Submissions

Author Guidelines

Formatting:

• Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word format.
• If your submission was previously published elsewhere (either all or a portion), provide that information.
• Manuscripts should be double-spaced using 11-point font on a page 8.5 x 11 inches (letter size) or the metric equivalent.
• The first page should contain the article title, author(s) name(s) and complete affiliation(s), title, and complete mailing address of the person to whom all correspondence should be addressed. A brief vita or background note for each co-author, including their affiliation, education, areas of research interest, selected publications that the author would like highlighted, and an ORCID ID if the authors have one should be provided.
• Pages must be numbered. An abstract must be included. Please include keywords below the abstract. Keywords are very important for the metadata, so please add as many keywords as you feel is important to capture the themes of the article.
• Manuscripts, (not including abstract, endnotes, and references) may not exceed 10,000 words. Appendices may be provided separately that do not count against the length limit. Manuscripts that do not conform to these guidelines will not be reviewed.
• Mathematical expressions should be set in italic type with all equations numbered consecutively; ideally, we prefer that you input equations into the equation editor in Microsoft Word (or MathType).
• Tables should be numbered consecutively. All tables should have titles.
• Endnotes should be numbered consecutively.
• All figures should be numbered consecutively throughout the text.
• Figures must be submitted as camera-ready copy in a form suitable for reproduction. In addition to the figures placed in the manuscript files, each figure must be provided unembedded as a separate, high-resolution file (at least 300 ppi, and 600 ppi recommended) for typesetting. Acceptable file formats include EPS, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, XLS, XLSX, DOC, DOCX, and PDF. The Journal does not publish in color. Thus, color figures will be converted to grayscale for the print publication. If such conversion will result in poor distinction between parts of the figure, the author must also submit a separate grayscale version that enhances the distinction.

Citations and Documentation:

• Manuscripts submitted for refereeing should be prepared according to the following style rules, which are based on The Chicago Manual of Style. Examples follow:

Style For Book:
Chandler, Alfred (1977). The Visible Hand. Cambridge: Belknap Press.

Style For Report:
Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics (1979). The Economic Structure and Behavior of the Natural Gas Production Industry. Staff Report.

Style For Journal Article:
Henderson, J.S. (1986). "Price Determination Limits in Relation to the Death Spiral." The Energy Journal 7(3): 150-200.

NOTE: Submitted papers may undergo electronic web-based analysis to ensure their originality and to identify possible cases of plagiarism. Submission to The Journal of Energy and Development implies that the authors grant permission that such analyses may be performed.

Peer-Review Policies: All articles published in The Journal of Energy and Development have been anonymously peer-reviewed. The editors oversee the peer-review process and independent expert referees conduct blind reviews in accordance with the highest standards of scholarship and analytic assessment expected of a leading journal in the field of economics.

Publication & Review Guidelines: The Journal of Energy and Development publishes articles covering a wide array of topics in international energy, environment, and sustainable economic development and evaluates manuscript submissions that are consistent with the publication’s focus and subject matter. There is no submission fee for this journal. To be published in the journal, articles should be written in the style of critical inquiry and aligned with the standards set in international academic circles and should meet the following general criteria:

• Locates the rationale for the article persuasively within the relevant scholarly literature
• Is well researched and has appropriate citations
• Uses clearly defined key concepts and models as applicable to the underlying subject being addressed
• Provides strong justification or evidence for its conclusions
• Represents an advance in understanding about the issues or questions addressed
• Offers policy or other recommendations and conclusions of relevancy to larger issues in the field

Review Procedures: An editor reads all submitted manuscripts to ensure that they fall within the journal’s scope, are of sufficient scholarly quality, and appear to meet the general criteria for publication. If the editor judges a manuscript to satisfy these conditions, it is sent for external peer review. Otherwise, the paper is rejected without external review. Decisions about advancing submissions to the peer-review stage may be based on informal consultation with specialists on the paper’s specific topic.

Peer review is double-blind. Reviewers are requested to provide unbiased, respectful and constructive comments aimed at improving the work. Typically, three reviewers evaluate each article.  Based on the reviewers’ evaluations and recommendations, the Journal's editorial board make one of the four following decisions:

1. Accept the article submission
2. Accept the article submission with revisions
3. Request that the author revise and resubmit the article for review
4. Decline the article submission

Editors take all reasonable measures to ensure that manuscript evaluation is based only on the merits of the work and its relevance to the journal. Depending upon the Journal’s publication cycle, the editorial process usually takes up to six months.

Ethics Statement: The Journal of Energy and Development is committed to the highest levels of ethics and standards. Editors and peer reviewers are expected to adhere to the standards of fairness, integrity, impartiality, and confidentiality. To verify a paper's originality, editors may scan submissions using plagiarism detection software prior to peer review.

Authors are encouraged to adhere to the following key principles of ethical publishing:

1. Originality: Submissions must be original, not previously published, and free from plagiarism. Including previously published text must be clearly restructured, reworded, or significantly revised, and the original publication must be cited to avoid self-plagiarism.
2. Accurate Authorship: Anyone who has significantly contributed to the research should be credited as a co-author. Listing someone as a co-author signifies their approval of the final manuscript and agreement to its submission. The primary contributor should be identified as the first author.
3. Transparency: Authors should declare any potential conflicts of interest. Any research funding received must be acknowledged. It is also necessary to accurately cite the contributions and publications of others that have influenced the work.
4. Respect: The content must not include any offensive, libelous, derogatory, or discriminatory material.

Disclosures: Authors are asked to declare any potential conflict of interest. Sources of potential conflict of interest are any relationship, personal or professional, that could affect the objectivity of the review process. These include (but are not limited to) commercial associations, employment, personal relationships and academic competition. Any sources of research funding are to be acknowledged in the manuscript. At the point of submission, each author should reveal any financial or other interests or connections that might raise any question of bias in the work reported or the conclusions. This declaration will be held in confidence by the editors during the review process and after rejection of a manuscript. It will become part of the published article in the case of acceptance.