Submission Guidelines

All manuscripts submitted to the Review of Radical Political Economics (including book reviews, regular manuscripts, conference papers, and all other submissions) must be submitted via RRPE’s Manuscript Central website, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rrpe

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Only manuscripts that meet the aims and scope of the Review of Radical Political Economics will be reviewed. The RRPE reserves the right to reject papers without review.

All papers submitted to the RRPE should not be under consideration for publication at another journal. All submitted papers must represent original work and will be run through SAGE’s originality-detection program, iThenticate. The RRPE may reject a paper if significant portions of it have already been published elsewhere.

All original manuscripts and book reviews submitted to RRPE undergo a single-anonymized peer-review process (reviewers known, authors unknown until a final decision has been made). Please be sure to remove all references to the authors in the document that will be sent out for review.

Aims and scope
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/review-of-radical-political-economics/journal201656#aims-and-scope

Instructions to Contributors
All manuscripts submitted to the Review of Radical Political Economics must conform to the guidelines outlined here. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be rejected without review. Before final acceptance of a paper, it is an author’s responsibility to ensure that the paper conforms to the guidelines outlined here (accepted papers will be returned to authors for revision until they conform to these guidelines). The RRPE follows the Chicago Manual of Style—for questions not covered in these guidelines, please consult the CMS.

