The Roosevelt Institution

Submission Guidelines for the Roosevelt Review

All submissions should be sent to Roosevelt Review by April 30, 2007, in the format described below. Please contact Kirti Datla with any questions.

The Roosevelt Review is devoted to publishing high quality research, analysis, and policy proposals by graduate and undergraduate students. It aims to give policymakers access to undertapped student intellectual capital and, at the same time, leverage the Roosevelt Institution's brand to build connections between students and policymakers with common interests.

While the primary mission of the Roosevelt Review is to present innovative policy proposals, it is also interested in research that analyzes and clarifies present modes of thinking about policy issues. If you've written a paper that analyzes current public policy or could offer a policy perspective on a given problem, please submit it.

General Information

• Articles are selected for originality, relevance, and readability. As a general guideline, articles should be mid-length analysis pieces between 2000-10,000 words, and must include a bulleted executive summary of 250 to 400 words. All citations must be included, with a 'works cited' page attached.
• For an overview of what should be included in a quality policy paper, please download this guide.
• All submissions will be subject to double-blind review. Publications decisions are based on the recommendations of members of the editorial board. Comments will be sent to the author submitting the paper along with a letter from the editor conveying the decision whether or not to publish.
• The Roosevelt Review endeavors to provide constructive and developmental feedback to authors within two months of the appropriate submissions deadline. Publication decisions will be made after no more than one major revision for manuscript content. The quality and development of initial submissions will thus greatly affect their likelihood of publication.
  
• Manuscripts are considered for publication on the understanding that if their contents and contributions have been published or are under consideration for publication elsewhere, the author will inform the editorial staff.
• The next submission deadline for the next issue of the Review is January 20, 2008.

• For a comprehensive overview of style guidelines, download the first edition of the Roosevelt Institution's Style Guide.  All submissions are required to fit these guidelines, particularly for citations.

• To submit your work, please email your submission to submissions@rooseveltinstitution.org, with subject line "Roosevelt Review Submission." This email should be sent with two electronic copies of the submission: one file (whose name includes the primary author's last name) with the author's name, school, and full contact information, and one file (whose name includes "no-author') without this information.  (Ex. Smith.PoorTax.doc and no-author.PoorTax.doc)  Please also indicate which policy sector(s) your paper addresses in your email.

The author of the top rated article will be eligible for financial support to the Washington, D.C. Roosevelt Policy Expo in the summer, where they will be a featured presenter before an audience of policymakers and top students from around the country.