Conference Proceedings
Conference Proceedings
EJLMS welcomes proposals from conference organisers in the law, management, public policy, governance, and the social sciences, policy, education, technology, culture, and adjacent interdisciplinary fields who wish to publish a curated collection of proceedings articles in the journal.
What we publish
- Curated proceedings collections — selected, peer-reviewed papers from a single workshop, symposium, or conference, gathered as a special section or supplementary issue.
- Extended conference articles — substantially expanded versions of accepted conference talks, with at least 30% new content beyond the original presentation.
- Editorial introductions — short editorials by conference chairs framing the collection's scope, methods, and contribution.
How it works
- Submit a proposal. Conference organisers send a proposal to the editorial office — see Conference Proposal for the required information and template.
- Editorial review. The EJLMS editorial team reviews the proposal for fit with the journal's scope and editorial standards. Outcomes: accept, accept-with-revisions, or decline.
- Article submission. Once a proposal is accepted, individual articles are submitted through the standard EJLMS submission system with a pre-agreed section identifier; each article receives the journal's standard double-blind peer review.
- Publication. Accepted proceedings articles are published open-access under CC BY 4.0 with full DOI metadata, alongside the journal's regular issues.
Editorial standards
- Every article in a proceedings collection is independently peer-reviewed under the journal's standard double-blind process — conference acceptance is not a substitute for journal peer review.
- Articles must be original work, or substantially extended beyond a prior conference paper, with all overlap clearly disclosed at submission.
- Conference organisers acting as guest editors must follow the same conflict-of-interest disclosure rules as EJLMS section editors.
Article processing
Standard EJLMS Article Processing Charges apply per article. Bulk arrangements for full proceedings collections can be discussed at proposal stage; see Waiver Policy for fee-relief options for early-career authors and authors from low-income countries.
