Urban Governance seeks to advance knowledge of how to make cities more liveable, inclusive, and sustainable. We aim to provide a forum to address some of the most challenging issues facing cities and governance worldwide, to inspire academic research and debates, and to share knowledge, experience, and critiques on urban governance.
Articles Type
Research Articles
Research articles should be 7000-9000 words long, although submissions longer than 9000 words might be accepted on an occasional basis, if the topic demands this length of treatment. The submitted papers should make clear how they present broader impacts and significance theoretically, methodologically, practically and/or globally, for the governance of urban affairs. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary manuscripts with diverse methodological orientations, though we value research with high reliability, validity, and generalizability.
Practice Articles
Practice articles are expected to share practices in urban governance around the world and demonstrate innovative solutions adopted and developed in specific local contexts with strong potential for cross-jurisdictional learning. The length of the articles should be 3000-5000 words.
Viewpoints
Urban Governance also welcomes practitioners and policy makers to submit comments or make one argument on specific topics based on their experience in urban governance. The length of viewpoints should be shorter than 3000 words generally.
All submissions are reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers with the identities of the authors concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. Urban Governance?s editors will make the final decision on a publication.All new submissions should not be under review, in process or published by another other journal or in another form of publication. Publishers or authors who wish to republish or translate the published articles in Urban Governance should contact the editors directly.Submission should be done via online Editorial Manager at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/ugj Papers will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis. Accepted papers will be published online after it is formally accepted by the journal, and assigned a volume number later. Submission checklist
You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.
Ensure that the following items are present:
One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
All necessary files have been uploaded:
Manuscript:
• Include keywords
• All figures (include relevant captions)
• All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
• Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided
• Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print
• Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'
• All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)
• A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
• Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed
• Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements
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Anonymity and self-referencing - Urban Governance uses a double-blind review process, and to ensure anonymity the manuscript file must not include any self-referencing, logos, headers or any other type of information or formatting that might reveal the identify or affiliation of any of the authors. Acknowledgements should not be included in the manuscript file and must be uploaded as a separate file. Self-references must not be obvious in revealing any authors' identify and should refer to the authors' work only indirectly (e.g., "This work builds upon procedures developed by Smith (2010)"; NOT "I build upon my previous work (Smith, 2010)..."). To further ensure anonymity, authors may choose to temporarily remove self-citations from the reference list and mask in-text references (e.g., "(XXX, 2009 masked for blind review)"), then restore the proper citation when the manuscript is accepted. Although such an approach better respects the integrity of the blind review process, authors must weigh the removal of a citation against the need for reviewers to evaluate the credibility of your work.
