To have an article considered for publication in Pracademic Affairs:
- Make sure your submission complies with all guidelines outlined below.
- Email your article, a brief (150 word) abstract, and author bio(s), with each as a separate attachment to [email protected].
Types of Articles
Pracademic Affairs accepts submissions of:
- Essays and short-form articles discussing practitioner’s new ideas, changes, or updates in current or future operations in the fields of emergency management, homeland security, or security management
- Lessons learned from real-world and exercise events
- Discussion of leadership and/or management best practices
Pracademic Affairs is interested in publishing work that addresses the current state of emergency management, homeland security, and security management issues at the practitioner-scholar, or “Pracademic,” level. Our focus is on leveraging this eJournal to ensure that ideas, information, and lessons learned are evaluated, discussed, and operationalized by in-the-field practitioners.
Who Can Submit?
Pracademic Affairs accepts submissions from practitioners in the field of homeland security and defense, emergency management, or fields relating to security. There are no article processing charges or submission charges.
Article Length
Because Pracademic Affairs is published electronically, page limits are not absolutely critical. Based on our experience with readers and reviewers, essays and short-form articles should be up to ten pages (approximately 5,000 words) in length.
Submission Deadlines
Submissions are due by COB Monday, September 1, 2025.
General Submission Rules
General Rules:
Pracademic Affairs adheres to the rules of the American Psychological Association (APA) Style Guide, 7th edition.
- Do not include headers, or footers.
- Submit your manuscript, including tables, figures, appendices, etc., as a single file (Word or RTF).
- Page size should be 8.5 x 11-inches.
- All margins (left, right, top and bottom) should be 1 inch.
- Double space your text.
- Use a single column layout, justified right and left.
- Do not use special formatting or spacing between paragraphs.
- Use only one space at the end of each sentence.
If figures are included, use high-resolution figures, preferably encoded as encapsulated PostScript (eps).
Co-authored submissions are acceptable, but previously or simultaneously published material will not be accepted. Essays or articles may be excerpted from a larger unpublished paper (e.g. a thesis or book manuscript). Please note: “Publication” in a working paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Pracademic Affairs, the author stipulates that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that the author will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Pracademic Affairs. The author also acknowledges that Pracademic Affairs is an open-access journal and stipulates that the article contains no classified information or controlled unclassified information (CUI).
Plagiarism Policy Statement
The editors of Pracademic Affairs use anti-plagiarism software to detect plagiarism in all submissions. Plagiarism occurs when an author uses the words, ideas, data, or arguments from the work of another author without appropriate attribution. Plagiarism can range from minor instances where only a few words or a small part of another’s argument are improperly used, to major instances where large quantities of text are cut and pasted, or where a large portion of another author’s argument is used without appropriate citation.* If questions regarding the originality of a manuscript arise during the submission process, the editors will communicate those concerns to the author(s). If evidence of plagiarism emerges after publication, the journal will contact the author, convey the journal’s findings, and explore appropriate courses of action. Such courses of action may range from issuing a correction, in the case of minor instances of plagiarism, to retraction and informing the author’s institution in the case of major instances.
Rights for Authors and Pracademic Affairs
Pracademic Affairs allows authors to hold published articles’ copyright and publishing rights without restriction.
Convention: Author refers to both single-author articles and multiple-author articles. In the latter case, it refers to the authors singly and collectively. Copyright holder refers to both single-copyright holder articles and multiple-copyright-author articles. In the latter case, it refers to the copyright holders singly and collectively.
Pracademic Affairs does not seek the copyright on published articles. In consideration for publication, however, the author (or the copyright holder if different) grants, in perpetuity and valid world-wide, Pracademic Affairs and its subsidiaries, a perpetual right to archive, publish, and republish at its discretion and as often as they wish the article in any medium or media of their choosing and without further consideration for the author (or the copyright holder if different). The author (or the copyright holder if different) further grants Pracademic Affairs and its subsidiaries the right to transfer, sell, or license these rights, in whole or in part, to any entity of their choosing, at prices of their choosing, and without further consideration to the author (or the copyright holder if different).
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