Language and Editing Requirements

 

PoliEcoM Administration Review requires all manuscripts to be written in clear, professional American English. Language quality is an important part of scholarly communication and affects editorial screening, peer review, indexing, international readability, and the overall presentation of published research.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that the submitted manuscript is grammatically accurate, logically organized, clearly argued, and suitable for an international academic readership in political economy, public administration, economics, management, governance, public policy, and related fields.

1. Language Requirement

Required Language American English.
Writing Standard Clear, precise, formal, and professional academic prose.
Audience International scholars, policymakers, public managers, economists, governance researchers, and professionals.
Editorial Expectation Manuscripts should be readable and review-ready at the time of submission.

2. Author Responsibility for Language Quality

Authors must ensure that the manuscript has been carefully edited before submission. The Editorial Office may return or reject manuscripts that cannot be evaluated fairly because of serious language, grammar, organization, or clarity problems.

  • Sentences should be grammatically correct and logically connected.
  • Arguments should be clear, coherent, and supported by evidence.
  • Technical terms, abbreviations, and institutional names should be defined where necessary.
  • The manuscript should avoid vague claims, unsupported assertions, and excessive jargon.
  • Tables, figures, captions, notes, references, and declarations should also be language-checked.

3. Professional Editing before Submission

Authors who are not fully confident in the clarity or accuracy of their English are encouraged to seek professional language editing, colleague review, or institutional writing support before submission. Language editing should improve clarity, grammar, structure, and readability without changing the scholarly meaning, evidence, argument, or authorship of the manuscript.

Language editing may include:

  • Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax correction.
  • Improvement of sentence clarity and paragraph flow.
  • Consistency in terminology, tense, capitalization, and style.
  • Reduction of ambiguity, repetition, and unnecessary complexity.
  • Checking that the manuscript follows American English conventions.

4. Editing Does Not Guarantee Acceptance

Use of a professional editing service, translator, colleague, institutional writing center, or artificial intelligence-assisted language tool does not guarantee acceptance. Editorial decisions are based on scholarly merit, originality, theoretical contribution, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, relevance to the journal, reviewer evaluations, and editorial judgment.

Language quality supports effective peer review but cannot substitute for a strong research question, appropriate research design, sound analysis, meaningful findings, and clear contribution to scholarship or practice.

5. Editorial Language Screening

During the initial technical check and editorial screening, the Editorial Office may assess whether the manuscript is sufficiently clear for peer review. Manuscripts with serious language problems may be returned to authors for improvement before review or rejected at the editorial screening stage.

Minor Language Issues May be addressed during revision or production when the manuscript is otherwise clear and reviewable.
Moderate Language Issues May require language editing before peer review or before a revised manuscript is considered.
Serious Language Issues May result in return without review or rejection when the manuscript cannot be evaluated fairly.

6. American English Style

Manuscripts should use American spelling, punctuation, grammar, and date conventions consistently. Authors should avoid mixing American and British spelling within the same manuscript.

  • Use “analyze,” “organization,” “behavior,” “labor,” and “program” rather than British variants.
  • Use punctuation and quotation conventions consistently.
  • Use consistent date, number, percentage, currency, and unit formats.
  • Ensure that terminology remains consistent across the abstract, main text, tables, figures, and references.

7. Clarity, Structure, and Academic Tone

Academic writing should be precise, analytical, and evidence-based. Authors should explain the research problem clearly, identify the contribution, present methods and evidence transparently, and connect findings to theory, policy, governance, management, or practice.

  • Use clear topic sentences and logical transitions.
  • Avoid overly long sentences and unclear pronoun references.
  • Use evidence to support claims and interpretations.
  • Avoid promotional, journalistic, polemical, or unsupported language.
  • Maintain a formal and respectful academic tone throughout the manuscript.

8. Translation Requirements

Manuscripts translated from another language must be carefully reviewed to ensure that the English version is accurate, fluent, and faithful to the original meaning. Literal or machine-generated translations that produce unclear or unnatural English may not be suitable for peer review.

  • Translated manuscripts must read as professional academic English.
  • Technical terms, institutional names, legal terms, and policy concepts should be translated accurately.
  • Non-English sources should be cited consistently and translated where appropriate.
  • Authors remain responsible for the accuracy of translated content.

9. Use of Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Language Tools

Authors may use artificial intelligence-assisted tools for limited language polishing, grammar checking, or readability improvement, provided that the authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical compliance of the manuscript. AI tools must not be listed as authors.

Authors must ensure that AI-assisted editing does not:

  • Alter the meaning of findings, claims, data, or conclusions.
  • Introduce fabricated citations, references, data, or quotations.
  • Create plagiarism, unattributed copying, or misleading paraphrasing.
  • Process confidential, private, restricted, or sensitive data improperly.
  • Replace author responsibility for scholarly judgment and final manuscript content.

10. Language in Tables, Figures, and Supplementary Materials

Language quality requirements apply to the entire submission, including tables, figures, captions, notes, appendices, supplementary materials, data documentation, codebooks, declarations, and response letters.

  • Table titles and figure captions should be concise and informative.
  • Notes should explain abbreviations, data sources, and measurement details clearly.
  • Supplementary files should use consistent terminology and formatting.
  • Author response letters should be written respectfully and clearly.

11. Inclusive and Respectful Language

Manuscripts should use respectful, accurate, and inclusive language when referring to individuals, groups, institutions, regions, countries, communities, organizations, and research participants. Authors should avoid discriminatory, stigmatizing, inflammatory, or unnecessarily biased language.

  • Use precise terminology for populations, institutions, and policy groups.
  • Avoid stereotypes, unsupported generalizations, and stigmatizing labels.
  • Report participant characteristics only when relevant to the research question.
  • Use neutral and evidence-based language in policy and political analysis.

12. Copyediting after Acceptance

Accepted manuscripts may undergo editorial formatting, copyediting, and production preparation. Copyediting may improve consistency, readability, grammar, punctuation, citation formatting, and presentation. Authors may be asked to review proofs and respond to editorial queries before publication.

Copyediting after acceptance is not a substitute for submitting a clear and polished manuscript. Authors remain responsible for checking the final proof carefully and confirming that the published article accurately reflects the approved manuscript.

13. Pre-Submission Language Checklist

□ The manuscript is written in clear American English.
□ Grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure have been checked.
□ The argument, research question, methods, findings, and contribution are clearly stated.
□ Terminology, abbreviations, numbers, dates, and institutional names are used consistently.
□ Tables, figures, captions, notes, references, and declarations have been language-checked.
□ Any use of language editing, translation, or AI-assisted tools has been checked carefully by the authors.

14. Editorial Authority

The Editorial Office, Editor-in-Chief, assigned editor, or authorized editorial representative may request language revision, editing, clarification, or resubmission when language quality affects reviewability, scholarly clarity, or publication quality. The journal may decline manuscripts that do not meet minimum language and editing standards.

15. Contact

Editorial Office: PoliEcoM Administration Review Editorial Office

Email: [email protected]

Official Website: https://journals.panorama-sg.com/index.php/pemr

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