Journal of Development Effectiveness is a refereed journal.

Articles submitted to Journal of Development Effectiveness should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. Articles may not be submitted if it is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere.

Submissions should be made electronically at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rjde. The authors should not be identified in the manuscript document as this journal operates a blind peer review process.

There is no standard length for articles but 7,000 to 8,000 words (including notes and references) is the preferred length. Papers longer than 10,000 words will not usually be considered, with possible exceptions for review papers. The articles should begin with an indented and italicised abstract of no more than 100 words, which should describe the main arguments and conclusions of the article.

As papers are sent out for review anonymously, the name of the authors should not appear on the paper or be part of the filename. There is a place during the online submission process for authors to provide their name, institutional affiliation, full address and other contact details (e-mail, telephone and fax). Any acknowledgements should also be included as should a note of the exact length of the article.

All diagrams, charts and graphs should be referred to as figures and consecutively numbered. Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. Each figure and table must be given an Arabic numeral, followed by a heading, and be referred to in the text.

It is the author's responsibility to ensure that where copyright materials are included within an article the permission of the copyright holder has been obtained. Confirmation of this should be attached in a separate file.

Style. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal style. The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. A guide to style and presentation is obtainable from the Journal of Development Effectiveness homepage. British spelling should be used throughout and -ise NOT -ize endings adopted.

References should be indicated in the manuscript by giving the author's surname and the year of publication, e.g. (Stevens 2004). If two or more references by the same author published in the same year are cited, distinguish these by adding a, b, c, etc. after the year. For two or more references within the same parentheses, use chronological order and separate with commas, e.g. (Stevens 2004, Jones 2008). All references cited in the text should be listed in full at the end of the paper in the following standard form:

For books: Mercer, P.A. and Smith, G., 1993. Private viewdata in the UK. 2nd ed. London: Longman.

For articles: Evans, W.A., 1994. Approaches to intelligent information retrieval. Information processing and management, 7 (2), 147–168.

For chapters within books: Bantz, C.R., 1995. Social dimensions of software development. In: J.A. Anderson, ed. Annual review of software management and development. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 502–510.

Copyright. 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 retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

Proofs. If selected, proofs will be sent to authors if there is sufficient time to do so. They should be corrected and returned to the Editor within 48 hours of receipt. Major alterations to the text cannot be accepted.

Reprints. Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com). Reprints of articles published in the Journal of Development Effectiveness can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received or alternatively on our journals website. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk. 

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