The Economic Journal

Published on behalf of the Royal Economic Society

Edited by:
Antonio Ciccone, Steve Machin (Features Editor), David Myatt, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Andrew Scott (Managing Editor)

Print ISSN: 0013-0133
Online ISSN: 1468-0297
Frequency: Nine times a year
Current Volume: 120 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 24/209 Economics
Impact Factor: 1.798

TopAuthor Guidelines

Submissions to the Economic Journal should be made online using the following link:

http://editorialexpress.com/ej

Submission is free to members of the Royal Economic Society. Non-members who wish to submit a paper must join the Society: for details on joining, click on "Membership" and see information.

Send Us your Past Reports
To improve speed and quality of decisions we encourage authors when submitting to us to include editors letters and referee reports from failed submissions at other journals. We of course reserve the right to use our own referees and provide our referees with copies of this correspondence but believe this step will be attractive to authors and further speed up the submission process.

Submissions should be addressed to:

The Managing Editor
Professor Andrew Scott
The Economic Journal
London Business School
Sussex Place
Regent's Park
London NW1 4SA
UK

For enquiries regarding submissions, please contact:

Publishing Editor
Heather Daly
Email: econjournal@london.edu
Tel: +44 20 7000 8413

Proposals for Economic Journal Features should be submitted via email to:

Professor Stephen Machin
Features Editor
Department of Economics
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UK
Email: ejfeatures@ucl.ac.uk

For more details and instructions on submitting a paper, see our on-line submission page. Submission of an article is taken as an implicit agreement that the work will not be submitted simultaneously to any other publication.

Please include any appendices and supplemental material for referees (even if the material is not meant to be published) in a single pdf-file with your paper.

See our Editorial Policy Statement

To assist the general reader the Editors require that authors take care to motivate their work and to communicate their contribution in a clear manner. Please note that, in general, articles should not exceed 7,500 words. Overlong papers will be returned without consideration.

Comments of Published Articles. Short notes on published articles will no longer be considered for inclusion in The Economic Journal. Notes of this form should be directed to the relevant author and, if publication is desired, sent to alternative journals. However, substantive responses to published articles, which can stand as independent research in their own right will be considered and should be submitted through the normal channels with a short note commenting on the relevant original article.

In order to optimize your article for search engines, please consult the guidelines and examples prepared by Blackwell. These can be found on www.blackwellpublishing.com/optimize.

Once your article has been published, you will be provided with access to a PDF offprint of your article through Wiley-Blackwell Author Services. On your article starting upon the production process, you'll receive an email inviting you to track your article through the Author Services system. Please sign up for Author Services using the instructions provided in this email at any point during the production of your article to access your PDF offprint and enjoy the many other benefits the service offers.

Guide to preparing manuscripts for submission

1. When setting out mathematical equations, contributors are asked to conform to the conventions adopted in recent articles published in The Economic Journal. The full mathematical workings necessary for justifying each step of the argument should accompany all articles of a mathematical character, in order to assist the referee. These workings will not be published.

2. Statistical tables should be clearly headed and the reader should be able to understand the meaning of each row or column without hunting in the text for explanations of symbols, etc. Units of measurement, base-dates for index numbers, geographical area covered and sources should be clearly stated. Avoid undue complexity and excess numbers of digits just because computer programs provide them. Page size is limited and it should be easy for the reader to absorb the information you wish to convey from the table. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the data and for checking their proofs; whenever they feel that the referee would have difficulty in testing the derivation of their statistics, they should provide supplementary notes on the methods used. These will not be published.

3. Diagrams should be clearly drawn and accompanied by the basic statistics that were required for the preparation; the axes must be clearly labelled; the reader must be able to understand the diagrams without hunting in the text for explanations. Make sure that the messages you want to convey are clear, as the diagram is likely to be reduced for printing. Use just a few round numbers in the axes; make sure lines and shading will look clearly different in black and white.

4. Bibliographical references should be carefully checked, and complete in respect of the year and the place of publication. If a bibliographical list is given, it should follow the style used in the current issue of The Economic Journal.

Exclusive Licence Form

Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. (Government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned). After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various medium/circumstances (please see the form for further details). To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form here.

Preparation of the final typescript for The Economic Journal

The Economic Journal is covered by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing's Early View service. Early View articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled print issue. Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors' final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so Early View articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.