The Journal of the Canadian Economics Association
La revue de l'association canadienne d'économique

Style Guidelines for Accepted Papers

General Formatting

  1. Papers must be double-spaced with margins of at least 1 1/4 inches (3.2 cm) on each side and 1 inch (2.5 cm) at top and bottom.
  2. Our rule of thumb is that a paper with full double- spacing of everything should not exceed 45 pages, and this should include an assessment of one page for each graph and one for the title page. Preferably papers should be kept to about 40 pages or less in fully double-spaced form. The objective is to restrict most papers to about 20 journal pages or less and to avoid exceeding 25 journal pages except in very rare circumstances.
  3. Pages should be numbered consecutively, starting with the first page of text.
  4. Section headings in the paper should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals (1,2, etc.). Sub-section headings should use Arabic decimals (2.1, 2.2, etc.).
  5. Please use boldface type for first-level subheads and for appropriate mathematical expressions only.
  6. Footnotes must be double-spaced and placed at the back of the paper following the references. This includes the lead footnote containing acknowledgements; it should be marked as "lead footnote" and not numbered. The next footnote is footnote 1, etc. (Note to LaTeX users: to put your footnotes at the end of a document, use the endnotes option with \usepackage{endnotes} declaration.)
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