Submission Policy

The Comparative Civilizations Review publishes analytical studies and interpretive essays primarily concerned with (1) the comparison of whole civilizations, (2) the development of theories and methods especially useful in comparative civilization
studies, (3) accounts of intercivilizational contacts, and (4) significant issues in the humanities or social sciences studied from a comparative civilizational perspective.
By “a comparative civilizational perspective” we mean (1) the use of evidence from more than one civilization (the various national traditions of the modern West being regarded, if so desired, as constituents of a single civilization) and (2) a method likely to throw new light either on the origins, processes, or structures of civilizations or on the problems of interpreting civilizations.

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Acceptance
This is a peer-reviewed and peer-edited journal, issued twice per year: a spring volume and a fall volume. A manuscript will be accepted for publication only after it has been reviewed by our Credentialed Peer Review Committee. Alternatively, if a paper is accepted by the Program Committee for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the Comparative Civilizations Review, it will qualify as peer-reviewed, and acceptable, ab initio, assuming that it meets all other quality standards of the journal.
 

Upon submission, authors should certify the following:

✅  I have read the CCR Style Guide for Submitted Manuscripts.
✅  I have only submitted this article to CCR, and it has not been published elsewhere previously.
 

Note: The editors will consider submissions which have appeared in “pre-publication” form, since this does not constitute having been published elsewhere previously. Authors, however, should indicate in their conveyance note that in fact the submission has not been pre-printed in a form that constitutes a permanent, discoverable, and sufficiently non-burdensome and permanently accessible form.

Submission of a paper for consideration for publication by the author should be understood as full acceptance by the author of our policies as stated. All decisions regarding final acceptance and publication, including all final edits, are at the discretion
of the editors. Please note that the Comparative Civilizations Review holds the right to reject any submission with, or without, explanation. The manuscript becomes the property of the CCR once it is accepted by the journal for publication.
 

How to Submit
Manuscripts must be written in English. Submit only one complete document — i.e., no attachments and no subsequent submissions, instructions, or corrections. Send your paper to submissions@civforum.org.
If you belatedly discover an egregious error or omission in your submission, please email Editor-in-Chief Joseph Drew (joseph.drew@iscsc.org), Managing Editor Peter Hecht (peter.hecht@iscsc.org), and Executive Editor John Berteaux
(john.berteaux@iscsc.org).

We will attempt to address your concerns, provided our printing schedule permits intervention. Once a manuscript is accepted, alterations are at the discretion of the Review staff.
 

Print Schedule
The reviewing and editing process normally takes three to six months. Typically, we put the spring volume together in January or February and the fall volume together in July or August.
 

Format – Document
Submit your manuscript, including tables, figures and appendices, as a single Microsoft Word file. Page size should be 8.5 x 11 inches. All margins (left, right, top and bottom) should be 1-inch, including placement of your tables, graphs and illustrations. Single space your text. Use a single column layout with both left and right margins justified. Main body text font: 12 pt. Times New Roman.

Use high-resolution images when possible. Maximum length of the article should be approximately twenty pages including endnotes, bibliography, etc.

Please do not include page numbers, headers, or footers. The editors will add these. Do not utilize automatic formatting for the space before or following subheads and paragraphs. Do not utilize automatic formatting for numbering or bulleting paragraphs
— use only for compact lists.
 

Format – First Page
Begin the document with the title, author’s name, academic position, or department and institutional affiliation and its address, if applicable, or write “Independent Scholar,” and author’s email address.

 

All manuscripts should include an abstract containing a maximum of 150 words. A keyword section should be placed after the abstract, preceded and followed by a line space. Please supply up to five keywords. The word Keywords should be italicized and followed by a colon; the words themselves should be separated by a comma and should not be italicized; no period at the end of the list.

Format - Paragraphs, Subheads, Quotations
Do not indent paragraphs. A line space should precede and follow each paragraph. Subheads are in bold, flush left, separated by a line space above and below. Long quotations should be placed in a separate paragraph with a .5-inch left indent, no quotation marks, and should be preceded and followed by one-line spaces.

Except for common non-standard English terminology, the use of non-standard English terms should be avoided. Authors should use proper, standard English grammar. Suggested guides include The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, and The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press.
 

Underlining and bold-face type in the text are discouraged. Whenever possible use italics to indicate text that you wish to emphasize. Use italics for book titles, movie titles, and for foreign terms. Using colored text is prohibited. However, we encourage authors to take advantage of the ability to use color in the production of graphs, maps, and so forth.

Format - Tables, Graphs
To the extent possible, tables and graphs should appear in the document near where they are referenced in the text. Large tables or graphs should be put on pages by themselves. Avoid the use of overly small type in tables. In no case should tables or
graphs be in a separate document or file. All tables and graphs must fit within 1-inch margins on all sides, in both portrait and landscape view.
 

Format – Footnotes, References
To create Footnotes and/or Endnotes, you must utilize the Footnote or Endnote option found under the References tab at the top of Word. Exceedingly long Footnotes are probably better handled as Endnotes.

Footnotes and Endnotes should be in 10 pt. Times New Roman, single spaced, and flush left, ragged right. Use Arabic numerals for Footnotes and Roman numerals for Endnotes. The numerals should follow after punctuation marks; at the end of the sentence, they should follow all punctuation.
Footnotes, when used, should appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced. There should be a footnote separator rule (line). Footnote numbers or symbols in the text must follow, rather than precede, punctuation. Endnotes should
appear right at the end of the article and precede References.

 

References
The subhead References (denoting Bibliography, Works Cited, etc.) should appear right after the end of the document, beginning on the last page if possible. The references should be flush left, ragged right, with a .3-inch hanging indent. Use the format with which you are most comfortable, such as APA (American Psychological Association), MLA (Modern Language Association), or Chicago/Turabian.