| MIGRATION LETTERS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS |
Letters should be original unpublished accounts about 3,000 words or 10-12 printed journal pages in length,
excluding the footnotes and references.
Submissions must be sent by e-mail to the Editor at editor@migrationletters.com. Manuscripts must be
submitted as word documents (.txt, .doc, .rtf extensions are accepted).
Opinions expressed in letters are only those of authors and not necessarily those of editors or publisher.
Authors are personally responsible to obtain permission for reprint of previously published material in other
sources.
All manuscripts must be submitted in English. To disseminate your research more effectively, you may consider
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Footnotes in the text should be numbered seriatim and include information which is not appropriate in the
main text. Tables and figures should be integrated in the text and the copy editors may change the place of
them whenever necessary. The title page must include an abstract of about 100 words and 5 key words. Full
contact information with institutional affiliations must also be provided. Introduction, literature review and data
should be kept to a minimum unless it is essential to the paper.
Manuscripts submitted to Migration Letters will not be returned.
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reprinted without prior permission of Migration Letters.
Please submit the following separately:
- A cover letter (email will also do) with your contact details, affiliation as well as including the names and
contact details of three potential reviewers - Manuscript including the abstract (100 words) and up to 5 keywords. (Please do not include any
personal or affiliation information in the manuscript).
Manuscripts must be submitted as word documents (.txt, .doc, .rtf extensions are accepted). Please also send
excel tables for graphics and/or figures used in the paper (if applicable).
Format of the text should be as follows:
Any mainstream system of referencing (e.g. Harvard or Chicago) is acceptable. References should follow
coherent rules and be consistent. All references to books, articles and other sources should be inserted in the
text; reference should contain the last name of the author, year of publication and pagination where
appropriate, e.g. (Green 2003: 187); for co-authored sources, provide names for two authors if dual
authorship, for more than two authors use et al. after the first author’s name. For institutions, use
abbreviations in the text.
Acknowledgements should be given either in a footnote on the first page or at the end of the manuscript.
The reference list should be placed at the end of the text and must include only the sources referred in the
text. All items should be listed alphabetically by author and by year of publication. Italics must be used for
titles of books and journals.
The list of references should appear at the end of the text. It should be double spaced and listed in
alphabetical order by author's name.
You may follow any mainstream referencing styles including Harvard, Chicago, APA etc. As a guide, please see
the examples below:
For books, reports, thesis, etc.
Rossi, P. (1955). Why Families Move: A Study in the Social Psychology of Urban Mobility. New York: Macmillan.
Burgess, E. W. and Bogue, D. J. (eds.) (1967). Urban sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Rouse R. (1989). Mexican Migration to the United States: Family Relations in the Development of a Transnational
Migration Circuit. Unpublished PhD thesis, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
For articles in edited works
Wolf, D.L. (2002). "There’s no place like “home”: emotional transnationalism and the struggles of second-
generation Filipinos". In: P. Levitt and M.C. Waters (eds.) The Changing Face of Home: The transnational lives of
the second generation, New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
For articles in periodicals
Illés, S. (2005). "Elderly immigration to Hungary", Migration Letters, 2 (2): 164-169.
Levitt, P., DeWind, J. and Vertovec, S. (2003). "International perspectives on transnational migration: An
introduction". International Migration Review, 37 (3): 565-575.
Borjas, G. J. and Bratsberg, B. (1996). "Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign-born". Review of
Economics and Statistics, 78:
165-176.
The illustrations should be inserted in the text. All graphs and diagrams should be referred to as figures, and
should be numbered. Illustrations should not be in colour as the journal will be printed in one colour.
Tables should also be numbered consecutively in the text and must be inserted in the text. There should not
be redundant tables in the manuscript.
Any submission which does not conform to the above instructions may be returned for the necessary revision
before consideration for publication.
Editorial Policy
All submitted papers are refereed by the associate editors and/or external reviewers. The referees are
expected to provide supportive comments regarding their decisions. Following the receipt of the document in
appropriate format, it is expected to reach a decision within three months.
Migration Letters, Editor
Email: editor@migrationletters.com
Web: http://www.migrationletters.com
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