A Journal of Resource, Energy and Environmental Economics
Guide for Authors
Online submission
All submissions are handled online at http://ees.elsevier.com/ree. Once you have logged on
as author using your 'Resource and Energy Economics' username and password you will be guided through the creation and uploading of your
files. The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review
process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source
files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests
for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the Author's homepage only. Therefore users need to keep their contact coordinates on the
registration page up-to-date with the "UPDATE MY INFORMATION" option.
Legal and Copyright
Submission of an article
implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture
or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all Authors and
tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published
elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the Author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit
the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has forms for use by Authors in these cases: contact Elsevier's Rights Department, Oxford, UK:
phone (+44) 1865 843830, fax (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail permissions@elsevier.com. Requests may also be completed on-line
via http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions.
Word processors
Save the file in the native format of the
word processor used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes
will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the word processor's options to justify text or to
hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. Do not embed "graphically designed" equations
or tables, but prepare these using the word processor's facility. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one
grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. Do not import
the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text. To avoid unnecessary
errors you are strongly advised to use the "spellchecker" function of your word processor.
Article Language.
Articles must be written in good English.
Title. Concise and informative. Avoid abbreviations and formulae.
Author
names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly using appropriate
script (capital cases as first letter of authors' first and surnames followed by lower cases). The Present the Authors' affiliation addresses
(where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the
Author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name,
and, if available, the e-mail address of each Author.
Corresponding Author. Clearly indicate who is willing to handle correspondence
at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code)
are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.
Abstract. A concise abstract should briefly
state the purpose of the research and the main results. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so it must be able
to stand alone.
Tables. Tables
should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals and printed on separate sheets. Any manuscript which does not conform
to the above instructions may be returned for the necessary revision before publication.
Footnotes. The use of footnotes
should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively throughout the text with superscript Arabic numerals. Acknowledgements and information
on grants received can be given in a first footnote, which should not be included in the consecutive numbering of footnotes.
Formulae.
Displayed formulae should be numbers consecutively throughout the manuscript as (1), (2), etc. against the right-hand margin of the page.
In cases where the derivation of formulae has been abbreviated, it is of great help to the referees if the full derivation can be presented
on a separate sheet (not published).
References. References to publications should be as follows: 'Smith (1992) reported that...'
or 'This problem has been studied previously (e.g., Smith et al., 1969)'.
The author should make sure that there is a strict one-to-one
correspondence between the names and years in the text and those on the list. The list of references should appear at the end of the
main text (after any appendices, but before tables and legends for figures). It should be double spaced and listed in alphabetical order
by author's name.
References should appear as follows:
For monographs
Hawawini, G., Swary, I., 1990. Mergers and
Acquisitions in the U.S. Banking Industry: Evidence from the Capital Markets. North-Holland, Amsterdam.
For contributions to
collective works
Brunner, K., Meltzer, A.H., 1990. Money supply, in: Friedman, B.M., Hahn, F.H. (Eds.), Handbook of Monetary
Economics, Vol. 1. North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 357--396.
For periodicals
Griffiths, W., Judge, G., 1992. Testing
and estimating location vectors when the error covariance matrix is unknown. Journal of Econometrics 54, 121--138.
Chinese names
may be listed in the references with the surname first, as follows:
Liu Y.H., Chew S.B., and Li W.Z., Education, experience
and productivity of labor in China's township and village enterprises: The case of Jiangsu province, China Economic Review 9, 47-58.
Note that journal titles should not be abbreviated.
Citing and listing of Web references. As a minimum, the full URL should
be given. Any further information, if known (Author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web
references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the
reference list.
Submission checklist
• One Author designated as corresponding Author • E-mail address
• Full postal address • Telephone and fax numbers • All necessary files have been uploaded • JEL code(s)
and keywords • All figure captions • All tables (including title, description, footnotes) • Manuscript has
been "spellchecked" • References are in the correct format for this journal • All references mentioned in
the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa • Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from
other sources (including the Web).
Author Proofs and reprints
Page proofs will be sent electronically to the corresponding
author. Proofs should be corrected carefully; the responsibility for detecting errors lies with the author. Corrections should be restricted
to instances in which the proof is at variance with the manuscript. Extensive alterations will be charged.
A PDF file of the published
article, including a cover sheet and a disclaimer outlining the terms and condition of use will be provided free of charge. Alternatively
the corresponding author can choose to receive 25 complimentary reprints.
