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The Acquisition Review Quarterly (ARQ) is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal published by the Defense Acquisition University (DAU). All submissions receive a blind review to ensure impartial evaluation.
IN GENERAL
We encourage prospective authors to co-author with others to add depth to their submissions. It is recommended that a mentor be selected who has published before or has expertise in the subject presented in the manuscript.
Authors should become familiar with the construction of previous ARQs and adhere to the use of endnotes versus footnotes, formatting of bibliographies, and the use of designated style guides. It is also the responsibility of the corresponding author to furnish government agency/employer clearance with each submission.
SUBMISSIOMS
We welcome submissions from anyone involved in the defense acquisition process. Defense acquisition is defined as the conceptualization, initiation, design, development, testing, contracting, production, deployment, logistic support, modification, and disposal of weapons and other systems, supplies, or services needed by the Defense Department, or intended for use to support military missions.
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Manuscripts should reflect research or empirically supported experience in one or more of the aforementioned areas of acquisition. Research, lessons learned or tutorial articles should not exceed 4,500 words. Opinion articles should be limited to 1,500 words.
Research articles are characterized by a systematic inquiry into a subject to discover/revise facts or theories.
MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS
A brief abstract provides a comprehensive summary of the article and must accompany your submission. Abstracts give readers the opportunity to quickly review an articles' content and also allow information services to index and retrieve articles.
The introduction, which should not be labeled, opens the body of the paper and states the problem being studied and the rationale for the research undertaken.
The methods section should include a detailed methodology that clearly describes work performed. Although it is appropriate to refer to previous publications in this section, the author should provide enough information so that the experienced reader need not read earlier works to gain an understanding of the methodology.
The results section should...