Maximum total length is 40 pages (about 10,000 words) with all elements in Times New Roman 12 type, double-spaced. This applies to all elements, including quotations, notes, bibliography, tables, appendixes, and any other materials. Manuscripts that exceed this length will be returned to the authors to be shortened. Margins should be 1 inch top and bottom, 1.25 inches left and right. Tables should be formatted as text in Microsoft Word table format. All notes and references should be double-spaced and in the same size type as the text. Endnotes are preferred. Please include the following information:
- An abstract, no longer that 150 words.
- Author's name, mailing address, phone, fax, and email. Names and institutional affiliations, including country, of all contributing authors are required.
- Author's ORCID number (click to register).
- A competing interest declaration on the first page of the manuscript.
Book Review essays: Maximum length is 25 pages in Times New Roman 12 type, double-spaced. Individual book reviews: 6 pages.
Authors are responsible for securing all permissions for reuse of copyrighted material. You can find guidance from Cambridge University Press here.
Please be sure to review the journal's ethical requirements here.
Style guide
Research articles
Maximum total length is 40 pages (about 10,000 words) with all elements in Times New Roman 12 type, double-spaced. This applies to all elements, including quotations, notes, bibliography, tables, appendixes, and any other materials. Manuscripts that exceed this length will be returned to the authors to be shortened.
Margins should be 1 inch top and bottom, 1.25 inches left and right.
Tables should be formatted as text in Microsoft Word table format.
Figures should be in separate files in jpg or tif format.
All notes and references should be double-spaced and in the same size type as the text. Endnotes are preferred.
Please include the following information:
- An abstract, up to 150 words.
- A few keywords following the abstract.
- Author's name, mailing address, phone, fax, and email; author's ORCID number; and a statement declaring that there is no conflict of interest in the publication of this manuscript.
Citations
This journal generally follows the Chicago Manual of Style author-date method of citation. See https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. Cite sources in parentheses in the text; in full entry in the reference list. A typical in-text citation would be:
(Furstenberg 2000, 108)
The corresponding reference list entry:
Furstenberg, George von. 2000. A Case Against U.S. Dollarization. Challenge 43, 4 (July): 108-23.
Cite newspaper articles and author interviews in the text and the reference list just like all other references. Example:
- Text: (El Mercurio 2006).
- Reference list: El Murcurio (Santiago). 2006. Esposa de Pinochet: "Si se equivocó pide perdón a la gente que cayó." August 8: 2.
If citing several articles from the same periodical from the same year, number them a, b, etc. by date.
If in doubt about citation form or content, consult an article in LAPS online.
Notes
Please use endnotes, not footnotes.
Do not cite references in notes. Cite them in parentheses in the main text and in complete entries in the reference list. (See above.)
Do not use ibid.; repeat the previous citation.
Do not use endnotes for a "literature review" of relevant titles.
Reference List
Make one comprehensive list, alphabetically by author, containing all references.
Include all sources cited in the main text and notes.
Make sure all citations mentioned in the text are also listed in the reference list. Any that do not match will be deleted in the copyediting.
Each reference should be complete enough for the reader to look up. Please include:
- Author's full name.
- Date of publication.
- Full titles of books (subtitles included).
- All authors' and editors' full names (et al. in text citation, but full in reference entry).
- Volume and number (if possible) for journals.
- Inclusive page numbers of articles and book chapters.
- City of publication for newspapers or URL of the article.
- Archive where a government document is housed.
- Date you accessed URLs.
Author Interviews
List interviews in the reference list by interview subject's last name; or group them in a separate list. Include the name and title of the person interviewed, city and date of interview.
If you cannot reveal the person's name, give some descriptive information, such as the person's title, organization, or occupation, to indicate why the person's opinion is significant. Example:
- María Teresa. 2006. Coordinator, Misión Ribas, La Vega Parroquia, Caracas. Author interview. Caracas, August 20.
The citation in the text would read: (María Teresa 2006).
References on Websites
Include the author's name; date the article was published; title of the work; title of website, publication, or listserv; and website address (URL), plus the date archived and the date accessed (in case item is no longer available on the website).
Research notes, Country notes, Policy Issues essays (opinion pieces), and Book Review essays
Maximum length is 25 pages in Times New Roman 12 type, double-spaced.
Individual book reviews
Maximum length is 6 pages.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.