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Submission Guidelines
- We welcome submission of articles and commentary for publication consideration.
- All submissions should be in either Microsoft Word or PDF format.
- Please use the submissions tab at the top right-hand corner of this page.
- While not essential at initial submission, we encourage authors to follow the Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date) citation format because accepted articles will need to be in that format.
- Articles should be no more than 35 double spaced pages, including an abstract. Tables, figures, and references are included in this page limit but may be single spaced. Supplementary methodological information may be submitted as an appendix which will be stored online if the article is accepted for publication.
- The California Journal of Politics and Policy operates under a double-anonymized peer-review policy. When uploading files, please ensure that your manuscript file contains no identifying author information. Upload as many files as needed for your manuscript. These files will be combined into a single document for the peer review process. If you are submitting a revision, please include only the latest set of files.
- Commentary should be double spaced and generally be in the neighborhood of 1000 words.
- The editorial team will make final decisions about the suitability for publication for all submissions.
- We encourage ideas for special issues, but these should be discussed with the editorial team before submission of manuscripts. Please contact Editor Amal Kumar at kumar@csus.edu if you have an idea for a special issue.
- Please contact the Editor if you have questions about the submission guidelines.