Journal Details
The Journal of Legislative Studies
Instructions for Authors
The title of the paper and the author(s) name(s) should appear only at the beginning of the paper. Papers should be roughly 7000-8000 words in length, including footnotes, references and abstract. Each paper requires an abstract of 100-150 words summarising the significant coverage and findings and each paper should have up to six keywords. All pages of the manuscript must be numbered. All manuscripts should include full correspondence details (street address, telephone, fax and email addresses) of the corresponding author.
The Journal of Legislative Studies publishes contributions in the field of legislative studies. The journal supports no particular methodological approach or substantive view. All contributions are assessed according to the usual standards of academic rigour. All articles are reviewed by three academic referees, from whom the names of authors are withheld. Three types of contribution are welcome:
- survey the literature on a particular subject or emerging area
- review a particular category for publication (for example, a survey of the state of legislative studies in a particular country).
The Editor retains the right to make minor stylistic changes to the finally accepted typescript. Any substantial changes will, of course, be referred back first to the author.
Harvard Style
References should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name, with the year of publication in parenthesis. If several publications by the same author and from the same year are cited, a,b,c, etc. should be put after the year of publication. The references should be listed in full at the end of the paper in the following standard form:
Nagengast, E. (2003) The Bene Decrees and EU Enlargement, Journal of European Integration, 25(4), pp. 335--350.
Wolchik, S.L. (1998)
Harris, R.R. & Kanji, G.K. (1984) The EU and the
Titles of journals should not be abbreviated.
End notes. Notes should be numbered in the main body of the manuscript appearing in superscript and arabic. Notes should be collected at the end of the article before the references and must be numbered in consecutive order.
Style. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal style. Please make sure that the manuscript is submitted as a Word-document (and not as a PDF-file).
Standard UK English spelling is encouraged. Capitals should be used as sparingly as possible and consistently. Foreign words except proper names should be written in italics. Dates should be in the form 1 May 1982, 1990s (no apostrophe), the twentieth century. Numbers up to 10 should normally be spelt out, except for percentages, exact quantities, or a series of numbers.
Quotations of more than 60 words should be indented in the typescript but typed in double line spacing. Square brackets should be used to enclose interpolations, and three dots to indicate omissions.
A printed list of any special symbols should be submitted with the manuscript. The list will not appear in print, but is essential for typesetting and helps avoiding costly correction in proof.
