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A Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Series
The Edinburgh Europa Paper Series is a multi-disciplinary series which welcomes papers presenting original work on Europe and the European Union.
Contributions are encouraged from scholars working from within a range of disciplines, including not only political science, law and economics, but also critically sociology, political sociology, history, anthropology, social theory, science and technology studies, geography, accountancy, social policy, educational sociology, cultural studies.
Edinburgh colleagues who work on Europe and the European Union – either as their main research focus or from time to time - will publish their work in progress in this series on a regular basis. Additionally, visiting Europa Institute Fellows and Edward Heath scholars, as well as Europa-funded conference participants, will publish their work in this series. Beyond this, however, we also wish to encourage contributions from all scholars more generally who are engaging in new and innovative research on a range of Europe/EU related subject areas.
Overall, we hope that this series will encourage scholars both at Edinburgh and elsewhere to develop a common body of multi-disciplinary theoretical and empirical research on Europe and the European Union. In particular we wish this series to contribute to a strengthening more generally of academic exchange across disciplines and the presentation of not only mainstream but also alternate visions of the on-going construction of Europe and the European Union.
Guidelines for Presentation and Formatting of Papers
In keeping with our general goals for this series, our guidelines are designed to be ‘light touch’ and offer the maximum possible opportunity for colleagues to showcase their research. This means that papers can be of varying lengths, with a preferred minimum of 10 pages and a preferred maximum of 30 pages (single line spaced). Additionally, they can either be in the form of academic articles or they can take the form of research reports. We also welcome papers from Edinburgh based PhD students, but these must have the approval of their supervisor before being submitted. PhD students can of course co-author a paper with a member of academic staff.
In all cases, when you submit a working paper, please follow these basic guidelines:
1. The Working Paper should be written in English.
2. No referencing style is preferred, but please be consistent throughout. Full details of references should be provided, either at the end of text - where they should be listed alphabetically - or in the footnotes, depending on referencing style used. For journal articles, the volume and issue number, month and year of publication and inclusive page numbers should be provided. For books, the publisher and place of publication should be included.
3. It is good practice to use section headings to organize the presentation of your material.
4. When submitting your working paper, you will be asked to upload an abstract (max. 300 words) and up to 6 key words. You will also be asked for author name(s), affiliation and full contact details (including e-mail address).
5. Preferred font is Times New Roman.
Please submit your paper to Europa.Papers@ed.ac.uk.
If you are not an Edinburgh-based scholar, or if you wish to discuss your paper before submitting it, please contact the series editor in the first instance, Dr. Caitriona Carter c.a.carter@ed.ac.uk.
Finally…. why publish SSRN?
Of course, colleagues already have departmental, research project and personal websites where they can and do publish their work in progress including their research reports. So why submit work to an SSRN-run working paper series?
As well as for the collective intellectual reasons we set out above for publishing work in this Europa series, clearly publishing in an SSRN series guarantees greater global visibility and dissemination of one’s own work. For example, SSRN papers frequently appear at the top of Google searches on area topics. Additionally, depositories such as SSRN are increasingly being taken into consideration in external evaluations of research impact. Additionally, publishing in SSRN does not preclude publication elsewhere – copyright is retained by the author – and there is never any harm in placing one’s work in as many outlets as possible for maximum communication and dissemination of one’s research findings.
For more information on SSRN in general, visit /ease/autowebs/www.ssrn.com
Mitchell Working Papers
Prior to 2010, the Europa Institute published the Mitchell Working Papers Series. For papers from this series, please click here.
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