Here are the main requirements for submission to the Economic Journal. Please consult the dedicated pages for Features Submissions and Conference Volume Submissions:
Current RES membership. Submission is free to members of the Royal Economic Society. Non-members who wish to submit a paper must Join the Society.
Publication Ethics and Conflicts of Interest. The Economic Journal expects all authors submitting manuscripts to adhere to high standards of ethical conduct in their research and manuscript preparation. During the submission process you will be asked to disclose any conflicts of interests related to this research. Please consult our Ethics Policy.
Data Policy. Submission of an empirical/experimental paper implies that you consent to making your data and programmes available upon acceptance of your manuscript unless you seek a prior exemption . Please also make sure to consult our new Data Policy.
Supplementary Material/Appendices/Data. Please include any appendices and supplemental material for referees (even if the material is not meant to be published) in the same single PDF file as your paper. Items that are not intended for publication should be labelled as such. Only 1 PDF file will be sent to any referees. Please also make sure to include authors' names and affiliations as we do not practice double-blind submission.
Send us Your Past Reports. To improve speed and quality of decisions we encourage authors to include editors letters and referee reports from failed submissions at other journals. We reserve the right to use our own referees and provide our referees with copies of this correspondence but believe this step will be attractive to authors and further speed up the submission process.
Comments on Published Articles. The Economic Journal does not consider comments on published articles. Notes of this form should be directed to the relevant author and, if publication is desired, sent to alternative journals. However, substantive responses to published articles, which can stand as independent research in their own right will be considered and should be submitted through the normal channels with a short note commenting on the relevant original article.
Length. To assist the general reader authors should take care to motivate their work and to communicate their contribution in a clear manner. Please note that, in general, articles should not exceed 7,500 words, not including references and any appendices. Overlong papers will be returned without consideration.
PDF files. Authors should ensure that the encoding of the manuscript file, including the encoding of typefaces and diagrams within the PDF file, follows industry standard specifications. Editors and reviewers should be able to open the PDF file successfully using standards-compliant software on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and other common systems. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that this is possible.
Submissions to The Economic Journal should be made online at http://editorialexpress.com/ej
For enquiries regarding submissions, please contact:
Heather Daly
Publishing Editor
Email: econjournal@london.edu
Tel: +44 20 7000 8413
Guide to Preparation of the final typescript for The Economic Journal (PDF)
Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material.(Government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned).After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various medium/circumstances (please see the form for further details).To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the Exclusive Licence Form (PDF).
Articles in this journal which have been peer-reviewed and accepted, but not yet copy-edited and typeset, are published online through our Accepted Articles feature in advance of publication in print. This service has been designed to ensure the earliest possible circulation of research papers immediately after acceptance, and as such will not be checked or corrected in any way. Readers should note that articles published within Accepted Articles have been fully refereed, but have not been through the copy-editing and proof correction process, or amended to journal style. Once the manuscript has been through the production process, the article is removed from the Accepted Articles area and published as normal on Early View or in a printed issue. Please note that The Economic Journal aims to publish accepted online manuscripts within 5 working days of receipt in production; this is only possible if a completed and signed copyright form is received with the manuscript.
The Economic Journal is covered by Wiley-Blackwell’s Early View service. Early View articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled print issue. Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors’ final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so Early View articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.
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Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do not wish to. All OnlineOpen articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.
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