Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review (SIPLR) currently accepts submissions of articles, book reviews and case notes. Only articles are subject to peer-review.

Submissions are accepted throughout the year and no submission or publication fees are charged.

Texts submitted should be (American or British) but might exceptionally be accepted in other languages. The author has to submit together with the text an abstract, five keywords, a short bio and a photo.

SIPLR ask contributors to adhere to the following guidelines:

BEFORE SUBMITTING

Jurisdiction

SIPLR does not have restrictions towards jurisdiction, though it strongly encourages authors to adopt an international/European perspective on submissions. In case an author’s submission tackles other jurisdictions, it is advisable to shortly introduce the legal scenario in consideration of other readers.

Length

We welcome and will happily consider shorter submissions. Slightly longer submission will be considered on a case-to-case basis.

Book reviews and case notes are shorter texts with a minimum of 700 words.

Citations

SIPLR requests all authors when referencing EU case law to use the ECLI citation system. SIPLR also requests that authors use footnotes (as opposed to endnotes) and use the OSCOLA referencing style. Links to OSCOLA reference documents can be found below:

COPYRIGHT

Originality of the manuscript

Exclusivity

Although SIPLR does not require exclusivity of publication for the duration of the copyright of the submission, SIPLR requires that the first publication of the submission must be in SIPLR; thus, the submission must not be under review by any other publication, regardless of its nature.

Co-authorship

In cases of submissions with more than one author, it is mandatory that all authors consent to submitting the manuscript for publication. SIPLR will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Permissions

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors. The authors will be held responsible for any claims for compensation or take down of content unduly submitted.

THE REVIEW PROCESS

Internal Review

SIPLR carefully considers all the manuscripts it receives. Every submission will be reviewed by at least . In some cases several editors may be involved in the review process.

Although SIPLR will take into consideration requests for expedited review, this does not mean it will omit any stages of the review process.

Authors may submit texts to SIPLR throughout the year. SIPLR will not reject an article because of lack of space, but SIPLR will propose its inclusion in the next volume. The review process is not as active from the end of June to the end of August as it is during the rest of the year.

SIPLR notifies authors of our decisions by email. SIPLR normally does not inform authors of the status of their manuscripts other than through email. As a matter of policy, SIPLR do not discuss the reasons for its publication decisions.

Anonymity

To facilitate SIPLR's anonymous review process, please confine the author’s name, affiliation, and biographical information to a separate cover page and remove the author information from their Word file. Please include the text’s title on the first page.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Submission process

SIPLR only accepts electronic submissions. Please submit contributions, preferably in Microsoft Word format, through the journal’s electronic submissions system (login or register at the top of this page).