Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics

Published on behalf of the International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC)

Edited by:
Fabienne Fecher

Print ISSN: 1370-4788
Online ISSN: 1467-8292
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 81 / 2010

TopAuthor Guidelines

The Editorial Board of the Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics welcomes articles dealing with broadly defined public, nonprofit or cooperative economics (enterprises with public participation, new economy of regulation, networks industries and public utilities, cooperatives, employee participation, nonprofit organisations, etc.)

The selection criteria are the originality and scientific quality of the article, and the interest it offers in terms of information exchange between practitioners and academics in the field of public, cooperative or nonprofit economics. Survey articles are also welcomed which review relevant literature and address the key topical issues/developments within the fields mentioned above. All papers should be accessible to the non-specialist reader and are subject to anonymous peer review.

Three copies of each manuscript, including an abstract, should be sent to:

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
CIRIEC
Université de Liège au Sart-Tilman
Bât B33 bte 6
4000 Liege
Belgium
Email apce.ciriec@guest.ulg.ac.be

They should be organised as follows:

1. The language must be French or English.

2. The first page should include:
- the title
- names, institutional affiliation of the authors and their postal addresses (indicating also the name and address where the Editorial Committee decision should be sent)
- an abstract of about 100 words.

3. Papers should be typewritten, double-spaced and 15-20 pages long (including footnotes and references).

4. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and not consist of bibliographical references.

5. Mathematical presentation of the methodology (theoretical or statistical models) should be put in appendix.

6. Each reference should be mentioned in the text with the name of the author and the year of publication. Please set references out as follows:

FLEISHMAN J. , 1983, ed. , The Future of the Postal Service , New York, Praeger.
PELTZMAN S. , 1976, 'Toward a more general theory of regulation', Journal of Law and Economics , 211-40.

7. If a paper is published, the corresponding author will receive an electronic offprint and 5 copies of the complete journal issue.

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. After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various media/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