The Military Law Review accepts manuscript submissions from military and civilian authors. Both a relevant subject-matter expert and the MLR board of editors review any work submitted for publication. In determining whether to publish a work, the board considers it in light of MLR’s mission and evaluates the work’s argument, research, and style.
- No minimum or maximum length requirements exist, though the MLR generally publishes pieces that are thirty pages or more when double-spaced with 1-inch margins and 12-point font.
- Footnotes should be numbered consecutively from the beginning to the end of the manuscript rather than by section.
- Citation standards require a citation for every factual assertion throughout the piece.
- Citations must conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (22d ed. 2025) and the Military Citation Guide (26th ed. 2025).
- Submissions should provide biographical data for each author, including branch of service, duty title, present and prior positions or duty assignments, all degrees (with names of granting schools and years received), and previous publications.
- If submitting a lecture or a paper prepared in partial fulfillment of degree requirements, the author should include the date and place of delivery of the lecture, or the date and source of the degree.
Submissions must be in Microsoft Word format and should be sent by email to the Editor, Military Law Review, at
the editorial office.