INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Top of pageSubmission of manuscripts
Manuscripts should be submitted to cep@palgrave.com in Word format. The title page should be a separate file, or may be included in the covering e-mail.
In extreme circumstances we will accept paper submissions, but this may considerably delay the review of the paper. Authors should submit 3 copies of their article (with any original illustrations and including all references and notes) to:
- In North America: Professor Martin A. Schain, Editor - Professor Martin A. Schain, Editor - Comparative European Politics, Center for European Studies, New York University, 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor, New York, NY 10003, USA.
- In Rest of World: Professor Colin Hay, Editor - Comparative European Politics, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield S10 2TU, UK
Authors should confirm at point of submission that their article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Comparative European Politics publishes review essays, not individual book reviews. Individuals interested in writing review essays should send inquiries or full proposals (a short abstract describing the theme of the essay plus bibliographic information on the works to be reviewed - please select no more than three recently published books) to David J. Bailey, POLSIS, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK d.j.bailey@bham.ac.uk
Top of pagePresentation of the paper
Articles should be in English, typed in double spacing (including all notes and references). Articles should not normally exceed 8,000 words in length. Print a word count at the end of the text, together with the date of the manuscript. Provide an abstract of 150-200 words with the article, plus a list of up to 6 keywords suitable for indexing and abstracting services. Give authors’ full postal and e-mail addresses as well as telephone and fax numbers.
On acceptance of an article authors are requested to send an electronic version of their article on disk, preferably as a Word file. It is important that your manuscript should be an exact printout of what is on the disk.
Notes
Keep textual notes to a minimum, indicate them with superscript numbers, and provide the note text as a list at the end of the article before the references. Please do not use footnotes.
References in the text
In the text, refer to the author(s) name(s) (without initials, unless there are two authors with the same name) and year of publication. Unpublished data and personal communications should include initials and year. Publications which have not yet appeared are given a probable year of publication and should be checked at proof stage on author query sheet.
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Example:
Since Paterson (1983) has shown that ... This is in results attained later (Kramer, 1984, 16). Results have been reported (Robinson, 1989, personal communication) which suggest ....
Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with a, b, c (e.g. 1974a, 1990b) closed up to the year. If there are two authors for a publication, put both names separated by 'and' (not &). If there are more than two authors, put the name of the first author followed by et al. References to material on the internet must be given in brackets in the text, not in the reference list. The full URL must be given.
Example:
www.nature.com/onc/v18/n1/1234567.html
List of references
References are placed in alphabetical order of authors. Examples of correct forms of references for alphabetical style:
Paper in journal
Higgott, R. (1998) The Asian economic crisis: a study in the politics of resentment', New Political Economy 3(3): 333-336.
Blinder, A.S. and Solow, R.M. (1970) 'Analytical foundations of fiscal policy', Journal of Finance XXV: 47-54.
Bender, J., Bloggs, B. and Swistak, P. (1997) 'The evolutionary stability in cooperation', American Political Science Review 91(3): 290-297.Book
Giddens, A. (1990) The Consequences of Modernity, Cambridge: Polity.
Kay, J., Mayer, C. and Thompson, D. (1986) Privatization and Regulation, Oxford:Clarendon Press, pp. 105-129.
Brown, C. (ed.) (1994) Political restructuring in Europe: Ethical Perspectives, London: Routledge.Chapter in book
Hook, G.D. (1998) 'Japanese Business in Triadic Globalization', in H. Hasegawa and G.D. Hook (eds.) Japanese Business Management: Restructuring for Low Growth and Globalization, London: Routledge, pp. 19-38.
Conference paper
Altenstetter, C. (2001) 'Multi-level implementation networks: The case of medical devices and patient care'; Seventh Biennial Conference of the European Community Studies Association (US), Madison, Wisconsin, 31 May-2 June.
Thesis
Zito, A. (1994) 'Epistemic communities in European policy-making' Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.
Newspaper article
Barber, L.(1993) 'The towering bureaucracy', Financial Times, 21 June.
Spelling
Use either US or UK spellings consistently throughout. For UK spellings, take as a guide the new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors; Websters Collegiate for US spellings. UK spellings will therefore prefer '-ize' to '-ise', as a verb ending (e.g. realize, specialize, recognize, etc.).
Illustrations and tables
Supply tables, figures and plates on separate sheets at the end of the article, with their position within the text clearly indicated on the page where they are introduced. Provide typed captions for figures and plates (including sources and acknowledgements) on a separate sheet. Electronic versions should be saved in separate files to the main body of text and should be saved in either Tiff or Jpeg format.
Present tables with the minimum use of horizontal rules (usually three are sufficient) and avoiding vertical rules except in matrices. It is important to provide clear copies of figures (not photocopies or faxes) which can be reproduced by the printer and do not require redrawing. Photographs should be preferably black and white glossy prints with a wide tonal range.
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The corresponding author will be sent an email containing a link to an online PDF proof of the article. Please print a copy of the PDF proof, correct within the time period indicated and return as directed. Please make no revisions to the final, edited text, except where the copy-editor has requested clarification.
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A copy of the printed journal and article offprints (25, to be shared with co-authors) are dispatched to authors shortly after publication.
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Clearing Permissions
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing through any medium of communication those illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Add your acknowledgements to the typescript, preferably in the form of an Acknowledgements section at the end of the paper. Credit the source and copyright of photographs or figures in the accompanying captions.
The journal's policy is to own copyright in all contributions. Before publication authors assign copyright to the Publishers, but retain their rights to republish this material in other works written or edited by themselves subject to full acknowledgement of the original source of publication.
The journal mandates the Copyright Clearance Center in the USA and the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK to offer centralised licensing arrangements for photocopying in their respective territories.
