JCIP accepts the following types of submissions:
Peer Reviewed Articles
Articles up to 8,000 words that provide leading edge consideration of topics that could materially enhance infrastructure resilience, community resilience, emergency management or public policy. Submissions can include original research, consideration of emerging issues, case studies, policy research or analysis, syntheses of existing knowledge, methodological topics, systems analysis, modelling, mapping or a variety of other analytical formats. 
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
Content up to 6,000 words may be on any issue of relevance to the Journal, including policy perspectives, practice related articles, professional topics, or other commentary. We encourage articles that bring together contributors from different professional or disciplinary backgrounds. Authors should contact the Editor with questions about whether an article should be peer reviewed or not, if it is suitable for JCIP, or on any other matter.
Invited Articles
The Editor may invite peer or non-peer reviewed articles from national experts, authors positioned to report on cutting edge research or important evaluation issues, as well as other topics of interest to the JCIP readership.
 
Article Structure and Submission Guidelines
Contact with JCIP
All submissions and communications with the Editor should be sent to:
Richard Krieg at:   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Article Due Date
Articles for JCIP's Fall/Winter 2021 edition must be submitted prior to November 1, 2021. 
Articles for the Spring/Summer 2022 edition should be submitted before March 1, 2022. 

Abstracts of proposed articles up to two pages long may be submitted to the Editor at any time. The abstract should summarize the article envisioned in as much detail as possible. The date by which the article would be ready for submission must be specified. Contributing authors and author institution(s) or organization(s) should included. Abstracts that are too general cannot be considered. The Journal will provide feedback if the proposed article is suitable for JCIP consideration.
 
Pre-submission Summary
Authors are encouraged to submit a summary up to a page in length describing the proposed article. In addition to proposed content, the article’s primary objectives and intended readers should be spelled out. The names, organizations and contact information for authors should be included.  It is recommended that the Article Summary be sent to the Editor at the earliest point and no more than a month prior to article submission.
 
Manuscript Guidelines
All guidelines must be followed, or your article may not be eligible for publication
Be sure to review the “Article Submission Checklist” at the end
1. A Cover Page must be submitted as a separate Word document. It should provide:

• For each author: name and primary organizational affiliation, phone number and email address.
• For multiple authors, a corresponding author should be identified. This person coordinates communication with JCIP.
• The article title should appear on both the cover page and the manuscript.
• The cover page must include a statement by the author(s) confirming that the submission has not been previously published, and that it is not in process for consideration before another journal for consideration.

• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Methods and Results (this may be presented as two sections)
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements and Funding (where applicable)
• Acronyms and Abbreviations (where applicable)
• Author Capsule Bio(s)
• References

• The article’s Abstract section should be a cogent summary of the article’s substance. It should indicate key topics, major findings and recommendations, and potential implications of findings in terms of the field or discipline in which the work occurred.
• The Introduction will provide general and specific background to enable readers to grasp the article’s content, results and significance – not to showcase material or citations of limited import. It is often useful for the Introduction to end in a concise statement spelling out how the paper will proceed to address its primary topic. 
• In addition to other content, the Conclusion section, should consider the outcomes of the research or analysis, the implications of findings, current and future applications of the work, and its importance. The article’s policy or practice relevance should be considered, if applicable.

• Abbreviations and acronyms should be indicated in parentheses following their first use in the text.
• For articles containing more than 5 acronyms and abbreviations (total), an “Acronyms and Abbreviations” section preceding the “Reference” section of the article should be provided.

• First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion, etc.)  -- 14 pt. bold
• Second-level headings   --  14 pt. bold italics
• Third-level headings  --  12 pt. bold
• Fourth-level headings  --  12 pt. bold italics

• Most readers will view JCIP in high quality, color, digital form.  We strongly request that authors to use high quality tables, figures and images (including photos). 
• It is essential to indicate in the body of the article where each table, figure and image should appear by inserting [Table 1 near here] or [Figure 1 near here]. Do not use “above” or “below” as typesetting may necessitate a different placement.
• The titles of all tables, figures and images must be provided in a separate list as the last item at the end of the article. The author should list the external source of any tables, figures or images and ensures that there is permission from the appropriate source to use them.
• The actual tables, figures and images must be placed together within a single folder that is emailed with the article.