Review of International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University

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En rules. An en rule is longer than a hyphen and is used to replace 'to' in number spans (e.g. 24-8). It is also used to connect two items linked in a political context, (e.g. 'Labour-Liberal alliance', 'Rome-Berlin axis') and to link the names of joint authors, to avoid confusion with the hyphen of a single double-barrelled name. Since there is no en rule key on the standard keyboard, type a double hyphen to indicate that an en rule is required (e.g. 24--8, 1914--18, Labour--Liberal alliance, Rome--Berlin axis, Temple--Hardcastle project). The typesetter can then change all double hyphens to en rules by making one global command.
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The Harvard reference system is used in this journal and citations should be included in the text body . Notes should be used only where necessary to avoid interrupting the continuity of the text. They should be numbered consecutively, using superscript arabic numerals in the text, and placed at the end of the article before the references. See below for more information.
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Please provide complete contact information and short author bio in separate document, named authornamecontactbio.doc.(.rtf) If your article is accepted, proofs will be sent electronically via email from the publisher, so it is extremely important that we have an accurate e-mail address. If you change addresses while your article is under review, please contact ripe@jhu.edu.
The title only should appear on the first page of the manuscript and the author's name, address, telephone, fax and e-mail details should be supplied on a separate sheet .

The Harvard reference system is the preferred bibliographic style in this journal. It uses the name of the author, the date of publication and, following quoted material, the page reference as a key to the full bibliographical details set out in a list of References, which should include (in alphabetical order by author) every work cited in the text. Where there are two or more works by one author in the same year, these should be distinguished by using 1980a, 1980b etc. Authors are asked to ensure that dates, spelling and titles used in the References are consistent with those listed in the text.

The content and format of the Reference list should conform to the following examples.

Multiple author

Currie, M. and Steedman, I. (1990) Wrestling with Time: Problems in Economic Theory , London: Pinter, pp. 124--47.

Article in journal

Dicken, P. (1992) ‘Europe 1992 and strategic change in the international automobile industry', Environment and Planning 24: 11--31.

Article in edited volume

Dunning, J.H. (1991) ‘Governments, economic organisation and international competitiveness', in L.G. Mattsson and B. Stymne (eds) Corporate and Industry Strategies for Europe , Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Edited text

Peirce, Charles Sanders (1934) Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce , vol. V, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism , eds C. Hartshorne and P. Weiss, Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press.

Reprinted texts

Hunt, Bishop Carleton (1936) The Development of the Business Corporation in England 1800--1867 , Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Reprinted (1969) New York: Russell & Russell.

Hein, Leonard W. (1963) ‘The auditor and the British Companies Acts', The Accounting Review , July 1963, 508-20. Reprinted (1988) in T.A. Lee (ed.) The Evolution of Audit Thought and Practice , London and New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 43--55.

Unpublished

Ball, R. (1993) ‘Sovereignty and national identity', unpublished PhD thesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

It would be helpful if contributors were to bear in mind the following points of style when preparing their papers for RIPE.

Spelling . We prefer spellings to conform to the new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary . Use -ize, in preference to -ise, as verbal ending (e.g. realize, specialize, recognize); though there are a number of exceptions (e.g. advertise, enfranchise, exercise). Note also analyse.

Initial capitalization . Please keep capitalization to a minimum. When possible, use lower case for government, church, state, party, volume etc.; north, south, etc. are only capitalized if used as part of a recognized place name e.g. Western Australia, South Africa; use lower case for general terms e.g. eastern France, south-west of Inverness.

Full points . Use full points after abbreviations but not in contractions or acronyms. For example, do not use for HMSO, USA, BBC, NATO, plc, etc.; omit after contractions which end in the last letter of the word (e.g. Dr, Mr, St, edn, eds, Ltd) and after metric units (e.g. cm, m, km, kg, etc.); but abbreviations, where the end of the word is cut, do have full points (e.g. p.m., ed., e.g., i.e., etc.). Note especially ed. eds; vol. vols; no. nos; ch. chs, etc.

Italics . Indicate italics by underlining and use for titles of books, journals, newspapers, plays, films, long poems, paintings and ships. Extensive use of italic for emphasis should be avoided.

Quotations . Use single quotation marks for quoted material within the text; double quotation marks should only be used for quotes within quotes. Do not use leader dots at the beginning or end of a quotation unless the sense absolutely demands. For ellipsis within a quotation use three leader dots for a mid-sentence break , four if the break is followed by a new sentence. Quotations of over forty words should be extracted and indented and no quotation marks used.

Numerals . In general spell out numbers under 100; but use numerals for measurements (e.g. 12 km) and ages (e.g. 10 years old). Insert a comma for both thousands and tens of thousands (e.g. 1,000 and 20,000). Use minimum numbers (e.g. 25-8, 136-42, 150-1, but 12-16 and 213-17). Use the percentage sign only in figures and tables; spell out 'per cent' in the text using a numeral for the number (e.g. 84 per cent).

Dates . Set out as follows: 8 July 1990 (no comma), on 8 July, or on the 8th; 1990s (not spelt out, no apostrophe); nineteenth century ( not 19th century) and insert hyphen when used adjectivally (e.g. nineteenth-century art).

Page proofs will be sent electronically for correction to the first-named author, unless otherwise requested. The difficulty and expense involved in making amendments at the page proof stage make it essential that authors prepare their typescripts carefully and avoid any rewriting at proof stage. Our aim is rapid publication which will be helped if authors provide copy which does not require amendment at proof stage. Should any substantial amendments be made, the contributor will be charged the additional typesetting costs incurred.

Twenty-five offprints and one copy of the journal will be supplied free of charge to each contributor; offprints must be shared in the case of joint authorship. .pdf files in lieu of hard copies are available as well.

RIPE does not accept unsolicited review articles. If you wish to write a review article, please contact one of the review editors with your proposal.

Reviews should follow all requirements for feature article submissions.

A RIPE review essay is not simply a long book review containing more detail about the book(s). It should go beyond evaluation and critique of the particular books under consideration and should have its own thesis. This should of course address the content of the books, but it should basically use the latter to illustrate its own argument. Books should be used as tools or platforms through which ideas are explored, compared and contrasted. Evaluation and critique then become merged into the wider thesis. Above all, RIPE review essays should be purposive and interesting for all potential readers of the journal. In general, reviews of two or three books are preferable to single reviews. The books should represent emerging trends and broad themes in the literature. While ‘critical' does not necessarily mean ‘negative,' book reviews should tease out conflicts and controversies. In this sense, contrasting approaches to the same problem by different authors can be a useful basis for a review, as can cross-disciplinary critiques. Mainstream assessment of non-mainstream approaches and vice-versa are similarly encouraged.

To write a review essay please contact either of the book review editors. After approval of topic and texts, the essay should take the following format. Reviews should be in English, and should be a maximum of 7000 words including footnotes and other appendices. In addition to the text, the review should include details of the Author, Title, Location, Publisher, Date, No. Pages, Price and ISBN. E.g.:-Angus Cameron, WHAT IT IS TO BE A GENIUS, London: Hopeless Press, 1996, xiv + 673 pp., £35.50 (hard) £15.00 (paper). ISBN: 0 - 844 - 09764 - 7. Reviews should be written as clearly and concisely as possible, seeking to avoid unnecessary jargon. Authors are encouraged to look at previous RIPR review essays to ascertain the full RIPE review essay layout. Copy should be e-mailed to either Leonard Seabrooke or Katherine Weaver.

updated 02 October 2004
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