期刊名称：POLICING-A JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice is a leading policy and practice publication aimed at connecting law enforcement leaders, police researchers, analysts and policy makers, this peer-reviewed journal contains critical analysis and commentary on a wide range of topics including current law enforcement policies, police reform, political and legal developments, training and education, patrol and investigative operations, accountability, comparative police practices, and human and civil rights. The journal has an international readership and author base.
It draws on examples of good practice from around the world and examines current academic research, assessing how that research can be applied both strategically and at ground level.
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Instructions to Authors
Policing publishing online-only
Policing is an online-only publication from 2020 onwards (Volume 13 Issue 4 was the last issue published in print). Authors will be able to continue to access their published articles and content via the Oxford Academic platform at https://academic.oup.com/policing/.
General Guidelines
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice is intended to serve the professional development of police services and the study of policing. It aims to connect police practitioners and scholars by raising contemporary and critical issues in policing and bringing both experiential knowledge and science to bear upon them. It aims to inform police practitioners of developments in policing and research on policing that has relevance to policy and practice; to raise and discuss issues of direct relevance to police policy and practice, including ethical issues, problem identification and problem-solving; to stimulate police officers to adopt practices that enhance their individual and collective professional service to the public; and to act as a forum for the development of innovation. In doing this, the journal adheres to the rigorous intellectual requirements of rational argument and discussion and is not a forum for airing opinions or making political comment.
The target readership of the journal is professionally committed police practitioners, academic researchers and scholars working in cognate applied research and theory, throughout the English-speaking world. Therefore, authors are reminded not to assume familiarity with the particular jurisdiction within which they work and to draw conclusions at the most general level of applicability as they can. Articles should focus on communicating research to practitioners. To this end, discussion of the existing literature should focus only on what is most directly relevant to the problem being addressed; elaborate methodological detail and reasoning should be minimised; data should be presented in the most readily accessible format (e.g., tables, graphs, figures). References can be used to guide readers to other publications where academic detail and discussion can be pursued. Editors encourage academic researchers to completely re-configure data and arguments that have been aired in academic publications within a new and original paper so that their relevance — and hence their impact — to policy and practice is emphasised. However, articles previously published elsewhere (including online) will not be accepted.
Articles should be written in an accessible style suitable for an international readership. Articles will typically be in the range of 4,000–6,000 words, with shorter articles summarizing academic research or analysing contemporary issues and their practical relevance, and longer articles displaying research methods and findings. Articles longer than 6,000 words are considered only in exceptional cases.
Submission of Articles
All submissions, including book reviews, should be submitted online on the journal's submission website.
Articles are reviewed on the understanding that they are submitted solely to this Journal. If accepted, they may not be published elsewhere in full or in part without the General Editors' permission.
Policing actively welcomes both 'Debate' style articles and articles written in response to Debates. In keeping with standard practice, exchanges on Debate pieces will follow the format of (1) the Debate article, followed by (2) a comment or rebuttal and (3) a response from the original author.
Please save your manuscript into the following separate files – Title; Abstract/Introduction; Manuscript; Appendix. To ensure anonymity in the review process, do not include the names of authors or institution in the abstract, body of the manuscript or within the name in which the file is saved.
Title
All academic contributors should include a file containing the title of the contribution together with a word count and the author's name and contact details.
Abstract
A separate file containing an abstract of no more than 150 words should be included. References should not be cited in the abstract.
Introduction
All practitioner contributors should include a separate file containing a brief biography (title, affiliation and any previous experience relevant to the article) and overview of their article. This should be no more than 150 words.
Manuscript
As a rule, full articles should not exceed 6,000 words (endnotes and references will not be counted as part of this total). Longer articles will be considered on their merits. Manuscripts must be submitted in Microsoft Word, and follow the following format: 1-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font, include page numbers, and be double-line spaced.
Endnotes should be numbered consecutively and placed together at the end of the article. Short quotations within the text should be marked by single quotation marks. Longer quotations should be inset from the main text and typed single spaced.
Quotations
Short quotations within the text should be marked by single quotation marks. Quotations longer than 30 words should be indented from the main text without quotation marks, and typed single spaced.
References
References should be cited within the text and presented in brackets [e.g. (Waddington, 1999)], and a full citation given in the Reference section.
Additionally, footnotes may be used when authors wish to add additional context or technical information, and should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript.
Headings
Please use the following method for structuring and numbering headings, which is standard for the Policing journal:
- Chapter Title
- A heading (major subdivision within the chapter - bold, left aligned)
- B heading (main subsection of an A head section – left aligned)
- C heading (minor heading)
General points to note
- All publications/reports should appear in italics.
- All article titles should appear in quotes.
- Numbers one to ten used within the article should be spelled out.
- All Case Law should be footnoted with a full citation given.
- References to “Black” and “White” ethnicities should be capitalised
Diagrams and tables are expensive of space and should be used sparingly. All diagrams, figures and tables should be in black and white, numbered and should be referred to in the text. They should be placed at the end of the manuscript with their preferred location indication in the manuscript.
Authors are reminded that the Journal is likely to have a substantial practitioner readership as well as an international readership. Articles should be drafted with this in mind.
References
References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the article, giving the names of journals in full. Titles and subtitles of articles, books, and journals should have main words capitalized. Titles of books and journals will be printed in italics and should therefore be underlined.
Examples:
- Kennedy, D. (2008). Deterrence and Crime Prevention. New York: Routledge.
- Braga, A. A. and Davis, E. F. (2014). 'Implementing Science in Police Agencies: The Embedded Research Model.' Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 8(4): 294-306.
