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Manuscript Submission
Authors must submit manuscripts, including figures, in electronic form using an internet-based review and tracking system called Editorial Manager (EM). You first need to register on the system by going to https://www.editorialmanager.com/aecj/default.aspx. New authors must click the “Register” button from the menu in the upper left-hand corner and enter the requested information. An e-mail will then be sent to the author to verify the registration and assign a username and password. DO NOT REGISTER AGAIN. Just log into the system as “Author.” If you forget your password, click the “Login” button, and click “Send Username/Password.” Enter your e-mail address and click the “Send Username and Password” button. An e-mail containing your username and password will be sent to you.
The AEJ maintains a double-blind review system, that is, the reviewers and authors are unknown to each other.
Manuscripts must be submitted via word processing packages, such as MS Word, running under operating systems MS DOS, Windows and Apple Macintosh. PDF is not an acceptable file format. LaTeX is also an acceptable format, but it must be accompanied by a PDF version compiled from the LaTex file.
Manuscript Presentation
The journal’s language is English. British English or American English spelling and terminology may be used, but either one should be followed consistently throughout the article. Limit the paper to no more than 20 pages (font-size: 12pt., with 1-inch margins), including references, footnotes, tables, figures and appendices. Double-space all material, including notes and references. Number the pages consecutively. Prior to submitting your paper, please use the spelling and grammar check option in Microsoft Word found under the “Review” tab to identify and correct any remaining typographical errors.
All completed work, such as in the literature review and methods sections, should be in the past tense.
Restrict the use of terms such as “I,” “my,” “we” and “our” to statements of personal opinion.
Write out all acronyms at first use no matter how common. Avoid using acronyms in the abstract if at all possible.
Quotations
Quotations of more than 40 words should be set off clearly by indenting the left-hand and right-hand margins. Use double quotation marks for direct quotations and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations. Direct quotations of a source must be preceded or followed by the page number upon which the quotation appears (for example, p. 48 or pp. 50-52).
Title Page
The title page document should contain the author(s) name, affiliation, mailing address and acknowledgments of people, grants and funds, and your ORCID number if you have one. If the paper is accepted for publication, the acknowledgments will be moved to the manuscript immediately before the references section. The manuscript and any response to comments received must NOT contain the author(s) name and affiliation. Be sure to include the 150-250 word abstract, JEL classification numbers and 4-5 keywords on page 1 of the manuscript below the abstract.
Equations
If you use an equation editor other than Office Math ML, the equations must be converted to Office Math ML before submitting your article. If the equations are from any other equation editor, they will not appear correctly in the Word Document and some characters will simply not appear at all.
To convert all equations at one time, double click on any equation in the paper. A box will appear saying “The Equation was created in Equation Editor, which is no longer supported. Converting this to Office Math ML format will make it editable. Do you want to convert this equation?” Beneath that is a box entitled “Apply to all equations”. Select that box and select yes. This should convert all of your equations throughout the paper.
If you want to change only a single equation, right-click on the equation and a box will appear. Move the mouse so it is over the part that says “MathType 6.0 Equation Object”. A new box will appear on the right side. It will say “Convert to Office Math”. Select that and it will convert the equation.
To be certain all equations are readable, please convert them to 12.5 font. Please save all changes.
Symbols and Units
Any numerical results should be presented in standard U.S. units (e.g., inches; feet; 6.34, not 6,34; 5,498.26, not 5.498,26).
Figures and Tables
Each figure and table should be numbered (in the order cited in the text), titled and referred to in the text. Tables must have a data source listed in the notes. Provide sufficient information for the table to stand alone. If the data reported in the figure or table represent results from your calculations, write “Source: Own calculations using data from…” The title should describe the content of the table or figure in as few words as possible and should not be merely generic, such as “Descriptive Statistics.” Use the following format:
TABLE 1 Title of Table
(Table)
Do not submit dumps of computer output labelled as a table or figure.
Tables should be included as editable text at the end of the manuscript document, with each on a separate page. Avoid tables or figures for which the information could be included in the text in several sentences.
Submission of Electronic Figures
Electronic figures should be submitted as full-sized images, separate from the text of the paper, in either Photoshop (PSD), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), JPG or TIFF format. Many other formats, e.g., Microsoft Postscript, PiCT (Macintosh) and WMF (Windows), cannot be used. Figures are to be professionally drawn and camera ready.
Label the axes by title rather than by notation (e.g., “Price,” not “p”; “Quantity,” not “q”). Use Press or Times Roman type style. Figures in color are not allowed (unless only appearing in an online supplementary appendix) and must be submitted in black-and-white. Grey and half-tones are not acceptable.
For vector graphics, EPS is the preferred format. Lines should not be thinner than 0.25 pts and in-fill patterns and screens should have a density of at least 10%. Font-related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as Times Roman and Helvetica. For bitmapped graphics, TIFF is the preferred format but EPS is also acceptable. The following resolution is optimal: black-and-white line figures – 600 – 1200 dpi. Higher resolutions will not improve output quality but will only increase file size, which may cause problems with printing. Lower resolutions may compromise output quality.
Avoiding Problems with EPS Graphics
Always check whether the figures print correctly to a PostScript printer in a reasonable amount of time. If they do not, simplify your figures or use a different graphics program.
