INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

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Manuscript Submissions

The European Journal of Development Research is a refereed journal. Articles submitted to the EJDR should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication elsewhere at the same time. If a different version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission.

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The following guidelines need to be taken into account:

All submissions should conform to our style guidelines and be submitted online at The European Journal of Development Research’s Manuscript Central site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fedr.

New users should first create an account. If you have already submitted or reviewed for the Journal it is likely that you already have an account. Please check before trying to create a new one. Once you have logged onto the site, submissions should be made via your Author Centre. On-line assistance is provided via the “Get Help Now” button at the top right corner of every screen in the author centre.

Authors should prepare and upload two documents. The first should be a coversheet containing author names, affiliations and contact details. The second should contain the abstract and full article text; all information identifying the author(s) should be removed from this file to allow it to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the coversheet as “File not for review”, and the anonymous article file as “Main Document”. All graphics (tables, figures and all other illustrations) should be included at the end of the manuscript file after the notes.

  1. Articles should be formatted as A4 documents, double-spaced and with ample margins. All pages (including those containing only diagrams and tables) should be numbered consecutively.
  2. Articles may be submitted and subsequently published in English, French or Spanish. The EJDR does not provide copy editing facilities, and authors are responsible for making sure their articles meet an acceptable standard. If authors are not certain whether or not their text corresponds linguistically to international standards, they should present texts that have been language-edited by a native speaker of either French, Spanish or English. A spelling check and grammar check should be performed before sending manuscripts to the editors.
  3. Articles submitted should be no longer than 9000 words (inclusive of notes, references and any annexes including tables and figures). Authors should bear in mind that this limit also applies to papers accepted for publication. We thus highly recommend that some scope is left for possible revision following the refereeing process. Submissions over this limit will be send back to authors for shortening.
  4. The article should begin with an indented and italicised abstract of maximum 150 words, which should describe the main arguments and conclusions of the article.
  5. In addition to the abstract, authors are asked to give between five and eight keywords.
  6. Details of all authors’ institutional affiliations, their full addresses and other contact information (including email, fax, and telephone number) should be included on a separate coversheet. The corresponding author should be indicated. Any acknowledgements should be included on the coversheet, as should a note of the exact length of the article (including notes, references and biographical data)
  7. All diagrams, charts and graphs should be referred to as figures and consecutively numbered. Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. Each figure and table must be given an Arabic numeral, followed by a heading, and be referred to in the text. Please do not indicate where in the text they should be placed. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any material previously published elsewhere (including illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations). Sources should be credited in the accompanying captions.
  8. Notes should be numbered consecutively and placed at the end of the paper, before the reference section. Do not use footnotes, and do not use the foot/endnote macro in MS Word as this data is lost in the production process. Author acknowledgements should be provided separately on the cover page.
  9. All references cited in the paper should be listed in the reference section. Bibliographical references should be checked for accuracy.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their articles conform to the EJDR’s style guidelines. Manuscripts which do not observe the Journal’s presentational requirements will be returned.

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Nomination of Referees

The refereeing procedures for The European Journal of Development Research require authors to nominate two reviewers whom they regard as authorities competent to evaluate their work; as a means to ensuring fairness papers will be evaluated in a double blind process by two reviewers.

The reviewer nominations serve as a reference for the Editors. The reviewers chosen should be experts who have no relationship with the authors. If the authors decide to nominate reviewers with a past or present relationship, a declaration on the association must be made. The editors reserve the right to use neither, some or all of the nominations.

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Style guidelines

References in the text

In the text, refer to the author(s) names(s) (without initials, unless there are two authors with the same name) and year of publication. Et al should be used when citing works by more than two authors. Details of personal communications are included with the citation in the text, and not added to the reference list. Publications which have not yet appeared are given a probable year of publication and should be checked at proof stage on author query sheet.

Example:

Since Paterson (1983) has shown that… This is in results attained later (Kramer et al., 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 with et al to follow. References to material only 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. Et al should not be used in the reference list: give names of all the authors. Examples of correct forms of references for alphabetical style:

  • Papers in journal

  • Adam, C., Chambas, G., Guillaumont, P., Guillaumont Jeanneney, S., and Gunning, J.W. (2004) Performance-based conditionality: A European perspective. World Development 32(6): 1059–1070.

  • Otto, L. (1976) Social integration and the status-attainment process. The American Journal of Sociology 81(6): 1360–1383.

  • Schiller, N.G. and Levitt, P. (2004) Conceptualizing simultaneity: A transnational social field perspective on society. International Migration Review 38(3): 1002–1039.

  • Books

  • Carothers, T. (2006) Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment.

  • Jensen, E. and Heller, T. (eds.) (2003) Beyond Common Knowledge: Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

  • Kaplan, R.S. and Morton, D.P. (2001) The Strategy Focused Organization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

  • Chapters in books

  • Faist, T. (2004) The Border-Crossing Expansion of Social Space: Concepts, Questions and Topics. In: T. Faist and E. Özveren (eds) Transnational Social Spaces: Agents, Networks and Institutions. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, pp. 1–36.

  • Prime, P.B. (1994) China’s Economic Progress: Is it Sustainable? In: W. Joseph (ed.) China Briefing: The Contradictions of Change. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 51–78.

  • Conference papers (published)

  • Harley, N.H. (1981) Radon Risk Models. In: A.R. Knight and B. Harrad, (eds) Indoor Air and Human Health. Proceedings of the Seventh Life Sciences Symposium; 29–31 October, Knoxville, TN. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 69–78.

  • (unpublished)

  • Kohli, A. (2004) Politics of Economic Growth in India: 1980–2000. Paper presented at a conference on State Politics in India in the 1990s; 16–17 December, New Delhi, India.

  • Theses/dissertations

  • Young, W.R. (1981) Effects of different tree species on soil properties in central New York. MSc thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

  • Newspaper/magazine articles (with/without named author)

  • Webster, B. (2008) Record bonus for Network Rail chief, despite Christmas chaos. The Times, 6 June: p1.

  • Economist (2005) The mountain man and the surgeon. 24 December, pp. 24–26.

British spelling is preferred although any consistent spelling style is acceptable. The Harvard style of referencing should be used, which entails references in the text in the form (name, date), and a full alphabetical bibliography at the end of the text. Use single quotation marks with double within if needed.

If you have any questions about references or formatting your article, please contact r.pyne@palgrave.com.

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PDF

Corresponding authors will receive a copy of the journal and a PDF of their article. This PDF offprint is provided for personal use. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to pass the PDF offprint onto co-authors (if relevant) and ensure that they are aware of the conditions pertaining to its use.

The PDF must not be placed on a publicly-available website for general viewing, or otherwise distributed without seeking our permission, as this would contravene our copyright policy and potentially damage the journal’s circulation. Please visit http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/authors/rights_and_permissions.html to see our latest copyright policy.

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It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or licence the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts to EADI. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Palgrave Macmillan rights policies, which can be found at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/authors/rights_and_permissions.html. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources

The journal mandates the Copyright Clearance Center in the USA and the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK to offer centralised arrangements for photocopying in their respective territories.

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Back Issues

All back issues are held by our official stockists: Periodicals Service Company, 11 Main Street, Germantown, NY 12526, USA to whom all orders and enquiries should be addressed. Tel.: +1 518 537 4700; Fax: +1 518 537 5899

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Book Reviews

Books for review should be sent to:

Marina Della Giusta,
Department of Economics
University of Reading
PO Box 218 Whiteknights
RG6 6AA Reading,
UK

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Enquiries

General enquires can be addressed to the Journal Administrator, Barbara Coghlan, at barbara.coghlan@graduateinstitute.ch.