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or telephone +44 203 239 3666
To submit a proposal via this website, click on "Submit your Proposal"
Before submitting your ideas to us please read the following:
Submissions
The editorial team at Digital Forensics Magazine is always happy to hear from established or prospective authors on any of our magazine’s focus areas. Themes include, but are not limited to:
• Computer and cyber-forensics technologies
• Product reviews or book reviews
• How to… articles on using laboratory tools
• Forensics research – both legal and technical
• Investigative techniques
• Legal matters, including reports of any recent trials
• Case law discussions
• Guidelines for dealing with security breaches.
Guidelines
In the first instance, please send a proposal of your intended article to
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. Alternatively, send us a proposal through the Submissions Form (accessed via the menu on the left hand side).
A proposal does not need to be a fully polished product, just enough of an idea to get the creative juices of our editors flowing.
Label the email with the subject line: Proposal: .
Article length may range from 1500 to 3000 words. All manuscripts must be submitted electronically via email. Submit as text (.txt), or MS Word (.doc/x) files. Articles should, if possible, include one or more colour photographs, images, graphs, charts, or other suitable illustrations (we can handle pretty much any object type) - nevertheless, the detail will be ironed out on the commission form. We also require a colour photograph of you since our editorial style demands we create a personal connection between you and your readers.
Use of Copyrighted Material
Prior to submission of any article, authors should secure all necessary permissions to materials (including images, drawings and photographs) obtained from third party sources and cite these sources in an agreed way as a credit. This restriction also applies to previously published articles either in part or in their entirety, and in this case the editors of Digital Forensics Magazine must have been informed at the stage of initial proposal. Written permission must be obtained for any articles previous published in any other publication. Although exclusive submissions are strongly preferred, simultaneous submissions in non-competing markets may be considered as long as the authors inform the editors upon submission. The editors will not consider a manuscript that is currently in production with a competing publication.
Copyright for Authors
Copyright often becomes a topic of heated discussion for authors. To make this clear, before you submit a proposal, your original unedited manuscript remains your own property. Any work published in Digital Forensics Magazine is subsequently copyrighted by the magazine and ownership of the work in its final, edited form remains with the magazine. Authors grant TR Media the unlimited, non-exclusive right to republish and reuse the work in whatever medium TR Media deems appropriate and the unlimited right to further publish, reproduce, distribute, perform, display, or transmit the work in any medium, including but not limited to electronic and optical versions and any other media now in existence or hereinafter developed, in whole or in part. However, the reprinting of the final, edited form in other media will always include an author’s credit line citing both original author and Digital Forensics Magazine as the source of that version.
Contracts, Technical Review and Article Acceptance
Once the editorial team has accepted your proposal, it’s over to you to get writing. At this point you will receive one of our contributor’s contracts and a commission form: all you need to do is sign the contract, date it then return it to us at the address provided.
Since we operate a peer-review publishing model at Digital Forensics Magazine, we will appoint a technical reviewer (TR) to work with you during the writing process who will help you shape the article in line with our magazine’s strategic direction.
Payment will be issued no later than 30-days after publication of your article, as per the terms and conditions in your contributors contract.
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George Bailey 
Andrew Hoog 
Noemi Kuncik 
Dr Tim Watson 
Andrew Harbison 
Mark Osborne 
Barry Hood 
Bill Dean 
Scott C. Zimmerman 
Gary Hinson
Gavin W. Manes
Moira Carroll-Mayer
Peter Membrey