Public Administration Review Submission Information and Guidelines for Authors

• Published date: 01 January 2005
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2005.00438.x
• Date: 01 January 2005

124 Public Administration Review •January/February 2005, Vol. 65, No. 1

Public Administration Review

Submission Information and Guidelines for Authors

General Guidelines

Authors should submit a disk copy and six hard copies

of their manuscript to:

Shelly L. Peffer, Managing Editor

Public Administration Review

The University of Texas at Dallas

The School of Social Sciences

2601 North Floyd Road

P.O. Box 830688, GR 31

Richardson, TX 75083-0688

Manuscripts should follow the style guidelines in the

Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Submissions should

be manuscripts that have not been published previously

and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Manuscripts should be no longer than 35 pages, including

the abstract, bio statement, endnotes, reference list, tables,

figures, charts, and appendices. The page-size guideline is

based on the U.S. standard 8.5x11 inch paper. All material

should be 12-point type, double-spaced on one side of the

page with margins of one inch. Please do not use the

autoformat feature in your word processing program and

do not use the footnote feature to embed endnotes. An ab-

stract of no more than 150 words should appear on a sepa-

rate page, preceding the first page of the manuscript. The

abstract should include the central question addressed by

the article and the author’s findings and conclusions.

PAR uses a double-blind review process so authors

should prepare their manuscripts accordingly. Place the title

of the manuscript and all identifying material for all au-

thors on a detachable cover sheet (for all six copies mailed).

Include names, affiliations, mailing addresses, voice and

fax phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. If an article has

more than one author, please designate one as the primary

contact. Include the title of the manuscript on the abstract

page and on the first page of the text.

Please avoid indications of authorship whenever pos-

sible. This is commonly done by referring to oneself in the

third person and including typical references to the work

cited in the reference list. Assuming that the text refer-

ences to an author’s previous work are in the third person,

full citations should be included as usual in the references.

Authors should not thank colleagues in notes, acknowl-

edgments, or elsewhere in the body of the paper or men-

tion institution names, Web page addresses, or other po-

tentially identifying information. This information can be

added if the manuscript is accepted.

PAR readers cover a wide range of professional inter-

ests and specialties. All manuscripts should be clearly and

concisely written, with technical material set off. Please

do not use jargon or overly technical language. Use acro-

nyms sparingly and spell them out the first time you use

them. Please do not construct acronyms from phrases you

repeat frequently in the text. Consult the Chicago Manual

of Style if you are in doubt about stylistic issues.

Once a manuscript is formally accepted, authors will be

provided with instructions regarding the publication pro-

cess. Authors will be asked to make additional revisions

and to submit a final version on a disk (preferably using

Microsoft Word) along with two hard copies. Authors will

be required to assign copyright of their article to the Ameri-

can Society for Public Administration. Copyright assign-

ment is a condition of publication and articles cannot be

passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has

been assigned. (Papers subject to government or Crown

copyright are exempt from this requirement). To assist au-

thors, an appropriate copyright assignment form will be

supplied by the editorial office.

Information on Manuscript Formatting

Bio Statement

Authors of articles should include a biographical sketch

of 50–75 words (on a separate page, at the beginning of

the manuscript), providing information about their posi-

tion, organization, and professional interests.

Tables, Figures, Charts, Appendices

Please keep tables, figures, charts, and appendices to a

minimum. Your text may highlight and summarize the main

points in a table but it should not duplicate the details. Each

table or figure should be on a separate page at the end of

the manuscript. Indicate placement of tables, figures, etc.

in the text as follows: leave two double spaces after the

last line of preceding text; insert the sentence, [Table (Fig-

ure) N here], and leave two double spaces before begin-

ning the next line of text.

Note that the words “table,” “figure,” “appendix,” etc.

should be lowercase when referred to in the text. Zeros

should be omitted before decimal points in tables.

Please do not use heavy borders or shading. If the table,

figure, or chart requires fill effects please USE PATTERNS

instead of shading.

Article Title and Section Headings

The guidelines for article titles and section headings are

as follows (please do not underline):

Article title and principal subheads: 14-point roman type,

title case, bold, and set on a line separate from the text.

Secondary subheads: 12-point roman type, title case,

bold, and set on a line separate from the text.

Sub-subheads (run-in subheads): 12-point roman type,

title case, bold and italic, run-in at the beginning of a para-

graph, and followed by a period.

Numbers

Numerals or words: Spell out only single-digit num-

bers (1–9) and use numerals for all others. Use numerals

for percentages and spell out percent (for instance, 9 per-

cent). Centuries should be spelled out and lowercased.