YSLPR is seeking submissions from undergraduate and graduate students across the United States. We are looking for evidence-based analysis with original insights, which adds to scholarship in its subject area.

Submission guidelines:

  • Must be primarily focused on state and local policies.
  • Must contain original analysis and not have already been published by another journal or organization.
  • To be eligible for the double-blind peer-reviewed print edition, submissions must be 10-25 pages double-spaced. For the website, submissions should be a minimum of five pages. Please remove your name and any identifying features from the body of the document for ease of peer review.
  • Must have an abstract written by the author that answers the question, “How does this research affect decision making by state and local policymakers?”
  • Must be willing to accept and discuss edits (we cannot guarantee that what you submit will be published verbatim but the author will have final approval on edits).
  • Jargon should be minimal so non-experts can read the piece.
  • Author acknowledges that any submission can be published online, in print, or not at all, at the journal’s discretion.

For submissions preliminarily selected for the print edition, double-blind peer reviewers will ascertain if the paper meets the following criteria:

  1. Is an original and a significant contribution to policy scholarship
  2. Is of interest to state or local policymakers
  3. Clearly presents results, which support the conclusion
  4. Contains concise, understandable language
  5. Applies appropriate methodology and existing scholarship

Please note our copyright policy — authors who publish in Yale State and Local Policy Review agree to the following:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The License allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal. If reprinted in other journals, the author must credit its initial publication in YSLPR (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).

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