Submission Guidelines

Minimal style guidelines are enforced for manuscripts submitted for review by the Journal of Financial and Economic Practice. If the paper is accepted, then authors should follow these more detailed instructions.

  1. All submitted manuscripts must be original work that is not under submission at another journal or under consideration for publication in another form, such as a monograph or chapter of a book. Authors of submitted papers are obligated not to submit their paper for publication elsewhere until an editorial decision is rendered on their submission. Further, authors of accepted papers are prohibited from publishing the results in other publications that appear before the paper is published in the Journal unless they receive approval for doing so from the editor.
  1. A resubmission of a manuscript that was previously rejected by the Journal of Finance will be immediately desk rejected.
  1. The text of the manuscript should be prepared in 12pt type with 1 inch margins and 1.5 inch top/bottom margins. The text should be double-spaced.
  1. Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced (that is, they should not be endnotes that appear at the end of the document).
  1. Tables and figures can appear either embedded or at the end of the manuscript. Please ensure that all variables and graphs are clearly labeled and easily understood.
  1. All but very short mathematical expressions should be displayed on a separate line. Equations should be numbered consecutively on the right margin.
  1. An abstract, of no more than 100 words, must be entered or pasted into a separate text box as part of the on-line submission.
  1. The introductory section should emphasize the incremental contributions of your research. Citations should be kept to the minimum required to clarify and highlight your contributions. The article should end with a brief nontechnical summary statement of the main conclusions.
  1. Submissions can include a Supplementary Appendix that might include extra tables, extra figures, data description, and proofs. If the paper is accepted, part of the Supplemental Appendix will appear as an on-line supplement to the paper.