The first step to submitting a paper is to write an abstract by completing the form below, which will be reviewed by the Editorial Board, once your abstract has been accepted you will be invited to write your paper.
The final paper will be around 3000-6000 words, please refer to the following links for guidance on writing a paper for the IICJ:
Please refer to the diary dates for the submission date of abstracts
Before making any submissions, please ensure you read and adhere to the following guidelines
If you need more information please email: info@iicj.net
The International In-house Counsel Journal is a peer reviewed journal published electronically 10 times a year and in print 4 times a year delivering papers written by In-house Counsel covering the major areas of law:
Competition - Anti-Trust, Intellectual Property, Employment, Corporate Governance, Commercial Litigation, Contracts, Data Protection, Franchising, Product Liability, Insurance, Health & Safety, In-house legal department management
The International In-house Counsel Journal is the only journal that includes papers strictly from in-house counsel, practice lawyers are not permitted to contribute papers.
The International In-house Counsel Journal is concerned with the exchange of ideas of In-house Counsel representing commercial, government, local government, charitable organisations. The journal contains papers based on case study experience of In-house Counsel in the main disciplines of commercial law from different jurisdictions.
By submitting a paper authors will be able to:
1. Introduction
The impact of all papers and the effectiveness of the search-and-retrieval capabilities offered by their electronic publication will depend upon the care used by authors in preparing their manuscripts. It is essential that authors prepare manuscripts according to the IICJ established format and style specifications. These are detailed below, in Section 5, and its associated documentation. Failure to follow these specifications will result in your paper being delayed during, or even rejected from, the peer review process. Therefore, prospective contributors are required to read through these specifications carefully before preparing a manuscript for submission, and to check the manuscript for compliance with these specifications before submitting it for consideration for peer review. Further information about the journal including links to the online sample copy and contents pages can be found at www.iicj.net
2. Submitting a Paper to the International In-house Counsel Journal
Papers for consideration for peer review must be submitted in abstract form via the International In-house Counsel Journal web-site on the "submit an abstract" page, full instruction is given on this page.
Papers for consideration for peer review must be submitted via the International In-house Counsel Journal web-site on the Submit an Abstract page, full instruction is given on this page.
3. General Guidelines
The International In-house Counsel Journal considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to the International In-house Counsel Journal, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs, which International In-house Counsel Journal incurs and their papers will not be published. There are a limited number of colour pages within the annual page allowance, which is normally restricted to two colour pages for any research paper, review article, technical note, or Letter. Authors should therefore restrict their use of colour to situations where it is necessary and not merely cosmetic, grounds.
Writing your paper
4. Copyright
It is a condition of publication that authors vest or license copyright in their articles, including abstracts, in IICJ. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may, of course, use the material elsewhere after publication providing that prior permission is obtained from IICJ. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources. To view our Copyright Transfer FAQs please read Copyright Permissions
5. Notes on Style and File Formats
For a full description of the Journal's style (including referencing) see Further notes on style and format
6. Offprints and Reprints
Offprints and reprints of articles published in International In-house Counsel Journal can be purchased on line
7. Page Charges
There
are no page charges to individuals or institutions.
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Further
Notes on Style and Format
1. General style
1.1. Authors are asked to take account of the diverse audience of the journal. Please avoid the use of terms that might be meaningful only to a local or national audience, or provide a clear explanation where this is unavoidable. However, papers that reflect the particularities of a social and cultural system are acceptable. Note that EU is preferred to Common Market or EC; US is preferred to American, USA to United States, and UK to United Kingdom.
1.2. Conventional British spelling, based on the Concise Oxford Dictionary, is preferred, for example, colour not color; behaviour (behavioural) not behavior (behavioral); [school] programme not program; [he] practises, not practices; centre not center; organisation not organization; analyse not analyze, and so on.
1.3. Single quotation marks rather than double are used unless the quotation is "within" another.
1.4. Punctuation should follow the British style, e.g. quotation marks precede punctuation.
1.5. Punctuation of common abbreviations should adhere to the following conventions: e.g.; i.e.; cf.. Note that such abbreviations should not generally be followed by a comma or a (double) point/period.
