SPECIAL ISSUE IN THE JOURNAL OF RISK RESEARCH
We invite contributing authors of oral and poster presentations and keynote-speakers to show their interest in submitting a paper for the Special Issue “Risk in Time and Space, SRA Europe’s 32nd Conference, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece” in the Journal of Risk Research. Editors for the Special Issue will be Kalliopi Sapountzaki (Prof. Harokopio University of Athens) and Miranda Dandoulaki (Dr., Risk and Disaster Management expert, Secretary to the BoD of IDRiM Society) supported by members of the Scientific Committee of the Conference depending on the thematic scope of submissions. The Special Issue may be structured into parts with specific thematic orientation (e.g. Part A-Disaster Risk, Part B-Everyday Risk), according to the thematic specialization of the submissions.
Send your full text paper to srae2024athens@hua.gr before October 6th 2024. Short-listed papers will be invited to submit to JRR. Requirements/prescriptions to submit a paper to the Special Issue are: (a) at least one of the authors of the full paper has contributed to the conference, (b) the subject/title of the full paper submitted identifies with the respective presentation in the Conference and (c) the paper follows the guidelines for authors set by the JRR.
Please note that Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been pre-selected and assessed for suitability by the editors, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees.
Preparing Your Paper for the Special Issue in the Journal of Risk Research
Full papers should follow “Instructions for authors” of the Journal. For your convenience, these are summarised in the following.
Structure
Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
Word Limits
A typical paper should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of:
● References
● Endnotes
Style Guidelines
Please refer to these quick style guidelines when preparing your paper. Any spelling style is acceptable so long as it is consistent within the manuscript. Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
Formatting and Templates
Papers may be submitted in Word. Figures should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s). Please find the list of Word templates HERE and save the template that suits you, to your hard drive. Please build your paper according to the specified template.
References
Please use the “Chicago author-date” reference style when preparing your paper. You may find more information regarding the indicated/preferred reference style HERE. An EndNote output style is also available to assist you.