1. Regular original manuscripts should be no longer than 10,000 words. Book reviews should be 1500–2000 words, and review essays should be 2500–3500 words. Preferred formats for text and tables are Word DOC and XLS. Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout, with a minimum of 2.5cm or 1-inch margins on all sides. Text should be in 11- or 12-point font, Times New Roman or some other standard academic font. An abstract is required and should be a maximum of 125 words. At least two JEL Classification and at least three Keywords are required for manuscript submission.
2. Papers submitted to the RRPE must be in English. RRPE reviewers consider not only the content of the paper but also its readability. If English-language writing is a problem, authors are expected to seek the assistance of a professional English-language editor. The RRPE reserves the right not to review or accept papers that have English-language problems.
3. Spelling, abbreviations, acronyms, etc.:
   • RRPE uses American (not British) spelling, orthography, grammar, punctuation (e.g., labor [not labour], defense [not defence], etc.).
   • Abbreviate US, UK when used as adjective (no periods, not U.S., not USA), but spell out United States or United Kingdom when used as noun.
   • Acronyms should be expanded the first time they are used in the paper with the acronym appearing in parentheses. Thereafter only the acronym should be used, and the expanded term should not be given again.
   • RRPE does not use “&”—always spell out “and” unless it is a formal part of the title, such as Capital & Class.
   • Spell out “percent” in the running text. RRPE does not use “%” except in tables and figures
   • Use lowercase letters in the running text for words that refer to parts of a published work, unless the word begins a sentence. Thus in the running text, all the following words should begin with a lowercase letter (unless the word begins a sentence): table, figure, section, part, chapter, volume, appendix, equation, etc.
4. Punctuation:
   • The RRPE uses the serial (Oxford) comma (i.e., place a comma to separate the second-to-last item from the last item in a series, before “and” or “or”). Use a semicolon instead of a comma if items in the series include other punctuation.
   • Place a comma after i.e., and e.g.,
   • Use prime mark (not apostrophe) for prime sign: M—C—M′ (not M—C—M’) (helpful information may be found here)
   • Minus sign (not hyphen, not en dash) should be used for subtraction and negative numbers (helpful information may be found here)
   • Economic ratios should be written with a forward slash rather than as hyphenated expressions (for example, capital/labor ratio, debt/equity ratio).
   • Em dash, en dash, and hyphen (helpful information may be found here)
     1. Em dash: Descriptive clauses should be set off by em dashes (not double hyphens and not en dashes). There should be no spaces before and after the em dash.
     2. En dash: en dash should be used for numeric ranges, such as date, page, and monetary ranges, including in the References list. There should be no spaces before or after the en dash
     3. Hyphen:
        • Compound nouns are not hyphenated. Compound nouns are either one word (e.g., childcare, forecasting, marketplace, etc.), or are two words not hyphenated (e.g., surplus value, labor power, etc.)
        • Compound adjectives are hyphenated when they appear before the noun they modify (e.g., blue-collar worker) but are not hyphenated when they appear after the noun they modify (e.g., the worker is blue collar).
        • Prefixes: some are hyphenated and some are closed. Cases when prefixes should be hyphenated: to make terms more readable (e.g., post-capitalism), to avoid word confusion (e.g., co-op vis a vis coop), to prevent a double letter (e.g., anti-intellectual), and before a proper name/noun (e.g., post-Keynesian, neo-Marxism)
5. Verb tenses: RRPE uses present verb tense (not future tense) when describing what the paper does or intends to do. Pay attention to verb tenses—they should be as consistent as possible throughout the paper.
6. Footnotes: Footnotes are used only for substantive comments (RRPE does not use footnotes solely for citations). RRPE does not use Endnotes.
7. Quotations:
   • All quotation marks should be double (unless it is a quote within a quote). RRPE does not use single quotation marks (unless it is a quote within a quote).
   • Quotation marks should be curly or smart (rather than straight quotation marks) (helpful information may be found here).
   • Every quotation must have the author’s own words appear in the same sentence to integrate the quote into the text—quotes should not stand alone as a sentence.
   • Periods and commas appear inside (not after) closing quotation marks. All other punctuation should appear outside quotation marks, unless the punctuation is part of the direct quote.
   • “Scare quotes” (to indicate a term is used in a nonstandard way, or to imply “this is not my term”) should be kept to a minimum and used only for emphasis. A term can be introduced in scare quotes but should appear thereafter without them.
   • Block quotes are generally used for quotations longer than 4 lines or 70 words. No quotation marks are used unless there is a quote within the quote. A colon precedes a block quote, and a period is placed at the end of the quote, and the citation is placed in parenthesis after the period. The citation is not followed by a period.
8. Tables and figures:
   • All tables and figures must be referred to in the running text.
   • Figures (including graphs, diagrams, illustrations, etc.) should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. Tables should also be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals.
   • Figures supplied in color will appear in color online but will appear in grayscale in print (please be sure all images are readable in grayscale). For specifically requested color reproduction in print, authors will receive information from SAGE regarding the costs after receipt of the accepted article.
   • Grayscale images should be at least 300 dpi. Color images should be 600 dpi, although 300 dpi is often acceptable. All images must be editable, and .tif or .eps files are preferred.
   • Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, or figures previously published elsewhere.
9. In-text citations and References list: the RRPE follows the Chicago Manual of Style Author-Date style for citations. Please ensure there is a corresponding entry in the References list for all in-text citations, including data sources, websites you cite, etc. Footnotes may not be used solely for citation—only substantive comments may appear in footnotes. RRPE does not use endnotes. RRPE does not use Latin terms for citations, such as ibid, op. cit., supra, etc.
   1. In-text citations:
      • For parenthetical in-text citations that include the author name, publication date, and page number, there should be no punctuation (no comma) between the author and date, and there should be a colon+space between date and page number.
      • RRPE does not use “p.” or “pp.” for in-text citations.
      • Page numbers are required when citing a quote.
      • En dash (not hyphen) should be used for page ranges
      • When citing works with three or more authors, only the first author and et al. (not italicized) should be used. When citing works with two or fewer authors, all author last names should be used.
      • For Spanish-language citations, both surnames should be used. When a single surname must be used, the first one (that could be the father’s or the mother’s) is used, not the second.
      • Citing and referencing online ebooks: If possible, consult a print edition for fixed page numbers. If a print edition and fixed page numbers are not available, then for in-text citations, include the chapter number, section heading number, and paragraph number (if available).
      • Examples:
        • (Kotz and Li 2010: 145)
        • Brennan et al. (2017)
        • Hahnel (2012: 199–200)
        • (Cámara Izquierdo 2006) or (Cámara 2006)
        • Gálvez (2018: ch.3 §3.1 ¶6)
   2. In the References list:
      • Authors’ full first names (not initials) must be used.
      • All author names should be given no matter how many authors.
      • Entries by the same author (or same set of co-authors) should be arranged chronologically from earliest to latest.
      • Use “ed.” or “eds.” (not “edited by”) for an edited volume.
      • Place of publication must be given for all entries in the References list, especially for reports, working papers, and small publishers (exception may include large multi-locational publishers).
      • RRPE does not use quotation marks in the References list unless they are part of the originally published title.
      • Capitalization and italicization of titles:
        • article and chapter titles should be in sentence case (not italicized, not in quotation marks)
        • book and journal titles, and working paper and report titles, should be in title case and italicized (do not italicize the name of the organization or institution that produced the working paper or report).
      • Working papers and reports:
        • working paper or report titles should be italicized and in title case, and not in quotation marks
        • publisher information should include a location of the organization or institute that published the report or working paper. Location should be followed by a colon+space and then followed by name of organization or institute that published the report or working paper.
        • an “Accessed At:” URL should be provided—be sure the words “Accessed at:” (including the colon) are typed before all URLs. Do not give an “accessed at” date.
      • An “Accessed at:” URL should be provided at the end of the entry for all working papers and reports, or when page numbers are unavailable—again, be sure the words “Accessed at:” (including the colon) are typed before all URLs, and do not give an “accessed at” date.
      • For online books and e-books, state the type of non-print format (e.g., Kindle edition, PDF e-book, etc.) as the last part of the entry, and include the “Accessed at:” URL (or, if available, DOI)
      • English translation in brackets of non-English titles is encouraged.
      • Examples:
        • Brennan, David, David Kristjanson-Gural, Catherine P. Mulder, and Erik K. Olsen, eds. 2017. Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics. New York: Routledge.
        • Cámara Izquierdo, Sergio. 2006. A value-oriented distinction between productive and unproductive labor. Capital & Class 30 (3): 37–63.
        • Davis, Ann E. 2015. The Evolution of the Property Relation: Understanding Paradigms, Debates, and Prospects. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
        • Gálvez, Alyshia. 2018. Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico. Oakland: University of California Press. Kindle edition. Accessed at: https://www.ucpress.edu/ebook/9780520965447/eating-nafta.
        • Ghosh, Jayati. 2012. The emerging left in the “emerging” world. Economic & Political Weekly 47 (24). Accessed at: https://www.epw.in/journal/2012/24/perspectives/emerging-left-emerging-world.html.
        • Last, First M. and First M. Last. Date. Book Title. City: Publisher.
        • Last, First. Date. Article title. Journal Title volume (issue): page–range.
        • Lippit, Victor. 2010. Social structure of accumulation theory. In Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century, eds. Terrence McDonough, Michael Reich, and David M. Kotz, 45–71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
        • Menzio, Guido. 2024. Efficient Imperfect Competition with an Application to International Trade. NBER Working Paper no. 33253. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Accessed at: https://www.nber.org/papers/w33253.
        • Zeng, Yiwu, Dongmao Qiu, Yiting Sheng, Hongdong Guo. 2015. Research of the formation of Taobao Village: Case studies of Dongfeng Village and Junpu Village [曾亿武,邱东茂,沈逸婷,郭红东.淘宝村形成过程研究: 以东风村和军埔村为例.经济地理]. Economic Geography 35 (12): 90–97.
10. Equations, numbers, etc.:
    • Use American formatting for dates (i.e., month day, year)
    • Fractions should be written as split-level (not inline): ²/₃ (not: 2/3)
    • Numbers in the millions, billions, etc. should be divided by 1 million, billion, etc. and the units “millions” (or “billions”) indicated.
    • RRPE uses Arabic (not Roman) numbers (exception is World War I and II)
    • Equations:
      • In running text: punctuate all equations according to their function or position in the sentence
      • On a separate line: precede all equations with a colon and do not add any extra punctuation in the equation itself
11. After acceptance of a paper but before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive license agreement that transfers and assigns to the Union for Radical Political Economics all right, title, and interest in copyright, in and to the accepted article.

