Submitting a manuscript to the series
The Elements in Law, Economics and Politics series editors are accepting unsolicited submissions to the series.
Submission of a paper will be held to imply that it contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors who have submitted or published work that is similar or closely related to their submitted manuscript elsewhere at any point, including in published conference proceedings, must immediately notify the editors.
Please see Cambridge’s Preprint Policy for exceptions.
Unsolicited submissions to the series should be sent to the series editors in the first instance. Please email either a complete paper or a long abstract (max 1000 words) to the Managing Editor, Dr. Valentino Moscariello at LEPelements@gmail.com and the Editor in Chief, Professor Carmine Guerriero, at c.guerriero@unibo.it. Each submission will then be assessed by the entire group of Series Co-editors before it is formally submitted through the ‘ScholarOne’ online system. Following this, the peer review process will include review by two of the Series Co-editors, two Associate Editors and one external reviewer. Once accepted, submissions are published and available quickly (within three months)
All submissions to this Elements series must include a completed Author Questionnaire. Click below to download the questionnaire:
Checklist for Submission
Please read the following checklist and ensure that each item is completed before submitting your manuscript:
Practical instructions for submission
Please prepare your typescript text using a word-processing package (save in .doc or .rtf format) or TeX. Then save the entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a .pdf for online submission. If your article is accepted, you will be asked to provide the original TeX or word-processing and figure files.
Procedure after Submission
Articles submitted for review may be desk rejected by the editors upon initial submission if they do not satisfy the conditions outlined in the guidelines, including ethical standards and commitments to sharing data. Articles may also be desk rejected if they are evidently of insufficient academic quality or interest, or lie outside the scope of the Elements in Law, Politics and Economics series.
If a paper passes this preliminarily assessment, then normally it will be sent out to referees, to be considered under a double-blind review process. The series editors will make the final decision, taking account of the referee’s reports. The decision will normally be either:
(a) acceptance of the paper without further revision,
(b) acceptance subject to minor editorial revisions to be checked by the editor-in-chief
(c) conditional acceptance of the paper subject to revisions to be checked by the editors and not by referees
(d) a request for a substantially revised version that will be sent out again to the referees, or
(e) rejection without the option of resubmission.
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Cambridge Elements Author Guidelines
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