Contemporary Review of the Middle East
The contents of the journal are as follows:
• Six-eight research articles
• Four-six book reviews
• Oral history segment
• Election Watch that assesses one of the recent elections in the region
• Special Issues devoted to specific themes or conference papers.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Contemporary Review of the Middle East is a peer-reviewed journal from the Middle East Institute (MEI), New Delhi. It publishes original research articles, election watch, oral history, book reviews, and review articles that examine various contemporary Middle Eastern developments pertaining to politics, security, economy, arts, and culture. The journal primarily targets universities, research institutions, and think tanks, and is relevant for policy and risk analysis organizations. Though MEI is based in India, the journal is not India-centric and publishes advance cutting-edge research on the Middle East from a global perspective. The journal’s primary focus is contemporary developments, but it is open to persuasive contributions on the region’s diplomatic and international histories that have a bearing on the present.
| P R Kumaraswamy | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; Middle East Institute, New Delhi, India |
| Md. Muddassir Quamar | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Sameena Hameed | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Faisal O Al-Rfouh | University of Jordan, Jordan |
| Jon B. Alterman | Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States |
| Hayat Alvi | United States Naval War College, Unites States |
| C Uday Bhaskar | Society for Policy Studies, India |
| Michael B Bishku | Augusta University, United States |
| Naomi Chazan | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Gulshan Dietl | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| Joanna Dyduch | Jagiellonian University, Poland |
| Sean Foley | Middle Tennessee State University, United States |
| Robert O Freedman | John Hopkins University, United States |
| Jonathan Fulton | Zayed University, United Arab Emirates |
| Efraim Inbar | The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, Israel |
| Joseph A. Kéchichian | King Faisal Center for Research & Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia |
| Csaba Nikolenyi | Concordia University, Canada |
| Santishree D Pandit | Savitribai Phule Pune University, India |
| Girijesh Pant | Symbiosis School of International Studies, India |
| A K Ramakrishnan | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India |
| Yitzhak Shichor | Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| Sanjay Singh | Indian Foreign Service (retd.) |
| Hussein Solomon | Professor, Political Science, University of Free State, South Africa |
| Koichiro Tanaka | Keio University, Japan |
| Samina Yasmeen | University of Western Australia, Australia |
Contemporary Review of the Middle East (CME)
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
Contemporary Review of the Middle East is hosted on SAGE Peer Review; a web based online submission and peer review system. Please read the Manuscript Submission guidelines below, and then visit https://peerreview.sagepub.com/cme to login and submit your article online.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Contemporary Review of the Middle East will be reviewed.
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere.
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1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Funding
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
2.6 Research Data
3.2 Contributor’s publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.4 Reference style
5.1 ORCID
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
5.3 Permission
6. On acceptance and publication
6.1 SAGE Production
6.3 Access to your published article
Before submitting your manuscript to Contemporary Review of the Middle East, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope .
Full-fledged papers may be of 5,000 to 8,000 words. All articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150–200 words and 4–6 keywords. Tables and figures to be indicated by numbers separately (see Table 1), not by placement (see Table below). All Figures and Tables must be cited in the text. Caption and Source details for figures and tables should be mentioned irrespective of whether or not they require permissions.
The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources. SAGE Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance their article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online
Contemporary Review of the Middle East adheres to a rigorous double-anonymize reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties.
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.
Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance. It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
Contemporary Review of the Middle East requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
Contemporary Review of the Middle East encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway
The journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the SAGE Research Data policy pages.
Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to:
- share your research data in a relevant public data repository
- include a data availability statement linking to your data. If it is not possible to share your data, we encourage you to consider using the statement to explain why it cannot be shared.
