Public Affairs Quarterly

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Article types

The journal welcomes contributions from a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches on any practically oriented topic in any of these areas. Submissions of a more general nature that address implications for a cluster of such issues rather than focusing on a single issue are also welcome.

Submission requirements

All articles should be submitted in Microsoft Word format and should be double-spaced and prepared for blind review. The journal prefers manuscripts of 4,000-10,000 words in length but articles outside these limits may still be considered. All submissions that pass an initial editorial review are peer-reviewed. Public Affairs Quarterly follows the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, and requires endnotes plus a reference list. Please provide an abstract. Use 125 words or fewer. Please provide three to five keywords. See the PAQ Style Sheet.

_PAQ_Style Sheet Link:
https://franklin.press.uillinois.edu/cms/serve/other/Journals/Guidelines/PAQ style guide.august 2022.pdf

Endnotes should be used for discursive material and to expand discussions, and citations in endnotes should be short form citations that correspond to a full reference entry. All editorial decisions are final. The editor regrets that the pressure of work precludes entry into further discussion.

Peer Review Policy

This journal uses blind review by external reviewers. Exceptions to external review include if a paper is of sufficiently low quality so as to be desk rejected and if the paper happens to be in the area of expertise of a board member, such that they could have been consulted even if they weren’t on the board.

Pre-Publication Policy

The Public Affairs Quarterly will not publish material that has already appeared elsewhere. This is not at odds with authors sharing their papers with selected individuals whose comments they would welcome or who they wish for other reasons to inform about their work. But it precludes pre-publication with broadcast dissemination, alike in print or electronically in open-access forums such as Academia.edu.

Post Publication Policy

Authors may receive a copyrighted, watermarked PDF of a published article on request which may not be photocopied or distributed, or posted on a personal website. The PDF may be used in an author’s tenure or promotion dossier. For teaching, the usual “fair use” rules apply.

For general access archives and repositories articles must be at least one year old. The UIP requires a publication statement to be posted along with the postprint and a link back to the UIP Journals page.

View our Publications Ethics and Malpractice Statement Link:
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/ethics_statement.html