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Titles and sub-headings: Titles should be kept short. The Editors reserve the right to alter titles in consultation with the author. Authors are encouraged to use sub-headings at suitable points throughout the text. Where sub-headings are used they should be typed flush left with only the first word and any proper names capitalised.

Tables and figures: These should be prepared on separate pages and should not be included within the text. The author(s) should indicate clearly in the text of the paper where tables and figures are to be inserted. Each table and figure should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals with an appropriate caption (e.g. Table 1, Table 2; Figure 1, Figure 2, and so on). The source of the table, figure or data used must be expressed at the bottom of each table or figure, not in the endnotes. For example:

1. Source: International Labour Organisation, World Labour Report, 1997-8. 2. Source: own elaboration based on data from World Bank, World Development Indicators 2004, http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi2005/wditext/Cover.htm

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House style: New Political Economy does not impose a rigid house style but we would prefer articles to conform to a few basic conventions outlined below. We stress the importance of three guidelines: common usage, consistency and, above all, clarity. The main points to remember are:

-ise spellings should be used wherever 's' and 'z' are alternatives.
single quotation marks should be used, with double for quotes within quotes; revert to single for quotes within quotes within quotes. Use no quotation marks around displayed extracts.
dates should be written 21 December 1971 and decades should be the 1970s without an apostrophe.
abbreviations consisting of capital, initial letters are usually expressed without full stops - GNP, EU. Contractions ending with the same letter as the original word do not take a terminal full stop (edn, Mr, Dr) but if they do not take the same letter then a full stop is included (ed., ch.). Thus ed. and eds are the correct forms. The abbreviations etc., i.e. and e.g. are usually best replaced by 'and so on', 'that is' and 'for example'.
numbers from one to nine should be written out in full; figures should be used for numbers above ten.
inclusive numbers should include the fewest possible figures: 32-3, 132-65, 200-5, except in 'teen' numbers, where the 1 is repeated, 1914-18.
per cent is spelt out in the text and the number preceding it appears in figures. The symbol (%) can be used in tables.
hyphenation is often optional and in many words it is being used less - for instance, microeconomic. However, consistency throughout the text is vital to avoid misunderstandings.
spelling and usage should be standardised to English rather than American forms, unless there is some risk of misunderstanding. For example, 'billion' is now more commonly used in its American form of a thousand million.
full stops are not needed after headings, sub-headings, and table and figure captions.
commas should be omitted before the final 'and' or 'or' in lists unless the concepts in the list are complicated and the comma aids clarity. Commas are usually unnecessary after adverbial phrases or conjunctions, especially when they begin a sentence - yesterday; at last; during the summer. Commas should not appear in relative clauses which are defining clauses but should appear in relative clauses which are commenting clauses - thus 'politicians who learn the rules of the game will succeed' contains a defining clause whereas 'politicians, who learn the rules of the game, will succeed' contains a commenting clause.
parentheses (or round brackets) should be used for simple interpolations, with square brackets used for editorial notes or interpolations in quotations.
quotations of more than five or six lines should be indented in the text (but still double-spaced). When this is done no quotation marks are needed, except where they appear in the original. Any words interpolated by the author in a quotation should be enclosed in square brackets [ ] to show that they are not part of the quoted matter.

Refereeing: New Political Economy is a peer refereed journal. All articles which are provisionally accepted by the Editors as being potentially suitable for New Political Economy will be sent to at least two referees.

Alterations and revisions: If the Editors are of the opinion that an article provisionally accepted for publication needs to be shortened or particular expressions deleted or rephrased, such proposed changes will be submitted to the author for approval prior to publication. Correction of errors in punctuation, spelling and style will not be submitted for approval if they do not alter the meaning or the sense of the original manuscript. Authors may be asked to resubmit articles in response to evaluation.

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