Notes for Contributors (updated August 2008)

Submissions

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Revisions

Authors submitting revised manuscripts should follow the instructions above to submit through the SAGETRACK system. However, if the first versions were submitted prior to SAGETRACK, the system will not know automatically about the previous version. In such cases, authors should check the 'Has this manuscript been submitted previously?' box and give the previous manuscript number in the space below. (If the previous version was submitted through the SAGETRACK system, following the instructions to submit a revised manuscript will automatically associate your revised version with the original submission) Authors of all revised submissions should when prompted provide information explaining the changes in your manuscript. As this will be provided to reviewers it is important that authors do not identify themselves in these responses.

General guidelines

1. Papers should preferably be written in English. They should not have been published already, nor be currently under consideration elsewhere. Only papers corresponding to the following guidelines will be considered. All papers - including contributions to the forum section - are refereed.

2. Each contribution should come with the following information:

a) title of paper, date and word count;

b) author's full name, affiliation, position, institutional email and fax address;

c) abstract (100-125 words): background, aim, method, results, conclusion;

d) up to 5 key words, arranged alphabetically;

3. Articles must be typed in double spacing throughout on one side of A4 or US standard 8.5X11 inch paper with generous margins on all sides. All pages should be numbered. Please retain a copy. EUP does not return any submitted copies.

4. The maximum length should be 9000 words, including notes and references. The typescript should be carefully checked for errors before it is submitted for publication. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of quotations, for supplying complete and correct references, and for obtaining permission where needed to cite another person's material.

5. EUP require from all authors of quantitative empirical articles that they make the data available once the article is accepted for publication; all files must be sent electronically to the managing editor of EUP at eup@uni-konstanz.de. Required materials typically include all data used for the analysis, specialized computer programs or the source code of these algorithms, program recodes and a file which details what is included in the data set and how the results can be reproduced. Confidential material such as the names of survey respondents must be removed. All material will be published on the website of the journal together with the online version of the article. The first footnote of the article should state whether there is some accompanying replication material and where it can be found.

6. Lengthy quotations (of more than 40 words) should be displayed and indented; shorter quotes should be retained within the body of the text; single quotation marks please.

7. Do not use a comma in thousands but do use one in tens of thousand and above: e.g. 1298; 14,890; 345,246; 1,000,098.

Use the least number of numerals possible in pagination and in dates: e.g. 42-5, 1975-6, 1954-67, 130-1. But use 10-14, 10-11 as these represent single words.

Decimal points are never raised of the line. There is no zero before a point for probability and correlations where the number is always less than one.

8. Write dates and decades as follows: 30 September 1986, 1960s, mid 1930s.

9. The singular of the following abbreviations takes full points: Vol., Ch., e.g., ed. but please use Vols, Chs and eds for plural. Please no comma after e.g., i.e. or cf. while etc. is usually preceded by a comma in a list.

10. Tables and figures should be presented on separate pages. Their position within the text should be clearly indicated. Line diagrams should be presented as camera-ready copy on glossy paper (b/w, unless to be reproduced - by arrangement - in colour) and, if possible, as EPS files (all fonts embedded) or TIFF files, 800 dpi - b/w only. For scanning, photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted b/w prints with a good range of contrast or as TIFF files, 300 dpi. Captions and section headings should be in lower case.

Please do not number headings.

11. Notes and references should be in double-spacing. Please check for discrepancies between in-text-notes/references and those listed.

Essential notes should be indicated by superscript Arabic numbers in the text, and presented at the end of the text before the references. Articles should have a maximum of 10 notes. The first, unnumbered, note should include any acknowledgements and thanks as well as an indication where your data is available.

For citing and referencing use the Harvard-style system. References cites in the text should read as Brown (1975: 63-4) or Brown and Smith (1975, 1980). Use 'et al.' when citing a work by more than two authors, e.g. Brown et al. (1981). The letters a, b, c etc. should be used to distinguish citations of different works by the same author in the same year, e.g. Brown (1975a, b). When citing a new edition of a previously published work, include both dates, e.g. Durkheim (1912/1976), in text and references. If author's name is not in the text, insert last name, comma and year, e.g. (Van Dijk, 1998). Enclose within a single pair of parentheses a series of references, separated by semicolons, e.g. (Black and Williams, 1986; Downey and Jones, 1985; Perry, 1977). Use also parentheses to insert any brief phrase associated with the reference, e.g. (but see Jones, 1990: 123-4). For an institutional authorship, supply the minimum citation from the beginning of the complete reference, e.g. (US Bureau of the Census, 1994: 36).

The reference list should be alphabetically ordered and with headed references. Please use the following style:

Journal article

Tsebelis, George (1994) 'The Power of the European Parliament as a Conditional Agenda Setter', American Political Science Review 88(1): 128-42.

Book

Ullman, Richard H. (1991) Securing Europe . Twickenham: Adamtine Press.

Chapter in book

Spence, David (1994) 'Structure, Functions and Procedures in the Commission', in Geoffrey Edwards and David Spence (eds) The European Commission , pp. 97-116. Essex: Longman.

(Working) Paper

Hug, Simon and Thomas König (1999) 'Ratifying Amsterdam', Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2-6 September 1999, Atlanta.

Unpublished work

Pearce, David G. (1987) 'Renegotiation-proof Equilibria: Collective Rationality and Inter-temporal Cooperation', Mimeo, Yale University.

Website

Tsebelis, George (2001) 'Veto Players Data', URL (consulted Jan. 2001): http:/www.polisci.ucla.edu/tsebelis/

Surnames containing de, van, von etc. should be listed under D and V with capital letters.

References where the first-named author is the same should be listed as follows: Single author references in date order; References by more than one author in alphabetical order according to the second author's name; In the event of more than one entry having the same date a, b, etc. must be inserted.

Please check that all periodical data are included - volume, issue and page numbers, publisher, place of publication, etc.

12. Our spelling style is based on the Oxford English Dictionary and the guidelines laid down in Hart's Rules for Compositors (Oxford); but US spellings are retained in manuscripts of North American origin. We also endorse the guidelines provided by the American Psychological Association and the British Sociological Association for non-sexist and non-racist language.

13. Copyright. Before publication authors are requested to grant an exclusive publishing license to SAGE Publications, which has the right to sub-license, subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be published at least one year after initial publication in this journal. Photocopies may be made from the journal without the need for prior permission, for teaching purposes, provided they are made from a copy owned by the institution or individual responsible for the course provided.

14. Authors are sent proofs for checking and correction. Proofs should be corrected carefully; the responsibility for detecting errors lies with the author. The corresponding author will be given controlled access to a PDF of the article and a complimentary copy (per author) of the whole issue after publication.