What We’re Looking For
- Appropriately sanitized first-person accounts of exercises, operations, or organizational challenges.
- Critical assessments of current approaches, doctrine, or organizational designs.
- Proposals for new concepts, frameworks, or ways of thinking.
- Comparative perspectives from other domains or allied nations.
- Responses to previously published pieces.
How to Submit
Consider reaching out to editor@cyberforcejournal.com with a brief pitch (2-3 sentences describing your thesis and why it matters) and an informal bio. This helps us identify fit early and can save you time. Additionally, we can help steer your writing before you submit to prepub, saving time in the editorial process.
Submission Guidelines
- References and sources should be hyperlinked.
- Send as plaintext, Markdown, or as an odt file.
- Include a bio that emphasizes your perspective and credibility.
- Suggest a headline (we may edit).
- Include any images with captions and source attribution.
- In general, shorter is better; we’d be happy to publish multiple bite-sized pieces.
Security Review
Do not send us any classified information. You are responsible for ensuring your submission contains no information that is unlawful for you to disclose.
If your organization requires pre-publication review for unclassified content, complete that process before submitting. If you are unsure about the classification of anything you want to write about, contact us, and we will arrange for someone to contact you over an appropriate system to discuss.
A Note on LLMs
We require disclosure of if and how an LLM was used in article submissions. It is acceptable to use an LLM the way you’d use a thesaurus or a spellchecker - as an aid in editing. It is not acceptable to submit an LLM-generated article. A good rule of thumb is that you can put your own writing into an LLM, but you should never copy and paste LLM output into your draft. We have seen other venues publish LLM-generated content that sounds polished but is devoid of substance. This does not add value to the community and wastes readers’ time.
Rights and Attribution
You retain the copyright to your work. By submitting, you grant Cyber Force Journal an unrestricted license to publish your writing. We believe this is a fair alternative to the traditional approach where the publication venue owns the copyright.
Ready to Submit?
Ready to submit a completed work? Questions? Ideas you want to discuss first? Reach out to editor@cyberforcejournal.com. We’re happy to talk through concepts before you invest time in writing.
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