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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere
  • The manuscript is written in English as a Microsoft Word document
  • The manuscript does not exceed 9,000 words, including references, tables, and graphs
  • Two versions of the manuscript are submitted – one with author details, and the other anonymised (including in the file’s "Properties" – please check in the "File" menu (Info → Inspect document)).
  • All authors have contributed to the research and preparation of the manuscript, and all have approved the submitted version
  • Prior review all authors have disclosed external financing sources and any conflict of interest
  • The authors understand and accept the terms of the Public Sector Economics (PSE) ethical guidelines. In particular, the authors guarantee that the paper does not violate any copyright rules and that ethical and professional standards for the publication of scientific papers have been followed. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation arising from the publication of your work
  • The authors understand that manuscript will be processed by industry-standard software to check for potential instances of plagiarism

Articles

Please submit your manuscripts in Microsoft Word (.docx or .doc) format, using Times New Roman, font size 12, line spacing 1.5. Equations and tables can be written in font size 10. Total length should not exceed 9,000 words, including graphs, tables, footnotes and references.   
 
The first page should contain: 
References should be cited according to the Harvard Style of Referencing.
 
Please use consistently the British ("-ise") spelling style throughout your manuscript.
 
Graphs, tables and images should be included in the main document. If the paper is accepted for publication you will be asked to attach them as separate and editable files.
 
When revising your manuscript for resubmission, please follow our publication template, which is mandatory if the paper is accepted for publication.

Book reviews

When submitting book reviews, please choose the option ‘Manuscript – with author details’. A typical book review should be no longer than 1,500 words.

Copyright Notice

If accepted for publication, the authors will be asked to sign a Licence to Publish. Authors retain the copyright on the papers published in PSE  but grant the right of publication to the journal.
 
Authors must obtain the right to use copyright material (e.g. maps, drawings, literary quotes, lyrics) from its owner before publishing the paper in PSE.
 
PSE  is an Open Access Journal licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non/Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits non-commercial use and redistribution, as long as the licensed work is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to PSE  as its original publisher.
 
The authors can make the results of their accepted papers available before they are published in PSE on preprint platforms, blogs, and other informal communication channels by providing a link to the PSE  website and noting that the manuscript will be published in PSE.
 
For complete information on copyright, please see Ethical guidelines for publication in PSE

Privacy Statement

The publisher guarantees privacy of personal information for all authors and reviewers. The names and email addresses submitted to this journal site will be used exclusively for processing the publication in PSE and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. More at Ethical guidelines for publication in PSE. 

Data policy

Authors of accepted papers that contain empirical work, simulations, or experimental work should be prepared to provide, prior to acceptance, information about the data, codes, and other details of the computations sufficient to permit replication, as well as information about access to data and codes. Authors are expected to preserve data and codes for at least five years following publication, and to offer reasonable assistance to requests for clarification and replication. 
 
In empirical studies based on interviews, surveys, experiments, and similar methods involving human subjects, the authors are responsible for ensuring that legal rights of survey participants in each jurisdiction have been fully respected. These rights include but are not limited to: the right to informed consent to participate in and publish the results of the study; the right of participants to anonymity; and the right to confidentiality of personal and other identifiable information gathered as part of the study. 
 
For complete information on data policy, please see Ethical guidelines for publication in PSE.