Land Economics has a web-based manuscript submission system. Our system will ask you to register, and then you may submit your manuscript electronically. Once you are registered, future submissions will be simple and routine.
Land Economics charges a submission fee of $100 to consider all initial submissions. (No fee is charged for invited revisions.) This fee is nonrefundable and does not guarantee that the manuscript will be sent to outside reviewers. Please be certain that your manuscript falls within the purview of the Land Economics before submitting it. Researchers for whom the submission fee would cause a significant economic hardship may request an exemption.
The link to our submission web site is: http://le.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex.
The manuscript should be a maximum of 35 pages of text (10,000 words, more or less), excluding references, tables, figures, notes, and appendixes. Please limit the combined number of figures and tables to seven. Appendix material (comprising any combination of text, tables, and figures) may be included as an online supplement.
The manuscript file should be in MS Word and organized as follows: title page, abstract of 100 words or less, text, references, tables, figure titles, and grouped footnotes. Any figures should be in separate files and should be black-and-white and of high resolution with a minimum dpi of 300; however, 600 dpi is preferable. Online appendix material will not be copyedited and so should be submitted in final form as one MS Word file, including all tables and figures. Color figures are welcome in supplemental material.
Please also submit a cover letter with your manuscript that includes the manuscript title and the names and affiliations of each author. it is helpful for the editors if you note in the cover letter why the journal is a good fit for your study.
Land Economics is primarily interested in the policy implications of the work we publish, and therefore it is important that all papers have a strong empirical component. It is impossible to derive coherent policy conclusions from purely axiomatic models because such models lack connection to empirical reality. With that in mind, papers lacking empirical content are discouraged.
It is the policy of Land Economics to publish papers only on the condition that the data used in the analysis are (1) clearly and precisely documented, (2) readily available to any researcher for purposes of replication, and (3) sufficiently detailed in the specifics of computation to permit replication. Appearance of an article in Land Economics constitutes evidence that authors understand these conditions and will abide by the stated requirements.
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Authors may elect to have their article, or a portion of their article, appear in 4-color, for a fee. Depending on the length of the article and/or number of images, authors may choose either a 4-page ($650), 8-page ($700), or 16-page ($950) signature. Upon manuscript acceptance, please indicate your wish to print in color to the managing editor.
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