1. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Submissions should be sent via email to cdev@sei.se. Authors should keep a copy of articles and illustrations. While the editors and publishers will take all possible care of material submitted to the journal, they cannot be held responsible for the loss of or damage to any material in their possession.
Authors are asked to ensure that, prior to submission, they have complied with all of the submission requirements. Failure to do so could result in a delay of the publication of your article. A checklist for authors can be found here.
Address:
Editorial office, Climate and Development, c/o Tom Gill, Stockholm Environment Institute, Kräftriket 2B, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
If you have any queries about these guidelines, contact the editorial office at cdev@sei.se.
2. MANUSCRIPT TYPES
The subject of all articles submitted must fall within the aims and scope of Climate and Development. Please consider the journal's aims and scope before submitting an article.
(N.B. all maximum word counts give below are inclusive of supplementary matter, such as abstracts and references.)
Research articles (maximum 7000 words)
A research article presents and discusses findings from a piece of original research. Typically, it should include an introduction (including a research question or hypothesis), a description of the research performed (methods), an explanation of the results of that research, and a discussion of the importance of those results. An abstract and references must also be included.
Review articles (maximum 8000 words)
A review article discusses and assesses (i.e. reviews) the state of knowledge in a particular field of natural or social science. The author’s original research should not be the main focus of a review article.
Case studies (maximum 4000 words)
A case study systematically investigates (studies) a single group, event, incident, or community (case). Case studies should not generally seek to prove a hypothesis; emphasis is instead placed on exploration and description.
Viewpoints (maximum 2000 words)
A viewpoint article presents the author’s personal views and analysis of a subject of political or societal relevance. A viewpoint article is based on facts, and should build a rational and coherent argument.
Meeting reports (maximum 2000 words)
A meeting report discusses the key proceedings and outcomes of a meeting (or seminar, etc) with a focus on the meeting's broader political and social significance. (If you are interested in submitting a meeting report to the journal, we encourage you to contact the editorial office for further guidance, at cdev@sei.se).
Book reviews (maximum 2000 words)
A book review critically assesses a recent publication. Books reviewed for Climate and Development should offer something new to the field they cover and be of genuine interest to the journal's readership.
3. LANGUAGE AND STYLE
Articles should be in British English and written and arranged in a style that is concise and easy for readers to understand. First person voice is discouraged. Illustrations should only be used to aid the clarity of the article; do not include several versions of similar illustrations or closely related diagrams unless each is making a distinct point.
4. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND LAYOUT
The first page of the manuscript should contain the full title of the article, the name (without qualifications or titles), affiliations and full address of each author. Include an email address for the corresponding author. The second page should contain the full title, an abstract of the article and a keyword list (5–10 words). The abstract should be no more than 200 words long and should summarise the article, clearly indicating its conclusions.
Tables
Authors should present table data as succinctly as possible; tables should not duplicate data that are available elsewhere in the article.
Symbols, abbreviations and conventions
Use SI (Système Internationale) units. Spell out in full acronyms and abbreviations when first used.
References
Use the author-date system for references. Give author names and year of publication in brackets in the text, for example: (Burton, 2000), or Vogel (2004). List the full reference details in alphabetical order at the end of the article. Only include references in the reference list that appear in the text. Each reference must include full details of the work referred to, including paper or chapter titles and opening and closing page numbers. If available, include a digital object identifier (doi) for journal articles.
• Journal article:
Rozenzweig, M. R. and Stark, O., 1989. Consumption smoothing, migration, and marriage: evidence from rural India. Journal of Political Economy, 97(4). 905–926. doi:10.1086/261633.
• Book:
Bartsch, U. and Müller, B., 2000. Fossil Fuels in a Changing Climate: Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol and Developing Country Participation. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
• Book chapter:
Burton, I., 2000. Adaptation to climate change and variability in the context of sustainable development. Climate Change and Development, L. Gomez-Echeverri (ed.). Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, USA. 153–173.
• Article in conference proceedings:
Kaki, C. and Oyédé, L. M., 2000. Implications of accelerated sea-level rise for Benin. Proceedings of the SURVAS Expert Workshop on African Vulnerability and Adaptation to Accelerated Sea-Level Rise, A. C. de la Vega-Leinert, R. J. Nicholls, A. Nasser Hassan and M. El-Raey (eds), Cairo, Egypt, 5–8 November 2000. Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, Enfield, UK. 33–40.
• Policy document, working paper, technical report:
GEF, 2005. Operational Guidelines for the Strategic Priority: Piloting an Operational Approach to Adaptation (SPA). GEF/C.27/Inf.10, Washington, DC, USA.
• Internet citations:
United Nations Environment Programme. Global Monitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants. http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/newlayout/infpopsalt.htm.
For original content from online sources, include as much of the following as is available: the author of the content; the title of the page; the type of content (e.g. working paper, press release); the title or owner of the site; and the universal resource locator (URL). For electronic journals, follow the format for journals given above and include the URL.
Where there is no specified author, as in the example above, use the publishing organisation in the author position.
Notes
Notes should be kept to a minimum, and will appear as endnotes. Indicate endnotes with a superscript number in the text, and include the note at the end of the article. Do not use the footnote/endnote commands in word processing software for either references or notes.
Images and illustrations
Images and illustrations should be numbered in the order in which they appear, and referred to in the text as figure 1, figure 2, etc. They should be submitted in a form ready for reproduction – the publisher will not redraw or re-letter illustrations. Captions must be provided for all figures. Images and illustrations should be supplied as individual documents, separately from the main paper.
Images should be supplied digitally as high resolution (300 dpi) tiff, jpeg or eps documents. Note that figures, graphs and images must be comprehensible in black and white. Use of colour is discouraged – use patterns, not colours, to differentiate sections.