The Encyclopedia is designed in an innovative structure that combines four types of entries:

• Traditional Entries, or basic encyclopedic summaries of the knowledge in a typical area or field of study;
• Feature Entries, which include innovative analyses, reinterpretations, and human-interest essays that probe basic conceptual issues in the study and prevention of genocide.
• Features, which are similar to feature stories and reports of background information in newspapers, through which the reader will be exposed to more affective writing and information to accompany the basic traditional encyclopedic entry;
• Source Documents, which provide the verbatim texts of important and informative documents in the genesis of a genocide event, such as the verdict of the Turkish Military Court that at one point convicted the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide; the Protocol of the infamous Wannsee Conference in which the Nazis took their final formal decision to implement the Final Solution of the Holocaust; and the text of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.