Submission Guidelines
Submissions to the Australian Journal of Family Law 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 and not a draft. We recommend that submissions follow the Australian Guide to Legal Citation 4.
Please email submissions to Catherine.Zemann@lexisnexis.com.au.
Style Guidelines
The Australian Journal of Family Law follows the Australian Guide to Legal Citation 4 (AGLC).
All accepted papers will be edited according to AGLC style. We encourage authors to align their submissions with the AGLC as closely as possible. While adherence to the AGLC is not a factor in the selection process, accepted papers must comply with these style 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 Journal of Family Law 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 been prepared without the use of artificial intelligence (AI), such as generative AI or AI assisted technologies, 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 Australia Journal of Family Law employs a blind peer review model. This ensures the identity of both the author and the reviewers remain anonymous, promoting impartiality and objectivity in the review process. Not every submission progresses to peer review and may be declined upon consultation with the Editors and Editorial and/or Advisory Board; authors will not receive detailed feedback if their submission does not progress to peer review.
For more information on our peer review policy, including reviewer responsibilities and evaluation criteria, please refer to our LexisNexis Peer Review Policy available here.
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
There is a 24-month embargo period on all published work from the date LexisNexis first publishes the work. After this period authors can share their published journal article via their Social Science Research Network (SSRN), their non-commercial personal website or blog, their university’s website or on other non-commercial open access repositories.
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
Professor Claire Fenton-Glynn, Monash University
Associate Professor Michelle Fernando, The University of South Australia
Editorial Board
Professor Lisa Young, Murdoch University
Dr Felicity Bell, University of NSW
Paul Doolan Barkus Doolan Winning Family Lawyers
Professor Belinda Fehlberg, Melbourne Law School
Dr Rae Kaspiew
Ian Kennedy Kennedy Partners
Professor Richard Chisholm Australian National University
Professor Bruce Smyth Australian National University
Dr Rachel Carson Australian Institute of Family Studies
Dr Jess Mant Monash University
Associate Professor Georgina Dimopoulos Southern Cross University
Associate Professor Noam Peleg, University of NSW
Advisory Board
Martin Bartfeld, Owen Dixon Chambers
Dr. Lawrence Moloney, La Trobe University
Dr. Adiva Sifris, Monash University
The Hon Diana Bryant, former Chief Justice of the Federal Family Court
The Hon John Pascoe, former Chief Justice of the Federal Family Court