Submission Guidelines
Submissions to the Australian Bar Review are accepted on a rolling basis. They must be a Microsoft Word document. PDF files or links to external sites are not accepted.
Submissions must be in their final form, not a draft. We recommend that submissions follow the LexisNexis Journal Style Guidelines as closely as possible.
Please email submissions to Catherine.Zemann@lexisnexis.com.au.
Style Guidelines
The Australian Bar Review follows the LexisNexis Journal Style Guidelines (LN Style).
All accepted papers will be edited according to LN Style. We encourage authors to align their submissions with the LN Style as closely as possible. While adherence to the LN Style is not a factor in the selection process, accepted papers must comply with these guidelines before publication.
Authors are given the opportunity to review edited proofs before their paper is published.
No fees are charged for manuscript processing.
Word Limits
The Australian Bar Review does not impose strict word limits and welcomes submissions of varying lengths.
An abstract of 100-150 words must be included.
Submissions should contain footnotes not endnotes.
Graphics
Limit the use of graphics, tables, graphs, images and diagrams to essential instances. All graphics will be adjusted to meet LexisNexis printing standards and may not appear exactly as originally submitted.
Licence and Warranty
By submitting you warrant that the Work will be an original work, has not been published before, including in any online publications, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere, and that the Work is not defamatory and will not infringe the intellectual property or moral rights of any other person.
By submitting the Work, you warrant that you are the owner of the copyright in the Work and you hereby grant LexisNexis an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to publish and reproduce the Work or any part of it.
All authors will be required to sign a Contributor Agreement agreeing to the above Terms and Conditions in order for their submission to be considered for publication.
Peer Review and Publication Ethics
The Australian Bar Review is not a refereed publication. Each submission undergoes rigorous main-Editor review as well as recommendations from the Consultant Editors and/or the Editorial Board.
Given the high volume of submissions, authors will receive a straightforward ‘publish’ or ‘do not publish’ decision. Detailed feedback or full reports will not be provided. Case notes and case summaries will not be considered and will be outright declined.
LexisNexis is committed to upholding the highest standards of ethical behaviour in the act of publishing. LexisNexis journals adhere to guidelines, based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines.
Open Access
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Authors may reproduce abstracts of the approved version or published version, provided that an acknowledgement that work is published by LexisNexis and the full legal citation is included in the acknowledgement.
For a comprehensive overview refer to LexisNexis’ Content Sharing Policy.
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Editors
Editor
The Hon Justice Geoff Lindsay AM is a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Consultant Editors
Carol Webster SC is a barrister at Tenth Floor St James Hall.
Professor the Hon Clyde Croft AM SC is Adjunct Professor at Monash University and was a Commercial Court Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Editorial Board
- Lee J W Aitken
- Annette Charak
- The Hon Justice John Griffiths
- The Hon Terence John Higgins AO KC
- The Hon David Jackson
- The Hon Justice Mark Leeming
- The Hon Dean Mildren AM RFD KC
- Judge Alexander W Street SC
- John Williams AM
- The Hon Peter W Young AO KC