1.6. Dashes: Spaced N- or en-rules ( ) are used for parenthetical dashes, that is, to extract a part of a sentence: The idea and it was her idea was exciting. Otherwise, un-spaced N-rules () are used when the first part of a compound does not modify the second, and are used in place of 'and' or 'to', for example, the researchpractitioner interface; redgreen shift; the period 19201930. Un-spaced M- or em-rules () are only used to indicate the omission of a name, part of a name or date, for example, Mr S entered the class..
1.7. Hyphenation should be used sparingly. Generally, prefixes usually require hyphens: pre-, mid- (eg, mid-1960s, pre-1978).
1.8. Upper case characters in headings and references should be used sparingly, e.g. only the first word of paper titles, subheadings and any proper nouns begin upper case; similarly for the titles of papers from journals in the references and elsewhere.
1.9. Apostrophes should be used sparingly. Thus, decades should be referred to as follows: The 1980s [not the 1980s] saw.... Possessives associated with acronyms (e.g. APU), should be written as follows: The AVHRRs findings that ..., but note the plural of AVHRR is AVHRRs.
1.10. All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelt out the first time they are introduced in text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate, e.g. The work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the early 1980s... and subsequently, The NOAA studies of achievement...; in a reference (Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] 1989a).
1.11. Brief biographies of significant national figures should be outlined in the text unless it is quite clear that the person concerned would be known internationally. Some suggested editorial comments in a typical text are indicated in the following with square brackets: From the time of H. E. Armstrong [in the 19th century] to the curriculum development work associated with the Nuffield Foundation [in the 1960s], there has been a shift from constructivism to heurism in the design of [British] science courses.
1.12. The preferred local (national) usage for ethnic and other minorities should be used in all papers. For the USA, African-American, Hispanic and Native American are used, e.g. The African-American presidential candidate, Jesse Jackson.... The term Least Developed World should be used in place of Third World.
1.13. Material to be emphasised by italicisation in the printed version should preferably be italicised in the typescript rather than underlined. Please use such emphasis sparingly.
1.14. To indicate the size of a data set, n (not N), % (not per cent) should be used in typescripts.
1.15. Numbers in text should take the following forms: 300, 3000, 30 000 (not 30,000), spell out numbers under 10 unless used with a unit of measure, e.g. nine pupils but 9 mm (nota bene: do not introduce periods with units). For decimals, use the form 0.05 (not .05, 0,05, × 05 or 0× 05).
1.16. Appendices should appear before the references section and after any acknowledgments section. The Appendix title is as follows:
2. Abstracts
2.1. Structured abstracts of 100 150 words, summarising the significant coverage and findings of the paper are required for all papers, and should be submitted as detailed below, following the title and authors names and addresses, preceding the main text.
2.1.1. For papers reporting original research, state the primary objective and any hypothesis tested; describe the research design and your reasons for adopting that methodology; state the methods and procedures employed, including where appropriate tools, hardware, software, the selection and number of study areas/subjects, and the central experimental interventions; state the main outcomes and results, including relevant data; and state the conclusions that might be drawn from these data and results, including their implications for further research or application/practice.
2.1.2. For review essays, state the primary objective of the review; the reasoning behind your literature selection; and the way you critically analyse the literature; state the main outcomes and results of your review; and state the conclusions that might be drawn, including their implications for further research or application/practice.
2.2. Format: The Abstract does not require its own title. Abstract text should be indented on both sides.
3. Headings
3.1. Three levels of numbered headings should be used, as described below. (A) Headings = Bold. Uppercase first word only 2. Study area and data set The first paragraph of text following an A heading should not be indented. All consecutive paragraphs should be indented. (B) Headings = Bold Italic. Uppercase first word only 2.1. Study area The first paragraph of text following a B heading should not be indented. All consecutive paragraphs should be indented. (C) Headings = Bold. Uppercase first word only, followed by full point, and the text runs on. 2.2.1 AVIRIS data and atmospheric correction. The Airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) is a whiskbroom scanner with …
4. Tables and figures
4.1. Tables and figures should be informative, relevant and visually attractive. The style, spelling, and lettering in figures must correspond to the main text of the manuscript. Tables and figures must be referred to in the text and numbered with consecutive numbers in the order of their appearance (see table/figure 1; see tables/figures 14). Each table and figure should have a standalone descriptive caption that explains its purpose without reference to the text; each table column should have an appropriate heading.
