Spatial Economic Analysis welcomes submissions via ScholarOneTM Manuscripts site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rsea. Please read further details below.

Spatial Economic Analysis is a pioneering economics journal dedicated to the development of theory and methods in spatial economics. The journal has an international audience and is of interest to policy makers and practitioners. Papers on the following subject areas are particularly welcome:

• The development, testing and application of theories of “new economic geography”
• Theoretical, applied and policy oriented papers within the broad sphere of spatial economics
• Quantitative economic geography models, spatial econometrics, simulation modelling, multi-sectoral regional and CGE models, inter-regional migration modelling
• Quantitative policy evaluation, and applications of spatial data analysis and GIS, urban economics, the analysis of regional and international growth, global, international and local trade and investment, regional labour markets.

Further information about the journal including links to the online sample copy and contents pages can be found on the journal homepage.

1. Submission. 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 be made online at Spatial Economic Analysis' Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre
• Submissions to Spatial Economic Analysis will incur no charge
• Submissions should be in English
• 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 double anonymous peer review system, using independent expert referees
• Final responsibility for the selection and acceptance of articles rests with the Editor
• All references to author(s) should be removed from the text to enable double anonymous peer review - this is entirely the responsibility of the author and any mention of an author in the manuscript shall be taken to imply that authors waive the rights to double anonymous peer review and such manuscripts will proceed under single anonymous conditions
• Submission of an article to the journal indicates formal acceptance by the author(s) of these peer review conditions and procedures

For any further enquiries, please contact the editorial team. Tel: 0141 548 3857/4445. Email: bf100@cam.ac.uk

2. The Manuscript. Articles should normally be between 7000 – 9000 words inclusive of all notes and references. Articles must be typed with double spacing throughout, with a 4cm left-hand margin. All pages should be numbered. 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).

3. Title Page. The first page of the typescript must contain: the full title; a running title of not more than 75 letters and spaces; an abstract of 100 words or less. The abstract should be accompanied by not more than four key words which define the subject matter. In addition the appropriate Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classifications should be given (a maximum of four). These can be accessed from http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc/data/JEL/

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 be uploaded as a separate file, following the online submission guidelines. Illustrations should be of a quality suitable for printing and will not normally be redrawn by the publisher.

6. Tables and Supplementary Material. Data must be kept to a minimum. Tables should be numbered and headed with short titles. As with illustrations, they should not be inserted in the manuscript but be uploaded as separate files. Supplementary material or data not for publication but in support of the submission can be sent as a separate file.

7. Colour illustrations. Colour illustrations will normally only be considered when the article authors are willing to pay the additional page print costs. Contact the editor for more details.

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

9. 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. References should be prepared, double spaced, on separate sheets at the end of the paper. 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, 68-113.

If no person is named as the author, the body should be used – for example: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (1980) Report on Urban Planning Methods, London.

10. Endnotes. These should be numbered consecutively in the text and gathered together at the end of the manuscript. The use of notes in general should be kept to a minimum.

11. Proofs. Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author for correction if there is sufficient time to do so. They should be corrected and returned within three days. Major alterations or revisions cannot be accepted.

12. Early Electronic Offprints. Corresponding authors can now receive their article by e-mail as a complete PDF. This allows the author to print up to 50 copies, free of charge, and disseminate them to colleagues. In many cases this facility will be available up to two weeks prior to publication. Or, alternatively, corresponding authors will receive the traditional 50 offprints. A copy of the journal will be sent by post to all corresponding authors after publication. Additional copies of the journal can be purchased at the author's preferential rate – contact the Editor for more details.

13. Copyright. It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to the Regional Studies Association. 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 retain a number of rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies documents. For full details of these policies please refer to www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authorrights.pdf. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

14. Permission to publish all material from other sources which may infringe copyright laws must have copyright clearance from that source before being included in papers for Spatial Economic Analysis and any acknowledgements should be included in the captions.

15. The ideas and opinions expressed in the journal are those of the authors concerned and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Association.