- Rojek, J., Decker, S. H. and Wagner, A. E. (2010). 'Addressing Police Misconduct: The Role of Citizen Complaints.' In Dunham, R. G. and Alpert, G. P. (eds), Critical Issues in Police: Contemporary Readings. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, pp. 292-312.
Please ensure that all references cited in the text are included in the reference list.
Book Reviews
Policing welcomes approaches from academics, graduate students or practitioners interested in writing book reviews. A list of suggested titles is given, but you may also suggest additional titles in which you have an interest. Publishers interested in having their books reviewed, or anyone wishing to suggest a book for review/volunteer to write a book review are asked to contact the Book Review Editor in the first instance: Martin Wright (martin.wright@canterbury.ac.uk). All book reviews should be submitted via the journal's submission website.
Permissions
Permission to reproduce copyright material for online publication in perpetuity must be cleared and if necessary paid for by the author. Evidence in writing that such permissions have been secured from the rights-holder must be made available to the editors. It is also the author's responsibility to include acknowledgements as stipulated by the particular institutions. Oxford Journals offers information and documentation to assist authors in securing permissions on its website.
It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission to quote from copyright sources.
Third-Party Content in Open Access papers
If you will be publishing your paper under an Open Access licence but it contains material for which you do not have Open Access re-use permissions, please state this clearly by supplying the following credit line alongside the material:
Title of content
Author, Original publication, year of original publication, by permission of [rights holder]
This image/content is not covered by the terms of the Creative Commons licence of this publication. For permission to reuse, please contact the rights holder.
Licence to Publish
It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to Oxford Journals. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In granting an exclusive licence, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance.
Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form.
Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.
Open Access
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice offers the option of publishing under either a standard licence or an open access licence. Please note that some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify any such requirements with your funder or institution.
Should you wish to publish your article open access, you should select your choice of open access licence in our online system after your article has been accepted for publication. You will need to pay an open access charge to publish under an open access licence.
Details of the open access licences and open access charges.
OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.
Proofs
Authors are sent a link to the PDF page proofs by e-mail. To avoid delays in publication, proofs should be checked immediately for typographical errors and returned by uploading the corrected proofs to the link. The Publisher reserves the right to charge authors for the cost of changes made to the text or the figures at proof stage when such changes are extensive. No charge will be made for corrections of errors made during the editorial process.
Contact Address
All correspondence concerning contributions should be sent to:
Martin Wright, The Canterbury Centre for Policing Research (CCPR), Canterbury Christ Church University
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice
Email: martin.wright@canterbury.ac.uk
Availability of Data and Materials
Where ethically feasible, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. We suggest that data be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files, or deposited in a public repository whenever possible. For information on general repositories for all data types, and a list of recommended repositories by subject area, please see Choosing where to archive your data.
Data Citation
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice supports the Force 11 Data Citation Principles and requires that all publicly available datasets be fully referenced in the reference list with an accession number or unique identifier such as a digital object identifier (DOI). Data citations should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite:
- [dataset]* Authors, Year, Title, Publisher (repository or archive name), Identifier
*The inclusion of the [dataset] tag at the beginning of the citation helps us to correctly identify and tag the citation. This tag will be removed from the citation published in the reference list.
Preprint policy
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels, and this does not prevent submission to the journal. For further information see our Online Licensing, Copyright and Permissions policies. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI, as described on our Author Self-Archiving policy page.
Author Self-Archiving/Public Access Policy
For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving Policy page.
Language Editing
Language editing, if your first language is not English, to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers is optional. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. For further information, please visit our language services page. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.
Crossref Funding Data Registry
In order to meet your funding requirements authors are required to name their funding sources, or state if there are none, during the submission process. For further information on this process or to find out more about CHORUS, visit the CHORUS initiative.
Editorial Board
General Editor
Peter Neyroud
Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, UK
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3628-4899
William Terrill
Arizona State University, USA
Chair, Division of Policing, American Society of Criminology
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-1869
Managing Editor
Martin Wright
The Canterbury Centre for Policing Research (CCPR), Canterbury Christ Church University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3366-7544
Book Review Editor
Martin Wright
The Canterbury Centre for Policing Research (CCPR), Canterbury Christ Church University
Emeritus Editorial Board members
Stephen Mastrofski
George Mason University, USA
R. K. Raghavan
India
Robert Reiner
London School of Economics, UK
Steve Savage
University of Portsmouth, UK
Jonathan Shepherd
University of Cardiff, UK
Wesley Skogan
North Western University, USA
Nick Tilley
University College London, UK
Editorial Board
Stephen A. Bishopp
Dallas Police Department, USA
 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4883-2327
Jim Burch
National Police Foundation, USA
Tom Cockcroft
Leeds Beckett University, UK
John Eck
University of Cincinnati, USA
Jacinta M. Gau
University of Central Florida, USA
Manne Gerell
Malmö University, Sweden
Clive Harfield
ARC Centre for Excellence in Policing & Security, Griffith University, Australia
Matthew Hickman
Seattle University, USA
Laura Huey
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Jason Ingram
Sam Houston State University, USA
William R. King
Boise State University, USA
T K Vinod Kumar
Indian Police Service, India
Ian Loader
University of Oxford, UK
Cynthia Lum
George Mason University, USA
Lorraine Mazerolle
University of Queensland, Australia
Tim Newburn
London School of Economics, UK
Sir Denis O'Connor
Formerly Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, UK
Megan O'Neill
University of Dundee, UK
Eugene Paoline
University of Central Florida, USA
Craig Paterson
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Sebastian Roché
University of Grenoble, France
Jenna Savage
Boston Police Department, USA
Jacqueline Sebire
Bedfordshire Police, UK
Lawrence Sherman
University of Cambridge, UK
Clifford Stott
Keele University, UK
David Weisburd
Hebrew University, Israel and George Mason University, USA
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