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Guidelines for authors

PLEASE NOTE: SIMPLIFIED SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

In order to reduce the time and effort necessary to prepare and upload a submission, we have relaxed the formal requirements (e.g. style of citations and references; separate file for each table or figure) for the initial submission. At this stage we ask only for the uploading of
• a title page (required content see below) and
• an anonymized manuscript file (preferably in Word).

But once a manuscript has received a decision of ‘accept’, ‘conditional accept’ or ‘revise and resubmit’, the revised or final version must adhere strictly to SER requirements as outlined in detail below.

All material to be considered for publication in Socio-Economic Review should be in electronic form via the journal's online submission and review system.

Peer review is anonymous and we therefore ask you to submit a title page separate from the manuscript. The title page should contain the title, authors' names and address, acknowledgements and word count. The main document should be kept anonymous and contain title, abstract, SER keywords, JEL classification and main body of the document. Please refrain from any self-citations such as "authors' own" etc. in both text, footnotes and bibliography.

Details on how to submit online and how to upload the manuscripts are given in the online submission instructions. But, please, read our guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts first.

LICENCE TO PUBLISH

It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to Oxford University Press and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the licence agreement, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged in writing as the original place of publication and Oxford University Press as the publisher. The form can be downloaded from the following link: licence to publish form

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

  • The maximum length of articles including references, notes and abstract is 10,000, and the minimum length is 6,000 words.
  • Articles must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 150 words.
  • Articles must be accompanied by SER keywords (up to 6) and JEL classification (up to 3). Please add the respective JEL keywords to the descriptors.
    - For the link to the SER keyword list please click here.
    - The JEL classification can be found at http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/jel_class_system.html.
  • The main document has to be anonymous and should contain title, abstract, SER keywords, JEL classification and the main body of the document - strictly avoiding self-references. Please, prepare your manuscript text using a Word processing package (save and submit in .doc or .rtf format). Files must not be supplied in PDF format. Manuscripts should be one and a half-spaced, including text in tables, legends and references.
  • The author's name, institutional affiliation, and full contact details (postal, phone, fax, and e-mail), acknowledgements and a word count should be supplied on the title page which has to be uploaded as a separate file.
  • Authors should pay particular attention to the accuracy and correct presentation of citations and references in the text as well as in the reference list at the end of the manuscript. For examples please click here.
  • If you are using Endnote as a bibliographical and citation programme you may download the "style" which approximates SER requirements. Please note that by using this style your reference list will only correspond to the SER requirements as far as the Endnote programme allows. If necessary, please adapt your reference list manually. Please download our Endnote style here.
  • Footnotes should be kept to a minimum. They should be indicated in the text by superscript figures and collected at the end of the article in numerical order (Arabic numerals). If you use the Word programme choose: Footnotes as endnotes.
  • Illustrations and tables must be electronic and each one has to be provided in an individual file so that they can be uploaded separately in the online submission procedure. They should be numbered in Arabic numerals and should be referred to in the text (indicate location by mentioning table or figure number and title). They should be comprehensible without reading the text, and the source has to be cited correctly. Although Word, Excel, PDF and jpeg files are acceptable, the preferred file formats are high-resolution tif-files (1200 d.p.i. for line drawings and 300 d.p.i. for half-tone artwork). Since figure files cannot be altered, titles and additional descriptions under or above an illustration should not be included in the figure file but in the text of the article. For useful information on preparing your figures for publication, go to http://dx.sheridan.com/onl. Please note that publication of your manuscript will not proceed until figures suitable for reproduction are received. Please also see 'Permission information' below regarding use of illustrations already published elsewhere.

Important: Before submitting your manuscript electronically you should have the following types of files ready:

  • 1 title page with author(s) information - if applicable, acknowledgements - and word count;
  • 1 anonymous text file without this title page and without other information allowing to identify the author(s), including the abstract (maximum 150 words) below the title and SER keywords as well as JEL classification following the abstract;
  • 1 separate file for each figure and for each table; it helps to list them in the order in which they appear in the ms as they have to be uploaded exactly in this order in the online submission procedure.
    The text file must not contain the tables and figures.

Papers submitted to this journal which do not adhere to these Guidelines for Authors or the Online Submission Instructions will be returned for appropriate revision to be in line with these Guidelines. They may then be re-submitted.

PROOFS

Proofs will be sent to the first named or corresponding author only. In the case of joint authors, please ensure amendments are returned from this author only. Page proofs will be sent to the author responsible for checking them as a PDF file. Corrected proofs should be returned within three days of receipt. All misprints should be corrected, but the author is asked to refrain from making any other alterations. Such alterations may be disallowed and where they are allowed the author may be held responsible for the cost of making them.

AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Conflict of interest 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].

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.

PRE-PUBLICATION POLICY

Socio-Economic Review 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).

PERMISSIONS INFORMATION

If illustrations or figures are to be duplicated from previously published work, written permission must be obtained both from the publisher and the author, and a credit line giving the source added to the relevant Figure Legend. If text material (250 to 300 words) is to be reproduced from published sources, written permission is required from both publisher and author. For shorter quotations, it is sufficient to add a bibliographic credit. The Letters containing the permission for the reproduction of either text or illustrations must accompany the manuscript. If you have been unable to obtain permission, please indicate this.