All submissions should be made online at the JTP SAGETRACK website
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jtp Please log onto the website. If you are a new user, you will first need to create an account. This is a 3-step system that takes a matter of minutes to set up. Log-in information is sent via email immediately upon completion. Full instructions for uploading the manuscript are provided on the website. If you have already created an account but have forgotten your details type your email address in the 'Password Help' to receive an emailed reminder.
Submissions should be made via the Author Center and the 'Click here to Submit a New Manuscript' option. For questions and a user guide, please use the 'Get Help Now' button at the top right of every screen. Further help is available through ScholarOne's® Manuscript CentralTM customer support at +1 434-817-2040 x 167. If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, please contact the editor, James R. Rogers, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 4348 TAMU Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4348, USA [E-mail:rogers@politics.tamu.edu ]
Please ensure that your Microsoft Word or RTF document does NOT include a title page, an abstract, or page numbers; the JTP SAGETRACK system will generate them for you, and then convert your manuscript to PDF for peer review. Furthermore, it is imperative that authors remove from their submissions any information that will identify them or their affiliations to reviewers. All correspondence, including notification of the editor's decision and requests for revisions, will be by email.
Revisions
Authors submitting revised manuscripts should follow the instructions above to submit through the SAGETRACK system. However, if the first versions were submitted prior to SAGETRACK, the system will not know automatically about the previous version. In such cases, authors should check the 'Has this manuscript been submitted previously?' box and give the previous manuscript number in the space below. (If the previous version was submitted through the SAGETRACK system, following the instructions to submit a revised manuscript will automatically associate your revised version with the original submission) Authors of all revised submissions should when prompted provide information explaining the changes in your manuscript. As this will be provided to reviewers it is important that authors do not identify themselves in these responses.
JTP does not review manuscripts that are simultaneously under review by other journals or that substantially overlap with parts of larger manuscripts that have been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. As an international English-language journal, JTP may in very special cases consider a manuscript that has been previously published in a language other than English, but this circumstance should be disclosed at the time of submission.
There is no absolute limit on length, but 7000 words, including footnotes and references, is a useful target. An abstract of up to 150 words should precede the main text, accompanied by up to five key words. To facilitate anonymous review, there should be no identifying self-references beyond the title page. Authors should supply a short biography of 50-100 words, with a full mailing address, plus an email address if possible.
Titles and section headings should be clear and brief. Lengthy quotations (exceeding 40 words) should be displayed, indented, in the text. Either British or American spelling may be used. Indicate Italic by underlining. Dates should be in the form 9 May 1989. Take out points in USA and other such abbreviations and do not use points after Dr, Mrs, Mr etc. When referring to pagination and dates use the smallest number of numerals possible (e.g. 10-19, 42-5, 1961-4, 1978-85).
Tables and figures should have short, descriptive titles. All footnotes to tables and their source(s) should be placed under the tables. Column headings should clearly define the data presented. The final version of an accepted manuscript must include camera-ready artwork for all figures. Artwork intended for same-size use should have a maximum size 170:100 mm (page depth: page width); oversized artwork should be prepared in the same proportion.
Mathematical formulas that appear within text should be presented on one line where possible.
Essential notes should be indicated by superscript numbers in the text and collected at the end of the text. References cited in the text should read thus: Brown (1975: 63-4). Brown and Smith (1975, 1980). Use 'et al.' when citing a work by more than two authors, e.g. Brown et al. (1981). The letters a, b, c, etc. should be used to distinguish citations of different works by the same author in the same year, e.g. Brown (1975a, b). All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and presented in full after the notes, using the following style:
Articles in journals: Scharpf, Fritz W. (1988c) 'The Joint Decision Trap', Public Administration 66: 239-78.
Books: Nelson, Richard R. and Sidney O. Winter (1982) An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Unpublished works: Pearce, David G. (1987) 'Renegotiation-proof Equilibria: Collective Rationality and Inter-temporal Cooperation', Mimeo, Yale University.
Articles that do not conform to these requirements may be returned to the authors for revision.
A restricted quantity pdf will be provided for the corresponding author of each original or review article along with a complimentary journal copy. A maximum of 5 journal copies will be supplied for multi-authored articles. These will be supplied to the main author.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Authors should submit their manuscripts (including all figures and tables) electronically unless this is absolutely impossible.
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