The Aarcon Report is an open-access, non-commercial publication series. We accept submissions on a rolling basis throughout the year, and publish them as e-publications on the Aarcon website ahead of print. Articles are then assigned an issue number. The report will be published twice a year (December and June) in co-alignment with Aarcon conferences.
The editorial board does its work on a voluntary basis to provide a platform for authors to share their work with peers. We therefore highly appreciate authors making their contributions as complete and accurate as possible before submission.
When your article is prepared for submission, kindly send it to: Aarcon@au.dk. Don’t forget to include Aarcon Report and your name in the email subject line.
Submissions can be made on a rolling basis. All submitted articles will undergo a short desk review in order to make sure they fall into the scope and guidelines of the Aarcon Report. Accepted submissions will be reviewed by the editorial board for quality, grammar, and style.
When considering contribution type, you may select from the following article formats:
Document type: MS Word
Length: between 500 and 850 words (This excludes a small list of references and image captions.)
Language: British English
Font: Times New Roman, font size 12
Page layout: justified, at least 2 cm margin on the left, right, top and bottom, and line spacing of 1.5
Citation style:
Please keep footnotes to a minimum. Endnotes are not allowed. Please refer to the following examples for the required referencing style.
In-text:
Please make sure to double check direct quotes, as the editors might not have access to the sources you cite.
Style for list of references:
Cons, Jason. 2016. Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Martinez, Fancisco & Laviolette, Patrick (eds.). 2019. Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough: Ethnographic Responses,London: Berghahn Books.
Venhovens, Mikel. 2023. “Transient In-betweenness: Conflicting Present and Futures in the De Facto Republic of Abkhazia.” In A Sea of Transience: Poetics, Politics and Aesthetics along the Black Sea Coast, edited by Tamta Khalvashi and Martin Demant Frederiksen, 113–131. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Skippage, Rebecca. 2017. “Violence against women: The stories behind the statistics.” BBC News, 26 November. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46307051
Barua, Maan. 2022. “Reconciliation Infrastructures.” Roadsides 8: 30-41.
Dunn, Elizabeth. 2008. “Postsocialist spores: Disease, bodies, and the state in the Republic of Georgia.” American Ethnologist 35 (2): 243–258.
Gade, Christian. 2022. “A paradigm shift within the restorative justice movement? Restorative justice as punishment.” European Forum for Restorative Justice. https://www.euforumrj.org/en/restorative-justice-another-form-punishment
United Nations Development Fund (website). 2023. “The SDGS in Action.” https://www.undp.org/sustainable-development-goals
All submissions should be accompanied by a front page, which includes:
File title:
Please state the following in the title of the file: Aarcon Report, your name, and the type of submission.
i.g.) AarconReport_SarahDoe_ResearchReport
Number of images:
Quality and information of images:
We only accept high-quality images. This means that they should have a good contrast, be sharp, and have a high resolution and are preferably in JPG. Image caption should be short and contain: image title (optional), information on place and year, and photographer's full name or the source.
Please enclose the original image files as seperate files to the submission email.
Editorial Policy
The contributions represent the view of the author(s), not the position of the Aarcon Report nor the Aarhus Centre for Conflict Management (Aarcon). Although the editorial team is committed to facilitate publications where possible, the team reserves the right to reject submissions that do not comply with the guidelines set out on this page or ethical guidelines.
All Aarcon Report articles and images used in them, are published under a Creative Commons CC BY license. This open access license encourages reuse and distribution, while requiring that the creator is always credited (for more, see the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association).
