About Disaster Prevention and Management

An International Journal

Disaster Prevention and Management publishes high-quality research which advances knowledge and practice in the field of disaster risk reduction and management..

Submission information

Accepted manuscript types and word counts

  • Research Paper — up to 7000 words
  • Editorial — up to 2000 words
  • Book Review — up to 1500 words
  • Short Paper — up to 4000 words
  • Photo Essays — up to 7000 words
  • Views from the Communities — up to 7000 words
  • Transcript — up to 7000 words
  • Opinion Piece/Essay — up to 7000 words

Please see the article types and word counts section on the about this journal page for more information. The word count includes all text, figures and tables. When estimating your total, please allow 280 words for each figure or table. Read more about the article types for this journal.

Reference style

Use the Harvard reference style. Read more about the reference types for this journal.

Keywords

Please include up to 6 short, relevant keywords that describe the main topics of your paper. When you submit to the journal, you’ll be able to choose keywords that describe the main topics of your paper from a list of recommended keywords, or you can add your own.

Peer review type

Double anonymous peer review. All submissions are sent to at least 2 independent and anonymous reviewers.

Open access options

This is a hybrid journal. Hybrid journals are subscription journals but offer all authors the option to publish their work open access. If you choose to publish open access you will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC). Alternatively you can opt for the green open access route and self-archive your article (at no cost to the author). Read more about our open access options.

Accepted languages

This journal only accepts manuscripts written in UK or US English.

Accepted submission files

Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format.

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Calls for papers

There are currently no open calls for papers for this journal. New calls are posted as they become available.

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