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E-journal

We are keen to increase our academic support to the growing area of conflict resolution. The creation of an on-line ECR Journal (Electronic Conflict Resolution Journal) is one important way of achieving this.

The Style Guide gives directions for manuscript submissions, which should be emailed to Professor Tania Sourdin at t.sourdin@latrobe.edu.au.

Style Guide

1. The Electronic Conflict Resolution Journal (the Journal) is published twice a year by the School of Law, La Trobe University.
2. The Journal’s citation is ‘ECRJ’. For example: (2006) 1(1) ECRJ.
3. All manuscripts in the Journal are refereed.
4. Contributions may be in the form of articles, case notes, comments and book reviews.
5. The approximate length of a manuscript should be 3,000 to 5,000 words.
6. A copy of the manuscript, saved in MS Word, should be emailed to the Editor in Chief, Professor Tania Sourdin (t.sourdin@latrobe.edu.au).
7. Normally, the Editorial Committee of the Journal does not accept manuscripts that have been accepted for publication elsewhere.
8. The manuscript should be typewritten in 12-point font size (footnotes in 10-point font size) and should comply with the Journal’s Style Guide.
9. Uncommon references should be explained and footnotes should be numbered consecutively. Abbreviations should not be used.
10. Bibliographical details should be included as a footnote, marked with an asterisk, at the bottom of page one of the manuscript and should include the contributor’s name, and academic and professional qualifications.
11. Language should be concise, direct and gender neutral. If possible, avoid the use of foreign words.
12. Copyright of manuscripts published in the Journal is vested jointly in the Electronic Dispute Resolution Journal and the contributor.

1. General information for the text

• Use Times New Roman typeface in 12-point font unless indicated otherwise.
• Use italics for foreign words and cases (excluding footnotes).
• Avoid abbreviations.
• Preferably, use indented paragraphs for quotations of 3 or more lines. The footnote for the source of the quotation should appear before the actual quotation is reproduced.

2. Title of manuscript

The title should be centred, in bold upper case (12-point font for the main title;11-point font for the sub-title).

3. Headings in the text

Where internal headings are used they should appear in bold type. Do not use underline.

4. Referencing

• Avoid abbreviations. However, there may be unavoidable exceptions.
• Footnotes (not endnotes) should be used as the referencing method and placed at the foot of the page on which the reference appears.
• Footnotes should be numbered consecutively from the beginning of the manuscript.
• Footnote numbers in the text should appear outside punctuation marks (e.g. ’the rain in Spain’1 ) or after a full stop, if appropriate (e.g. ’the rain in Spain’.2 ).
• Italics should not be used in footnotes.

5. Footnotes

• Use ‘ibid’ when repeating the reference directly above.
• Repeat full citation when other references intervene.
• Where possible, authorised reports should be used.

6. Footnotes – Books

• Include initials of author and editors; do not include the title within inverted commas; do not include a full stop after the author’s initials.
• One author: e.g. Boulle L, Mediation: Principles, Process, Practice (1996, Butterworths, Sydney) 25.
• Ibid 75.
• Two authors: e.g. Butt P and anor, Mabo: What the High Court Said (1993, Federation Press, Sydney) 12–13, 15.
• Three or more authors: e.g. Morris G and ors, Laying Down the Law (1998, 4th edition, Butterworths, North Ryde).

7. Footnotes – Journals and newspapers

• The author has no initial.
• For the title of the article, use lower/upper case in the usual manner, within inverted commas. For example:
  • Millbank, ‘When is a girl a boy? Re A (a child)’ (1995) 9 Australian Journal of Family Law 173.
  • Fenrick, ‘New developments in the law concerning the use of conventional weapons in armed conflict’ [1981] Canadian Yearbook of International Law 229, 255.
  • Bandt, ‘Against fairness: a brief critical look at concepts used to analyse a tax system?’ (1994) 1(4) E Law at < http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/elaw /v1no4 /bandt.html> (visited 12 December 1999).
  • Carpenter and anor, "Maritime piracy in Asia" in Carpenter WM and anor (editors), Asian Security Handbook: An Assessment of Political Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region (1996, East Gate, New York) 79.
  • Lewis, ‘Yo ho ho…and a very big gun’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 1996 at 11.

8. Footnotes – Legal encyclopædias and loose-leaf services

Halsbury's Laws of Australia, volume 1, Allars M, Administrative Law [10–5] (1991, Butterworths, Sydney).

9. Footnotes – Reports

• New South Wales Law Reform Commission, Artificial Conception: Surrogate Motherhood: Australian Public Opinion (1987, New South Wales Law Reform Commission, Sydney) 41 at para 21.
• Calcetas-Santos O, Report on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, Economic and Social Council, General Assembly Document, A/53/311, 26 August 1998 at < http://www.unchr.ch/Huridoc? 1fc006e06802566aa00353438 > (visited 12 November 1999).

10. Footnotes – Case citations

• Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v. Home Office [1970] Appeal Cases 1004.
• Ibid 1009.
• R v Ebrahim (1992) 31 International Legal Materials 888.
• The Queen v Bull (1974) 131 Commonwealth Law Reports 203, 201–208.
• Bournhill v Young [1943] Appeal Cases 92, 98.
• R v Secretary of State for the Home Dept, ex parte Brind [1991] 1 Appeal Cases 696, 748 per Lord Bridge.

11. Footnotes – Legislation and treaties

• 1997 Telecommunications Act (C’th) section 2(3).
• 1670 Piracy Act (UK) 22 and 23 Car II c 11.
• Article 61(3) Statute of the International Court of Justice.