Data & Policy - an open-access journal at Cambridge University Press - is delighted to be the strategic publishing partner of the Data for Policy Conference. This page contains information for authors participating in the two Conferences to be held in 2025: DfP 2025 Europe (The Hague, June 12-13) and DfP 2025 Asia-Pacific (Shanghai, October 23-24). 

Full Papers 

Authors interested in submitting a full paper for consideration at either edition of the Data for Policy 2025 Conference should submit their work directly into the Data & Policy journal's submission system, using the 'Data for Policy Conference Proceedings Paper' article type. These articles should be approximately 6,000 words in length (excluding references). 

Articles will be reviewed according to the integrated review process shared by the Conference and journal. For more details, see the submission and guidelines page on the Data for Policy website. 

Deadlines: 

• Europe deadline: 21 February 2025 (now closed)
• Asia-Pacific deadline: 23 June 20257 July 2025

Articles accepted into the Conferences will be published as part of a special collection dedicated to the Data for Policy 2025 Proceedings.

Abstracts

Authors interested in submitting abstracts for presentation at either conference should do so via the Conference's Easy Chair system. For more details, see the submissions and guidelines page of the Data for Policy website. 

Deadlines: 

• Europe deadline: 21 February 2025 (now closed)
• Asia-Pacific deadline: 23 June 2025

Developing a full paper (after the event)

Authors are encouraged to consider developing their abstract into a full paper after the conference having reflected upon the feedback from the event. 

Key things to consider: 

1. Read about the Data & Policy article types and choose which seems most appropriate for your work.

2. Consider using one of our templates (LaTeX, Word, Overleaf) - encouraged but not required. 

3. Incorporate a provenance statement at the end of the main text ahead of the references (alongside the other standard disclosure statements) that reads: "Provenance: This article has been developed from an abstract accepted into Data for Policy 2025 and reviewed according to the standard Data & Policy process."

4. Submit via the Data & Policy ScholarOne site and choose Data for Policy 2025 when prompted by the question in the submission form about whether the article relates to a conference. 

Note that the articles developed after the event will be reviewed in the same way as regular submissions to the journal, which typically involves obtain 3 reviews for research articles (2 focused on the academic rigour/methodology and 1 providing an interdisciplinary or policy specific perspective) and 2 reviews for all other article types.  

Suggested deadline: 

• Full papers developed after DfP Europe: 12 December 2025
• Full papers developed after DfP Asia-Pacific: 24 April 2026

Earlier submission could result in earlier publication. Articles will be published as and when they are ready and added to a collection page dedicated to the event. 

Open Access

Any author can publish on an open access basis in Data & Policy if accepted, irrespective of their funding situation or institutional affiliation. There are no financial barriers to publication. Many articles have publishing costs covered through the Transformative Agreements that Cambridge has set up with universities worldwide. If the corresponding author on an article is affiliated with a Transformative Agreement this effectively covers publishing costs. Authors not affiliated with these agreements who have received a grant that budgets for open access publication are encouraged to pay an article processing charge (APC). However, if an author has no funding and no institutional agreement, the charge will be waived. Please do not let concerns about your financial situation or affiliation put off your submission.

Open Materials

Authors are asked to make code and data that supports the findings openly available in a recognised repository and to link to them in the Data Availability Statement in the article. We recognise this may not be possible in all circumstances. See the Data & Policy Research Transparency policy. Open Data and Open Materials badges will be displayed on published articles that link to replication materials, as a recognition of open practices.