Economics of Transition

Published on behalf of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Edited by:
Managing editors: Philippe Aghion and Wendy Carlin Editors: Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Sergei Guriev, Yingyi Qian, Isabel Schnabel, Mark Schankerman and Jan Svejnar Book Reviews Editor: Guido Friebel

Print ISSN: 0967-0750
Online ISSN: 1468-0351
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 17 / 2009
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 131/209 Economics
Impact Factor: 0.614

TopAuthor Guidelines

The journal's editorial office is at the Department of Economics, University College London. All articles, from whatever source, are subject to normal refereeing. Articles are accepted for publication subject to the condition that they have not already been published elsewhere.

Submission of manuscripts:
1. All papers must be submitted electronically, using on the online submission site.

Click here to enter the submission site, or type http://services.bepress.com/eot/ into your web browser.

Acceptable formats for electronic submission are PDF and Microsoft Word; PDF is preferred. In preparing PDF files, make sure that all fonts are embedded, and it is recommended that the document be created using Acrobat Distiller. Please check that your PDF document is readable on a computer other than the one it was created on.

2. All submitted manuscripts must be original work that is not under submission at another journal or under consideration for publication in another form, such as a monograph or chapter of a book. Authors of submitted papers are obligated not to submit their paper for publication elsewhere until an editorial decision is rendered on their submission. Further, authors of accepted papers are prohibited from publishing the results in other publications that appear before the paper is published in the Journal unless they receive approval for doing so from the managing editor.

3. The cover page of the paper should include the title, author(s) and institutional affiliation(s). It must also include an abstract of approximately 100 words, keywords and JEL classification numbers. You will be requested to upload the abstract separately during the submission process. Manuscripts should not normally exceed 10,000 words including tables, figures and footnotes. Ideally, no more than three levels of headings should be used.

4. References: You must ensure that all references cited in the text are in the list of references, which must include only those works cited in the text. The author-date (or Harvard) style of referencing is used. In-line references should be of the form: Kornai (1990) argued... If the reference appears within parentheses it should be of the form: ... not found in further studies (see, for example, Kornai, 1990). All works cited should be listed alphabetically by author after the main body of the text. The referencing style shown below should be used:
Books: Fujita, M., Krugman, P. and Venables, A. J. (1999). The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions and International Trade, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Articles in books: Naughton, B. (1997). 'The emergence of the China circle', in Naughton, B. (ed.), The China Circle: Economics and Technology in the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Articles: Norback, P. J. (2001). 'Cumulative effects of labor market distortions in a developing country', Journal of Development Economics, 65, pp. 135-52.
Working papers: Coelli, T. J. (1996), 'A guide to FRONTIER 4.1: a computer program for frontier production function estimation', CEPA Working Paper No. 96/07, Department of Econometrics, University of New England, Armidale, www.une.edu.au/econometrics/cepa.htm. (The institution publishing the working paper series must be given and if available, an electronic address from which the working paper can be downloaded should be provided.)

5. Acknowledgements and footnotes: acknowledgements should be included as the first numbered footnote.

Accepted manuscripts:
6. Once accepted, authors will be prompted to upload the final version of their paper via the submission site. Papers must be uploaded both in original format (acceptable formats are Microsoft Word and LaTex files) and as a PDF. Figures should be originated in a drawing package and saved as an EPS file. Figures must be produced in black and white. Tints and complex shading must be avoided. Tables must be designed to fit comfortably on a journal page. For tables, use the 'create table' feature and for equations, use the 'equation editor'.

7. Final versions of accepted manuscripts should reach the journal in clear and grammatically correct English. Where necessary authors must ensure that their articles have been checked for errors of English by a person with perfect command of the language.

Author Services:
8. Online production tracking is now available for your article through Wiley-Blackwell's Author Services. This enables authors to track their article - once it has been accepted - through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production. The author will receive an e-mail with a unique link that enables them to register and have their article automatically added to the system. Please ensure that a complete e-mail address is provided when submitting the manuscript. Click here for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more.

Exclusive Licence Form:
9. 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). Authors can download a copy of the form here.

All correspondence connected with submissions to the journal should be directed to: eot@ucl.ac.uk

Editorial Office: Economics of Transition
Department of Economics
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom