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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Images and figures should be in black and white for the print edition, although colour is accepted for our online edition.
Author Guidelines
Scholarly research articles should be original and should not be under consideration elsewhere.
Manuscripts (research articles, brief analysis articles on current affairs, policy papers etc.) should be submitted on the journal’s website. Should you encounter any difficulties, do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Team of the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Review at <bsemr@auth.gr>.
As research articles are sent out anonymously for editorial evaluation, the author’s name should appear on a separate covering page. The author’s full academic address and a short bio of no more than 50 words detailing current affiliation, areas of research interest and publications should also be included in the said cover page.
Research articles should range between 6,000-8,000 words.
Brief analysis articles on current affairs and policy papers relating to the BSEM should range between 3,000 and 5,000 words in length.
Documents should be submitted in A4 format, 1.5-spaced lines, in a 12-pt typeface, Times New Roman font.
Pages should be numbered consecutively.
An abstract of no more than 150 words should be included together with a maximum of five (5) keywords to define the article’s content. The abstract and keywords should be placed at the beginning of the first page just after the article’s title and before the main text.
Book Reviews are normally 2,000 words maximum in length. The reviewer’s name should appear at the end of the review. Guidance notes are available for book reviewers. Headings should appear as follows:
Title
Author
Publisher
(Place, Date), number of pages [pp. ….]
ISBN:
The Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Review has adopted a strict BnW/no-more-than-three policy regarding images and/or photos accompanying submitted articles. More than three (3) items can be accepted at the editorial team’s discretion, if they are deemed absolutely necessary for the sake of scientific completeness.
In any case, the images should be submitted in high resolution and black and white format. The editorial team retains the right to place the images, photos, tables etc. in a separateannex, following the end of the article’s main body. References to such images etc. within the article should be made in a footnote citing the item’s title and the word Annex, e.g. 1 Photo 1 ‘Map of the BSEM’ Annex.
Images, tables, figures, graphs, and photographs should be numbered consecutively with titles, and submitted in separate file(s). A copyright credit should be added, if mandatory, under a permissions agreement.
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
