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For more information, please see Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy Aims and Scope page.

Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

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General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, please contact the editors.

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Formatting Requirements

Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, specific formatting guidelines for the final manuscript. Please see the journal's Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

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Copyright and Open Access Permissions

As further described in our submission agreement, in consideration for publication of the article, the authors assign to Policy Studies Organization all copyright in the article, subject to the expansive personal-use exceptions described below.

Attribution and Usage Policies

Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of Policy Studies Organization, requires credit to Policy Studies Organization as copyright holder (e.g., Policy Studies Organization © 2010).

Personal-use Exceptions

The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from Policy Studies Organization provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:

  • Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;
  • Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)'s place of employment (e.g., a Phrenology professor at the University of Southern North Dakota can have her article appear in the University of Southern North Dakota's Department of Phrenology online publication series);
  • In compliance with the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, all articles that specify NIH funding during the submission process will be automatically deposited by bepress into PubMedCentral, where they shall be made freely available 12 months after the official date of publication.
  • Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author; and
  • Storage and back-up of the article on the author's computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s).

People seeking an exception, or who have questions about use, should contact Policy Studies Commons at .

Full Open Access

Once an article is accepted, authors may pay a fee to ensure their article is provided on a fully open access basis. For questions on this policy, please email: .

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