Every effort will be made to provide a quick response to submitted manuscripts.

To be considered for publication in JIMS, submissions should meet the following criteria:

Manuscripts should always be concise and well-written, intended to advance the study of islands and/or marine issues. They will normally be sent out for review to at least two independent scholars, and would benefit from additional critical comments by the JIMS editors. Authors submitting manuscripts for possible publication are advised to write clearly and lucidly, since not all JIMS’s diverse readers would necessarily share the authors’ disciplinary background.

Book Reviews should be succinct, critical yet constructive, and meant to provide a useful summary of a text while situating it in a specific theoretical or literary context.

Authors submitting any material (and any accompanying illustrations, figures, tables, etc.) for publication are automatically deemed to have vested copyright of that same material to the Journal. The Journal, in turn, pledges to make such material freely available and without charge. Authors are themselves fully and responsible for obtaining any permission necessary to reproduce copyright material from the appropriate sources.

JIMS will only publish papers and/or reviews not hitherto published. Any material submitted to be considered for publication will be automatically assumed (a) not to have been published before and (b) not being considered for publication in any other venue at the time of submission to JIMS.