1. Information about the Journal
Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning is an international peer-reviewed journal produced and owned by AESOP, the Association of European Schools of Planning. The journal aims at promoting excellence in planning education and research, a key goal for AESOP, by supporting and disseminating scholarly work of high quality, covering the whole spectrum of the discipline, produced by AESOP members or participants of AESOP events and activities.
All manuscripts published inTransactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning are open access and will be freely and permanently available online. Publication inTransactions is free of charge. All manuscripts are subject to a double-blind peer-review process.
2. Presentation of Your Paper
2.1. General Guidelines
Full-length papers should be up to 8,000 words long (including notes and references). Submissions toTransactions are to be made via e-mail: please send your manuscripts to transactionsaesop@gmail.com
Manuscripts should be submitted both as a Word document (see below for structure and style guidelines) and a PDF file. They should include the following: title of article, abstract, three to five keywords; main text; references; appendices; acknowledgements (as appropriate). A title page, including author names and affiliations should be submitted as a separate document (see Section 2.3.5 below).
Author names and any words or phrases that may allow reviewers to infer these names should not appear in the manuscript, its main text, references and appendices. They should only be included in the title page, which should be submitted separately.
Tables and table captions, figures and figure captions should be embedded in text in the position where they should ideally be placed. However, figures should also be submitted separately in jpeg format to allow sufficient quality and resolution (see Section 2.4 below).
Any funding or grant awarding bodies should be acknowledged at the end of the paper.
Please prepare your manuscript as a Word document using A4 portrait page size and ‘normal’ margins (top 2.5 cm, bottom 2.5 cm, left 2.5 cm, right 2.5 cm). All text, including tables and figures, should be typed in Arial font. Main text and headings should be in font size 12, while the captions and titles of tables and figures, and the text in them are to be in font 11.
Line spacing should be single and a single line space should be left between paragraphs. Text should be right and left justified.
Use -ise/-isation endings rather than -ize/-ization (e.g. realisation, authorise etc.). Use English spelling rather than American (centre, not center etc.) except for American proper names (e.g. Kennedy Space Center).
Use italics for emphasis, not bold or underlining.
Use bullets in the text to break up lists and the like, rather than a), b), c) etc.
Use single quotation marks. Dates should be in the form of ‘day month year’, with a comma after the month e.g. 10 May, 1998, not May 10 1998 or 10th May 1998 or 10 May, 1998 or 10.5.98. Other examples include: from 2000–2016 (note the end dash, not a hyphen); from 11–15 December, 2016; from 1 January–15 December, 2015; between 1 January and 15 December, 2015.
In using numbers, spell out one to nine, use numerals after (except for page numbers, dates, percentages, special usages in text [e.g. Type 3], numbers in headings, tables, etc., ages, money, time and dates, temperature, dimensions). Spell out after a million (e.g. 1,000 100,000 1 million). Unless exact figures are important, round up or down large numbers – use your discretion, e.g. instead of 1,250,000; use 1.25 million; instead of 1,256,456; use over 1.25 million. Avoid beginning a sentence with numbers, but if avoidance is not possible, always spell out.
In the main text, spell out ‘percent’. Inside brackets, use the % symbol, e.g. 12 percent and (12%).
When using abbreviations or acronyms, spell them out in full on their first use. In all subsequent uses, use the abbreviation. For the European Union, United Kingdom and United States, spell out at all times unless used as an adjective, e.g. US control, EU Commission, UK Parliament. Do not use full points within abbreviations or acronyms.
2.3. Structure
2.3.1. Sections and Headings
Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to ‘the text’. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
The highest heading level and the second heading level should be bold, capitalizing the initial letter of each word. The third heading level should be italic, with the initial letter of each word typed in capital.
Leave one line of space before and after each heading.
If possible please use a Word-style for automatically indexing and presenting headings, subheadings and paragraphs.
2.3.2. Abstract
Your paper should begin with an abstract of about 150 words. Do not include any references in your abstract.
2.3.3. Keywords
Keywords should follows the abstract. Three to five keywords should be provided.
2.3.4. Main Text
The main text is to follow the abstract and keywords, presented in sections and subsection.
2.3.5. Title Page
A title page should be prepared and submitted separately. This should include the title of the article, name(s) of author(s), full professional postal addresses, current affiliation and a clear indication of who the corresponding author is. In addition, the title page should include a short Biographical note on author(s).
Maps, diagrams, charts and photographs should be referred to as ‘Figures’ and should be numbered in a single sequence in the order in which they are referred to in the paper.
All figures should have brief descriptive captions.
Figures should be embedded in text where you would ideally like them to appear and be supplied digitally as separate files. They should be jpeg files, and prepared in appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grey scale and 300 dpi for colour.
Tables should be numbered in a single sequence in the order in which they are referred to in the paper. They are to be embedded in the text where you would ideally like them to appear. All tables should be supplied as tables in Word, so that the text might be edited by the copy-editor.
2.5. Quotations
Quotations in the text of more than 30 or so words should be pulled out of the text and indented, using indents, not tabs. They should have a line space above and below them. Indented quotations should not be put in quotation marks. Italicise only those parts of the quotation that were in italics in the original, unless you specifically want to stress part of a quote, in which case you should add ‘(emphasis added)’ after the quotation.
3. References
Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning uses the author–date system in references and follows the Harvard referencing style (aside from the spelling of the first names of authors, which are to be written out in full – please see the examples below). Please avoid using footnotes wherever possible. However, where their use is unavoidable, please use superscript numbers within the text corresponding with the number of the relevant footnote.
You must make sure that all references which appear in the text are given in full in the references section. Where there is more than one reference to the same author for the same year, they should be listed as 1995a, 1995b etc.
The references section should be a continuous alphabetical list. Do not divide the list into different sections (books, reports, newspaper articles etc.). Where there is more than one reference to the same author, that author’s references should appear in chronological order, with references to that author in conjunction with others coming after the last reference to the author alone.
For example:
Campbell, Neil A. (1990)
Campbell, Neil A. (1996)
Campbell, Neil A. and Jane Reece (1989)
