The Economic Record

Published on behalf of the Economic Society of Australia

Edited by:
Paul Miller, Jeffrey Sheen and Don Wright

Print ISSN: 0013-0249
Online ISSN: 1475-4932
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 86 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 102/209 Economics
Impact Factor: 0.76

TopAuthor Guidelines

Editorial Policy Statement

Manuscript submission

From the 1 February 2008, all manuscript submissions to the Economic Record should be made electronically. To submit a manuscript, please follow the instructions below.

Getting started
1. Launch your web browser and go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ecor
2. Log-in or click the "Create Account" option if you are a first-time user.
3. If you are creating a new account.
· After clicking on "Create Account", enter your name and email information and click "Next". Your email information is very important.
· Enter your institution and address information as appropriate, and then click "Next."
· Enter a user ID and password of your choice (we recommend using your email address as your user ID), and then select your area of expertise. Click "Finish".
4. If you have an account but have forgotten your log in details, go to "Password Help" on the homepage and enter your email address. The system will send you details on how to log in.
5. Log-in and select "Author Center".

Submitting your manuscript
6. After you have logged in, click the "Submit a Manuscript" link in the menu bar.
7. Enter data and answer questions as appropriate.
8. Click the "Save and Continue" button on each screen to save your work and advance to the next screen.
9. You are required to upload your files.
· Click on the "Browse" button and locate the file on your computer.
· Select the designation of each file in the drop down next to the Browse button.
· When you have selected all files you wish to upload, click the "Upload Files" button.
10. Review your submission (in both PDF and HTML formats) before sending to the Journal. Click the "Submit" button when you are finished reviewing.

You may suspend a submission at any phase before clicking the "Submit" button and save it to submit later. After submission, you will receive a confirmation email. You can also check the status of your manuscript at any time. The Journal will inform you by email once a decision has been made.

Notes for authors
1. The editors will give preference to articles which are succinctly written. Articles should be typed double spaced, and should not normally exceed 25 pages of A4 in total. Overlong papers will be returned without consideration.
2. If the paper presents analysis of data, the relevant questions (about data availability and/or the availability of computer programs) in ScholarOne Manuscripts must be answered.
3. Submission of a paper will be held to imply that it is original work, and that it has not already been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere.
4. Enquiries can be sent to Professor Paul Miller, Economics M251, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia. Paul.Miller@uwa.edu.au
5. Submission is free to members of the Economic Society of Australia. Members submitting articles should indicate their status on ScholarOne Manuscripts when prompted to do so. The submission fee for non-members is AUD$110.00 (including GST), which must be paid in Australian currency. Payment can be made by Direct Deposit to: Economic Society of Australia, Central Council Inc., BSB 032 024 Account No. 33 3754 (Westpac, Martin Place, Sydney). The Society accepts Visa and Mastercard. Cheques should be made payable to "The Economic Society of Australia". Our ABN is 88 499 826 758. To facilitate the payment of the submission fee, non-members can down load an Economic Record Submission form on www.ecosoc.org.au/files/File/Submissions.pdf or email ecosoc@optushome.com.au.
6. The introduction, conclusion and abstract should be written for the non specialist. Lengthy mathematical presentations should, whenever possible, be located in appendices. Articles will not usually be published if they are minor variations of existing analyses or of interest only to very small and specialized audiences, or if they are mainly descriptive.
7. Sections of the paper should be numbered in Roman numerals; figures and tables in Arabic numerals. Tables and diagrams should be self-contained. A condition of acceptance is that illustrations should be of professional quality and ready for reproduction. If possible, they should be suitable for reduction to single column width.
8. Mathematical notation should be as simple as possible. Equations should be identified by consecutive Arabic numbers (in parentheses) at the conclusion of the equation.
9. Any footnote attached to the main heading should be designated by an asterisk. All other footnotes must be designated by numerals in continuous sequence.
10. All references should be listed alphabetically by the author at the end of the manuscript. The listing style should be that used in recent issues of the journal, and is illustrated by the following examples:
Goldstein, A. (2000), 'Nobel Laureates Describe Internet as Simply Better Telecommunications', The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, 10 March.
Madden, G. and Coble-Neal, G. (2002), 'Internet Forecasting and the Economics of Networks', in Loomis, D. and Taylor, L. (eds), Forecasting the Internet: Understanding the Explosive Growth of Data Communications, Regulatory Economics and Policy Series, 39. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston; 105-130.
Nellist, J.G. and Gilbert, E.M. (1999), Understanding Modern Telecommunications and the Information Superhighway. Artech House, Boston.
Shapiro, C. (1999a), 'Exclusivity in Network Industries', George Mason Law Review, 7, 1-11.
Smyth, R. and Mishra, V. (2009), 'The Publication Decisions of Judges on the County Court of Victoria', Economic Record, doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2009.00553.x
Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (1998), Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman 1997-98 Annual Report. Available from: http://www.tio.com.au/publications/annual_reports/documents/Tio99ar.pdf
Wigand, R. (1997), 'Electronic Commerce: Definitions, Theory and Context', Information Society, 13, 1-16.
World Trade Organization (1997), The Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services. WTO Publications Service, Geneva.
11. References in the text should be made by giving the author's name followed by year of publication in parentheses.
12. Authors publishing in the journal will be asked to sign a copyright transfer agreement. This form can be downloaded from http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/ecor_cta.pdf. In signing the form it is assumed that authors have obtained permission to use any copyrighted or previously published material. Articles can not be published until a signed form is received.
13. Books and Periodicals for Review should be sent to Dr Robert Breunig at Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, H.C. Coombs Building (#9), The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
14. Economic Record is covered by Wiley-Blackwell's Early View service. Early View articles are complete and final full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. They are given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited.