Jahrbuch fuer oeffentliche Finanzen

ISSN 2944-0068 (print)

ISSN 2944-0076 (online)

Founded: 2025

Publication frequency: biannually

Size: 17,0 x 24,0 cm

Annual number of pages: ca. 800

Languages: German

Validation: peer review

Published by Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, an imprint of Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart (Germany)

Please send manuscript submissions to the editors. Submissions must be original articles (no translations) which must not be previously published. During the review process, manuscripts may not be submitted elsewhere. A manuscript submitted to the journal must be ready for publication, the editors do not accept partial or draft versions. In initial submissions, the citation rules of the journal do not have to be strictly followed. Jahrbuch fuer oeffentliche Finanzen does not accept manuscripts exceeding 25,000 characters.

All submissions are subjected to peer review. The review process can result in acceptance, the recommendation of revisions or rejection of the manuscript. The author is informed of the decision by email. The editors attempt to reach a decision within 3 months of the submission of the manuscript.

If a manuscript is accepted, the editors request a file with the final version. The final version includes names and acknowledgments. Also, please follow the guidelines of publisher and editors provided below.

In our area for authors you will find all the general information you need about structuring your article, formatting your text, working with images and tables and so on. Here we have linked the most important pages for you:

• Technical requirements
• Contribution guidelines
• Text body
• Figures and images
• Tables
• Lists and bibliography
• Use of AI

Additional editorial information and citation guidelines

Contribution header

• General guidelines on the contribution header can be found under ‘Contribution guidelines’.
• The title in the original language is followed by the English translation of the title, unless the title is already in English.
• Contributions in the Jahrbuch für öffentliche Finanzen include both German abstract and keywords as well as English abstracts and keywords.

Abbreviated references in the footnotes

• References in the footnotes must be included in the abbreviated citation format, regardless of whether they are mentioned for the first time or repeatedly.
• If the author’s discussion extends over two pages of the source being cited, an “f.” is placed after the page number of the first page.
• If more than two pages are cited, the first and last pages must be indicated with a hyphen.
• Multiple authors of a source are separated by a slash. If there are more than three authors, only the first author should be listed, followed by the abbreviation “et al.”
• If multiple works by the same author published within the same year are cited, the works are numbered with letters appended to the year.
• Abbreviated references follow the author-year-principle:
  [See] Last name (year), page number.See Lenk/Kuntze (2006), p. 45 ff.
  Lenk (2001), p. 67.
  See Tscheulin (2003a), pp. 23–26.
  See Tscheulin (2003b), p. 11 ff.
• Citations of official texts follow this format:
  See section, abbreviated name of the law.
  See § 12, para. 4, sentence 1 StabG.

Bibliography

• If a literary source has multiple authors, they are separated by a slash.
• If multiple works by the same author from the same year are cited, add a distinguishing identifier (a, b, c, ...) to the year of publication to ensure clear assignment to the source references in the footnotes or in the text.
• If no author is listed, please use “n.a.” = no author listed.

Monograph

• Last Name, First Name (Year): Title. Subtitle, Edition, Place.
  Eichhorn, Peter (2001c): Public Business Administration: Contributions to the Business Administration of Public Administrations and Public Enterprises, Baden-Baden.

Contribution in an edited volume

• Last Name, First Name (Year): Title. Subtitle, in: Last Name, First Name (Eds.) (Year): Title. Subtitle, Vol., Publisher, City, page number.
  Junkernheinrich, Martin / Micosatt, Gerhard (2020): Local Government Finances in 2020. Stabilizing the Financial Situation of Municipalities During the Crisis, in: Junkernheinrich, Martin / Korioth, Stefan / Lenk, Thomas / Scheller, Henrik / Woisin, Matthias (eds.) (2020): Yearbook of Public Finance 1 2021, Vol. 251, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 329–358.

Journal Article

• Last Name, First Name (Year): Title. Subtitle, in: Title. Subtitle, Vol./Year, Issue, Page range, DOI (if applicable).
  Clemens, Marius/Fratzscher, Marcel/Michelsen, Claus (2021): An Investment Program for Crisis Management, in: Wirtschaftsdienst, Vol. 101, No. 3, pp. 168–171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10273-021-28687.

Newspaper article

• Last name, First name / Anonymous (Year), Title, in: Name of the newspaper, Issue number, Date, Page number.
  Müller, Fred (1996): “The Second Tier of Long-Term Care Insurance Takes Effect on July 1,” in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 92, April 19, 1996, p. 12.

Reports / Gray Literature

• Last Name, First Name / Institution (abbreviation if applicable) (editor if applicable) (year): Title, Place.
  German Council of Economic Experts (SVR) (2021): Shaping Transformation: Education, Digitalization, and Sustainability. Annual Report 2021/2022, Wiesbaden.

Internet Sources

• Only websites count as Internet sources. Studies, reports, etc., that are available online as PDFs are cited according to the rules above.
• Last Name, First Name / Institution (Year): Title of the website/article, URL, DD.MM.YYYY.
  University of Leipzig, Department of Public Finance (2021): Yearbook of Public Finance, http://www.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/joefin, 16.11.2021.

Laws, Regulations, and Other Legal Sources

• Name of the Law as of the Date of Entry into Force (Official Gazette and page number), last amended by Name of the Law or as published in the announcement dated the date of the amendment (Federal Law Gazette and page number).
  Act on the Promotion of Economic Stability and Growth (StabG) of June 8, 1967 (BGBl. I, p. 582), amended by the Financial Adjustment Act of August 10, 1971 (BGBl. I, p. 1426).

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