Submissions should be addressed to:

The Managing Editor     
Professor Andrew Scott   
The Economic Journal   
London Business School   
Sussex Place     
Regent's Park     
London NW1 4SA
UK

For enquiries regarding submissions, please contact:

Locum Publishing Editor
Sarah Cheung
The Economic Journal
London Business School
Sussex Place
Regent’s Park
London NW1 4SA
UK

Email: econjournal@london.edu
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7000 8413
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7000 8401

Proposals for Economic Journal Features should be submitted via email to:

Professor Stephen Machin
Features Editor
Department of Economics
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UK
Email: ejfeatures@ucl.ac.uk

On-line submission is now available for The Economic Journal, and is the preferred form for receiving submissions. Submission is free to members of the Royal Economic Society. Non-members who wish to submit a paper must join the Society: for details on joining, click on “Membership” and see information.

For more details and instructions on submitting a paper, see our on-line submission page.  If you are unable to access this link, please contact the editorial office at the email address provided above.  Submission of an article is taken as an implicit agreement that the work will not be submitted simultaneously to any other publication.

See our Editorial Policy Statement

To assist the general reader the Editors require that authors take care to motivate their work and to communicate their contribution in a clear manner. Please note that, in general, articles should not exceed 7,500 words. Overlong papers will be returned without consideration. 

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Guide to preparing manuscripts for submission

1. When setting out mathematical equations, contributors are asked to conform to the conventions adopted in recent articles published in The Economic Journal. The full mathematical workings necessary for justifying each step of the argument should accompany all articles of a mathematical character, in order to assist the referee. These workings will not be published. 

2. Statistical tables should be clearly headed and the reader should be able to understand the meaning of each row or column without hunting in the text for explanations of symbols, etc. Units of measurement, base-dates for index numbers, geographical area covered and sources should be clearly stated. Avoid undue complexity and excess numbers of digits just because computer programs provide them. Page size is limited and it should be easy for the reader to absorb the information you wish to convey from the table. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the data and for checking their proofs; whenever they feel that the referee would have difficulty in testing the derivation of their statistics, they should provide supplementary notes on the methods used. These will not be published.

3. Diagrams should be clearly drawn and accompanied by the basic statistics that were required for the preparation; the axes must be clearly labelled; the reader must be able to understand the diagrams without hunting in the text for explanations. Make sure that the messages you want to convey are clear, as the diagram is likely to be reduced for printing. Use just a few round numbers in the axes; make sure lines and shading will look clearly different in black and white.  

4. Bibliographical references should be carefully checked, and complete in respect of the year and the place of publication. If a bibliographical list is given, it should follow the style used in the current issue of The Economic Journal.

Exclusive Licence Form

Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material.  (Government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright  in such cases does not need to  be assigned).  After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various medium/circumstances (please see the form for further details).  To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form here.

Preparation of the final typescript for The Economic Journal