Information for Authors
Double-blind Review
For the purpose of double-blind review, we request that you remove all references to your paper and all downloadable versions from the Internet. If you are not able to remove them, this will not affect the processing of your paper, but it does mean that the ERAE is not able to guarantee you a double-blind review.
Submissions
Manuscripts should be submitted through the website:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/erae
Online submission instructions
• Note: Before you begin, you should be sure you are using an up-to-date version of Netscape or Internet Explorer. If you have an earlier version, you can download a free upgrade using the icons found at the bottom of the 'Instructions and Forms' section of the online submission web site.
• First, you will need to log into the online submission site.
o If you know your login details (i.e., you have submitted or reviewed a manuscript in this journal before), use your User ID and Password to log on. (Your user ID will usually be your email address.)
o If you do not know your login details, check to see if you are already registered by clicking on the 'Forgot your password' button and following the on-screen instructions. If you are not already registered, you can register by clicking on the 'Create account' button on the login screen and following the on-screen instructions.
oIf you have trouble finding your manuscripts or have other problems with your account, do not create another account. Instead, please contact the journal's editorial office.
• To submit a new manuscript, go to the 'Author Centre', and click on “Click here to submit a new manuscript', and then follow the on-screen instructions. There are up to 7 steps for you to follow to submit your manuscript. You move from one step to the next by clicking on the 'Next' button on each screen or back to the previous screen by clicking on the 'Previous' button. Please note that if you click on the 'Back' or 'Forward' buttons on your browser, the information you have entered will not be saved. At any stage you can stop the submission process by clicking on the 'Main Menu' button. Everything you have typed into the system will be saved, and the partially completed submission will appear under 'unsubmitted manuscripts' in your 'Author Centre'. To return to the submission process you will need to click on the button 'Continue Submission' against the relevant manuscript title.
• When submitting your manuscript, please enter your manuscript data into the relevant fields, following the detailed instructions at the top of each page. You may like to have the original word-processing file available so you can copy and paste the title and abstract into the required fields. You will also be required to provide email addresses for your co-authors, so please have these to hand when you log onto the site.
• When you come to upload your manuscript files via the 'File Upload' screen:
o Enter individual files using the 'Browse' buttons and select the appropriate 'File type’ from the pull-down menu. The choices may vary from journal to journal but will always include a 'Main Document' (your manuscript text).
o Upload your files by clicking on the 'Upload files' button. This may take several minutes. Click on the SAVE button to confirm the upload. Repeat these steps until you have uploaded all your files.
o If you have uploaded any figures or tables you will be prompted to provide figure/table captions and 'file tags' that will link figures to text in the HTML proof of your main document.
o Once you have uploaded all your files, indicate the order in which they should appear in your paper. This will determine the order in which they appear in the consolidated PDF used for peer review.
o After the successful upload of your text and images, you will need to view and proofread your manuscript. Please do this by clicking on the blue HTML button or a PDF button.
o If the files have not been uploaded to your satisfaction, go back to the file upload screen where you can remove the files you do not want and repeat the process.
• When you are satisfied with the uploaded manuscript proof click on 'Next' which will take you to the 'Review & Submit' screen. The system will check that you have completed all the mandatory fields and that you have viewed your manuscript proof. It will also present you with a summary of all the information you have provided and give you a final chance to edit it. If there is a red cross next to any section this will indicate that not all the fields have been filled in correctly. You may either go back to the relevant page or click the nearest ‘edit’ button.
• When you have finished reviewing this information press 'Submit'.
• After the manuscript has been submitted you will see a confirmation screen and receive an email confirmation stating that your manuscript has been successfully submitted. This will also give the assigned manuscript number, which is used in all correspondence during peer review. If you do not receive this, your manuscript will not have been successfully submitted to the journal and the paper cannot progress to peer review. If this is the case your manuscript will still be sitting in the 'Unsubmitted Manuscripts' section of your 'Author Centre' awaiting your attention.
• If you return to your 'Author Centre' you will notice that your newly submitted manuscript can be found in the 'Submitted Manuscripts' area. The ‘Status' section provides information on the status of your manuscript as it moves through the review process.
Language Editing
Particularly if English is not your first language, before submitting your manuscript you may wish to have it edited for language. This is not a mandatory step, but may help to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. If you would like information about one such service please click here. There are other specialist language editing companies that offer similar services and you can also use any of these. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.
Submitting a Revised Manuscript
• Log on to the online submission web site as before and, in the 'Author Centre', click on 'Manuscripts with Decisions'. At the bottom of the screen you will see those manuscripts that require a revision (or that have been revised). Create a revision of this manuscript by clicking on 'create a revision' under Actions. You will now be able to see the editor and reviewer comments and will be able to respond to these.
• You will need to upload the files that constitute your revised manuscript. To facilitate the production process, it is essential that you upload your revised manuscript as a .doc, .rtf, or .tex file, and not in .pdf format. If you wish to finish this another time, you will find the manuscript in your 'Revised manuscripts in draft' list.
• If you click on 'View comments/respond' you will see the editor's letter to you together with the referees' comments. You may cut and paste your responses into the text areas at the bottom of the screen.