If EPS export does not produce acceptable output, try to create an EPS file with the printer driver (see below). This option is unavailable with the Microsoft driver for Windows NT, so if you run Windows NT, get the Adobe driver from the Adobe site (www.adobe.com). If EPS export is not an option, e.g., because you rely on OLE and cannot create separate files for your graphics, provide a PostScript dump of the entire document.
Set up for EPS and postscript dumps under Windows
Create a printer entry specifically for this purpose: install the printer “Apple Laserwriter Plus” and specify “FILE:” as printer port. Each time you send something to the “printer” you will be asked for a filename. This file will be the EPS file or PostScript dump.
The EPS export option can be found under the PostScript tab. EPS export should be used only for single-page documents. For printing a document of several pages, select “Optimise for portability” instead. The option “Download header with each job” should be checked.
Section Headings
Do not number section headings or subheadings. Put headings in bold face type and subheadings in italics.
Appendices
All appendix materials should be saved in a separate file from the manuscript entitled Online Supplemental Appendix material.
Notes
Use footnotes rather than endnotes. Notes should be indicated by consecutive superscript numbers in the text. In tables, notes are preferable to long explanatory material in either the heading or body of the table. Such explanatory notes, identified by superscript letters, should be placed immediately below the table and not as footnotes.
Acknowledgements
As mentioned in the title page section above, all acknowledgements of people, grants, and funds should initally be placed on the title page only.
References
Books, journal articles, articles in collections and conference or workshop proceedings, and technical reports should be listed at the end of the article in alphabetical order. Articles in preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, and so forth should not be included in the reference list but should only be mentioned in the article’s text (e.g., T. Moore, personal communication). Note that journal titles should be italicized and should not be abbreviated.
Articles in periodicals should include the author’s name, year of publication, article title, full title of periodical, volume number (issue number where appropriate) and first and last page numbers.
In the event that two or more works listed in the references were published during the same year by the same authors and their names are in the same order, the references should be identified by a lower-case letter like “a” and “b” after the date to distinguish the works.
Examples
- Journal article: Smith, J., Jones Jr., M., & Houghton, L. (1999). Future of health insurance. New England Journal of Medicine, 965, 325–329.
- Inclusion of issue number: Saunders, D.S. (1976). The biological clock of insects. Scientific American, 234(2), 114–121.
- Journal article with DOI (and with page numbers): Slifka, M.K., & Whitton, J.L. (2000). Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Journal of Molecular Medicine, 78, 74–80.
doi:10.1007/s001090000086 - Article in electronic journal by DOI (no paginated version): Slifka, M.K., & Whitton J.L. (2000). Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Journal of Molecular Medicine.
doi:10.1007/s801090000086 - Journal issue with issue editor: Smith, J. (Ed.). (1998). Rodent genes. Modern Genomics Journal, 14(6),126–233.
- Book chapter: Brown, B., & Aaron, M. (2001). The politics of nature. In: J. Smith (Ed.), The rise of modern genomics (3rd ed.), New York: Wiley.
- Book, authored: South, J., & Blass, B. (2001). The future of modern genomics. London, England: Blackwell.
- Dissertation: Trent, J.W. (1975). Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California.
- Working/Discussion Paper: Bastani, S., & Waldenström, D. (2018). How should capital be taxed? Theory and evidence from Sweden. IZA Discussion Paper No. 11475, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3684613
- Online document: Doe, J. (1999). Title of subordinate document. In: The dictionary of substances and
their effects. Royal Society of Chemistry. Available at: http://www.rsc.org/dose/titleofsubordinatedocument. Accessed January 15 1999. - Online database: Healthwise Knowledgebase. (1998). U.S. Pharmacopeia, Rockville. Available at: http://www.healthwise.org. Accessed September 21 1998
- University site: Doe, J. (1999). Title of preprint. Available at: http://www.uniheidelberg.de/mydata.html. Accessed December 25 1999.
- Works published the same year by the same author(s) in the same order: “Branford, A., & Coutts, L. (2015a). The precious ring. Newtown, Australia: Walker Books.” and “Branford, A., & Coutts, L. (2015b). The wishing seed. Newtown, Australia: Walker Books.
In-Text Citations
All references must be cited in the text. All citations must have a corresponding reference. All citations should be accompanied by the year of the reference.
Examples of in-text citation format are provided below. When citing a work with two authors, use “and” to separate the authors’ names if the citation is incorporated into the text, but use “&” to separate the authors’ names if the citation is in parentheses. When citing a work with more than two authors, only the first author’s name should be mentioned, followed by “et al.”. Citations corresponding to references with “a” or “b” in the year should include “a” or “b” with the year in the citation as well.
If the source is incorporated into the text itself:
Brown and Aaron (2001), Saunders (1976), and Smith et al. (1999) found that…
Branford and Coutts (2015a) and Branford and Coutts (2015b) found that…
If the source is cited within parentheses:
The literature includes … (Brown & Aaron, 2001; Saunders, 1976; Smith et al., 1999).
Proofs
Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. One corrected proof or a list of edits with corrections alongside the line number of the edit should be returned to the Publisher within three days of receipt.
Permissions
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for a quotation from unpublished material, or for all quotations in excess of 250 words in one extract or 500 words in total from any work still in copyright, and for the reprinting of figures, tables or poems from unpublished or copyrighted material.
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