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Dear [COPYRIGHT HOLDER]
I/we are preparing for publication an article entitled [STATE TITLE] to be published in the International In-house Counsel Journal.
I/we should be grateful if you would grant us permission to include the following materials: [STATE PAGE, FIGURE OR TABLE NUMBER AND ORIGINAL SOURCE]
We are requesting non-exclusive rights in this edition and in all print and electronic format in perpetuity.
It is understood, of course, that full acknowledgment will be given to the source. Your prompt consideration of this request would be greatly appreciated.
Yours faithfully
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Conditions
of Publication
Papers
are accepted for consideration on condition that you will accept and
warrant the following conditions in order to ensure both the widest
dissemination and protection of material published in the ICCJ we ask
authors to assign the rights of copyright in the articles they contribute.
This enables IICJ to ensure protection against infringement.
It is a condition of publication that authors vest or license their articles, including abstracts, in the International In-house Counsel Journal (ICCJ). This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article and the journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may of course, use the material elsewhere after publication providing that prior permission is obtained from the IICJ. Authors themselves are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources. Copyright Permissions
We shall prepare and publish your article in the IICJ. We reserve the right to make such editorial changes as may be necessary to make the article suitable for publication and we reserve the right not to proceed with publication for whatever reason. In such an instance, copyright in the article will revert to you.
You herby assert your moral rights to be identified as the author of the article according to UK Copyright Designs & Patent Act 1988.
You warrant that you have secured the necessary written permission from the appropriate copyright owner or authorities for the reproduction of the article and the IICJ of any text, illustration, or other material Copyright Permissions. You warrant that, apart from any such third party copyright material included in the article, the article is your original work, cannot be construed as plagiarising any other published work, and has not been and will not be published elsewhere.
In addition you warrant that the article contains no statement that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, nor in any way infringes the rights of others, nor is in any way unlawful or in violation of applicable laws.
You warrant that any party, client or participant mentioned in the text has given informed consent to the inclusion of material pertaining to themselves, and that they acknowledge that they cannot be identified via the text.
If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, you warrant that you have been authorised by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and to agree on their behalf the order of names in the publication of the article.
Papers are accepted for consideration on condition that you will accept and warrant the following conditions in order to ensure both the widest dissemination and protection of material published in the ICCJ we ask authors to assign the rights of copyright in the articles they contribute. This enables IICJ to ensure protection against infringement.
1. It is a condition of publication that authors vest or license their articles, including abstracts, in the International In-house Counsel Journal (ICCJ). This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article and the journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors may of course, use the material elsewhere after publication providing that prior permission is obtained from the IICJ. Authors themselves are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources. Copyright Permissions
2. We shall prepare and publish your article in the IICJ. We reserve the right to make such editorial changes as may be necessary to make the article suitable for publication and we reserve the right not to proceed with publication for whatever reason. In such an instance, copyright in the article will revert to you.
3. You herby assert your moral rights to be identified as the author of the article according to UK Copyright Designs & Patent Act 1988.
4. You warrant that you have secured the necessary written permission from the appropriate copyright owner or authorities for the reproduction of the article and the IICJ of any text, illustration, or other material Copyright Permissions. You warrant that, apart from any such third party copyright material included in the article, the articles your original work, cannot be construed as plagiarising any other published work, and has not been and will not be published elsewhere.
5. In addition you warrant that the article contains no statement that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, nor in any way infringes the rights of others, nor is in any way unlawful or in violation of applicable laws.
6. You warrant that any party, client or participant mentioned in the text has given informed consent to the inclusion of material pertaining to themselves, and that they acknowledge that they cannot be identified via the text.
7. If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, you warrant that you have been authorised by all co authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and to agree on their behalf the order of names in the publication of the article.