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GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
1. All article submissions and book review contributions should be word-processed, double
spaced. Contributions must be sent by email to tlteditorial@hartpub.co.uk or, in the case of
book reviews, to tltbookreviews@hartpub.co.uk. Contributions may be provided in any of the
following software formats: Word, WordPerfect, or Rich Text Format. Two versions should be
submitted: (a) a complete version with no redactions; and (b) a version redacted so that all
references to the author’s name, all autobiographical details, and all citations of the author’s
previous work have been removed.
2. Contributors’ autobiographical details should appear as the first footnote of each contribution,
using an asterisk symbol, and include the institutional affiliation, current title and position for
each author. Per paragraph 1(b), this information should be removed from one version of the
submitted article. All following footnotes should be numerical, starting with number 1.
3. A hardcopy may be supplied in addition to the electronic version wherever a contribution
contains graphs, tables, or any other significant formatting. The cover note in the email
conveying the electronic version should indicate that such hardcopy has been mailed separately
to: Professor Peer Zumbansen, Convening Editor, Transnational Legal Theory, Osgoode Hall
Law School, York University, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada. The hardcopy
should be double-spaced and printed on letter paper (using one side of the page only).
4. In the case of articles, an abstract of not more than 150 words should be submitted with
the contribution; additionally, five keywords summing up the nature of the paper should be
submitted.
5. Book reviews are generally commissioned by the journal’s Book Review Editors. However,
unsolicited book review proposals may be considered. The Book Review Editors should be
queried by email at tltbookreviews@hartpub.co.uk.
6. The optimal length for an article is 10,000–15,000 words (including footnotes), but shorter
submissions as well as submissions up to 25,000 words will be considered. Book reviews will
generally range from 1,500 to 2,500 words. Any work that falls into the category of a ‘review
essay’ is categorised as an article not a book review.
7. Transnational Legal Theory (TLT) is refereed and employs a double-blind peer review
procedure (ie manuscripts are rendered anonymous prior to review, and referees are not
identified to authors). Members of the Editorial Committee and Board of Editors serve as
referees in addition to scholars who are not editors of the journal. TLT reserves the right to
decline to send submissions out for review if the Convening Editor determines either that the
submission is clearly not of a sufficient standard or that it does not fit well with the journal’s
mandate.
8. Editorial evaluations consider both (a) scholarly excellence in light of referees’ reports and (b)
publishing concerns related to such criteria as the need for a balance of theoretical approaches,
the degree of fit with the journal’s mandate, and the journal’s prior acceptance of articles on
similar topics.
9. Submissions to TLT must be exclusive to TLT: the journal does not accept submissions that are,
or will be, under submission elsewhere. The journal will not publish articles that have appeared
previously or that will appear in another journal or similar venue. The journal is, however,
open to occasional publication of translations of articles that have previously been published

only in a language other than English and which the editors determine are significant articles
deserving of wider readership.
10. Ordinarily, TLT responds with its decision on acceptance or non-acceptance within 8 weeks.
11. The Author warrants to Hart Publishing (‘the Publisher’) that the Contribution does not in any
way infringe an existing copyright, or confidence or any proprietary or other actionable rights
and that all reasonable precautions have been taken or will be taken to ensure that it contains
no libellous, defamatory or obscene material of an actionable character and that publication
of any information in the Contribution obtained while in the service of the Crown will not
contravene the Official Secrets Acts and that the Author is entitled as owner or prospective
owner of the copyright to authorise publication.
12. Copyright remains with the Author, subject to the following contractual conditions: (a) once
the Contribution has been published, the Author may not publish the same or substantially
the same work as published in TLT in any other journal or like context (eg a working paper
series); (b) the Author may use their Contribution only in book publications jointly or solely
authored by them or edited by them, provided that TLT is acknowledged as the original
place of publication and the Publisher is notified in writing in advance; (c) for use of the
Contribution in any other venue, such as an anthology not edited by the Author, the Publisher
must give its agreement; (d) the Author shall honour conditions set out in the next paragraph
with respect to circulation of PDFs of the Contribution; and (e), as a condition of publication,
the Author grants an exclusive licence to the Publisher to publish in all forms, whether
hardcopy or electronic, and further grants a corresponding licence permitting the Publisher to
administer all rights and permissions (ie grant sub-licences to third parties) in relation to the
Contribution. Any income derived by the Publisher from licences or sub-licences remains with
the Publisher.
13. The Author will receive an offprint of their Contribution in PDF form, which PDF may be
circulated by the Author to selected colleagues (wherever located). The Author may also use
their own Contribution freely in their own teaching, including providing students in their
classes with PDFs of the Contribution. The PDFs may not be posted online other than on
a password-protected web page used solely by the Author themselves for teaching purposes.
The contract between the Publisher and the Author will indicate a date after which the
Contribution may be posted online, subject to specific conditions. The Author may order hard
copy offprints of their Contribution, in advance of their Contribution going to press, for a fee.
14. For any questions not answered above, send queries to tlteditorial@hartpub.co.uk.
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House style
Except where specifically noted below, the house style follows the Oxford Standard Citation for
Legal Authorities (OSCOLA). OSCOLA can be downloaded at www.law.ox.ac.uk/publications/
oscola.php. While OSCOLA is not a style guide, the introduction to it includes a few recommended
texts that will prove useful to contributors.
Spelling
• Standard UK spelling: ‘-ise’ / ‘-isation’ / ‘-ising’. ‘z’ should remain when quoting sources.
• Use UK English spellings in your text: ‘colour’, ‘favour’, etc.

