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The Journal of Economic Geography seeks to redefine and reinvigorate the links between the disciplines of economics and geography. It aims to publish original academic research, critical surveys, and discussion of the highest scholarly standard in the field of 'economic geography' broadly defined. Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of their creativity, quality of scholarship, and contribution to advancing understanding of the geographic nature of economic systems and global economic change.

Submitted manuscripts must be original, unpublished contributions. They must not be concurrently on offer to any other publication. Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if it is accepted for publication copyright of the article will be assigned to Oxford University Press.

The corresponding author will receive the URL of the article free of charge to distribute in place of offprints, with an option to buy offprints at reasonable prices.

The Editors' decision is final.

Manuscripts must be submitted online via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/joeg

Manuscripts should be no longer than 8000 words and should be written in English. They should be prefaced by a short abstract of no more than 100 words, followed by four keywords and JEL codes suitable for indexing and classification purposes. Manuscripts will not normally be returned to authors.

The Journal uses a blind refereeing system. Hence the name and affiliation of the author(s) should appear only on the title page. In the case of multiple authors, the submission should nominate one author as the point of contact for the Editors and provide full details (including e-mail and fax) of an address for correspondence.

Revised and accepted manuscripts must be submitted in the house-style of the Journal (see a recent issue), on one side only of A4 or US letter-size paper, double spaced (including footnotes and references), with a wide margin, and with the pages numbered. Avoid excessive use of footnotes. Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript, should be attached on separate sheets at the end of the manuscript, and their approximate position indicated in the text. Citations in the text should use the Harvard System of short references, for example, Clark (1999) or (Clark, 1999), followed by a, b, ... when two or more references to work by one author are given for the same year, e.g. (Clark, 1999a, 1999b). Page numbers should be given in the case of quotations, e.g. (Clark, 1999b, 186-92). At the end of the text a full listing of references in alphabetical order should be provided in the following style:

Clark, G.L., Feldman, M., Gertler, M.S. (2000) Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Martin, R.L. (1999), The new 'geographical turn' in economics: some critical reflections, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 23: 65-91

The Economist (1999) Knowing your place. The Economist, 13 March, 130.

Venables, A. (1997) Trade liberalization and factor mobility. Discussion Paper 352, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics.

Howard, E., Dragun, D. (2002) Retailer internationalisation and the VIP project, Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Retail Conference 2002, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 30 October–2 November, pp. 22–35.

Authors are asked to keep in mind that the Journal is cross-disciplinary and that the mathematical training of its readers is varied. On the one hand, attempting to express a mathematical argument exclusively in words is counterproductive. On the other, through good exposition (eg, using lemmas for intermediate technical results, separating proofs from explanation, putting routine proofs and algebra in technical appendices) it should always be possible to make the central results and the line of argument intelligible to the general reader.

Authors are expected to correct proofs quickly and to make no revision to proofs. The Press reserves the right to charge authors for revisions made to proofs.

Colour Figures
The Journal of Economic Geography is happy to announce the launch of the Flexible Colour Option, beginning for all articles accepted after September 2009. All figures submitted to the journal in colour will be published in colour online at no cost (unless the author specifically requests that their figures be in black and white online). Authors may choose to also publish their figures in colour in the print journal for £350 per figure: you will be asked to approve this cost in an email after your article is accepted for publication. Colour figures must have a resolution of at least 300 dots per inch at their final sizes. You will be issued an invoice at the time of publication. Figure legends must be suitably worded to apply to both the print and online versions of the article.

Figures and Tables should be submitted in their final form.

Book Reviews
The Journal of Economic Geography also reviews selected books in the field of 'economic geography' broadly defined. Potential books for review by the Journal should be sent to the Book Review Editor listed in the most recent issue of the journal, or to Oxford University Press marked for review by the Journal of Economic Geography.

Author Self-Archiving/Public Access policy from May 2005
For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.

Funding
Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.

The following rules should be followed:

• The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
• The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’
• Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
• Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
• Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.

An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].’

Journal of Economic Geography authors have the option, at an additional charge, to make their paper freely available online immediately upon publication, under the Oxford Open initiative. After your manuscript is accepted, as part of the mandatory licence form required of all corresponding authors, you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay to have your paper made freely available immediately. If you do not select the Open Access option, your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will not be charged.

