Aims and scope | Article types | Policy on prior publication | Authorship and contributorship | Author affiliations | Competing interests | Preparing your article for submission | Supplementary materials | Seeking permissions for copyright material | Publishing ethics | ORCID | Author Hub | English language editing services
Aims and scope
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review (ARER) provides a forum for the dissemination of scholarly work undertaken throughout the world on the economics of agriculture, food, natural resources, rural communities, and the environment in addition to research in their associated subfields.
ARER considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that the manuscript is your own original work, does not duplicate any other previously published work and cites and fully acknowledges previous research that has heavily influenced your work (e.g. the hypothesis, the study design and the data used). However, the journal does consider articles that have been made previously available as working papers.
Article types
ARER publishes:
Research Articles*
Editorials to introduce special issues**
Forewords on important issues for the field**
* All or part of the publication costs for these article types may be covered by one of the agreements Cambridge University Press has made to support open access. For authors not covered by an agreement, and without APC funding, please see this journal's open access options for instructions on how to request an APC waiver.
** No APCs are required for these article types.
Note also that research articles solely author or co-authored by graduate students may be eligible for expedited peer review, as described in the peer review instructions.
ARER considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that the manuscript is your own original work, does not duplicate any other previously published work and cites and fully acknowledges previous research that has heavily influenced your work (e.g. the hypothesis, the study design and the data used).
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Preparing your article for submission
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Authors must upload a title page file as a separate file containing the title of the article and the name, department, institution, city and country of each author. The title page is made visible to the editor handling the paper but not the reviewers. In addition, the title page should also include the following:
1. Acknowledgments (optional): You may acknowledge individuals or organisations that provided advice, support (non-financial).
2. Competing Interests (required): As noted above, authors should declare competing interests in the title page.
3. Data Availability Statement: The title page must contain a Data Availability Statement explaining how data and other resources were created, from where they are available, along with information about any restrictions on the accessibility of data and other resources. See the ARER Research Transparency policy for more details, including example Data Availability Statements
4. Funding Statement (required): Please provide details of the sources of financial support for all authors, including grant numbers. For example:
Funding Statement: This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant number XXXXXXX).
Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma and space, and where research was funded by more than one agency the different agencies should be separated by a semi-colon, with 'and' before the final funder. Grants held by different authors should be identified as belonging to individual authors by the authors' initials. For example:
Funding Statement: This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (A.B., grant numbers XXXX, YYYY), (C.D., grant number ZZZZ); the Natural Environment Research Council (E.F., grant number FFFF); and the Australian Research Council (A.B., grant number GGGG), (E.F., grant number HHHH).
Where no specific funding has been provided for research, please provide the following statement:
Funding Statement: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
ARER article templates in LaTeX and Word will be available shortly. Authors submitting in LaTeX are advised to upload a PDF version as the main article file and the source files in a zip folder.
To ensure a double-blind peer review process the article should be anonymised: there should be no information that identifies the authors in the manuscript.
The main body of the article can be separated using headings and subheadings. If accepted, it will be published in the standard Cambridge template.
Abstract
The first page of the manuscript should include an abstract not exceeding 200 words, followed by no more than eight key words or short phrases listed in alphabetical order.
JEL Classifications
Please provide JEL classification codes listed in the following format: JEL Classifications: R51, R58, O21, O23, R11, R38
Mathematical Notation
Use only essential mathematical notation. Avoid using the same character for both superscripts and subscripts, using capital letters as superscripts and subscripts, and using overbars, tildes, carets, and other modifications of standard type.
For in-paragraph mathematical notations, provide all math notation as text characters rather than as equations. Use character formatting for bold (vectors and matrices), italics (variables), and superscript and subscript style. Do not italicize numbers or Greek letters.
References must appear in the order in which they first appear in the text, following the Cambridge A style.
See this guide to the Cambridge A reference style for more detail.
On initial submission, figures can be included in the main manuscript file. On revision, we ask authors to upload the original figure files as separate files in order to ensure that we can efficiency publish to the best possible quality if the article is accepted for publication.
Submitting your figures, illustrations, pictures and other artwork (such as multimedia and supplementary files) in an electronic format alongside the main article file helps us produce your work to the best possible standards, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and a high level of detail.
Please see our Journals Artwork Guide for more information.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.
Seeking permissions for copyrighted material
Authors are responsible for obtaining necessary permissions to quote or reproduce material, including figures, from already published works and/or any copyrighted material. If a figure is from another source, this should be credited appropriately in the figure legend along with any terms of any re-use.
For further advice, see this page on seeking permission to use copyrighted material
Publishing ethics
Authors should check the ARER publishing ethics policies while preparing their materials.
Note that authors should provide a Competing Interest statement, Funding Statement and a Data Availability Statement in their title page, as detailed above. See the ARER data transparency page for detailed policy on sharing data, code and other replication materials.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services – including language editing – delivered in partnership with American Journal Experts. You can find out more on our Language Services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.