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1. Submission. Click here to submit online.
The contents of the papers shall be the sole responsibility of the authors and publication shall not imply the concurrence of editors or publishers.

• All submissions should preferably be in Word format
• From January 2008 submissions to Applied Economics Letters are subject to a submission fee of US$50 (fifty US dollars) to help defray editorial costs. The fees are payable via a credit card (Visa or MasterCard) at the time of submission and are not returnable in any circumstance.
• All manuscripts shall be subject to an editorial pre-screening process to assess suitability for the journal
• Subject to the pre-screening, manuscripts shall be processed in a single anonymous peer review system, using independent expert referees
• Final responsibility for the selection and acceptance of articles rests with the Editor
• Submission of an article to the journal indicates formal acceptance by the author(s) of these peer review conditions and procedures
• Please note that referee reports will not be provided. 

2. The Manuscript. Letters will not normally exceed 2000 words in length. Letters must be typed with double spacing throughout, on one side of A4 paper only, with a 4cm left-hand margin. The text and references should be checked thoroughly for errors before submission. It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that the typescript is correct in style, syntax and spelling (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary) as proofs will not be sent out prior to publication.
Letters may be divided into headed sections, though this is not compulsory.

3. Title Page. The first page of the typescript must contain: the full title; the affiliation and full address of all authors; a running title of not more than 75 letters and spaces; an abstract of 200 words or less and the name, full postal address and email of the author who will be responsible for correspondence.

4. Abbreviations. Any word or words to be abbreviated should be written in full when first mentioned followed by the abbreviation in parenthesis.

5. Illustrations. All illustrations of any kind should be submitted as sequentially numbered figures, Illustrations should not be inserted in the manuscript but supplied either after the main body of text or uploaded as separate files.

6. Tables and Supplementary Material. Data must be kept to a minimum. Tables should be numbered and headed with the short titles. As with illustrations, they should not be inserted in the manuscript but supplied either after the main body of text or uploaded as separate files. Authors must be prepared to supply at cost to any bona fide applicant the data upon which their research was based.

7. Acknowledgements. Acknowledgements should appear at the end of the text.

8. References. The Harvard system is used. When quoted in the text the style is: …Smith (1972)… . or (Brown and Jones, 1972) or …Smith et al. (1972a). References are listed alphabetically after the text. Journal and book titles should be written out in full. Examples are:

Brigham, E. F. (1965) The determinants of residential land values, Land Economics, 41, 325--34.

Phelps-Brown, H. (1981) Labour market policy, in Changing Perceptions of Economic Policy (Ed.) F. Cairncross, Methuen, London, pp. 68--113.

9. Footnotes. These should be numbered consecutively in the text and gathered on a separate sheet of the typescript.

10. Free article access: Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

11. Copyright. Submission of a paper to Applied Economics Letters will be taken to imply that is presents original unpublished work, not under consideration elsewhere. A copyright assignment form will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. This publishing agreement should be completed and returned to the editorial office. It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. 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 may, of course, use the article elsewhere after publication without prior permission from Taylor & Francis, provided that acknowledgement is given to the Journal as original source of publication, and that Taylor & Francis is notified so that our records show that its use is properly authorised. Authors retain a number of other rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies documents. These policies are referred to at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authorrights.pdf full details. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

12. Permission to publish illustrations must be obtained by the author before submission and any acknowledgements should be included in the captions.