General Information
The Journal of Genocide Awareness and Applied Research (JGAAR) is published in both online and print formats. JGAAR publishes qualitative academic articles in genocide studies and scholarship across interdisciplinary fields. Excluding invited articles, JGAAR only considers and publishes graduate student research and will not consider article submissions from PhDs. JGAAR is poised to be the first and only academic journal dedicated to highlighting graduate student research in genocide studies.
All submissions undergo a thorough double blind review process. If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for JGAAR, please submit your CV here.
JGAAR will be published twice a year, once in June and again in December. Authors will receive a decision within ten weeks of their submission. Authors will not be financially compensated for their submissions and simultaneous submissions will not be considered for publication.
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Guidelines for Manuscript Preparation
General Requirements
Manuscripts should be written with an interdisciplinary, nonprofessional audience in mind. Technical jargon should be avoided if possible and qualified and defined if necessary. Since JGAAR focuses exclusively on qualitative assessments, quantitative graduate research will not be considered for publication. JGAAR does not publish book reviews or research notes. Only qualitative graduate research that addresses genocide studies will be considered for publication.
Page Requirements
All submissions should be prepared for blind review. Authors should format their manuscripts according to the 15th edition of the Chicago Style Manual. Manuscript pages should be bordered by 1” margins on all sides and double spaced throughout (including citation and references).
Final word count should fall within the range of 3000-5000 words, which excludes references, approximately 12-20 8 ½” x 11” pages. The first line of each paragraph should be indented and tabs should not exceed ½”.
Citation Requirements
Internal citations should follow the following format:
Totten (2004) describes the various methods of teaching genocide and notes that, “XYZ” (Totten, 2004, p. #).
The proceeding information is copied from the following source.
(Chicago Manual of Style, sec. 17.16-17.147)
Nair Nairn, Tom. 1997. Faces of nationalism: Janus revisited. London: New York: Verso.
Multiple authors
Geis, Gilbert, and Ivan Bunn. 1997. A trial of witches: A seventeenth-century witchcraft prosecution. London: Routledge.
Edited Book
Sarat, Austin and Stuart Scheingold, eds. 1998. Cause lawyering: Political commitments and professional responsibilities. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.
Chapter or essay in book
Roe Roell, Craig H. 1994. The piano in the American home. InThe arts and the American home, 1890 - 1930, ed. Jessica H. Foy and Karal Ann Marling, 193-204. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
(Chicago Manual of Style, sec. 17.148-17.203)
Bondonski, Ilya. 1989. Caring among the forgotten. Journal of Social Activism 14 (Fall): 112-34.
Article in a journal (multiple authors)
Liker, Andras and Tamas Szekely. 1997. Aggression among female lapwings, Vanellus vanellus. Animal Behaviour. 54 (3): 797-802.
Article in a popular magazine
Birnbaum, Jeffrey H. 1998. How to succeed at damage control. Fortune, March 30, 173-176.
The full list of reference examples may be accessed here.