Journal Details
Regional & Federal Studies
Instructions for Authors
This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.
Regional & Federal Studies is a refereed journal. Articles submitted to Regional & Federal Studies should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. If another version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission.
All submissions should be made online at the Regional & Federal Studies ScholarOne Manuscripts site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.
Authors are required to prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author(s) 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”.
There is no standard length for articles but 8,000 words (including notes and references) is a useful target.
Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data, and should be consecutively numbered. Diagrams, charts and graphs should be referred to as figures and consecutively numbered. Each table and figure must be followed by a heading, and be referred to in the text. Tables should be prepared using tabs and supplied in separate files. Any diagrams or maps should be copied to separate files in uncompressed .TIF or .JPG formats. Tints and colours should be avoided, use open patterns instead.
It is the author's responsibility to ensure that where copyright materials are included within an article the permission of the copyright holder has been obtained. Confirmation of this should be included with the submission.
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General style
- British spellings throughout.
- Use -ize rather than -ise (recognize).
- Numbers: one-ten; 11 etc.
- Dates: 1 January 2001 (but Aug–Feb in notes); the 1920s, 1945–48.
- Capitalization: use sparingly, generally in titles.
- Foreign words should be shown in italics.
Authors whose first language is not English should ensure that their article has been read and corrected by a competent person whose first language is English.
References
- Use the author–date (Harvard) system.
- Simple references to be inserted within text: (Ludlow, 1992: 85), for example.
- Endnotes should be kept to a minimum, and indicated consecutively through the article by raised numerals corresponding to the list of notes placed at the end of the manuscript.
- References: bibliographical list to appear after the endnotes, containing all the works referred to. For example:
References to books:
Keating, Michael (1988), State and Regional Nationalism. London: Harvester-Wheatsheaf. Bremmer, Ian and Ray Taras (eds) (1997), New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
References to chapters in books:
Kohler-Koch, B. (1996), ‘The Strength of Weakness: The Transformation of Governance in the EU', in S. Gustavsson and L. Lewin (eds), The Future of the Nation-State: Essays in Cultural Pluralism and Political Integration. London: Routledge.
References to articles in periodicals:
Tannam, Etain (1995), ‘EU Regional Policy and the Irish/Northern Irish Cross-Border Administrative Relationship', Regional and Federal Studies, Vol.5, No.1, pp.67--93. - Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal style. Further guidance to style and presentation is obtainable from the publisher: Email: authorqueries@tandf.co.uk.
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