GUIDELINES TO AUTHORS EUROSTAT REVIEW OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTS (EURONA) February 2017 i
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Summary EURONA is a semi-annual, peer-reviewed journal that publishes significant and original scientific research related to national accounts and macroeconomic indicators, in addition it publishes reviews and analyses of current methodological and production approaches. EURONA fosters innovation and excellence of methods and practices in the field of national accounts and macroeconomic indicators. The journal is a channel to present and promote the understanding of significant scientific advances and their application for tools and methods. However, EURONA is also committed to give access to the work conducted daily within the statistical and research institutes, presenting approaches, techniques and achievements. Our objective is helping in the construction of a bridge between research and practice, sharing and enriching the knowledge and the value added that each of community can bring. We offer an extraordinary opportunity to transmit research-based messages and hopefully to generate an impact. We welcome submissions from all fields of science related to national accounts and macroeconomic indicators and from any source. Indeed, also pieces of work presented during seminars, conferences or technical meetings are of interest for EURONA publishing; but due to the strictly scholar publishing policy authors are expected to adapt their work to a scientific writing style. A non-exhaustive list of fields of interest is provided in Annex. However, a note explaining the interest for EURONA and link to national accounts/macroeconomic indicators could support the submission of articles. iii
1. TYPES Essentially three major types of manuscripts are expected to be published: research articles; review articles; and case studies. At present, we do not publish books review, article comments, technical notes, brevia or dissertations and theses. RESEARCH ARTICLES Articles are expected to present the result of research activities and put forward a major original advance. Research articles have to include an abstract, an introduction, some figures or tables, sections with brief subheadings, and comprehensive references. Description of data, tools and methods should be identified in Annex, which should also include information needed to support the conclusions. REVIEW ARTICLES Review articles provide a comprehensive summary of research, methodology and practices on a certain topic, and a perspective on the state of the field and where it is heading. Review articles have to summarise the status of knowledge, present a comprehensive review and outline future directions of the topic under review; they should add a dimension to the topic and not merely be a summary of the existing. Occasionally, Eurostat could solicit invited perspective articles on topical and/or emerging fields of research of particular interest, authored by leading experts in the discipline. A focussed abstract should describe the scope and relevance of the review should be included. In addition, extensive and accurate references should be included. TECHNICAL REPORTS INNOVATION KNOWLEDGE Report on new developments, significant advances, or novel aspects of practical and theoretical methods and techniques which are relevant within the scope of the journal. Case studies and conference proceedings (long PRACTICE 1
papers) are also considered. This kind of grey literature will be peer-reviewed and must adapt to the form of academic literature. A focused abstract should describe the value added and general interest for the article. 2. FORM For the review process ideally a *.doc or LaTeX file of the complete manuscript is required, eventually *.pdf could be accepted. For initial submission, it is acceptable to embed graphic files into the text file in any of the allowed formats, and we encourage submission of one complete manuscript file containing text, tables, and all figures. The pages should be placed in the following order: title page, abstract, text, tables and figures, acknowledgements, references and appendices. All pages must be numbered consecutively. Ideally, length should be up to ~15.000 words, including references, notes and captions. A maximum of 80 references are accepted. However, a note could indicate why the additional length is merited. TITLE PAGE Title should be concise but informative; the title page has to include, author(s) full name(s), full institutional addresses of all authors, correspondence email. ABSTRACT The abstract should be intelligible to the general reader without reference to the text. After a brief introduction of the topic, the summary recapitulates the key points of the article and mentions possible directions for prospective research. Reference citations should not be included in this section, unless urgently required, and abbreviations should not be included without explanations. KEY WORDS A max of 6 key words can be included identifying field area and topic of the articles. 2