Punctuation
• Use single quotation marks, reserving double ones for quoted matter within a quotation.
• Ellipsis: use three full points spaced from the words on either side to indicate matter omitted
from a quotation … like this. Do not use an extra full point to indicate the end of a sentence
before or after the ellipsis.
• Do not use the serial comma – ie, the comma before ‘and’ or ‘or’ in lists of three or more items,
unless it is necessary for the sake of sense: ‘red, white and blue’.
• Abbreviations and initials should not be given full points, and no extra spaces should be added.
Thus ‘eg’ is correct rather than ‘e.g.’, HLA Hart not H.L.A. Hart or H L A Hart.
Italics
• Use italics for emphasis, not bold.
• Italicise foreign words and terms including ibid, sic and passim. Do not italicise ‘cf’ or ‘see also’,
etc. Generally, where a foreign word is in common usage, do not italicise.
• Use italics for the titles of books, journals, works of art, films, and the names of ships.
Abbreviations
• Spell out all but the commonest abbreviations at the first mention in your paper; thereafter, an
abbreviation may be used without explanation. Exception: all journal titles must be given in
full.
• Use ‘per cent’ in the text unless it appears many times, in which case use %. The latter may be
used in footnotes.
Quotations
Quotations of more than 40 words in length, or particularly significant quotations, should be broken
off from the main text and ‘displayed’. Leave an extra line space above and below the displayed
quotation, and indent it by adjusting the left margin. Do not key it in italic type.
Numbers
• Omit as many digits as possible in number ranges, except between 11 and 99 and between 10
and 19 in any hundred: 25–26, 120–2, 318–19. Do not elide figures when a range of years is
referred to crossing between centuries: 1820–1910.
• Dates are formulated in the order day, month, year, without commas: 11 November 1918.
• Spell out numbers up to nine and use figures from 10. However, use figures for: units of measure:
‘30 kilometres’; dates: ‘9 September 2001’; people’s ages: ‘she was 58 years old’. Use words
at the beginning of a sentence: ‘Two hundred and fifty gold bars were stolen’, and for approximate
numbers: ‘At least a thousand people were present.’
Websites
• Omit ‘http://’ where the web address begins ‘www’; otherwise leave it in.
• Please double-check that web addresses are accurate before submitting your paper.
• Where several web addresses appear in your footnotes, indicate in the first (asterisked) footnote
the date on which you double-checked the addresses. Otherwise indicate the date in
brackets after the website.

Examples
* Lecturer, University of Cambridge, UK. All websites accessed 6 February 2013.
or
25 www.law.ox.ac.uk/publications/oscola.php (accessed 6 February 2013).
Cases, legislation etc
• Case references should be given in full the first time they are mentioned.
• Do not include a full stop after the ‘v’ in case names: Roe v Wade.
• Do not italicise the titles of legislation and other primary sources: UN Convention, Working
Time Directive, Accident Compensation Act 1972 (NZ).
• Please refer to OSCOLA for other aspects of house style regarding cases etc.
Books, journals etc
• Authors’ first names should appear in full unless the common convention is to use initials
only: HLA Hart, FW Maitland, but Hans Kelsen, John Finnis.
• Books should be cited in the following form: author, | Title | (publisher, edition year) | page
number if necessary.
• Article citations should be set out as follows: author, | ‘Title’ | (year) | volume(issue) | Journal
Name | start page (not the complete page range).
• Please note that, in contrast to the OSCOLA requirements, all journal titles should be given in
full and italicised.
• Chapters in books should be set out as follows: author, | ‘Chapter Title’ in | Editor Name (ed),
| Title | (publisher, edition year) | chapter/page number(s).
• Refer to works already cited as follows: ‘See Maitland (n 3) 435’.
• ‘Ibid’ should be used where a reference is to the immediately preceding note, while ‘ante’, ‘post’,
‘op cit’, ‘loc cit’, ‘supra’ and ‘infra’ should all be avoided. Do not include a full stop after ‘n’ or
after ‘ibid’.
Examples
1 Mary Bickel, The Least Dangerous Tree (Yale University Press, 2nd edn 2013) 34.
2 A King, ‘Institutional Approaches to Judicial Restraint’ (2008) 28 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
409.
3 Ibid, 412.
4 Evan Keating, ‘The Liability of the World’ in Stephen Williams and Xander Mulhall (eds), This
is the Book (Yale University Press, 2013) 245–312.
5 See Bickel (n 1) 37.
Book reviews
To refer to page numbers within the work under review, insert the page number in parentheses
within the text. Do not precede this with ‘p’ or ‘pp’. For example: ‘The content of a human right is
also the content of the corresponding duty (97).’ Should the review be of more than one title, use
the author or authors’ names, or the title of the book, as a short form, followed by the number,
in parentheses. For example: ‘(Fleming, 185).’ References to all other works should be supplied as
normal, in footnotes.