Dropping sequential page numbers

From Volume 2 onwards, the EJELS will no longer use sequential page numbers. Whereas sequential page numbers are natural for traditional, printed journals, for digital-only journals they are not only unnecessary but can result in significant delays in the publication process. Thus, by dropping sequential page numbers we will be able to more quickly publish accepted articles without such extra steps as "advanced access" or "online first".  Also, sequential page numbers have become superfluous for citing articles after the advent of DOI (Digital Object Identifier) as best practice for citing.

We will, of course, continue to paginate the articles since readers need to be able to make pinpoint references, but going forward each published paper will be paginated starting with page 1.

So how should you cite an article in the EJELS? On each article's landing page there is a tool that provides proposed citations for all major citation formats. For example, using the Chicago Style you would cite: "Bétaille, Julien. 2025. “From Doctrine to Data: Towards an Empirical Turn in European Legal Scholarship”. European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 2 (1). https://doi.org/10.62355/ejels.25120."