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Working Paper Series submission guidelines

High quality research papers across the broad field of social policy

The Working Paper Series welcomes submissions from academic staff, visiting fellows, and post-graduate students at LSE.

PhD students wishing to publish their paper in the Series are required to have an email of support from their supervisor. We encourage supervisors and exam boards to nominate especially strong MSc dissertations (e.g., those receiving Departmental prizes) for an invitation to publish in the Series.

We encourage all authors to ensure that publishing their research as a working paper before submission to peer-reviewed journals will not jeopardise their chances of publication. This varies across disciplines and journals; the Social Policy Working Paper Series is not responsible for verifying this information.

Paper Submission Requirements

  1. Papers can be submitted in a format which can be converted into PDF format (for example, Word). Please note: Papers will be published as submitted (converted to PDF, and with the Social Policy Working Paper cover added and including submitted information as below). Please ensure that you are happy for your paper to be published as submitted.

  2. Papers must include an abstract of 100-300 words that describes the research question, methods, and findings; we encourage abstracts to be written in a manner that is easily understood by non-experts.

  3. Please include 3 -6 keywords for indexing

  4. Submissions should include Author contact details and a short biography.

  5. Papers should use the Roboto font. Where Roboto is not available, papers should be submitted in Arial font, in 11pt

  6. Papers should use line spacing of 1.5

  7. Where the paper requires the use of graphs or tables, these should be saved as images, and inserted into the word document where required.

  8. Please use Harvard referencing (Author, year of publication, page).

Please submit your paper to socialpolicy.phd@lse.ac.uk

Should you have any questions regarding the submission process or suitability of a potential paper, please contact socialpolicy.phd@lse.ac.ukin the first instance.

Editorial Board: Dr Timothy Hildebrandt and Professor Lucinda Platt