Entrepreneurship & Regional Development is unique in that it addresses the central factors in economic development - entrepreneurial vitality and innovation - as local and regional phenomena. It provides a multi-disciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of entrepreneurship and small-firm development and for those studying and developing the local and regional context in which entrepreneurs emerge, innovate and establish the new economic activities which drive economic growth and create new economic wealth and employment. The journal focuses on the diverse and complex characteristics of local and regional economies which lead to entrepreneurial vitality and endow the large and small firms within them with international competitiveness.

We prefer to receive all materials, including illustrations, figures and tables, in an electronic format. Care and attention to the guidelines below are essential as importing graphics packages can often be problematic.

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development considers all manuscripts on condition they are the property (copyright) of the submitting author(s) and that copyright will be transferred to Entrepreneurship & Regional Development and Taylor & Francis Ltd. if the paper is accepted.

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged all costs which Entrepreneurship & Regional Development incurs, and their papers will not be published.

Please write clearly and concisely, stating your objectives clearly and defining your terms. Your arguments should be substantiated with well-reasoned supporting evidence.

In writing your paper, you are encouraged to review articles in the area you are addressing which have been previously published in the journal, and where appropriate to reference them. This will enhance context, coherence, and continuity for our readers.  

All submissions should be made online at the Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged on to the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre. 

For the main text of your article, most standard PC or Mac word-processing software packages are acceptable, although we prefer Microsoft Word in a PC format. Articles prepared using LaTeX should be converted to PDF and should be submitted online in addition to the associated LaTeX source and graphics files. Authors using LaTeX are advised to use article.sty (for LaTex 2.09) or article.cls (for LaTex2e).

Avoid the use of embedded footnotes. The use of macros should be kept to an absolute minimum, but if any are used should be gathered together in the file, just before the \begin{document} command.

This applies both to direct reproduction or 'derivative reproduction' – when the contributor has created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source.

The following form of words can be used in seeking permission:

Dear [COPYRIGHT HOLDER]

I/we are preparing for publication an article entitled

[STATE TITLE]

to be published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.

I/we should be grateful if you would grant us permission to include the following materials:

[STATE FIGURE NUMBER AND ORIGINAL SOURCE]

We are requesting non-exclusive rights in this edition and in all forms. It is understood, of course, that full acknowledgement will be given to the source.

Your prompt consideration of this request would be greatly appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

For papers reporting original research, state the primary objective and any hypothesis tested; describe the research design and your reasons for adopting that methodology; state the methods and procedures employed, including where appropriate tools, hardware, software, the selection and number of study areas/subjects, and the central experimental interventions; state the main outcomes and results, including relevant data; and state the conclusions that might be drawn from these data and results, including their implications for further research or application/practice.

For review essays, state the primary objective of the review; the reasoning behind your literature selection; and the way you critically analyse the literature; state the main outcomes and results of your review; and state the conclusions that might be drawn, including their implications for further research or application/practice.

Abstracts should not exceed 200 words.

Tables and figures must be mentioned in the text and referred to as follows: Figure 1, Table 1, 'As seen in Table [or Figure] 1 ...' (not Tab., fig. or Fig).

The place at which a table or figure is to be inserted in the printed text should be indicated clearly on the manuscript:

Insert Table 2 about here 

Each table and/or figure must have a title or caption that explains its purpose without reference to the text. Each column should have an appropriate heading. Titles and captions must be saved at the end of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.

All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).

All figures and tables must be uploaded in separate files and not embedded in the text. The filename for the graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a. For numbered tables, use the table function provided with the word-processing package.

Avoid the use of colour and tints for purely aesthetic reasons.

Please note that when submitting electronic files, all photographs should be scanned in at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (400 for colour) and line drawings at a minimum of 600 dpi. Also, bear in mind that enlarging an image will entail some loss of quality, so it is best to supply images at the final size required, or larger.

Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), containing all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).

Please note that it is in the author's interest to provide the highest-quality figure format possible. Please do not hesitate to contact our Production Department if you have any queries.

Hardcopies of artwork and gloosy prints or negatives of photographs submitted for publication will not be returned and will be destroyed after publication, unless you request otherwise. Whilst every care is taken of artwork, neither the Editor nor Taylor & Francis shall bear any responsibility or liability for non-return, loss, or damage of artwork, nor for any associated costs or compensation. You are strongly advised to insure appropriately.

For simple fractions in the text, the solidus / should be used instead of a horizontal line, care being taken to insert parentheses where necessary to avoid ambiguity, for example, I /(n-1). Exceptions are the proper fractions available as single type on a keyboard.

Full formulae or equations should be displayed, that is, written on a separate line. Horizontal lines are preferable to solidi.

The solidus is not generally used for units: ms ^{- 1} not m/s, but note electrons/s, counts/channel, etc.

Displayed equations referred to in the text should be numbered serially (1, 2, etc.) on the right hand side of the page. Short expressions not referred to by any number will usually be incorporated in the text.

Symbols should not be underlined to indicate fonts except for tensors, vectors and matrices, which are indicated with a wavy line in the manuscript (not with a straight arrow or arrow above) and rendered in heavy type in print: upright sans serif r (tensor), sloping serif r (vector) upright serif r (matrix).

Typographical requirements must be clearly indicated at their first occurrence, e.g. Greek, Roman, script, sans serif, bold, italic. Authors will be charged for corrections at proof stage resulting from a failure to do so.

Braces, brackets and parentheses are used in the order {[( )]}, except where mathematical convention dictates otherwise (i.e. square brackets for commutators and anticommutators)