INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

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Submission of papers

Authors should send their contributions as e-mail attachments to the Editorial office: eps@salford.ac.uk

Informal enquiries are welcome, and should be addressed to the Editors: Jim Newell and Martin Bull.

Commissioned review articles and book reviews should be sent directly to the Editor of the Reviews issue: Peter Kennealy.

Files should be in Word or rich text format. Authors should retain one copy of their article on file. Authors should confirm at this point that their article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

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Presentation of the paper

Articles should be in English, typed in double spacing (including all notes and references), with pages numbered.

Articles should not normally exceed 7,000 words in length. Shorter articles, including research notes and comments, are welcome. Review articles should normally be no more than 5,000 words in length. Book reviews should normally be between 800 and 1,500 words.

The first page of the typescript should bear the title of the paper together with the name and institutional affiliation of all authors. Give authors' full postal and e-mail addresses as well as telephone and fax numbers. A short biography of no more than 50 words outlining institutional affiliation, principal publications and research interests, should be provided for each author and should follow the references.

The second page of the typescript should repeat the title, followed by an abstract of no more than 75 words, a list of up to 4 keywords suitable for indexing and web searching (not required for book reviews) and a running title for the article.

Review articles and book reviews should also contain the bibliographic details of the book(s) being reviewed in the following format:
Title: subtitle
Name Surname (Publisher, Year of Publication) Number of pages, ISBN

Example:
The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society Geoffrey Brennan and Philip Pettit (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), 339 pp., 0199246483

Only main headings and sub-headings should be used in the main body of the text.

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

The reference list should follow the notes at the end of the manuscript in Harvard (name and date) format. In the text, refer to the author name (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.

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.

Review articles and book reviews should not list the books under review but should list any other publications referred to in the text. Refer to books under review by their title in italics and to the authors under review by surname. For all other works referred to in the text, refer to the authors surname and year of publication.

  • Example:

    In Economy of Esteem Brennan and Pettit develop fully an argument first sketched out in Pettit (1990) and Brennan and Pettit (1991)...

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.
    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

    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 1981; Knoxville, USA. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 69-78.

  • 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.

  • Website

    Food and Drug Administration (2003) Pharmaceutical cGMPs for the 21st Century - A Risk Based Approach, available at http://www.fda.gov/oc/guidance/gmp.html, accessed 8 November 2003.

  • Quotations

    When quoting directly, single quotation marks should be used. Any quotations over 5 lines in length should remove the quotation marks and be indented both left and right.

Other style notes

Spelling: use UK spelling and punctuation. Use ~ise/~isation/~ising throughout.

Use full points after abbreviations (e.g., i.e., etc.) but not after units of measurement or contractions (kg vols eds).

Numbers: spell out numbers (whether ordinal or cardinal) below 100. Exceptions: a series of numbers appearing close together; numbers giving exact measurements or with abbreviated units of measurement such as 7 kg, 15.8 mm; in usual cases like 5.00 p.m. (but five o'clock); phrases involving hundreds, thousands, millions etc. where round numbers are given (e.g. two hundred, fifteen thousand); per cent (not percent); use % only in tables.

Dates: use the style, 31 January 1984; use 1930s, not thirties, 30s or '30s.

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Illustrations and tables

Supply tables and figures as separate files to the main body of text in either Tiff or Jpeg format. Their position within the text should be clearly indicated on the page where they are introduced. Provide typed captions for figures and plates (including sources and acknowledgements) on a separate sheet.

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.

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Editing

The editors retain the right to make minor stylistic changes to the finally accepted typescript. Any substantial changes will, of course, be referred back to the author.

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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 ECPR, 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.

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Books for review

Books for review should be sent to:

  • Peter Kennealy European University Institute
    Badia Fiesolana
    Via dei Roccettini 9
    I-50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI)
    Italy
    E-mail: Peter.Kennealy@IUE.it