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Author Guidelines

General rules

The size of the articles should not exceed 25 pages (summary and bibliography included). In the case of thematic issues of RIELF, the size of the articles may possibly be modified according to the indications of the Journal. Texts must be original, not yet subject to publication or not being evaluated in other journals. Articles are submitted in electronic form. The Editorial Board retains the right not to accept the text for publication, to ask authors to change the length of the text and to modify the text in terms of style, language and title of the article. The articles accepted and after taking into account the remarks of the reviewers must be returned modified in electronic version to the Editorial Secretariat of the RIELF, at the latest 10 days after receipt of the remarks. Authors are required to cooperate with the RIELF editorial staff throughout the editorial process. 

The drafting rules are as follows:
• Dimension (format) of A4 paper.
• Margins: left: 2 cm; right: 3.5 cm.
• Margins: top and bottom: 2 cm.
• Text written in Times New Roman, font 12, line spacing 1.5.
• 33-34 lines on each page of text.
• For tables, the title will be indicated above the image and the source below.
• For graphics and figures, the title and source will be indicated below.
• Originals of tables, illustrations and other figures should be retained by the authors to avoid errors.

Structure of the article
The article must be accompanied by the following:
• First and last name of the authors (names in capital letters);
• The authors’ home institution (university, faculty, department);
• The email address of the first author;
• The abstract of the article (250 words maximum), in French and English;
• The keywords of the article (8 maximum);
• Classification codes used by the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL).
• The content of the article:
• introduction (justification for the choice of subject, objective and theme of the article),
• the body of the text with titles of each section and sub-section,
• conclusions and recommendations.
• The bibliography should be presented in alphabetical order.
• The article should be sent in Word format.

Editorial processing charges
To submit, process and publish an article in RIELF authors are required to pay Editorial processing charges (100 EURO).

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submitted manuscript must be anonymous (in particular, it must not be possible to learn the authors’ identities based on the list of references or the file properties). Additionally, a title page (as a separate file) must be submitted. This should specify the affiliation, email address and ORCID iD of each author (ORCID iD is obligatory!). Acknowledgements and references to research grants should be added to the title page.
  • The manuscript is prepared in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • The length of the manuscript should not exceed 25 pages (including figures and tables, references, footnotes).
  • The manuscript is divided into clearly distinctive sections that include Introduction and Conclusions. The Introduction states the aim of the study, research methods, main results and, particularly, the contribution of the study to the international literature. Its final paragraph should present the contents of the article.
  • All Tables and Figures should be numbered and presented consecutively in the paper according to their numeration. All Tables and Figures should be understandable on their own as far as is possible – the readers should not have to check the main text to comprehend information presented in Tables and Figures. The sources of all data used in Tables and Figures are specified.
  • The authors should use one style of references to the literature consistently throughout the text.
  • The manuscript includes an abstract that has no fewer than 100 words and no more than 250. It summarizes the contents of the paper (aims, methods, results, and conclusions).
  • A downloadable article template is available here: template

Copyright Notice

Revue Internationale des Économistes de Langue Française (RIELF) provides immediate open access to its content online.

To submit, process and publish an article in RIELF authors are required to pay Editorial processing charges (100 EURO).
The use of the articles is governed by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license as currently displayed on https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en. That is, the author(s) retains copyright, while the users are free to share (download, copy, redistribute), and adapt the content for commercial or non-commercial purposes, under the following conditions:
• they must attribute the contribution in the manner specified by the author of the original article (at least by simply citing) and indicate if changes were made,
• they must provide a link to the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license,
• they are not allowed to apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Authors who publish with RIELF agree to the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

The CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license does not apply to third-party materials that display a copyright notice to prohibit copying.

The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before (nor has it been submitted for consideration elsewhere), contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.