Instructions to Authors
Scope of the Journal
The ICSID Review is a specialized periodical devoted exclusively to foreign investment law and international investment dispute settlement. It offers legal and business professionals an up-to-date review of the field and includes articles, case comments, and notes on the law and practice relating to foreign investments as well as the procedural and substantive law governing investment dispute resolution.
Submissions
All material to be considered for publication in ICSID Review should be submitted at our Scholar One site. Please see the online submission instructions. Please note that the ICSID Review only accepts submissions on topics related to foreign investment law and international investment dispute settlement.
The ICSID Review publishes three issues per year – submission deadlines are early October for issue one, early January for issue two and early June for issue three. Individual articles will be published online in advance of issue publication.
Format and style
Articles should ideally range from 7,500 to 12,000 words, excluding footnotes. Notes should not exceed 7,500 words and Case Comments should not exceed 2,500 words, excluding footnotes. The decision to categorize a manuscript as an article or note is based solely on the length of the submission, and not on the author’s credentials or the subject of the submission. ICSID Review authors should follow the style of OSCOLA (4th edition)— mini style checklist.
Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. Case Comments and Notes do not need abstracts.
The ICSID Review accepts submissions in English, French and Spanish. The ICSID Review does not provide editing services for authors, and authors are strongly encouraged to carefully revise their manuscripts before submission. In addition, there are specialist language editing companies that offer similar services and you may use any of these. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.
Disclosures
When submitting material to the ICSID Review for publication, authors must ensure: (1) disclosure of the fact that the author or his/her law firm or employer was involved in an arbitration or other dispute settlement proceeding analyzed in the submission; and (2) that all awards or decisions cited are available in the public domain.
Peer review process
The ICSID Review is a peer reviewed journal. The review process is divided in two stages. Manuscripts are first appraised by the Editors-in-Chief. If the subject, quality, and content of the manuscript are apparently appropriate for publication in the Journal, the manuscript is sent out to other members of the Editorial Board or peer-review pool for a detailed review. All evaluations of an author’s submission by peer reviewers are completed on a double-blind basis.
Copyright
Contributors will retain the copyright in their work. They will, however, be required to grant the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) an exclusive license to publish the article in paper and electronic form, and to confirm that any necessary permissions have been obtained from the copyright owners of any third-party material included in the article. Contributors will be asked to confirm that their work is original and has not been published elsewhere.
Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at OUP authors will be invited to complete an online licence to publish form.
Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.
Proofs
Corresponding authors will receive a link to the PDF proof of their article on our online system by email, and it is essential that a current email address is supplied with all articles. Proofing instructions will accompany the PDF file but the proof should be checked immediately upon receipt and uploaded in accordance with covering instructions. Only essential corrections should be made at the proof stage. Only one author can submit corrections in the online system, so it is fine to distribute the email to any co-authors but the corresponding author should collate corrections from the other authors and upload these to the system.
Open Access Option for Authors
ICSID Review offers the option of publishing under either a standard licence or an open access licence. Please note that some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify any such requirements with your funder or institution.
Should you wish to publish your article open access, you should select your choice of open access licence in our online system after your article has been accepted for publication. You will need to pay an open access charge to publish under an open access licence.
Details of the open access licences and open access charges.
OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.
Colour
Any figures submitted to the journal in colour can be published in colour online at no cost (unless the author specifically requests that their figures be in black and white online). Authors may choose to also publish their figures in colour in the print journal: you will be asked to approve this cost after your article is accepted for publication. Black and white figures will be printed without additional cost, but figures that may be converted from colour to black and white should be well prepared with high contrast, and must have a resolution of at least 300 dots per inch at their final size. Figure captions must be suitably worded to apply to both the print and online versions of the article. If applicable, you will be issued an invoice at the time of publication.
Figure accessibility and alt text
Incorporating alt text (alternative text) when submitting your paper helps to foster inclusivity and accessibility. Good alt text ensures that individuals with visual impairments or those using screen readers can comprehend the content and context of your figures. The aim of alt text is to provide concise and informative descriptions of your figure so that all readers have access to the same level of information and understanding, and that all can engage with and benefit from the visual elements integral to scholarly content. Including alt text demonstrates a commitment to accessibility and enhances the overall impact and reach of your work.
Alt text is applicable to all images, figures, illustrations, and photographs.
Alt text is only accessible via e-reader and so it won’t appear as part of the typeset article.
Detailed guidance on how to draft and submit alt text.
Crossref Funding Data Registry
In order to meet your funding requirements authors are required to name their funding sources, or state if there are none, during the submission process. For further information on this process or to find out more about CHORUS, visit the CHORUS initiative.
Availability of Data and Materials
Where ethically feasible, the ICSID Review strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. We suggest that data be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files, or deposited in a public repository whenever possible. For information on general repositories for all data types, and a list of recommended repositories by subject area, please see Choosing where to archive your data.
Data Citation
The ICSID Review supports the Force 11 Data Citation Principles and requires that all publicly available datasets be fully referenced in the reference list with an accession number or unique identifier such as a digital object identifier (DOI). Data citations should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite:
- [dataset]* Authors, Year, Title, Publisher (repository or archive name), Identifier
*The inclusion of the [dataset] tag at the beginning of the citation helps us to correctly identify and tag the citation. This tag will be removed from the citation published in the reference list.
Preprint Policy
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels, and this does not prevent submission to the journal. For further information see our Online Licensing, Copyright and Permissions policies. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI, as described on our Author Self-Archiving policy page.
