Author Guidelines

Authors should bear in mind that IPPR Progressive Review will not only be read by academics. This calls for a limitation on jargon and technical language.

The major aim should be to contribute a new and interesting perspective on the challenges facing the centre-left and progressive politics worldwide. While a full exploration of ideas is to be welcomed, your article should have a single point of focus and provide some kind of conclusions or recommendations.

 

1. Submission of Your Article
IPPR Progressive Review welcomes papers that seek to contribute to our goal of rethinking progressive politics, in Britain and internationally. To submit a paper for consideration, please email editor Mathew Lawrence ([email protected]), or post to IPPR, 14 Buckingham Street, London, WC2N 6DF.

Posted submissions will not be returned.

 

2. House Style
House style is based on that of the Guardian newspaper: see online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide

The editors retain the right to make non-material amendments for style during the subediting process.

 

3. Notes and References
References should be included as footnotes.

First references should be set out using the following format:

Desai M (1998) Essays in global economics, Amsterdam: North Holland.
Gregg P (2002) ‘Minimum Wages’, Journal of Citizenship, 2(4): 35–90.

Subsequent references should be short-form citations: Desai 1998, Gregg 2002

Editorial footnotes should be used sparingly, to provide a technical explanation, digression or indirect ‘see for more’ citation.

Online-only citations, including data and corporate background information, can be referenced with a URL in a footnote. Online articles with a named author and corporately authored material, such as press releases, should be cited and referenced in the usual way, attributed to the named author or organisation.

 

4. Figures and Tables
Any graph or other figure should be referred to directly by the text. Provide a title and source for each figure and table.

For graphs, provide both an image of the chart in the submitted article and, separately, the data underlying the chart.

For tables, provide these as text, not as an image.

 

5. Biography 
Given name(s) and surname(s) of the authors must be provided for the article, along with a short biographical note for each author, to include (for example) current position, previous roles and published works or other media.

 

6. Proof Reading/Refereeing
The editors may return your submitted article with comments and suggested changes or additions/deletions. At all times, the editors retain the right to request changes or to decline to publish an article in its given state.

Once a final draft has been agreed, this will be subedited and typeset; the author will not be consulted unless material concerns are raised during this process.

To keep turn-around times short, proofs will not in general be returned to authors unless requested and with the agreement of the editors.

Articles will not be formally refereed. However, where appropriate, articles may be checked by an appropriate person with expertise.

Where your article is selected to be cross-posted in excerpt form on the journal’s website – at https://www.ippr.org/insights/ippr-progressive-review – the editors will agree a truncated version of the published article.

 

7. Copyright
An article is accepted on the basis that it has not been previously published.

License Agreement
The final version of your article cannot be published until the publisher has received the appropriate signed license agreement. Once your article has been received by Wiley for production the corresponding author will receive an email from Wiley’s Author Services system which will ask them to log in and will present them with the appropriate license for completion.

8. Length
Short opinion articles should be 1,500-2,000 words. Longers lead essays may be 2,500-3,500 words, or longer by agreement with the editors.

If you provide substantially more than the agreed word count, your article may be cut down during subediting.

 

9. Data Policy

IPPR Progressive Review encourages authors to share the original data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors may provide a data availability statement, including a link to the repository they have used to share their original data, in order that this statement can be published in their paper. Shared original data should be cited

 

10. 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.       

 

11. 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.


12. 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 Editorial Office with their name change request.