Submitting Papers for Publication
Content: Since each issue of the journal is on a particular theme, papers should be submitted on that theme. The themes that have been chosen for future issues are published in each issue of the journal, and are also listed at www.iied.org/human/eandu/themes.html.
Papers may also be submitted to the section on Participatory Tools and Methods, and the Feedback section for papers responding to themes covered in previous issues. However, there is usually a backlog of papers waiting to be published in the Feedback section.
Timing: Papers should be submitted by 15th March for the October issue, and 15th September for the April issue.
Length: Articles should be between 1,500 and 7,000 words (or between 6 and 22 pages if typed in double spacing).
Language: Although the journal is an English language publication, papers may be submitted in French, Spanish or Portuguese; if accepted for publication, the cost of translation will be borne by the journal.
References: A slightly modified Yale system of referencing is used - with sequential numbers inserted in the text of the article (1,2,3.....) linked to a numbered list of references or notes running alongside the article. A full set of references should also be included at the end of each paper, formatted as below.
Some examples of the style to be used in references:
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (1992), Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, University of California Press, Berkeley, 614 pages.
For a paper in an edited volume:
Abers, Rebecca (1998), "Learning democratic practice: distributing government resources through popular participation in Porto Alegre, Brazil", in Douglass, Mike and John Friedmann (editors), Cities for Citizens, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, pages 39-65.
For a paper in a journal:
Montiel, René Pérez and Françoise Barten (1999), "Urban governance and health development in León, Nicaragua", Environment and Urbanization Vol 11, No 1, April, pages 11-26.
Please send all contributions to: The Editors, Environment and Urbanisation, IIED, 3 Endsleigh Street, London, WC1H ODD, UK. Email: eandu@iied.org for further information.
Referees: Papers submitted to the journal are reviewed by external referees - generally by one who is a specialist on the topic of the paper and another who is a specialist on the region, country or city on which the paper focuses. The editorial team tries to get responses back to authors within two months of receiving the paper.
Copyright. SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journals Contributor's Publishing Agreeement for all articles that we publish. SAGE's Journals Contributor's Publishing Agreeement is a license agreement under which the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and license to publish for the full and legal term of copyright.
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