Journal Policies

The Virginia Journal of International Affairs aims to uphold a high standard of production and academic integrity throughout every stage of both online and print editions of our publications. Please reach out to vajournal.editor-in-chief@iroatuva.org with any questions.

AI POLICY

All work submitted to and produced with the Virginia Journal of International Affairs is held to VJIA’s policy on AI-based tools; these tools include generative AI, chat bots (e.g. ChatGPT), and large-language models (LLMs). AI-based tools cannot serve as co-authors for written work as they lack human accountability and legal responsibility. As such, all authors must appropriately cite AI usage in any submission. VJIA will not accept any papers written in whole or in part by AI-based tools. 

VJIA strongly discourages AI usage in researching, drafting, and creating written pieces, and all authors are held accountable for the work that they submit.  The VJIA Editorial Board reserves the right to investigate AI usage with unreported or otherwise insufficient documentation, and may at any point remove an author’s paper from the editing cycle.

COPYRIGHT POLICY

VJIA publishes articles and papers under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant the Journal the right to publish it under this license. Readers may share the work with appropriate credit, but may not use it commercially. Full license terms are available here.

Images appearing on the site are photographs from Unsplash or images provided by VJIA staff. Images and other third-party materials on the site (including photographs from Unsplash) are governed by their own licenses and are not covered by this policy. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for any third-party material included in their submissions.

DISCLAIMER

The views expressed in the op-eds and long-form papers of the Virginia Journal of International Affairs are solely those of the author and do not reflect the opinions of the editors or the Journal.