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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice (.odt) or Microsoft Word (.doc / .docx) document file format.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The IJCCR requires that the authors provide, apart from the full version of their paper, an anonymised version of the same paper, in order to share that anonymised version with the reviewers who are also anonymous for the authors.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

A separate title page should include the following information:

  1. Title of the paper;
  2. Name(s) of Author(s);
  3. Affiliations;
  4. Contact author’s details including address, email address, URL if appropriate.

An abstract of no more than 200 words should be included in the title page, summarising the content of the paper.

A short acknowledgement of assistance, funding, etc, can also be included.

Research Articles

Articles which provide an informed theoretical perspective as well as empirical investigations of community currency systems are encouraged. We welcome contributions which explore both the historical and contemporary uses of such currencies, to generate knowledge which will help contemporary systems to learn from the past.

Articles

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Literature review articles

Articles that provide literature reviews of a topic that is within the scope of the IJCCR. We particularly welcome literature reviews that provide an interdisciplinary presentation of writings related to money and currencies.

Empirical research reports & letters from the field

These are (preferably short) articles that present findings from field research or theoretical ideas of new currency designs that have not been yet analysed or explored adequately through theory. We welcome in particular empirical research reports and practitioners insights from ongoing projects and from PhD students who want to share research results before their dissertation is concluded.

Ideas for debate

We welcome short pieces of writing concerning an idea or reflection in the fields of money, currency and economic communities that a scholar wants to share and discuss with the IJCCR community and the world. This could either be more philosophical or ethical to point out the the inner human, social and systemic foundations of money and currencies. 

Or it could be thesis based while they have not yet done any thorough research about it or have no systematic field experience related to that idea that would allow them to write a proper research paper. We aspire that Ideas for debate will help scholars and practitioners to share their ideas with the community at an early stage and receive precious feedback that might allow them to proceed with submitting a full paper at some point in the future.

Book reviews

We welcome reviews of relevant books in the field of complementary currencies – these can be both newly published and older books as well. Book reviews should provide a critical evaluation of a book’s content (not simply a summary), and highlight its relevance or interest to readership of this journal. They should be written in non-technical language for maximum accessibility, and must include full bibliographic information in the following format:

Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Marybeth Long Martello. London: MIT Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 351; index. £43.95 (hardback); £17.95 (paperback). ISBN 0262101033 and 0262600595.

Reviewers are encouraged to follow the useful guidance offered by Wendy Laura Belcher (Princeton University) here, about writing a good book review.

Suggestions of books to review are welcome, as well as interest to review a specific book – do get in touch. Reviewers are welcome to keep the book they have reviewed, on the condition that a publishable review is received within two months.

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Privacy statement details

The personal information that is shared with the editorial board of the IJCCR during the submission process, like names, e-mail addresses, disclosed information and such, will exclusively be used for the journal’s scientific aims. Only information that is necessary to ensure the correct running of the scientific publication process will be collected. They will not be used for any other purpose. Such information will not be made publicly available nor will it be shared with third parties. 

The personal information collected is kept by the journal as long as the authors accept us to store them, they can ask for their deletion at any time. We advise you to let the journal store your private information as long as your publication is available on our website, as they might be useful to solve any future issues or to contact you. 

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