The Jerusalem Quarterly accepts author submissions of original contributions about Jerusalem, its social and political history, and its current realities. Occasionally personal memoirs or works of fiction are accepted. Submissions are received throughout the year; specific deadlines for special thematic issues may also be announced.

JQ sends all manuscripts to designated readers for evaluation. Authors may also specifically request that their article be peer-reviewed. Authors should allow four to eight weeks from the date of submission for a final evaluation and publication decision.

Please direct submissions or queries to the JQ team: [email protected]

Submission Guidelines

General Guidelines

Material submitted to JQ for consideration should adhere to the following:

  • Length: Articles for peer-reviewing should not exceed 8,000 words; essays should be between 3,500 and 5,000 words; “Letters from Jerusalem,” reviews, and submissions for other sections should not exceed 3,000 words.

All submissions should include an abstract of a maximum of 200 words; a list of up to 10 keywords; and a brief author’s biography of a maximum of 25 words.

NOTE: the above word-count limits exclude footnotes, endnotes, abstracts, keywords, and biographies.

  • Spelling: American English according to Merriam-Webster.
  • Text style: Refer to Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) for all questions regarding punctuation, capitalization, and font style.
  • Transliteration of names and words in Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish should follow the style recommended by the International Journal for Middle East Studies, but modified for Arabic transliteration by omitting all diacritical marks except for the ‘ayn (open single quotation mark) and hamza (closed single quotation mark). No right-to-left letters are allowed, except for very limited instances of crucial need.
  • Citations should be in the form of endnotes and written in full (CMOS), as in the original source, with transliteration as needed.
  • Book reviews: a high-resolution photo of the book cover should be included, as well as a scan of the copyrights page.
  • Visual material: any photos, charts, graphs, and other artwork should be of high resolution. For details, please see the section below.

Guidelines for Visual Material

The Jerusalem Quarterly encourages the inclusion of visual material, wherever possible, for articles, essays, and for other sections submitted for publication. Visual material can be photographs, scans, charts, diagrams, graphs, maps, artwork, and the like (hereafter called ‘figures’).

When including any figures, please keep in mind the following guidelines:

  • Rights: it is imperative that authors obtain appropriate rights to publish the figure(s). JQ is willing to assist in this in any way possible – for instance, by providing a letter from JQ supporting the application for rights, and providing more details about the journal – but it is the authors’ responsibility to actually obtain the rights. An email giving JQ the rights to publish the figures suffices as proof of rights. Please let us know what copyright acknowledgment needs to accompany the figures.
  • Resolution: any figure should be in camera-ready format, and should be saved as JPEG, with a minimum resolution of 600 dpi (or 700 KB). Please do not send the high-resolution figures by email, which can degrade the quality. Instead, upload figures to WeTransfer, Google Drive, or the like, and provide a link. It is also advisable to embed a low-resolution copy at the chosen place in the Word file, as guidance to editors and the designer.
  • Captions: authors should provide full captions (including, when applicable: source, credits, dates, places, people, explanation of content, etc.).
  • Color Figures: thus far, JQ has been more inclined to publish photos in black and white (B&W) mainly because of the subject matter of the articles and essays, but for some time now we have been accepting both options. Since printing in full color is more costly, we sometimes opt to publish in B&W figures submitted in color. If this is not acceptable in the case of a specific figure, we kindly ask authors to notify us in writing.