Policies
Contents
- Philosophy of Subsistence Marketplaces
- Who Can Submit?
- General Submission Rules
- Formatting Requirements
- Rights for Authors and Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School
Philosophy of Subsistence Marketplaces
For more information, please see Subsistence Marketplaces Aims and Scope page.
Who Can Submit?
Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Subsistence Marketplaces provided they own the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).
General Submission Rules
Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Subsistence Marketplaces, authors stipulate that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that they will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Subsistence Marketplaces. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Subsistence Marketplaces, please contact the editors.
Formatting Requirements
Subsistence Marketplaces has rules about the formatting of all submissions. See Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.
It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.