Pre-Submission Checklist
1. To be eligible to publish in the Journal on Baltic Security, your article must not be published elsewhere or in consideration for publication with another institution at the time of your submission to the Journal on Baltic Security.
2. Your manuscript must be written in UK Standard English and proofread before submission.
3. Please use Harvard Referencing for both in-text and Works Cited. If you submit in a different format, the editorial team may reject the manuscript. If the manuscript is moved forward, it will be the responsibility of the author to change the formatting.
4. Book Reviews should be between 1,000-3,000 words without the bibliography. Research articles should be between 7,000-10,000 words without the bibliography.
- If you would like to request an exception be made on word count, please contact Ms. Eden Elizabeth Armstrong at eden.armstrong@baltdefcol.org directly with a well-reasoned explanation as per why the parameters of the word count would be detrimental to the quality of the manuscript. Exceptions are considered but not guaranteed.
5. All authors, co-authors, and contributing authors must be given credit and listed in a footnote on the first page of the manuscript. A corresponding author should also be identified.
6. All affiliations for each author, co-author, and contributing author must be listed in the footnote on the first page.
7. All necessary declarations and research funding is mentioned in the footnote on the first page.
8. Please include an abstracts of 100 words as well as a minimum of four preferred key words.
9. Ensure any and all competing or conflicts of interests have been declared before submission.
- If they arise after submission, please declare them immediately by sending a detailed email explaining the competing or conflict of interest to Ms. Eden Elizabeth Armstrong at eden.armstrong@baltdefcol.org.
10. You must provide a detailed summary of all Artificial Intelligence (AI) used during the conceptualisation, research, and writing of your article. AI Usage Statement should outline which platforms were used, how they were used, the extent to which they were used, and if the author(s) take full responsibility and accountability for the submitted materials.
If all of the above elements are in order, please submit your manuscript in a Microsoft Word file (.docx) electronically to journal@baltdefcol.org.