Article Types

American Journal of Trade and Policy offers multiple article types to maximize your options for disseminating the policy-related works. Only article types that appear in the drop-down menu during the submission process are available for submission to the selected section.

Please ensure that any manuscript you submit to the American Journal of Trade and Policy conforms to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) recommendations for ethics, as well as to the journal requirements. All submitted manuscripts will be checked by plagiarism detection software.

American Journal of Trade and Policy articles (except Law Reviews) are peer-reviewed, receive a DOI, are citable, published in PDF format, submitted for preserving in Portico, and submitted for indexing in relevant platforms.

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ARTICLE TYPES

Research Articles 

Original Research articles report on primary and unpublished studies. Original Research may also encompass confirming studies and disconfirming results which allow hypothesis elimination, reformulation, and/or report on the non-reproducibility of previously published results.

Original Research articles are peer-reviewed, have a maximum word count of 6,000, and may contain no more than 10 Figures/Tables.

Authors are required to pay a fee to publish a Research article.

First Decision: Maximum 60 Days  
Referencing: APA Style

Original Research articles should have the following format: 1) Abstract, 2) Introduction, 3) Materials and Methods, 4) Results, 5) Discussion.

Policy and Practice Reviews

Policy & Practice Reviews provide comprehensive coverage and a balanced overview of current and relevant topics related to policy, regulations, and guidelines that may be coming from academia, relevant societies, regulatory bodies, industries, and others.

In contrast to Policy Briefs, this article type provides authors with more space to elaborate on policies and/or guidelines.

Policy & Practice Reviews are peer-reviewed, have a maximum word count of 5,000, and may contain no more than 8 Figures/Tables.

Authors are required to pay a fee to publish a Policy & Practice Review.

First Decision: Maximum 60 Days  
Referencing: APA Style

Policy & Practice Reviews should have the following format: 1) Abstract, 2) Introduction, 3) Sections on assessment of policy/guidelines options and implications, 4) Actionable Recommendations, 5) Discussion.

Law Reviews

Law Review articles present a synthesis of previous research on a given topic that uses systematic and clearly defined methods to identify, categorize, analyze and report aggregated evidence on a specific topic.

Included in this article type are meta-synthesis, meta-analysis, and systematic review with a meta-analysis.

Law Reviews articles are NOT peer-reviewed, have a maximum word count of 20,000, and may contain no more than 15 Figures/Tables.

Authors aren't required to pay a fee to publish a Law Review article.

First Decision: Maximum 30 Days  
Referencing: Footnote

Law reviews should: Clearly define the research question in terms of population, interventions, comparators, outcomes, a state in which reporting guidelines were used in the study, including funding information.

Law Review articles should have the following format: 1) Abstract, 2) Introduction, 3) Methods (including study design; participants; interventions; comparators; systematic review protocol; search strategy; data sources; studies sections and data extraction; data analysis), 4) Review & Results (including a flow diagram of the studies retrieved for the review; study selection and characteristics; synthesized findings), 5) Discussion (including a summary of main findings; limitations; conclusions).