Instruction for Authors
General items for authors
Dear authors, the following points should be considered carefully to ensure the timely review of your submitted papers.
- Please download and complete the Author Commitment and Conflict of Interest forms and upload them with the documents and the manuscript's main file.
- Geopolitics Quarterly considers academic papers that lie within geopolitics and political geography disciplines. Academic papers in international relations, political science, and other disciplines with geopolitical approaches are also considered.
- Papers must be research-based; author(s) must produce original academic contribution(s) in their papers. Papers based on doctoral dissertations, theses, and independent research papers are welcomed.
- Papers taken from student dissertations will be co-authored with the supervisor, advisor, and student. The supervisor will be the corresponding author.
- The journal welcomes theoretical papers exploring new ideas or critiquing and investigating established ideas by distinguished authors.
- The manuscript is not submitted to another journal, or it is not part of a book due for publication. For this reason, we have to ask you to sign the enclosed statement of intention and send it along with the manuscript. Scientific conference articles accompanied by significant changes and new content can be reviewed.
- Papers in both English and Persian are accepted.
- In papers with more than one author, authors should choose one author as a corresponding author. Otherwise, the first writer will be automatically chosen as the corresponding author.
- After the initial review, received papers will be placed in the peer review process, and the editorial board's final decision about acceptance or rejection will be issued.
- Geopolitics Quarterly reserves the right to reject, publish, and edit papers.
- The authors are responsible for the accuracy and inaccuracy of the article's contents.
Paper Preparation Guides
- Academic-research-based papers must have the following items:
- abstract (100-150 words)
- An introduction that includes an explanation of the problem
- theoretical debate and frameworks
- Methodology
- Research results
- Analysis or discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- Conflict of Interest
- References
- Articles should be written in Times New Roman font, on 20 pages, and should not exceed 7000 words, and they should be sent online through the International Quarterly of Geopolitics.
- When adjusting tables, figures, and pictures, the following points should be followed.
- Table information should not be represented as pictures and figures in the article. Numbers and titles of tables should be written on the tables, and the titles of maps, pictures, and figures should be under the table.
- Each column should have its title and unit of measurement. All of the column numbers should have unit measurements.
- Pictures and maps should be clear and should have scale.
References
This journal follows the "in-text" citation method and the Chicago standard, and sources are introduced after direct or indirect quotations, only by stating 1) the author's last name, 2) the year of publication of the work, 3) the page number used, in parentheses, for example: (Hafeznia, 2020: 43)
The English translation of the information of in-text Persian sources should be given in the references section, and it is also necessary to mention the phrase [in Persian] in parentheses.
If the source used has more than two authors, it should be written as follows: (Hafeznia and Others, 2011: 85)
Ibid or the same should not be used in in-text citations, and the previous source must be repeated.
The order of writing the source book in the bibliography is as follows: author's last name, author's name (date of publication), book title, translator's name, volume number, place of publication: publisher's name.
Hafeznia, Mohammad Reza (2006), Principles and Concepts of Geopolitics, Mashhad: Papoli Publications[in Persian].
The order of writing the source article in the bibliography is as follows: Author's last name, Author's first name (journal publication date), Article title in quotation marks, Translator's name, Journal name, Journal volume, Journal number, First to last pages of the article in the journal.Example:
E. Alamdar , M. R. Hafeznia , Z. Ahmadypoor and S. Ahmadi Nohdani, "Explaining the Components of Geopolitical Interests in Iran-Turkey Foreign Relations," Geopolitics Quarterly, 20 1 (2024): 26-56, doi: 10.22034/igq.2024.154013
Cite online sources as follows:
Lee, Julian (2007), “NGOs in Kazakhstan and The Caspian Sea Region: An Overview”, Available at: http://graduateinstitute.ch/webdav/site/cig/shared/CIG/archives/pdf/kazakhstana pril.pdf, (Accessed on: 2/9/2012).
Whenever possible, the DOI of the electronic source used should be mentioned at the end of the description. For example: (doi:10.1000/182).
The sources used in the text should be arranged at the end of the article, in alphabetical order, by the author's last name (and if a work has multiple authors, alphabetical order of the first author).
The article should have at least 10 to 15 reliable and up-to-date external sources.
