Submission

Author Guidelines

Interfere accepts submissions in response to our call for papers (CfP). Please see the ‘CfP’ tab for further details. We are not currently accepting submissions for the Interfere Blog.

All contributions must be submitted in .doc, .docx or .odt file format and should be emailed to: interferejournal@gmail.com.

Full-length scholarly articles should be no longer than 8,000 words, inclusive of an abstract of 100-150 words and footnotes but not including the bibliography. Political reports should be no longer than 6,000 words and include an abstract. Reviews and review essays should be between 800 and 5000 words. For interviews, please refer to our published issues for guidance.

Contributions should be in British English (unless you are in contact with Senior Editors about translating works in collaboration with Interfere). 

To protect the anonymity of peer-reviewed content, authors should submit a separate cover page with the manuscript title and author names, affiliations, short bio note, and contact information. Authors should also remove name and affiliation from the abstract and manuscript.

Authors must ensure that proper acknowledgement of sources is given. We understand that there is no single referencing system which suits every style of writing or discipline – whereas Philosophy favours Chicago style footnote references, more interdisciplinary or political writing favours Harvard style author/date in-text citations. As an interdisciplinary journal, we do not have a preference over whether you opt for Chicago or Harvard style, so long as you ensure that your referencing is consistent and coherent.

Please refer to our style guide.

By submitting authors indicate commitment to publish in the journal. Interfere maintains the right to first publication of all submitted manuscripts and will not review any submission that are simultaneously under review by another journal.

All unpublished manuscripts are treated as strictly confidential.

Statement of Citational Politics

Informed by decolonising academia movement, we consider citation to be a technology of power that should be used responsibly. We encourage authors to cite people of colour, women, non-binary people, trans people, queer people, indigenous people, people from the Global South, early-career researchers, PhD students, and people of the many other groups historically excluded from academic institutions, silenced by scholarly discourse, and disadvantaged by university practices.

We invite authors to reflect on the performativity of their work in this respect and consider the journal as a space of appearance in which one can either reinscribe existing hierarchies or help to dismantle them.