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References:

The Harvard system, preferred by this journal, uses the name of the author and the date of publication as a key to the full bibliographic details which are set out in the reference list at the end of the article. e.g. 'as John Smith (1970: 191) argues ...'; 'several authors have noted this trend (Smith 1970; Cook 1968; Smith and Dobbs 1973; Jones et al. 1976)' [et al. to be used for 3 or more authors]. Where there are two or more works by an author published in the same year, these should be distinguished by adding lower case letters after the year as in 'Smith (1980a, 1980b)'.

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The content and form of the reference list should conform to the following examples. Please note that page numbers are required for articles, both place of publication and name of publisher should be given for books, and, where relevant, translator and date of first publication should be noted. Do not use et al. in the reference list, but spell out each author's surname together with first name or initial.

Book/multiple author: Kay, John, Mayer, Colin and Thompson, David (1986) Privatization and Regulation, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Article in edited volume: Kreile, Michael (1992) 'The political economy of the new Germany', in Paul B. Strares (ed.), The New Germany and the New Europe, Washington DC: Brookings Institution, pp. 55-92.

Article in journal: Streeck, W. and Schmitter, P.C. (1991) 'From corporatism to transnational pluralism: organised interests in the single European market', Politics and Society 19: 133-64.

Edited text: Smith, Adam (1976 [1776]) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, ed. R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner and W. B. Todd, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Translated text: Jaspers, K. (1983) General Human Resource Management, 7th edn, trans. J. Hoenig and M. Hamilton, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Article in newspaper: Barber, L. (1993) 'The towering bureaucracy', Financial Times, 21 June.

Unpublished: Zito, A. (1994) 'Epistemic communities in European policy-making', Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.

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