What and How to Submit to IREE

Editorial Policy

The International Review of Economics Education is dedicated to enhancing learning and teaching in the Higher Education Economics community. It will provide a forum for high quality research in the areas of curriculum design, pedagogy, assessment, innovation and evaluation. The journal seeks to promote critical dialogue on educational theory and practice in economics and to demonstrate the relevance of research to good professional practice.

Examples of issues that contributors are encouraged to focus on are:

• How do economics students learn?
• What economics should be taught?
• What are the constraints in improving economics teaching and learning?
• How can current practice be improved?
• How is economics taught internationally and what can we learn from this?
• How can electronic learning technologies be used to improve student learning in economics?

The journal has two main sections:

All papers will be subject to the following review process:

• Reviewed by the editor for general suitability for this publication.
• If the article is judged suitable at least two reviewers will carry out a blind review of the manuscript.
• Based on the recommendations of the reviewers the editors will decide if the article should be accepted, revised or rejected.

Data availability policy

• To ensure that empirical results are replicable, authors should be prepared to provide their data and computer code upon request from the editors.

Submissions to IREE

Submissions should be uploaded in electronic form through our Web interface.

Documents will be accepted in either of these formats: RTF (Rich Text Format) or MS Word. We require an anonymised paper and a covering letter as separate documents.

Images are preferred in GIF, TIFF or PNG format. JPG images are acceptable for certain images such as photographs but not for screen shots or document scans.

Presentation of manuscript

Submissions should be typed double spaced, with ample margins, and bear the title of the contribution and name(s) of the author(s). The full postal address of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence should also be included. All pages should be numbered. Contributions should not normally be more than 6000 words in length and should be written in English using UK spelling conventions. They should also include an abstract of no more than 150 words. Footnotes should be avoided and endnotes should be kept to a minimum.

The abstract should include one or more JEL codes which identify the topic of the paper. Each code is a letter followed by two numbers, e.g. A22 for teaching of economics at undergraduate level.

Tables and captions to illustrations

Tables must appear on separate pages and not included as part of the text. The captions to illustrations should be gathered together and also typed out on a separate page. Tables and figures should be numbered by Arabic numerals. The approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the manuscript. Captions should include keys to symbols.

Figures

Artwork must be submitted in suitable condition for publication.

Appendices

Appendices must also appear on separate pages and be labelled appropriately. Please note that appendices will only be included in the online version of the published paper, not the print version.

References

These should be indicated in the manuscript by giving the author's name and the year of publication, as follows: Lee (1975) or (Lee, 1975). If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a, b, c, etc. should be put after the year of publication. The references should be listed in full at the end of the paper in the following standard form:

Proofs

These will be sent to authors if there is sufficient time to do so. They should be corrected and returned to the Economics Network within a week of receipt. Major alterations to the text cannot be accepted.