Guidelines for authors: EPD
Submission   Style   Acceptance

Submission
Submission of a paper implies acceptance of the following conditions:
(1) the paper reports unpublished work;
(2) the paper is not being submitted to any other journal;
(3) you are fully authorised to submit the material for publication;
(4) you agree to act as a referee for other submissions to the journal, bearing in mind that each submission generates the need for three reports.
(5) if accepted, the paper will not be republished without the consent of the publishers.
A copy of the license to publish can be found in the ‘Instructions & Forms’ section of the author centre on the submissions website (see below for link).
Please also note that we will not accept a submission from an author who already has two papers currently in the submission system.

Papers should be submitted as Word or rtf files using the ScholarOne Manuscripts submissions website here
Papers should be written in English, in nonsexist, nonracist language.
Please think very carefully when writing your title so that it contains the keywords that readers would use when searching for papers on the same topic. Describe your work fully in the abstract, reiterating key phrases. We also ask that you provide 3–6 keywords for your paper.
Papers should be double-spaced and in 12-point font size. Articles for the journal should be between 7000 and 10 000 words including abstract, notes, references, and acknowledgements, and reduced commensurably if they include maps, pictures, or diagrams (250–500 words reduction per image, depending on size). Longer papers will be returned for reduction before review.
A separate title page should be attached. This will be detached during the refereeing stage to maintain the anonymity of the author. Please include your acknowledgements on the title page. Identifying information should not be included in the main document.
Papers should be formatted as per the style guidelines provided below, and particular attention should be paid to the style of references and accepted figure formats. The editor's decision is final, and acceptance of a paper for publication implies assignment of copyright to Pion Ltd.

Style
All papers will be copyedited in accordance with the house style of Pion Ltd. Both British and US English are acceptable, though consistency is essential. However, punctuation for both US and British spelling should be according to British style (outside the quotation marks). Spelling is subject to Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Double quotation marks are used only for direct quotations and must be accompanied by a complete citation with author, date, and page number; single quotation marks should be used, otherwise.

Figures

  • Figures should be submitted in TIFF or EPS format. PDFs are also accepted. Other formats are not accepted (JPEG, GIF, BMP, Powerpoint, Excel, etc).
  • The author must obtain copyright permission for any copyrighted figures and must pay any necessary fees. Copies of permission should be included with the manuscript.
  • All figures and tables should be mentioned in the text and should be numbered according to the order in which they are mentioned.
  • Figures should be submitted in black and white unless colour is really necessary. Colour printing is expensive and is charged at cost, though, alternatively, colour figures can be made available online free of charge. Any figures intended for colour printing, either in print or online, should be indicated as such.

    References

  • The full list of all references cited in the paper should appear at the end of the text, in alphabetical order by author, and in ascending chronological order for each author. They should be formatted in the house style (see example references). If you are an Endnote user, there is an output style called Environment and Planning.ens
  • References must be cited in the text, and should be cited alphabetically in the format shown by the following examples: Batty, 2003; 2005a; 2005b; Batty and Xie, 1994; Webster et al, 1999b.
  • Where more than one reference appears for the same year, labels a, b, c, etc should be used, in the order in which the papers are cited.
  • For references with more than eight authors, the first eight authors are listed followed by 'et al'. For in-text citations with three or more authors, the first two authors should be cited along with 'et al'.
  • Publications without an author should be cited as 'Anon'.
  • Any unpublished material, or material published by an organisation or department (such as conference proceedings) must be accompanied by full contact details of availability, as shown in the example references (it is not sufficient, for example, to provide the name and year of a conference and the place at which it was held).
  • A full contact address is required for any organisation.
  • Acts of Parliament, statutes, government publications, legal judgments, etc must be fully referenced as shown in the example references.
  • First and last pages should be provided for all articles published in journals or books.

    Mathematics
    If mathematics feature in the manuscript, care should be taken that they are formatted as per our mathematics style.

    Acceptance

    Upon acceptance, papers will be copyedited, typeset, and proofread, after which proofs will be sent to the contact author.

    Upon publication of the paper, the main author will receive a pdf of the published version and a copy of the issue in which the paper appears.