Review of Radical Political Economics

All manuscripts submitted to the Review of Radical Political Economics (RRPE), 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.

You can download the PDF version of the submission guidelines here.

Policies

There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.

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

All papers submitted to 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. RRPE may reject a paper if significant portions of it have already been published elsewhere. RRPE will consider the pre-peer-reviewed version of a paper that has been posted on a preprint server, and the author will be required to provide information during the submission process about the preprint, including DOI number if there is one. Authors of preprinted submissions should be aware that a preprint could possibly compromise the author’s anonymity in RRPE’s anonymized peer-review process. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy. If the paper is accepted, the author should include a link on their preprint to the final version of the paper.

All original manuscripts and book reviews submitted to RRPE undergo a rigorous single-anonymized peer-review process (reviewers known, authors unknown). 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/journal/review-radical-political-economics#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 returned. 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). 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, RTF, XLS. Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout, with a minimum of 2.5-cm 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 Codes and at least three Keywords are required for manuscript submission. If desired, an RRPE Word template is available here.

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 strongly urged to seek the assistance of a professional English-language editor. RRPE reserves the right not to review or accept papers that have English-language problems.

3. RRPE uses American spelling (not British). For example: "acknowledgment" is spelled with two, not three, “e”s; "labor" is spelled without a “u”; etc.

4. Punctuation rules:

a. Descriptive clauses should be set off by em dashes—not double hyphens or en dashes (for example -- double hyphens are incorrect). There should be no spaces before and after the em dash.

b. RRPE uses the serial (or 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.

c. Economic ratios should be written with a forward slash rather than as hyphenated expressions (for example, "capital/labor ratio," "debt/equity ratio").

d. Abbreviate US [UK] when used as an adjective (no periods; not "U.S."), but spell out United States [United Kingdom] when used as a noun.

e. Use an en dash to connect words or numbers that specify a range (for example, "2005–2010"). Use a hyphen to connect two words that function as a single concept, or that work together as a joint modifier (for example, "free-market ideology").

f. Periods and commas appear inside quotation marks. All other punctuation should appear outside quotation marks, unless the punctuation is part of the direct quote.

g. “Scare quotes” 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.

5. Every quotation needs to 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.

6. The RRPE practice is to use present 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.

7. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively throughout the text, and should include only material that cannot be included in the text. The first line of the footnote is not indented.

8. Block quotes are generally used for quotations longer than 4 lines or 70 words. A colon precedes a block quote:

Block quotes are single-spaced, indented on left and right, and smaller font than the rest of the text. No quotation marks are used unless there is a quote within the quote. A period is placed at the end of the quote, and the citation is placed in parentheses after the period. The citation is not followed by a period. (Marx 2010: 174)

9. Figures (including graphs, diagrams, illustrations, etc.) should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. Tables should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. 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.

Figures supplied in color will appear in color online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version. For specifically requested color reproduction in print, authors will receive information from Sage regarding the costs after receipt of the accepted article.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, or figures previously published elsewhere.

10. RRPE follows the Chicago Manual of Style's Author-Date style for citations. Footnotes are used only for substantive comments (not for citations). RRPE does not use endnotes. RRPE does not use Latin terms for citations, such as ibid, op. cit., supra, etc.

In-text citations do not use a comma between the author and year. Page numbers are required when citing a quote, although the RRPE does not use “p.” for page numbers—instead, a colon is used. When citing works with four or more authors, only the first author and "et al." (not italicized) 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. Examples:

(McDonough, Reich, and Kotz 2010: 145)

(Brennan et al. 2017)

(Cámara Izquierdo 2006) or (Cámara 2006)

Citing and referencing online books and e-books: If possible, consult a print edition for fixed page numbers. If a print edition and fixed page numbers are not available (sometimes electronic sources do not include page numbers, or sometimes they repaginate according to user-defined text size), then for in-text citations, include the chapter number, section heading number, and paragraph number (if available). Example:

Gálvez (2018: ch.3 §3.1 ¶6)

In the References list, authors’ first names (not initials) must be used. All author names should be written out no matter how many authors there are. Second, third, etc. entries by the same author(s) should be denoted by a triple em-dash rather than by repeating the author's name. Entries by the same author should be arranged chronologically from earliest to latest. Article and chapter titles should be in sentence case, not enclosed 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 that produced the working paper or report). "Accessed at: [URL]" should be provided at the end of the entry i) for all working papers and reports, or ii) when page numbers are unavailable. When listing online books and e-books in the Reference list, 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 of non-English titles is encouraged. Examples:

Brennan, David, David Kristjanson-Gural, Catherine P. Mulder, and Erik K. Olsen. 2017. Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics. New York: Routledge.

Cámara Izquierdo, Sergio. 2006. A value-oriented distinction between productive and unproductive labour. Capital & Class 30 (3): 37–63.

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.

Last, First M. and First M. Last. Date. Book Title. City: Publisher.

Last, First. Date. Article title. Journal Title volume (issue): page–range.

———. Date. Chapter title. In Book Title, ed. First Last, trans. First Last, page–range. City: Publisher.

McDonough, Terrence, Michael Reich, and David M. Kotz, eds. 2010. Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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.

11. It is the policy of the Review of Radical Political Economics to require a declaration of conflicts of interest from all authors and to include the declaration in all published articles. When uploading your manuscript, you will be required to declare any potential or perceived conflicts of interest. More information about identifying conflicting interests can be found here:

https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/declaration-of-conflicting-interests-policy

Sage is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record, and encourages authors to view the Publication Ethics page on the Sage Author Gateway here: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/ethics-responsibility.

As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent, and fair peer review process, Sage is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier (iD) that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.

The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD, you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID iD to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes only seconds to do so: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account, and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and, from there, link to your other publications.

If you do not already have an ORCID iD, please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.

12. 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.

13. Sage’s Online First platform allows completed articles to be published online prior to their inclusion in a print issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Articles published online have a DOI number and are considered published. For more information, please visit Sage’s Online First Fact Sheet, http://journals.sagepub.com/page/help/online-first.

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.

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