Instructions to Contributors

Manuscripts on the U.S. Congress should be submitted to David T. Canon Department of Political Science, 110 North Hall, 1050 Bascom Mall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA.  Manuscripts on state and local legislatures should be submitted to Peverill Squire, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-6030 USA.. Manuscripts on legislatures outside the United States should be submitted to Brian F. Crisp, Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, Campus Box 1063, 219 Eliot Hall, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. 

Manuscripts may be submitted in one of two forms: 1) Electronically as two Adobe Acrobat PDF files, one of them with all author self-identification information removed. 2) As hard copies in quadruplicate (three of them with all author self-identification information removed). In either form they should be double-spaced, with tables, figures, notes, and references on separate pages. Include a 100-word abstract. The manuscript (including tables, figures, notes, and references) should not exceed 40 standard pages, double spaced. The Legislative Studies Quarterly follows the APSA Style Manual for manuscript preparation. Authors should also include their e-mail address and phone number in their letter to the LSQ editor. For more information, write the Comparative Legislative Research Center, 334 Schaeffer Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1409, USA. Telephone (319) 335-2361. FAX: (319) 335-3211. E-mail: LSQ@UIOWA.edu

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