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Submission Guidelines
- We welcome submission of articles and commentary for publication consideration.
- Please use the Submit Manuscript tab at the top right-hand corner of this page.
- All submissions should be in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx).
- Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date) citation style.
- 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.
- Commentaries are generally by invitation and should be discussed with the Editor prior to submission. Commentaries are generally around 1,000 words.
- The California Journal of Politics and Policy adheres to a double-anonymized peer-review policy. To facilitate this process, please ensure that your manuscript file contains no identifying author information.
- Your submission should consist of two files: a title page consisting of the title and author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding disclosures, and contact information, and a file containing the full anonymized manuscript including the abstract free of any identifying information.
- 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.