SECTIONS The headings of all sections, including introduction, results, discussions or summary must be numbered. Three levels of sectioning are allowed, e.g. 1, 1.1 and 1.1.1. CONCLUSIONS Authors are expected to close the article with description of results, discussions and/or recommendations. FOOTNOTES These should be avoided, as they tend to disrupt the flow of the text. If absolutely necessary, they should be numbered consecutively. Footnotes to tables should be marked by lowercase letters. REFERENCES Articles should make proper and sufficient reference to the relevant formal literature. These references have to be listed alphabetically at the end of the manuscript under the first author's name; works "submitted to", "in preparation", "in review", or only available as web publications should also be included in the reference list. Whenever possible the authors should include also the link to access the referenced papers. APPENDICES These should be labelled with capital letters: Annex A, Annex B etc. Equations, Figures and Tables should be numbered as (A1), Figure B5 or Table C6, respectively. FIGURES Images should be labelled in consecutive Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3,). For the production of the accepted manuscript they should be submitted as separate files in *.jpg, *.png, *.tif, or *.gif format. A legend should clarify all symbols used and should appear in the figure itself, rather than verbal explanations in the caption. 3
FIGURE CAPTIONS Each illustration should have a concise but descriptive caption. The abbreviations used in the figure must be defined, unless they are common abbreviations or have already been defined in the text. Figure captions should be included in the text file and not in the figure files. TABLES For the production of the accepted manuscript, they should be submitted as MS WORD or included in the LaTeX file. Tables submitted as a PDF or an image file cannot be processed. Tables should be self-explanatory and include a concise, yet sufficiently descriptive caption. SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL Authors have the opportunity to submit material that cannot be displayed in the printing of the article, in particular for Excel tables or data sets. These files will be published online along with the article as *.zip archive. The overall file size of a supplement is limited to 50 MB. Authors of larger supplements have to contact the editorial office. FILE SIZE Authors are kindly asked to find the best balance between the quality of figures and submitted material on the one hand, and a manageable file size on the other hand. Individual figures should not exceed 5 MB, and the overall size of all submitted files, excluding supplements, should not exceed 30 MB. 4
3. PRINCIPLES AUTHORSHIP All authors must agree to be listed and must have seen and approved the manuscript, its content, and its submission to EURONA. Editors send an email to all authors to confirm receipt of each article. Submission of an article that has not been approved by all authors may result in immediate rejection. Authors must disclose affiliations, funding sources and other relevant relationships. To protect the integrity of authorship, only persons who have significantly contributed to the research and paper preparation should be listed as authors. The author who submits a manuscript for publication accepts the responsibility of having included as co-authors all persons that are appropriate and none that are inappropriate. REPLICABILITY A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to public sources of information to permit the others to replicate the results. Authors should cite those publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work and that will quickly guide the reader to the initial work essential for understanding the present investigation. EXCLUSIVITY We consider it to be inappropriate for an author to submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more than one journal of primary publication. Each author has to indicate clearly if the article has been submitted for publication, presented to a conference or seminar or already published. Nevertheless, for EURONA we do not adopt a strict policy of no prior publication, but the editor will consider any paper or component of a paper, in order to establish its suitability to publication in the EURONA. After publication, authors may post the accepted version of the paper on their personal or affiliation website. 5
REVISION The comments received during the pre-selection of peer-review process have to lead to a revision and adaptation of the manuscript within the delay indicated (generally six weeks). The editor takes decision for eventual disagreement. In case the article does not respond to the requests and suggestions from the peer-review, it is automatically rejected. OWNERSHIP Eurostat has a policy of encouraging free re-use provided the source is indicated as Eurostat (the original EURONA publication). 6
ANNEX 1: SCOPE GRID EURONA RELEVANT TOPICS NON EXHAUSTIVE LIST 1 National accounts and macroeconomic indicators 1.1 General 1.2 History and developments 1.3 Role and relation with other disciplines 1.4 Other related issues 2 Standards, methods and practices 2.1 National accounts 2.2 Regional accounts 2.3 Balance of payments 2.4 Prices, purchasing power parities, housing statistics 2.5 Public finance 2.6 Input-output analysis 2.7 Output and productivity 2.8 Social accounting 2.9 Green accounting 2.1 Other related issues 3 Techniques and tools 3.1 Econometric methods 3.2 Statistical methods 3.3 Software tools 3.4 Other related issues 7
4 Use for analysis 4.1 Growth and development 4.2 Finance and banking system 4.3 Business cycle analysis 4.4 Environment and energy modelling 4.4 New economy measures 8
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