Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format. Please see the Author Template for a guide on how to format your document.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
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The text follows the formatting requirements outlined in the Editorial Style and Format Guidelines (PDF, 475KB) and the AGLC3 (PDF, 3MB)
- Referencing and citations adhere to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Australian Guide to Legal Citation, Version 3 as outlined in Author Guidelines, which is found in 'About the Journal'.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed and two copies have been submitted, one being anonymous.
- The author has obtained ethical clearance for any empirical research used in the paper and this is clearly noted in a footnote.
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