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1. Research Articles. Interested persons, practitioners and researchers are invited to submit manuscripts, which will be evaluated by the Editorial Board and refereed by two anonymous reviewers. Authors will receive the referees' decision as soon as possible after submission. Normal scholarly standards apply to articles published in Urban Policy and Research: all assertions of fact should be supported by verifiable evidence and personal opinion and commentary should be readily identifiable as such. Manuscripts must be no more than 8000 words, including abstract, references, tables, figures and footnotes. Papers exceeding 8,000 words will be returned to authors. The Harvard (author-date) system of referencing should be used and footnotes or endnotes should be kept to an absolute minimum. When submitting research papers, please indicate if you are currently enrolled in a higher degree at a university in the Asia-Pacific region or have been awarded the degree in the lasts twelve months.
2. Practice Review. The Editorial Board welcomes short articles or debate-style papers (3000-6000 words maximum) dealing with policy research and contemporary practice issues. Each contribution will be reviewed by the Practice Reviews. In addition authors can request their paper is peer reviewed (double-blind). Peer reviewed submissions should be fully referenced as per full research articles. Referencing in non-peer reviewed submissions is to be used to support assertions or add to the interest of the article. Research articles and Practice Review contributions aim to stimulate debate: articles, comments and letters responding to material published in the journal are therefore strongly encouraged. All contributions are published on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere.
3. Contributors should submit their paper in English, typed in double spacing on one side of the paper, with a margin on either side. Contributors are encouraged to submit their article via email as an attachment (preferably in Word format). Alternatively contributors may submit three hard copies accompanied by a disk containing the article (preferably in Word format). It is essential that any hard copy submitted exactly matches the disk or attachment. Hard copies of manuscripts will not normally be returned to contributors.
4. For articles, the author's full name, postal address, telephone, fax and email, should be given on the title sheet only. The article proper should begin on page 2 and should exclude the preceding details in order to ensure anonymity in the refereeing process. A short abstract of about 100 words should precede the introduction. Practice Review articles and comments and letters are not subject to refereeing and therefore do not need to meet these requirements.
5. The Harvard System should be adopted for references. References in the text should give the surname(s) of the author(s) and the year of publication in brackets, e.g., Smith (1995) or (Smith, 1995). Quotations should be referenced with the page number, for example, (Smith, 1995, pp. 135-1366). Where multiple works published by the same author in one year are referred to, they should be distinguished by letters (e.g. Smith, 1995a, b, c). Full reference details should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the paper in the following standard form:
Badcock, B. (1984) Unfairly Structured Cities (Oxford, Blackwell).
Davis, M. (1992) Fortress Los Angeles: the militarisation of urban space, in M. Sorking (Ed.) Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space (New York, Hill and Wang).
Troy, P. (1992) The new feudalism, Urban Futures, 2(2), pp. 36-44.
Watson, S. and Gibbs, K. (Eds) (1995) Postmodern Cities and Spaces (Oxford, Blackwell).
6. The illustration of papers with photographs, maps, tables and diagrams is encouraged. Images should be submitted either as high quality originals, or preferably, in electronic format as JPE, TIF or GIF files. Pictorial illustrations should be at a resolution of no less than 300 DPI/PPI and line diagrams at a resolution of no less than 1200 DPI/PPI. Both Figures and Tables should be referred to sequentially in the text, as e.g. Figure 1, 2, 3 etc., and Table 1, 2, 3
7. Proofs will be sent to the authors if there is sufficient time to do so, and should be returned promptly to Routledge. Only printer's errors should be corrected; major changes are not acceptable.
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Free article access. As corresponding author, you will receive free access to your article on Taylor & Francis Online. You will be given access to the
My authored works section of Taylor & Francis Online, which shows you all your published articles. You can easily view, read, and download your published articles from there. In addition, if someone has cited your article, you will be able to see this information. We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article and have provided this guidance <
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Book Reviews. Urban Policy and Research publishes reviews of recently released books of relevance to the journal's purpose. We encourage potential book reviewers to contact us. Book reviews are generally solicited by the book reviews editor, but we are happy to receive either requests to review a particular book, or proposals to submit a book review. Reviewers should aim to write approximately 1000 words. Book reviews are not refereed, and the publication of any book review remains at the discretion of the Editorial Board. Please send your name, address, review interests and qualifications to: Patricia Austin, Book Reviews Editor,
Urban Policy and Research, Department of Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Property, Planning, and Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. Email
Patricia Austin.
11. It is a condition of publication that authors vest or license copyright in their articles, including abstracts, in
Urban Policy and Research. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at
http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/copyright.asp. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as “File not for review”.
Editorial correspondence: electronic communication is strongly preferred, e-mail:
upr@rmit.edu.au. Or:
Urban Policy and Research, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia. Editorial material and production queries should be marked attention: Geoffrey Binder.