- cite this data in your research
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway
Contemporary Review of the Middle East and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
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3.2 Contributor’s publishing agreement
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3.3 Open access and author archiving
Contemporary Review of the Middle East offers optional open access publishing via the SAGE Choice programme. For more information on Open Access publishing options at SAGE please visit SAGE Open Access. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit SAGE’s Author Archiving and Re-Use Guidelines and Publishing Policies.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
The manuscript should be structured as follows:
- The cover page should carry the title of the article, the author(s)’ name(s), institutional affiliation(s), address(es) (postal, email and web), and phone and fax numbers. In case there are two or more authors, then corresponding author’s name and address details must be clearly specified on the first page itself; all correspondence, including those of the proof of the article would be sent to her/him.
- All articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150–200 words and 5–6 keywords.
- Endnotes should be used instead of footnotes, and should be numbered serially using standard figures (e.g., 1, 2, 3). The notes should be linked to the note cues within the text. Notes should contain more than a citation of a work. Use notes to elaborate an issue that is already made in the main text.
- Use ‘z’ spellings instead of ‘s’ spellings. This means that words ending with ‘-ise’, ‘isation’, etc., will be spelt with ‘z’ (e.g., ‘recognize’, ‘organize’, ‘civilize’).
- Use American spellings in all cases rather than British spellings (hence, ‘program’ not ‘programme’, ‘labor’ not ‘labour’, and ‘center’ and not ‘centre’).
- Use double quotes throughout. Single quotes only used within single quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed. Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text and indented with one space with a line space above and below. When directly quoting from a work, include the page number in the citation.
- Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimized but consistent. For non-English and uncommon words and phrases, use italics throughout the text. Meaning of non-English words should be given in parenthesis just after the word when it is used for the first time.
- Abbreviations are spelled out at first occurrence. Very common ones (US, GDP, BBC) need not be spelled out.
- Spell out numbers from one to nine, 10 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements use only figures (3 km; 9 per cent). Use thousands and millions, not lakhs and crores.
- Use ‘percent’ instead of % in the text. In tables, graphs, etc., % can be used.
- Give specific dates in the form 22 November 1980. When referring to a century it should be in words, e.g., ‘twentieth century’ and when reference is being made to a decade use numbers, e.g., ‘1980s’.
- Ibid should not be used.
- Tables and figures to be indicated by numbers separately (see Table 1), not by placement (see Table below). Present each table and figure on a separate sheet of paper, gathering them together at the end of the article.
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
- Figures, including maps, graphs and drawings, should not be larger than page size. They should be numbered and arranged as per their references in the text. All photographs and scanned images should have a resolution of minimum 300 dpi and 1,500 pixels and their format should be TIFF or JPEG.
- Due permissions should be taken for copyright protected photographs/images. Even for photographs/images available in the public domain, it should be clearly ascertained whether or not their reproduction requires permission for purposes of publishing (which is a profit-making endeavour).
- All photographs/scanned images should be provided separately in a folder along with the main article.
Please Note: All figures and tables should be cited in the text and should have the source (a specific URL, a reference or, if it is author’s own work, ‘The Author’) mentioned irrespective of whether or not they require permissions
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files.
Contemporary Review of the Middle East adheres to the APA reference style with a slight exception. Author names in the Reference section should be enlisted as [Last name, First name in full] e.g., Thomson, William [It should not be listed as Thompson, W.]. View the APA guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
Contemporary Review of the Middle East is hosted on SAGE Track SAGE, a web-based online submission and peer review system. Visit https://peerreview.sagepub.com/cme to login and submit your article online.
Review Copies and Book Reviews can be sent to the Book Review Editor:
Dr. Sameena Hameed
Assistant Professor
Centre for West Asian Studies
School of International Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110067
Email: hameed.sameena@gmail.com
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The collection of ORCID IDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this Journal. If you already have an ORCID ID you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID ID will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID ID is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.
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5.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
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6. On acceptance and publication
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6.3 Access to your published article
SAGE provides authors with online access to their final article.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Contemporary Review of the Middle East editorial office as follows:
Dr. Md. Muddassir Quamar, Ph.D.
Associate Editor
Contemporary Review of the Middle East
Mobile: +91 8826917240
E-mail: journal.mei.nd@gmail.com