Beech Tree Publishing
Science and Public Policy is an interdisciplinary, international journal on how science, technology and innovation influence, and are influenced by, public policy. Readers are in universities (in teaching and research), government and public agencies, consultancies, and some industry, in over 80 countries.
Papers
Most papers have about 8,000 words, with an abstract of about 120 words. Remove author details, any acknowledgements and any other author identifiers, and put into a separate file. Email the files to William Page in Guildford, UK at page@scipol.co.uk, and to either Dr David Guston, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University, PO Box 874401, Tempe, AZ 85287-4401, USA, email: scipol@asu.edu, or Dr Susana Borrás, Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Steen Blichersvej 22, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark, email: scipol.cbp@cbs.dk.
Editorial decision
We acknowledge receipt of papers. We aim to obtain refereeing reports within eight weeks (when possible). Neither you nor the referee will be told who the other is (unless you clearly refer to your previous papers, say).
Style
We accept any standard spelling (UK, US, Canadian, Indian, etc). Explain acronyms and other such details for readers who do not know your specific topic or country well. Tables should be mentioned in the text, and numbered 1, 2, 3, etc. Figures and equations should also be referred to in the text, with their own 1, 2, 3, etc sequence.
Notes and references
Notes should be used sparingly and be indicated with raised numbers like this,1 and
then be given at the end of the paper, between the end of the text and the list of
references.
References should be done thus: ‘Smith (2001) claims that …’ or ‘One survey (Smith, 2001a,b) …’ or ‘Smith et al (2001: 23)’. Put anonymous periodical articles thus: ‘(Time, 3 April 1998)’. Avoid dates like 3/4/96; they are ambiguous. List full citations at the end, with same dates and name spelling as in text (they often differ). Please use this style:
Smith, Alan B ed. 2007. Innovation in salt-brick construction in western Bolivian
hotels. Journal of Policy and Restaurant Anecdotes, 58(3), June, 423–469. Available
at <http://www.mysite.
com/articles.pdf>, last accessed 12 June 2005.
Thomas, Roberto and Maria Gregg 1998. The Policy Impact of Refrigeration R&D in the Atacama Desert, 3rd edn. Santiago, Chile: Higher Andean University Press.
Umba, M J, P L O’Jacobson and A Hwang. 2005. Technology transfer versus local research: ships on Lake Titicaca. In R&D Policy and Back-Packing, eds. I H Wraum and B K Smith, pp. 11–29. Lima: Peruvian New Academic Press.
After acceptance
We try to publish papers within six months of acceptance (even if subject to revisions). You will be given a publication date. All papers are copy edited. Authors receive proofs before publication.
We prefer author’s computer files for typesetting. Our ideal is Word. We prefer figures and diagrams that are compatible with Word (such as, say, Excel or bit-mapped files). Avoid colour because we print in black and white. Check all shading is necessary, and is quite different from any other shading used. Avoid graphics from websites: redraw them or get detailed originals.
If no file is available for a figure, we can scan it in if we are given a suitable, high quality, black-and-white original.
Special free-copies service
On publication, you will receive up to 50 free offprints of your paper, with two copies of the whole issue for each author. We will gladly mail out copies of your paper to people you specify — up to a few hundred or more, if you like — and all at no charge to you or them. You may put the pdf on your departmental or similar website.
Online publication
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/beech/spp hosts the online version. All items become open access 24 months after publication. SPP is covered by Google Scholar, SCOPUS, etc. SPP uses CrossRef.
It is in the interests of both you and the journal that your paper be widely publicised, so we will welcome other suggestions on how to draw attention to it.