For those selecting the Open Access option, the charges for Journal of Economic Geography vary depending on the institution at which the Corresponding author is based:

Optional Oxford Open charges:
For a Corresponding author based at an institution with an online subscription to Journal of Economic Geography:
Regular charge - £900 / $1800 / €1350
List B developing country charge** - £450 / $900 / €675
List A developing country charge** - £0 / $0 / €0

For a Corresponding author based at an institution that does not subscribe to the online journal:
Regular charge - £1500 / $3000 / €2250
List B developing country charge** - £750 / $1500 / €1125
List A developing country charge** - £0 /$0 / €0

*Visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/devel/ for list of qualifying countries.

The above Open Access charges are in addition to any page charges and colour charges that might apply.

If you choose the Open Access option you will also be asked to complete an Open Access charge form online. You will be automatically directed to the appropriate version of the form depending on whether you are based at an institution with an online subscription to Journal of Economic Geography. Therefore please make sure that you are using an institutional computer when accessing the form. To check whether you are based at a subscribing institution please use the Subscriber Test link for the Journal of Economic Geography.

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PRE-PUBLICATION POLICY

The Journal of Economic Geography does not accept papers that have been previously published elsewhere with the exception of working papers series. The Journal’s policy regarding working paper series is:

1. Pre-publication in working paper series is allowed where submission to the working paper series is prior to acceptance by the Journal.

2. The working paper version may remain online after publication in the Journal.

3. The working paper version should NOT be updated after acceptance by the Journal.

4. Authors are requested to append the appropriate citation to the working paper version on acceptance by the Journal (if the working paper series allows this).

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.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY

Editors
A paper submitted by one of the Editors will be handled by another Editor who is not at the same institution in consultation with one of the Associate Editors. The other Editor will select referees and make all decisions on the paper. The decision process will be handled in such a way that the submitting Editor does not have access to information or correspondence relating to the submission.

Submission by author at same institution as an Editor
A paper submitted by an author who is at the same institution as one of the Editors will be handled by one of the other Editors who is not at that institution in consultation with one of the Associate Editors as appropriate. The Editor who is at the same institution as the author may suggest referees if the paper is in his/her own discipline, but will not select referees or make any decisions on the paper.

Submission by family member of Editor or by author whose relationship with Editor might create the perception of bias
If a paper is submitted by a family member of one of the Editors, or by an author whose relationship with one of the Editors might create the perception of bias (e.g. in terms of close friendship or conflict/rivalry), the Editor will declare a conflict of interest and the paper will be handled by one of the other Editors in consultation with one of the Associate Editors as appropriate. The Editor who has declared a conflict of interest will not be involved in selecting referees or making any decisions on the paper.

General policy
If an Editor feels that there is likely to be a perception of a conflict of interest in relation to their handling of a submission, they will declare it to the other Editors, and the paper will be handled in the same way as described above.

Referees
Potential conflict of interest for referee
The invitation letter to referees will include the following wording: ‘If you feel there is a potential conflict of interest in your refereeing this paper, please declare it. By accepting this invitation, it is assumed there is no such conflict of interest.’ Standard policy will be not to use a referee if a conflict of interest has been declared, but the Editors may use their discretion.

Authors
Sources of funding
On acceptance, authors will be asked to provide a statement declaring all sources of funding relating to their paper, and the statement will be printed on the title page or at the end of their paper.

Review Editor
Sending Review Editor’s own book out for review
In the case of the Review Editor’s own books, one of the Editors who is not at the same institution as the Review Editor will handle the process, including the initial decision as to whether the book should be reviewed, the choice of reviewer and the decision whether to accept the review for publication. The process will be handled in such a way that the Review Editor does not have access to information or correspondence relating to the review.

Book reviewers
Potential conflict of interest for book reviewer
The invitation letter to reviewers should include the following wording: ‘If you feel there is a potential conflict of interest in your reviewing this book, please declare it. By accepting this invitation, it is assumed there is no potential conflict of interest.’ Standard policy will be not to use a reviewer if a conflict of interest has been declared, but the Review Editor may use his/her discretion after consulting with the Editors.