IMPORTANT. Your images are required as high-resolution .tif files (1200 d.p.i. for line drawings and 300 d.p.i. for colour and half-tone artwork). For useful information on preparing your figures for publication, go to http://dx.sherdian.com/onl. Please note that publication of your manuscript will not proceed until figures suitable for reproduction are received.
Editor:
Dr Alison Burrell
Department of Agricultural Economics & Policy
Wageningen University
Hollandseweg 1
6706 KN Wageningen
The Netherlands
tel: +31 3174 82049
fax: +31 3174 84763
e-mail: Alison.Burrell@wur.nl
Thomas Heckelei
Institute of Agricultural Policy
University of Bonn
Nussallee 21
D-53115 Bonn,
Germany
tel: +49-228-732331/32
fax: +49-228-734693
e-mail: thomas.heckelei@ilr.uni-bonn.de
Paolo Sckokai
Istituto di Economia Agroalimentare
Universita' Cattolica
Via Emilia Parmense, 84
29100 Piacenza
Italy
tel: +39-0523-599290
fax: +39-0523-599282
e-mail: paolo.sckokai@unicatt.it
Book review editor:
Yves Surry
Department of Economics
Swedish Agricultural University (SLU)
Box 7013
750 07 Uppsala
Sweden
Tel: +46 1867 1795
Fax: +46 1867 3502
Email: yves.surry@ekon.slu.se
Editorial Board: A list of Editorial Board members can be found on the inside cover the journal.
Refereeing process. New submissions are sent to three independent, anonymous reviewers, selected by Editorial Board members and the Editor, for judgement on their appropriateness for publication in the Review. The recommendations of the refereeing panel are made known to the authors by the Editor. Revised articles should be sent directly to the Editor in the same way as first submissions. When an article has been accepted, the Editor will inform the author(s)in which issue of the Review it will be published. On submission, an article receives a manuscript number. This number should be quoted in all corrrespondence relating to the article.
Proofs. PDF proofs are sent to authors for proof reading and correction directly by the publisher and a date for return of proofs will be given; corrections arriving after the stated date will only be incorporated if time is available in the production schedule.
Length. Articles should not exceed 8,000 words, or word-equivalents, including abstract, tables, figures, and graphs. Shorter articles will also be considered. In assessing the contribution of tables and figures to the length of an article, note that a printed Review page contains about 475 words.
Presentation and layout. An abstract of no more than 100 words should precede the text of the article. The abstract should give a clear idea of the main conclusions of the article, the methods employed and some indication of the line of reasoning. Provide a maximum of five key words below the abstract.
General acknowledgements and background information to the article, such as sponsoring bodies of the research project, should appear as a footnote on the first page of the manuscript. The name and affiliation of the author(s) should be given on the first page only to protect their anonymity in the reviewing process.
Manuscripts should be divided into sections, each with number and section heading. Use no more than three grades of headings. Footnotes should appear at the end of the page in which they are inserted. Collect references, tables and figures, in that order, at the end of the manuscripts.
A translation of all foreign words should be included in parentheses, and acronyms should be spelt out in full in parentheses at their first appearance. Use single quotation marks and British English spelling throughout.
Use only essential mathematical notations and number formulae consecutively. References are cited in the text by giving the name of the author/editor, year of pucliation and - in the case of quotatons or an exact reference - the page number, all in parentheses (Swinnen, 1997: 12) or (Zeller et al., 1997). Postscript multiple
Book Swinnen, J. F. M. (ed.) (1997). Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
Article in a book Steenkamp, J.-B. E. M. (1997). Dynamics in consumer behaviour with respect to agricultural and food products. In Wieringa, B., Tilburg, A. van, Grunert, K., Steenkamp, J.-B. E. M. and Wedel, M. (eds), Agricultural Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in a Changing World. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 143-188.
Article in a journal Monier-Dilhan, S. and Ossard, H. (1998). Producers' loss due to asymmetric information: An application to a specific case. European Review of Agricultural Economics 25: 155-169.
Dissertations, reports, conference papers Zeller, M., Schrieder, G., Braun, J. von and Heidhues, F. (1997). Rural Finance for Food Security for the Poor: Implications for Research and Policy. Food Policy Review 4, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Washington DC: IFPRI.
Tables should be numbered consecutively and their position in the text must be indicated. When submitting tables, consideration should be given to the limits imposed by the journal page size. Tables spread across double pages are difficult to read and typeset. Avoid vertical lines. Computer printouts are not acceptable. Type table column headings with an initial capital only.
Number figures consecutively and indicate their position in the text. Reproducible originals (camera-ready copy) of line drawings should be submitted. Type captions with an initial capital only.
The URL will be made available to the corresponding author free of charge upon publication of a paper. Additional offprints may be ordered, but they must be ordered prior to printing on the form provided with proofs. It is important to keep the editor and/or the publisher informed of your current postal and e-mail addresses, and your telephone number.
Please note: Orders from the UK will be subject to a 17.5% VAT charge. For orders from elsewhere in the EU you or your institution should account for VAT by way of a reverse charge. Please provide us with your or your institution’s VAT number.
Author Self-Archiving/Public Access policy
For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.