期刊名称：ACTA POLITICA
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims and scope of journal
Political Science with an Edge
Acta Politica is one of the few truly international political science journals with a broad scope across the discipline. In the past we have published theoretical and empirical articles, comparative and single-country studies and even some methodological notes. In times of an ever-increasing specialisation in political science, we however strongly believe a broad-ranging political science journal is as important as ever for the international scientific community. As Editors, we have a strong preference for articles that will attract a wide audience within the broader field of political science, no matter what the precise topic of the article might be.
Despite this broad scope Acta Politica is very selective about the quality of the articles that it publishes. Acta Politica has always been committed to publishing articles with an 'edge'; providing new insights or new approaches in political science. At the end of the review process, we always ask the question: "What did we learn from this article?"
Our aim is to provide an exciting read, whether you are interested in political theory or quantitative research methods. Our goal is to select those articles that bring with them a substantive theoretical background, while demonstrating how these ideas can be used in empirical research. On the other hand, we welcome empirical articles introducing new ways to incorporate or to test theoretical discussions which are highly interesting to our readers.
Acta Politica follows a double blind review policy, and our acceptance rate stands at about 35 per cent, ensuring that all the articles we publish meet high academic standards. These standards are, and will remain, our ultimate criteria of judgment for inclusion in the journal. We welcome articles on a broad range of topics, and using a wide array of methods. While in the past most authors publishing in Acta Politica tended to come from Europe, we now also attract more articles from the United States, Canada and the rest of the world. Our aim is to provide authors with substantive feedback within three months of receiving of a manuscript.
Acta Politica is committed to publishing relevant political science research, and we invite you to share that commitment, either by subscribing to the journal or recommending it to your library, or by considering Acta Politica when choosing a journal to publish your own research. Potential authors are invited to contact the Editors at acta.politica@fsw.vu.nl with informal enquiries regarding suitability of their manuscript.
Instructions to Authors
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Production process
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Online publication
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Submission of manuscripts
Authors should submit papers via the EJournalPress online submission system at: http://ap.msubmit.net.
You will be required to submit two documents, containing the following elements:
1. Author Contact Details and Biography:
- the title of the article
- a short running title of no more than 40 characters (including spaces)
- the author(s)' names and affiliations
- a short biography of no more than 100 words for each author
- contact details for the corresponding author (including full postal and email addresses as well as telephone and fax numbers)
2. Article:
- the title of the article
- a summary or abstract of 150-200 words in length outlining the aims and subject matter
- 3-6 keywords that describe your paper - for indexing and abstracting services
- the article in full, including references
Please make sure that the article file does not contain any information identifying the author(s).
Editorial queries should be directed to the Editors' Secretary, Ms Margriet Lambert (acta.politica@fsw.vu.nl).
If you have any problems submitting your article via the online submission system, please contact Ros Pyne (r.pyne@palgrave.com).
Books for review should be sent to:
- Dr. Wouter van der Brug, Acta Politica Book Review Editor
Department of Communication Science
University of Amsterdam
Kloveniersburgwal 48
1012 CX Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: + 31 20 5252765
E-mail: W.vanderBrug@uva.nl
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Presentation of the paper
Articles should be in English, typed in double spacing (including all notes and references), preferably A4 or US standard size, with pages numbered.
Articles should not normally exceed 8,000 words in length. Print a word count at the end of the text together with the date of the manuscript.
Notes
Keep textual notes to a minimum, indicate them with superscript numbers, and provide the note text as a list at the end of the article before the references. Please do not use Proofs.
References in the text
In the text, refer to the author(s) name(s) (without initials, unless there are two authors with the same name) and year of publication. Unpublished data and personal communications should include initials and year. Publications which have not yet appeared are to be avoided. If used, they are to be given a probable year of publication and should be checked at proof stage on the author query sheet.
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Example:
Since Patterson (1983) has shown that... This is in results attained later (Kramer, 1984, 16). Results have been reported (Robinson, 1989, personal communication) which suggest...
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Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with a, b, c (e.g. 1974a, 1990b) closed up to the year. If there are two authors for a publication, put both names separated by 'and' (not &). If there are more than two authors, put the name of the first author followed by et al. References to material on the internet must be given in brackets in the text, not in the reference list. The full URL must be given.
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Example:
www.nature.com/onc/v18/nl/1234567.html
List of references
References are placed in alphabetical order of authors. Examples of correct forms of references in alphabetical style:
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Article in journal
Higgott, R. (1998) 'The Asian economic crisis: a study in the politics of resentment', New Political Economy 3(3): 333-336.
Bender, J., Bloggs, B. and Swistak, P. (1997) 'The evolutionary stability in cooperation', American Political Science Review 91(3): 290-297.
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Book
Giddens, A. (1990) The Consequences of Modernity, Cambridge: Polity.
Brown, C. (ed.) (1994) Political restructuring in Europe: Ethical Perspectives, London: Routledge.
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Chapter in book
Hook, G.D. (1998) 'Japanese Business in Triadic Globalization', in H. Hasegawa and G.D. Hook (eds.) Japanese Business Management: Restructuring for Low Growth and Globalization, London, Routledge, pp.19-38.
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Conference paper
Harley, N.H. (1981) 'Radon risk models', in A.R. Knight and B.Harrad (eds.) Indoor Air and Human Health, Proceedings of the Seventh Life Sciences Symposium; 29-31 October 1981; Knoxville, USA. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Pp. 69-78.
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Thesis
Zito, A. (1994) 'Epistemic communities in European policy-making' Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.
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Newspaper article
Barber, L. (1993) 'The towering bureaucracy', Financial Times, 21 June.
Spelling
Use either UK or US spellings consistently throughout. For UK spellings, take as a guide the new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors; Websters Collegiate for US spellings. UK spellings will prefer '-ize' to '-ise', as a verb ending (e.g. realize, specialize, recognize etc.).
Illustrations and tables
Supply tables, figures and plates on separate sheets at the end of the article, with their position within the text clearly indicated on the page where they are introduced. Provide typed captions for figures and plates (including sources and acknowledgements) on a separate sheet. Electronic versions should be saved in either TIFF or Jpeg format.
Present tables with the minimum use of horizontal rules (usually three are sufficient) and avoiding vertical rules except in matrices. It is important to provide clear copies of figures (not photocopies or faxes) which can be reproduced by the printer and do not require redrawing. Photographs should be preferably black and white glossy prints with a wide tonal range.
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Offprints
A copy of the printed journal and article offprints (25, to be shared with co-authors) are dispatched to authors shortly after publication.
Copyright
Clearing permissions
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing through any medium of communication those illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Add your acknowledgements to the typescript, preferably in the form of an Acknowledgements section at the end of the paper. Credit the source and copyright of photographs or figures in the accompanying captions. The journal's policy is to own copyright in all contributions. Before publication authors assign copyright to the Publishers, but retain their rights to republish this material in other works written or edited by them, subject to full acknowledgement of the original source of publication.
The journal mandates the Copyright Clearance Center in the USA and Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK to offer centralised licensing arrangements for photocopying in their respective territories.
Books for review
Books for review should be sent to:
- Ms. Margriet Lambert, Editors' Secretary, Acta Politica
Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit
De Boelelaan 1081c
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
E-mail: acta.politica@fsw.vu.nl
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