RRPE’s Data Sharing Policy
The Editorial Board of the RRPE is committed to ensuring the scientific integrity of the research that appears in the journal. We encourage maximum transparency in the reporting of empirical results. Authors commit to provide sufficiently detailed information about the data used and data sources, about how samples and variables were constructed, and about the empirical tests performed and the econometric models used, to enable other researchers to replicate the reported results and assess the accuracy of the paper’s conclusions.Accordingly, when making use of data that are not publicly available, authors of accepted manuscripts should preserve the dataset and are strongly encouraged to make it accessible through a data repository such as the ICPSR, the Harvard Dataverse, or Figshare. A link to the dataset should be provided in a “Data Accessibility Statement” appended to the end of the paper. If authors do not provide such a link, they will make a declaration. If the data utilized are proprietary or are otherwise subject to sharing restrictions, we expect authors to be willing to provide other researchers with reasonable information on how the data might be obtained. This policy applies to quantitative data, not to qualitative data.

RRPE Author Appeal Policy
RRPE Author Appeal Policy statement is here https://urpe.org/the-journal/about/rrpe-author-appeal-policy/

Contact
Any correspondence, queries, or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the RRPE editorial office:
Enid Arvidson, Ph.D.
Managing Editor, Review of Radical Political Economics
editor.rrpe@urpe.org