paper together with the wordlength and date of submission listed below the title and abstract,
   
-if figures and tables cannot be embedded/Included in the text these should be supplied as separate PDF files for uploading onto the system as indicated.

6. Title page: The title of the article, number of words (to include abstract, text, notes, bibliography and appendices) and date of submission or when the paper was last updated (i.e. no author names or contact details) should appear on a separate sheet to be uploaded onto the system.
7. Article Text: should contain the title, workdcount, abstract and six keywords and should contain no identifiable references to the author either in the text or in the acknowledgements or endnotes.
8. Abstracts: When submitting to the online