The Georgetown Public Policy Review publishes an annual Spring Edition, both online and in print. GPPR’s 2023 online Spring Edition can be found HERE.
The Georgetown Public Policy Review is now accepting submissions for the 2024 Spring Edition! Articles must be sent to seniorspringeditor@gppreview.com by January 12, 2024.
Call for Papers: Annual Spring Edition 2024
The Georgetown Public Policy Review (GPPR) is the McCourt School of Public Policy’s academic journal, offering analysis and critical insight into pressing policy challenges since 1995. The Spring Edition, GPPR’s annual flagship academic publication, publishes innovative and quality research in various forms.
We encourage policy practitioners and analysts, undergraduate and graduate students, Ph.D. candidates, and university faculty to submit original work that presents fresh insights relevant to one or more public policy fields. Past submissions have examined issues related to education, health, environmental, economic, social, national security, immigration, criminal justice, international development policy, and more.
SUBMISSIONS
Authors should submit manuscripts to seniorspringeditor@gppreview.com by January 12, 2024. Before submitting papers, please read the submission guidelines below.
All submissions must contain:
- One copy of the article with all personal identification information redacted.
- One copy of the article that includes personal identification information, including institutional affiliation.
- One brief abstract (250-word maximum) summarizing the piece.
- A cover letter indicating whether the article is published, or is being considered for publication, elsewhere.
Please send any questions to the Senior Spring Editors at seniorspringeditor@gppreview.com.
Spring Edition Submission Guidelines and Policies
GPPR accepts submissions of journal articles advancing sound conceptual frameworks using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. GPPR also accepts submissions of opinions or short essays that address important research questions that spark scholarly debate about an understudied field. The review process can take up to three months after the submission deadline, and authors should expect to make some revisions to their original submissions. Submissions that do not follow our requested format will be sent back to authors, thereby delaying the review process.
For those seeking to publish shorter articles (of about 1,200 words) on GPPR’s Online Edition, please click here.
Double-Blind Review
Articles will be considered under a double-blind review process that involves assessment of the article’s quality and fit by McCourt School of Public Policy faculty reviewers. Sometimes, authors are invited to join as reviewers after their work is published in GPPR. Reviewers are assigned to articles based on subject matter expertise and/or methodology.
Word Count Guidelines
- Thesis: 4,000 to 6,000 words
- Student Voices
- Short Essay: 1,500 to 3,000 words
- Opinion: 2,000 words max.
- NOTES:
- Word count excludes the maximum 250-word abstract.
- Word count includes all text, footnotes, references, and appendices.
- Tables, figures, charts, etc. are not included in the word count.
Text and Reference Formatting
- Use the AP Style (link accessible to Georgetown students) for text and Chicago Manual of Style, Author-Date format for in-text citations and the reference page.
- Use 12-point font for all text, double-spaced (excluding text in figures, tables, and footnotes) with one-inch margins.
- Include page numbers.
- Use footnotes, not endnotes.
- Do not use your word processing program’s auto-reference or auto-footnote placement features.
Figures and Tables Guidelines
- Place figures and tables where they should be in the manuscript or indicate placement with the placeholder [Table/Figure 1 here].
- Place and number figures and tables consecutively.
- Describe all variables that appear in tables or figures in appropriate detail in the text.
- Submit figures in grayscale only. GPPR will later colorize figures for publication.
NOTE: GPPR works with a Data Visualization team to ensure figures and tables are appropriate and readable for the print edition.
Policies
GPPR only accepts work not published elsewhere. Authors must notify the senior spring editors if the article has been published anywhere else in a different form (i.e., prior forms of the publication that may employ different methods, variables, etc.).
For reproduction and quality control, authors may be asked to submit STATA/R files as well as datasets. Every article must acknowledge the sources of funding, if any. GPPR reserves the right to require certification of institutional review.
Submissions may not include more than five unique in-text citations of the author’s own published work, meaning that only a maximum of five of the author’s past publications should appear in the reference section of manuscripts. There is no limit for short essays or letters. Authors must redact their names from their own self-citations in the blinded copy.
Thesis articles should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx), or as a Google Doc. Do not submit manuscripts in PDF form.
NOTE: To submit articles for the GPPR Online Edition, which receives and publishes papers on a rolling basis, see our online submission instructions.