CONTENT and STRUCTURE

Manuscripts should be submitted as Word files. Manuscripts may also be submitted as LaTex files accompanied by a PDF. If a reference manager such as JabRef is used, the references should be submitted as a separate file.

Articles should be written in English.

Length should be limited to approximately 30 pages, double-spaced with 12-point font. Consider using an appendix for material such as large tables and detailed description of data sources. Supplementary material can be posted on the Cambridge University Press website when an article is published

Use the following document structure:
1. Introduction (titling this section is optional)
2. Subsequent sections which include tables, references to figures and figure captions.
3. Appendices (if any).
4. Explanation of symbols mentioned in the text.
5. Competing interest statement (see below for further details)
6. References - Include a proper bibliography following the guidelines in the References section below.
7. Supply figures in separate files, not embedded in the text.
8. Use only Unicode fonts such as Times New Roman and Arial.

Offprints: Authors will receive a free electronic file of their article upon publication.

ABSTRACT

The abstract should be well-organized, factual, and no more than 200 words. It should provide a compelling statement of the article’s contribution to the literature, and include the purpose of the paper, the research findings, and principal conclusions. Use of references and acronyms and abbreviations that are not well-known should be minimized.

EMPHASIZED TEXT, TITLES, and FOREIGN TERMS

Use italics, rather than underlining, for: (a) text you wish to emphasize; (b) foreign terms; and (c) titles of books, films, etc. ABBREVIATIONS

The use of abbreviations and acronyms is permitted provided they are defined the first time they are used. HEADINGS

Headings for titles of sections and subsections should be distinguished from the main body text:

• Clearly indicate the heading hierarchy.
• Capitalize all proper nouns and adjectives derived from proper nouns.

FOOTNOTES

• Footnotes must appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced rather than at the end of the paper.
• Long footnotes should be considered as material suitable for an appendix.

TABLES, FIGURES & GRAPHS

• General requirements: All illustrations must be of reproduction-ready quality and in EPS, TIF, or JPG format. They will be reduced in size to fit, whenever possible, the width of a single column. It is the authors’ responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce original or modified material that has been previously published. Permissions fees are the responsibility of the author(s).

FIGURES

• Lettering of all figures within the article should be uniform in style. Uppercase letters A, B, C, etc. should be used to identify parts of multi-part figures. Cite all figures in the text in numerical order. Indicate the approximate placement of each figure. Do not embed figures within the text body of the manuscript; submit figures in separate files. Only figures such as graphs, line drawings, and photographs should be labeled as ‘figures’, not tables or equations.
• Figure legends: Provide a short descriptive title and a legend to make each figure self-explanatory on separate pages. Explain all symbols used in the figures. Remember to use the same abbreviations as in the text body.
• Color figures will be displayed in color in the HTML and PDF versions online at no charge to the author.

TABLES

• Number tables consecutively using Arabic numerals. Tables should appear in the document near where they are referenced in the text. Provide a short descriptive title and column headings to make each table self-explanatory. Use table notes if necessary. Refer to tables in the text as Table 1, 2 etc. Use Table 1, 2, etc. in the table legends.

MATHEMATICS and EQUATIONS

• Roman letters used in mathematical expressions as variables must be italicized. Roman letters used as part of multi-letter function names should not be italicized. Subscripts and superscripts must be a smaller font size than the main text.
• Type short mathematical expressions inline.
• Longer expressions must appear as display math, as must expressions using many different levels such as fractions.
• Mathematical expressions must not be displayed as images.
• Important definitions or concepts can also be set off as display math.
• Number your equations sequentially with equation numbers on the right.
• Insert a blank line before and after each equation.

COMPETING INTERESTS

All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their manuscript. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article. Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations. If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors. 

Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author A is employed at company B. Author C owns shares in company D, is on the Board of company E and is a member of organisation F. Author G has received grants from company H.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.  

REFERENCES WITHIN TEXT

• Within the text of your manuscript, use the author-date method of citation. For instance, “As noted by Haveman (1976).”
• When there are two authors, use both last names. For instance, “Harberger and Jenkins (2015) estimate … ”
• If there are three or more authors, give the last name of the first author and append et al. For instance, a 1994 work by Tolley, Kenkel, and Fabian, would be cited as “Tolley et al. (1994).”
• If two or more cited works share the same authors and dates, use “a,” “b,” and so on to distinguish among them. For instance, “Viscusi (2008a) makes this point and provides further elaborates in Viscusi (2008b).”
• After the first citation in the text using the author-date method, subsequent citations may use just the last names if that would be unambiguous. For example, Robinson and Hammitt (2011) may be followed by just Robinson and Hammitt provided no other Robinson and Hammitt article is referenced; if one is, then the date must always be attached.
• When citations appear within parentheses, use commas—rather than parentheses or brackets—to separate the date from the surrounding text. For instance, “… (see Rosen, 1974, for an early discussion of this).”

REFERENCE SECTION

• Provide complete references with the necessary information..
• Authors are referred to the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., University of Chicago Press, 2003). Provide authors’ first names, not simply first initials.
• The references should be typed in alphabetical order by authors’ last names and then by date of publication. All sources mentioned in the text must be listed in the reference list. Examples of reference style follow.
• Journal article: Rosen, Sherwin. 1974. "Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition," Journal of Political Economy 82 (Jan.-Feb.): 34-55.
• Journal article (multiple authors): Capozza, Dennis R. and Robert W. Helsley. 1989. “The Fundamentals of Land Prices and Urban Growth,” Journal of Urban Economics, 26(3): 295-306.
• Book: Gneezy, Uri and John A. List. 2013. The Why Axis. New York: Public Affairs.
• Book Chapter: Grossman, Michael. 2006. “Education and Nonmarket Outcomes" In Hanushek, Eric A. and Finis Welch. (Eds.) The Handbook of Economics of Education (Vol. 1): 577–633. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Working Paper: Cropper, Maureen and Shefali Khanna. 2014. “How Should the World Bank Estimate Air Pollution Damages?” Resources for the Future Discussion Paper, DP14-30.
• Article in proceedings: Brennan, Timothy. 2009. “The Changing Antitrust/Regulatory Interface in the US: Railways and Beyond,” in The Business of Australia’s Railways: Proceedings from the Australian Railways Business and Economics Conference, Perth, Australia, July 20, 2009, Willis-Johnson, Nick (Ed.), pp. 8-21. Center for Research in Applied Economics.
• Article in unpublished conference: Hammitt, James K., Jin-Tan Liu, and Jin-Long Liu. 2000 . Survival is a Luxury Good: The Increasing Value of a Statistical Life. Prepared for the NBER Summer Institute Workship on Public Policy and the Environment.
• Website: Andersson, Henrik. 2018. On Balance: Application of BCA in Europe. Available at http://www.benefitcostanalysis.org/balance-application/bca-Europe. (accessed June 7, 2018)
• Dissertation: Springel, Katalin. 2017. Essays in Industrial Organization and Environmental Economics. PhD Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.
• If there are two or more separate references to different works by the same author published in the same year, alphabetize them by article title and put (a) after the first reference, (b) after the second, and so forth. 

Language Editing Services

Contributions written in English are welcomed from all countries. Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the editor and any reviewers. Cambridge offers a service which authors can learn about here. Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge published journal.