ILO Research Paper Series guidelines for submission

As part of the ILO’s Global Research Agenda a new series, “ILO Research Papers” is established in 2012. The papers published in this series are research papers written by ILO staff, and also by external experts collaborating with the ILO. The papers are analytical and based on empirical research with a clear policy message. The length of the papers for submission should be around 8,000 to 10,000 words, excluding annexes, tables and references. Papers can be submitted in any of the three official languages, with an abstract of 100 to 150 words. Research papers can be submitted on any topic relevant to ILO, including the four global research themes identified for the 2012-13 biennium.

Procedure

The selection of papers for this series will be co-ordinated by the Global Research Agenda Task Force (Leader, Co-ordinator and the Research co-ordinators for each theme). In addition, there are two members from the Research and Publications Committee (RPC) on a rotating basis.

Peer review

The papers are to be submitted to the Task Force who would take a decision about whether the paper could be considered for the series or not. The paper would then be sent for peer-reviewing by the co-ordinator of the Task force. There will be two peer reviewers per paper, an internal reviewer (within the ILO) and an external reviewer from policy institutions, think-tanks, or academia. The external reviewer is selected from an informal Editorial/Advisory board. Reviewers submit written comments to the co-ordinator; the papers are revised in light of the comments and submitted back to the Task force co-ordinator. The final decision of approving the paper for on-line publication rests with the Task force.

The target audience for the ILO Research Paper Series will be policy makers, constituents, academia, researchers, media and informed public opinion who are interested in issues relating to the world of work.

Note: The papers will be available only in electronic format and not in paper form.