CAMBRIDGE YEARBOOK OF EUROPEAN LEGAL STUDIES
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
PLEASE USE THESE IN PREPARING YOUR MANUSCRIPTS FOR SUBMISSION
The Cambridge Yearbook offers authors and readers a space for sustained reflection and conversation about the challenges facing Europe and the diverse legal contexts in which those challenges are addressed. It identifies European Legal Studies as a broad field of legal enquiry encompassing not only European Union law but also the law emanating from the Council of Europe; comparative European public and private law; and national law in its interaction with European legal sources.
The Yearbook is a publication of the Centre for European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
I. CATEGORIES OF PUBLICATION ACCEPTED
The Yearbook publishes articles solicited by invitation of the Editorial Board as well as unsolicited articles that seek to make a contribution to European Legal Studies. Articles are to be submitted via Scholar One.
All communications concerning Articles should be addressed to the Editors-In-Chief, Professor Okeoghene Odudu and Dr Emilija Leinarte, CYELS, Centre for European Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ ([email protected]).
Articles should be between 9,000 and 12,000 words long, including footnotes. Exceptionally articles of a longer length may be agreed with the editors.
The Yearbook does not publish Book Reviews.
All accepted Articles will be scheduled for publication both in print and online. To reduce time between acceptance and publication articles will appear online as FirstView publications in advance of their scheduled publication in print.
II. PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
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Please submit a title page, which includes all author information, and an anonymised version of your manuscript.
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Please include any conflict of interest and/or funding statements on the title page.
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Footnotes should be numbered consecutively (after an initial unnumbered note attached to the author's name by an asterisk). Footnotes are principally for the purpose of referencing primary and secondary sources. Authors should refrain from using footnotes for further textual elaboration beyond that which is necessary for the purposes of clarification.
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1. Centred. Type in capitals:
CENTRED CAPITALS FOR TITLE OF ARTICLE (Level 1)
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I. HEADING IN CAPITALS (Level 2)
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A. Subheading in italics(Level 3)
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1. Subheading in italics (Level 4)
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III. STYLE
Punctuation. All punctuation marks should be outside closing quotation marks except an exclamation mark, question mark, dash or parenthesis belonging only to the quotation or a full point at the end of a grammatically complete sentence beginning with a capital letter. Full stops should be outside closing parentheses unless the parenthesis is a complete sentence beginning with a capital letter. Note indicators in the text normally follow punctuation marks.
Capitals. Capitals should be used when a specific reference is intended: the Bill, the Cabinet, the Crown, the Government (but government and industry), Parliament (but parliamentary). Unless the writer is referring to a court by name, ‘court’ should not have a capital.
Abbreviations. No full points should be used with abbreviations.
Dates. Use the style ‘10 February 1989’; ‘1988– 89’; ‘1990s’.
Numerals below 10 should be spelt out.
Spelling. Except in quoted matter English spelling should be used (labour, not labor). Use -ise (not -ize); judgment (not judgement); ius (not jus; ie Latin i not j).
Italics. The following should be italicised:
- Case names.
- Latin (and other foreign) words and phrases.
- Ship names
Latin abbreviations should not be italicised: cf, eg, ibid, ie, loc cit, op cit.
Footnote numbers should be deferred, where possible, to the end of the relevant sentence or clause of the text and placed after the relevant punctuation mark.
IV. REFERENCES–GENERAL
The full reference should be given at first mention using the styles indicted below.
Ibid is used to refer to the same work in a consecutive footnote.
For cross-references: use ‘See note 7 above/below’ rather than ‘supra/infra note 7’.
References to a specific page and paragraph references: use ‘p’ (or ‘para’) followed by the number. For references to page extents use ‘pp xx–yy’.
A. Authored Books
Cite the author’s initials and surname followed by a comma and then the title of the book in italics followed by the publication information. The publication information should be within brackets and include the publisher and the year of publication. If the work cited is a specific edition of a book, the title of the book should be followed by a comma and then the particular edition of the book, followed by the publication information.
C Barnard, The Substantive Law of the EU, 4th ed (Oxford University Press, 2013)
B. Edited Books
Cite the editor or editors initials and surname(s) followed by ‘(ed)’ or ‘(eds)’followed by a comma and then the title of the book in italics followed by the publication information.
C Barnard and J Scott (eds), The Law of the Single European Market (Hart Publishing, 2002)
Where there are three or more editors, cite the initials and surname of the first editor followed by ‘et al’ followed by a comma and then the title of the book in italics followed by the publication information.
C. Chapters in Edited Books
Cite the initials of the author and surname followed by the tile of the chapter between single quotes followed by ‘in’ and then the editors, book title and publication details in the format described for edited books.
KA Armstrong ‘Mutual Recognition’ in C Barnard and J Scott (eds), The Law of the Single European Market (Hart Publishing, 2002)
D. Journal Articles
Cite the initials of the author and surname followed by the title of the article between single quotes followed by the year between brackets followed by the volume number and then the issue number between brackets followed by the journal title in italics followed by the first page number.
A Arnull, ‘The Principle of Effective Judicial Protection in EU Law: An unruly horse?’ (2011) 36 (1) European Law Review 51
V. CASES
A. Judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union
The Yearbook uses the new European Case Law Identifier method of citation for judgments of the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal.
For the first reference to a case cite as:
Commission v Belgium, C-577/10, EU:C:2012:814
For a subsequent reference to a case and to a particular passage in the judgment cite as follows:
Commission v Belgium, EU:C:2012:814, paragraph 20
Opinions of the Court of Justice should be cited as:
Opinion 1/91 (EEA Agreement), EU:C:1991:490
For references to the opinion of an Advocate General and to a particular passage in the opinion cite as follows:
Opinion of Advocate General Kokott in Duarte Hueros, C-32/12, EU:C:2013:128, point 3.
B. Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights are cited as follows: Names of the parties in italics, Application number in brackets, report (without the date of the decision unless the decision is unreported).
Demir and Baykara v Turkey (Application no. 34503/97) (2009) 48 E.H.R.R. 54
C. English Cases
References to English cases should be to the Law Reports; failing this to the WLR, the All ER or one of the specialist reports. The neutral citation should be given, without any full points and before the report reference, for all cases to which the practice has been extended since 2001; references to paragraphs should be in square brackets.
Twinsectra Ltd v Yardley [2002] UKHL 12, [2002] 2 AC 164, at [24].
VI. EUROPEAN UNION TREATIES
Cite as follows:
Treaty on European Union (TEU)
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Charter)
Provisions of the treaties should be cited as:
Article 114 TFEU or Article 5(3) TEU
References to provisions of the treaties adopted prior to the Lisbon Treaty should be cited as:
Article 95 EC or Article 100a EEC
VII. LEGISLATION
A. EU Legislation
Before the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty:
Council Regulation (EC) No 645/2008 [2008] OJ L180/1.
After the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty:
Commission Regulation (EU) No 439/2011 [2011] OJ L119 /1.
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