Withdrawal of Manuscript

The Journal of Law & Social Politics (JLSP) recognizes that authors may occasionally need to withdraw a manuscript, and provides the process below. Because peer review commits significant time from editors and reviewers, authors are asked to consider such requests carefully and to submit them as early as possible.

Withdrawal by the author

Authors may request to withdraw a manuscript at any stage before publication. To do so, the corresponding author must send a signed Article Withdrawal Request, stating the reason on behalf of all authors, to the editorial office. Authors should not assume a manuscript has been withdrawn until they receive written confirmation from the editorial office; until that confirmation is issued, the manuscript remains under consideration.

It is a breach of publication ethics to submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time. Accordingly, a manuscript may not be withdrawn from JLSP on the grounds that it has been submitted to or accepted by another journal while still under consideration here.

Withdrawal by the editors (articles in press)

A manuscript that has been accepted but not yet formally published (an article in press) may be withdrawn by the editors if it is found to contain substantial errors, to be an accidental duplicate submission, or to infringe publication ethics (for example, plagiarism, redundant publication, fraudulent use of data, or bogus claims of authorship). In such cases the article file is withdrawn and replaced with a page noting that the article has been withdrawn in accordance with this policy.

Related policy

Changes to articles that have already been published, including corrections, expressions of concern, retraction, and removal, are governed by the journal's Correction and Retraction Policy.

Requests relating to withdrawal should be directed to the editorial office through the journal's contact page, including a request for the Article Withdrawal Request form. All requests are acknowledged and the outcome communicated to the authors.