Guidelines for Contributors

1. General
   The paper should contain original unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The text should be in English (consistent in use of American or British English), printed on one side of the paper only with wide margins and pages numbered. The main text, the footnotes, the Appendices and the references should be double-spaced. The title page should also contain the name of the Author(s), affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail. If there are acknowledgments, these should be placed at the bottom of the title page. The papers must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 100 words placed on a separate page after the title page and before the main body of the paper; below the abstract there should be a list of some keywords and JEL classification codes.
   Please use a single and not a double space after a full point, commas, colons, semicolons, etc. Do not place a space in front of a question mark, or in front of any other closing quotation mark. Use full points after abbreviations and put these in italics (e.g., i.e., cf., viz., ...); etc. should not be in italics. Omit the full points in acronyms (NATO, USA, UK, etc.) and for contractions such as Dr, Mr, Ltd, and so on. Note these differences: ed. eds; vol. vols; no. nos; ch. chs; etc. When using 'so-called' in reference to an expression, the expression should not be in quotation marks (e.g., the so-called market failure case).
2. Submission
   There is no submission fee. Three copies of the final version, along with a labeled floppy disk specifying the Author(s) and title of the work, the software and version used (Word is strongly preferred) as well as computer compatibility (Mac or PC), should be sent to:
   
   
   Professor Domenico da Empoli,
   Editor of Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice (PFPC)/Economia delle scelte pubbliche
   Dipartimento di Teoria Economica e Metodi Quantitativi per le Scelte Politiche
   Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
   Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, ITALY.
   E-mail: domenico.daempoli@jpfpc.org
   
   At least one of the three submitted copies should contain original (not Xeroxed) scanner-ready copies of all Tables and Figures. Also, be sure that the software version of the paper exactly matches the hard copies.
3. References, footnotes and quotations
   When reference is made to a work in the text of the paper, in footnotes, Tables, Figures and Appendices, this should be indicated by the Author's last name in SMALL CAPS, date and page number in brackets (e.g., [COASE, 1937, p. 389]). Conversely, when an Author's last name is cited in sentences it should be in plain text style (e.g., the historical research program of North [1981]).
   Footnotes should be brief, numbered consecutively, and placed at the bottom of the page.
   Note that the quotation marks adapted for direct citations and for titles of articles are the French guillemets: "In essence, rational individuals will not incur the costs of participating in large group action when the individual benefits can still be received by being a free-rider" [NORTH, 1981, p. 10]. Quotations above 5 sentences should be extracted, indented and placed in guillemets. Ellipsis points as well as Authors' modifications in direct citations should always be placed in brackets: "[Economics] has suffered [...] from a failure to state clearly its assumptions" [COASE, 1937, p. 386]. When there is a quote within a quotation it should be rendered in single quotation marks as follows: "The most obvious cost of 'organizing' production through the price mechanism is that of discovering what the relevant prices are" [COASE, 1937, p. 390, emphasis added]. Similarly, when using specific terminology or using some particular expression that is not a quotation single quotation marks should be used: the 'New Institutional Economics'; the 'rationality question'. When citing works by two authors it should be: [BAUMOL - QUANDT, 1964]. While for more than two Authors it should be: [BUCHANAN et al., 1988]; but, as illustrated below, in the References section the Authors' names should be given in full.
   The "References" section should contain only works refered to in the article. All references should be arranged alphabetically by last name at the end of the paper.
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