Review the APSA Style Manual for Political Science, the FAQs, and the guidelines outlined below before submitting your manuscript.
The APSR accepts only electronic submissions at www.editorialmanager.com/apsr. The website provides detailed information about how to submit, what formatting is required, and what type of digital files may be uploaded. Please direct any remaining questions to the journal's editorial offices at apsr@apsanet.org.
Please follow these procedures for submission:
1. When you submit at www.editorialmanager.com/apsr, you will be invited to provide a short list of appropriate reviewers of your manuscript. Exclude anyone who has already read and provided feedback on the research included in your submission; any of your current co-authors or people with whom you have co-authored with in the past five years; any of your institutional colleagues, as well as past and current students. You may also "oppose" potential reviewers by name, as potentially biased or otherwise inappropriate, but you will be expected to provide specific reasons. The editors will refer to these lists in selecting reviewers without guarantee that this will influence final reviewer selections.
2. You will be required to upload an "anonymous" digital file of your manuscript.
This file must: (1) include an anonymous title page listing the title and abstract, without including any information that identifies the authors. The names of any other collaborators in the work (including research assistants or creators of tables or figures) must also be excluded; (2) Eliminate any in-text links to any online databases that are stored on personal websites or at institutions with which any of the co-authors are affiliated; (3) remove all acknowledgments or potentially identifying information; (4) Avoid using “redacted” as that is an easy author identifier; instead use self-references in third person
A separate detailed title page is recommended and should include: (1) the full manuscript title; (2) names and contact information (mailing address, telephone, and email address) for all credited authors, in the order their names should appear, as well as each author's academic rank and institutional affiliation; (3) acknowledgements or other author notes about the development of the research (e.g., previous presentations of it) as part of this separate title page; (4) In the case of multiple authors, indicate which should receive all correspondence from the APSR (which is the corresponding author).
You may also upload supplementary material or an appendix for the reviewers. Please restart the page number count. As a reminder, Supplementary Materials and Appendices are typically limited to a total of 25 pages.
3. Please make sure the file contains all tables, figures, appendices, and references cited in the manuscript. Furthermore, even though during the review process figure colors are fine, make sure they are readable in grayscale.
4. Manuscripts with potentially compromised anonymity or manuscripts disregarding our required formatting may be returned, potentially delaying the review process.
Specific Procedures for submitting with our Overleaf Template
Overleaf is based on LaTeX but has a rich text mode allowing authors who are expert in LaTeX to edit and write. At the end of the process authors will be taken through to the Editorial Manager system to submit their article. The APSR Overleaf template can be accessed here.
Please note it is currently not possible to send an Overleaf PDF directly to our Editorial Manager site, Aries is working on developing a way for this one-click magic to become a reality.
When submitting a manuscript written with our Overleaf Template:
1. Please download the PDF from Overleaf.
2. Upload it to Editorial Manager using the same submission procedure outlined above, please send only the PDF of the manuscript and any supplementary material.
3. Please be aware that if you use the default settings of this template, you are submitting a manuscript that follows the formatting aspect of our submission guidelines. Contributors are still responsible for adhering to word count, self-citations, and figure requirements.