Taylor & Francis
Prepare your manuscript for Economy and Society.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-08-01
Article types
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Readiness requirements
Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.
Abstract length
- Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 125 words.
- Use a structured abstract.
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- A non-structured abstract of no more than 125 words.
Keywords
- Include or confirm the keywords required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Reference style
- Articlo formats your supplied references in APA style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
- A typical manuscript for this journal should be no more than 10000 words; this limit includes tables, references, figure captions, footnotes, endnotes.
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- Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
- Ethical Approval If your manuscript is based on research with human participants (individuals, samples, or data), please include a statement within your manuscript, which must provide details of the name of the ethics committee and reference/permit numbers where available.
- References Please use the APA-6 reference guide, but with the following modifications: no serial commas used in lists of multiple authors; no publisher city or country needed; author names in References lists should be in bold.
Figure and table rules
- Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
- Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size).
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- Figures should be saved separately from the text.
- Figures should be saved in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, GIF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX).
- Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
Funding statement
- You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
Competing interests
- Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Ethics statement
- Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
Blinded manuscript
- Include or confirm the blinded manuscript required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Cover letter
- Using Third-Party Material in your Paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
- Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
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- If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.
Title page and author information
- All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
- One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.
Article structure and word limits
- Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
- Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
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- Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
- This could be adapted from your departmental website or academic networking profile and should be relatively brief.
- Please submit your article to the Editors at econsoc@lse.ac.uk.
- Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
- Please use SI units (non-italicized).
- Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.
Preprints and prior publication
- If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
Artificial intelligence disclosure
- Include or confirm the artificial intelligence disclosure required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Manuscript structure
- The focus for a proposed Special Issue or Special Section should be consistent with the Aims & Scope of the journal.
Article type and manuscript length
- Preparing your Paper Structure Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
Language and text style
- Please use single quotation marks, except where 'a quotation is "within" a quotation'.
- Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
What your package checks
Abstract: 125 words
Paper: 10,000 words
References: APA
Declarations: Ethics
Source transparency
This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.
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