Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit reviews of the economic literature that may take the form of surveys, meta-analyses, bibliometric, scientometric, or informetric studies of this literature. Submissions should provide critical analyses of the literature that offer substantiated conclusions of interest to specialists and interested readers.

Authorship
All authors must have given their consent prior to submission and have made significant contributions to the submitted manuscript. Changes in authorship, after the initial submission process, must be justified and approved by an editor.

Conflicts of Interest
The  manuscript must include a conflict(s) of interest (or competing interest(s)) statement. Authors who have real or perceived conflicts of interest (or competing interests) in a manuscript submission, are required to disclose the nature and extent of the interest.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools
The manuscript must include a statement of AI use. Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images and/or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must disclose how AI tools were used, and which tools were used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by AI tools, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.

Data and Reproducibility
Authors of empirical studies, in which data have been collected, used, and analyzed, will be asked to provide a data availability statement (DAS). The DAS must contain information about the data, programs, and other details of the computations sufficient to permit replication. If data cannot be made open, authors must state why in the data availability statement.

Submissions should adhere to the following:

1. Falls roughly between 10,000-15,000 words in length with references.
   
   
2. Is readable by those working outside the economic specialization represented by the works reviewed.
   
   
3. Provides:
   • A concise and exact title.
   • An abstract with the purpose, methods, findings, and conclusion that will appeal to relevant peer reviewers.
   • References formatted according to the APA Style Guide. 
     • A link to a concise APA referencing guide.
     • A link to an APA LaTeX referencing guide.
       
       • Tex Sample.bib file
       • APA Sample.tex file
   • References that include digital object identifiers (DOIs) formatted as a uniform resource locator (URL), eg. https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxxx as opposed to DOI: 10.xxx/xxxxxx. Note that submissions may not be sent for peer review and will not be accepted for publication if references do not include DOIs.
   • Numbered and labeled tables and figures.
   • If a meta-analysis or bibliometric review, includes search terms, databases searched (with dates), and a PRISMA flow diagram.
   • If a study that is subject to review by the authors’ research ethics committees, identifies the committee’s approval as part of the manuscript.
4. Authors have:
   
   • Obtained permission (or met required terms) for the publication of copyrighted material, such as tables and figures, photos, documents, and datasets.
   • Saved the article text in PDF format for submission.  Note that editable files of the article text, figures and images will be required at the copy editing stage, if the submission is accepted.

If a meta-analysis paper is submitted, the data (in STATA, R or Excel format) and related code, must be made available in an open-access data and code repository. See Havránek et al. (2020) for guidelines.

For a bibliometric review, the data and any specialized code must be made available in an open-access data and code repository, and the guidelines from section 2.3 in Abramo and Oxley (2021) must be followed.

For the journal’s editorial policies and practices, publishing ethics, copyright, and other matters, see Policies.