Submissions

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.

Email the Editors first (lias@le.ac.uk) before starting a submission.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

Author Guidelines

To submit a paper for review, please email the submission to the Editors at lias@le.ac.uk. Do not submit a paper yourself through the system.
Maximum 5 pages of A4, using normal margins, and font size 12, presented initially as an OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect document file format.
Up to 2 pages of optional appendices may be included.
All papers will include an abstract of up to 200 words, as well as a non-technical summary of no more than 200 words to be use for promotional purposes.
LIAS Working Papers welcomes video or audio abstracts.
All papers should use either Harvard or APA referencing styles. All references must include a DOI where available.
Where appropriate authors should include an acknowledgements section, and reference the source of their funding.
All authors must include their ORCID number (where available) and corresponding email address.
The Series will be numbered consecutively within years. They will be cited as per the following example:

Van Gardingen, P., (2018) Equitable partnerships across the Global North and South. LIAS Working Paper 2018/3. Leicester: Institute for Advanced Studies

The series will only be published electronically.

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