Notice to Contributors

Editorial Policy

The editors welcome submissions that contribute to the scientific literature and that are of general interest to demographers. Demography publishes research conducted in several disciplines including the social sciences, geography, history, biology, statistics, business, epidemiology, and public health. Research studies as well as review papers and commentaries will be considered for publication. Specialized research papers, theoretical developments, and improvements in models or methods, policy evaluations, applications of demographic principles or techniques, assessments of demographic data, comparative studies, historical studies, and studies of developed and developing countries are welcome. Brief commentaries on articles previously published in Demography will also be considered. Comments should present reanalyses that generate new substantive conclusions. Revisions of papers published in proceedings not under copyright will be considered; the volume of the proceedings should be noted in the submission letter.

Manuscripts submitted to Demography will be judged in part by whether they have reconciled their results with already-published research on the same topic. Further, authors of accepted manuscripts will be asked to preserve the data used in their analysis and to make the data available to others at reasonable cost from a date six months after the publication date for the paper and for a period of three years thereafter. Authors wishing to request an exemption from this requirement should notify the editors at the time of manuscript submission or after receiving this notice; otherwise, authors will be assumed to accept the requirement. The use of proprietary data sets, for example, may prompt an exemption request.

Demography is a peer-reviewed journal. All manuscripts considered appropriate for the journal are reviewed externally. To preserve anonymity, authors and referees should avoid self-identifying references. Submission of a manuscript to Demography is taken to indicate the author's commitment to publish in the journal. A paper submitted to Demography while it is under review by another journal will not be accepted for review.

Preparation of Manuscripts

For detailed information regarding the preparation of manuscripts for Demography, including information on matters of style, visit the Population Association of America's website: http://www.popassoc.org. The following are basic guidelines for the submission of manuscripts for review.

1. Submit four copies of the paper and retain the original for your files. To ensure anonymity, include only the title on the manuscript. Attach a separate page with the title of the manuscript, your name, and your affiliation.

2. Provide an E-mail address to be used in confirming that your manuscript reached the Demography office. Also, unless you are a sole student author or are otherwise exempt, include the nonrefundable $20.00 manuscript submission fee payable to the Population Association of America.

3. Print all copy (including indented material, references, footnotes, and acknowledgments) in 12-point font, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins on all sides.

4. Include an abstract of no more than 100 words.

5. Place each table and figure on a separate page. Cite each table and figure in the text.