Author Checklist for First (and Later) Round Submission
- A submitted paper must be the
original work of the author(s) listed on the title page, must not have been
published nor accepted for publication, and must not be under consideration
for publication elsewhere at any time during the review process (unless
withdrawn from submission to FR by notice to and acknowledgement of the
editor).
- Authors of an accepted or under review paper must not allow the results to appear in other publications (beyond
normal academic citations and brief quotes), before the paper is published in or
rejected by The Financial Review, without approval from the Editors.
When in doubt, please ask. (After publication, Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the EFA
is responsible for reprint approval.)
- Most common ways of circulating unpublished working papers are not
considered publication for the above purposes. Because we have received
several questions, we provide the following examples of actions
that are not considered prior publication:
Oral presentation at a conference.
Posting on the author's web site for downloading free of charge.
Posting for downloading free of charge through Social Science Research Network,
ideas.repec.org or similar services.
Inclusion in the NBER working paper series.
Inclusion in a conference
proceedings volume (electronic or hard copy) is harder to classify, because
the term can mean different things to different business disciplines and
different finance conferences. Unfortunately, we have to be bit legalistic.
To avoid being considered prior publication, the proceedings volume must meet all the following criteria: 1)
A paper accepted for and presented at the conference is not subject to
further peer review after the conference to determine proceedings acceptance (review only to
improve the paper is acceptable); 2) the proceedings volume is
distributed without separate charge and only to conference
registrants or individual members of the society holding the conference (not
non-member or institutional subscribers, such as libraries), or is a
web site available to the public without cost or registration; 3) the
proceedings volume is not designated by the author, author's employer, conference or society as
a "journal" or "publication" or the equivalent or part thereof.
Citation of the paper by other academic papers (which is
encouraged, of course.)
- Direct (verbatim) quoting from someone else's published or unpublished
work, or the authors' own published work, without proper attribution is
considered plagiarism and grounds for rejection or cancellation of
acceptance. Including the source in the reference list is not
sufficient attribution by itself. Even arguably routine details from a published
paper with identical authorship to the submission should be rephrased, not
simply copied in large blocks.
- To facilitate blind review, the authors
must be identified on the title page and nowhere else.
- The page following the title page should repeat the title and also
include an abstract. (Should the paper be accepted, the final abstract must
be 100 words or fewer).
- Please be kind to the editors and reviewers: use a 12-point font, double space the body text, leave at least a
one inch (2.5 cm) margin all around and provide page numbers on all pages
after the title and abstract pages.
- Please use footnotes (or no notes), not endnotes, to make it easy for
the editors and reviewers to refer to them.
- Please be aware that we typically require the author to have a conditionally
accepted paper professionally edited by our designated technical writing editor. The
arrangement and expense of such editing, when required, are the author's
responsibility.
- We accept only electronic manuscripts. Submission fees may be paid
electronically or by U.S. check.
We are delighted to announce that Manuscript Central, our new online
submission and reviewing site, is now accepting new submissions. Papers
originally submitted under our old system aren't being transferred to Manuscript
Central at this time, so we offer separate sets of manuscript preparation
instructions below.
For first round submissions and future
resubmissions of papers originally submitted July 28, 2008 or later:
- The paper can be in Word, LaTeX, RTF, PostScript, PDF or other file
formats. Manuscript Central automatically converts uploaded files into an
anonymous PDF (and many formats into a second HTML version also) for blind review.
- The title page must be uploaded as a separate file and not included in
the main body file.
- Other than the title page, the paper can be all in one file or divided
into multiple files (e.g., body text, figures, tables, etc.).
Manuscript Central combines multiple files automatically.
- You can upload or type in an optional cover letter during online
submission.
- For resubmissions, please provide a separate response to each reviewer
in Word or PDF format.
- New! Our Express Decision option provides about a one month turnaround, guaranteed (click here
to find out how this new optional service works).
- Click here to pay the submission fee
or here to go directly to
Manuscript Central if the fee has been paid.
For resubmissions of papers originally submitted through our old system only (first
submission of the paper was before July 28, 2008):
- Revised papers being handled under our old system must be in PDF format with all fonts
embedded.
- Please submit one PDF that contains all parts of the revised paper,
including a normal title page that identifies the authors. We create our
own blinded PDF for
the referee without the title page, but we ask that a normal title page be included in the submitted file
for use by the editors and staff.
- Please include replies to the referees as separate PDF attachments.
- Please be aware that should the paper ultimately be accepted for
publication, the final version also will need to be submitted in a single
Word document (or a document format that can be opened in Word without loss of content
or formatting) or a LaTeX file. Please continue to submit revised papers
being handled under our old system only in PDF format until otherwise
instructed.
- Please follow the instructions in the editorial decision letter to pay
the resubmission fee and submit the revised paper.
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