manuscript submission

To have a manuscript considered by the RRPE Editorial Board, please send four copies to:

Hazel Dayton Gunn, Managing Editor, RRPE
Department of City and Regional Planning
106 W. Sibley Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
hg18@cornell.edu
phone: 315-789-1414
fax: 607-255-1971

Detailed “Instructions for Contributors” are found toward the end of printed copies of RRPE and reproduced below for convenience (and also available on the Sage website).

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Manuscripts should be no longer than 30 pages or 10,000 words.

1. Papers must be in English.

2. Papers for publication should be sent electronically in Microsoft Word for PCs format to hg18@cornell.edu and in quadruplicate to Hazel Dayton Gunn, Managing Editor, Department of City and Regional Planning, 106 W. Sibley Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; phone: (315) 789-1414. Manuscripts will not be returned. Submission of a paper will be held to imply that it contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. The Editor does not accept responsibility for damage or loss of papers submitted. Upon acceptance of an article, author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to The Union for Radical Political Economics. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.

3. Submission of accepted papers as electronic manuscripts, i.e., on disk with accompanying manuscript, is required. Electronic manuscripts have the advantage that there is no need for rekeying of text, thereby avoiding the possibility of introducing errors and resulting in reliable and fast delivery of proofs. The preferred storage medium is a 3.5-inch disk in Microsoft Word for PCs format. Please be sure that the file on the disk and the printout are identical. Please use a new and correctly formatted disk and label this with your name; also specify the software and hardware used as well as the title of the file to be processed. Ensure that the letter “I” and the digit “1” and the letter “O” and the digit “0” are used properly, and format your article (tabs, indents, etc.) consistently. Characters not available on your word processor (Greek letters, mathematical symbols, etc.) should not be left open but indicated by a unique code (e.g. gralpha, <alpha>, •, etc. for the Greek letter a). Such codes should be used consistently throughout the entire text; a list of codes used should accompany the electronic manuscript. Do not allow your word processor to introduce word breaks and do not use a justified layout. Please adhere strictly to the general instructions below on style, arrangement, and, in particular, the reference style of the journal.

4. Manuscripts should be double-spaced, with wide margins, and printed on one side of the paper only. All pages should be numbered consecutively. Titles and subtitles should be short. References, tables, and legends for the figures should be printed on separate pages.

5. The first page of the manuscript should contain the following information: (i) the title; (ii) the name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s); (iii) an abstract of 50-75 words; (iv) e-mail addresses of authors; (v) 3-5 key words; (vi) 2-3 Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes.

6. Footnotes should follow the text at the bottom on the page where the footnote occurs, and should include only material that cannot be included in the text. Footnotes are numbered consecutively throughout the text by superscript numerals. They should be double-spaced and not include displayed formulae or tables.

7. Displayed formulae should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript as (1), (2), etc. against the right-hand margin of the page. In cases where derivation of formulae has been abbreviated, it is of great help to the referees if the full derivation can be presented on a separate sheet (not to be published).

8. References to publications should be as follows: “Smith (1992) reported that…” or “This problem has been studied previously (e.g. Smith et al. 1969).” The author should make sure that there is a strict one-to-one correspondence between the names and years in the text and those on the list. The list of references should appear at the end of the main text (after any appendices, but before tables and legends for figures). It should be double-spaced and listed in alphabetical order by author’s name. References should appear as follows:

For books:
Hawawini, G., and I. Swary. 1990. Mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. banking industry: Evidence from the capital markets. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

For chapters in edited books:
Brunner, K., and A. H. Meltzer. 1990. Money supply. In Handbook of monetary economics, eds. B. M. Friedman and F. H. Hahn, Vol. 1, pp. 357-396, Amsterdam: North-Holland.

For journal articles:
Griffiths, W., and G. Judge. 1992. Testing and eliminating location vectors when the error covariance matrix is unknown. Journal of Econometrics 54: 121-138.

9. Illustrations will be reproduced photographically from originals supplied by the author; they will not be redrawn by the publisher. Please provide all illustrations in quadruplicate (one high-contrast original and three photocopies). Care should be taken that lettering and symbols are of a comparable size. The illustrations should not be inserted in the text, and should be marked on the back with figure number, title of paper, and author's name. All graphs and diagrams should be referred to as figures, and should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. Illustrations for papers submitted as electronic manuscripts should be in traditional form.

10. Tables should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals and printed on separate sheets.

11. Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. Proofs should be corrected carefully; the responsibility for detecting errors lies with the author. Corrections should be restricted to instances in which the proof is at variance with the manuscript. Extensive alternations will be charged.

Any manuscript which does not conform to the above instructions may be returned for the necessary revision before publication.