Submission Guidelines and Requirements for the Journal of Finance: Insights and Perspectives.
- File format: All papers must be submitted electronically through the Wiley Research Exchange platform. The manuscript should be an editable LaTeX (.tex) or doc./.docx file including text and tables. Please provide figures in the highest resolution possible, whether they are embedded or provided separately. You must also provide a PDF version of the manuscript which will be sent to referees for Peer Review (use 1.5 line spacing, 12-point font, 1-inch side margins, and 1.5-inch top/bottom margins). All supporting files that are referred to in the LaTeX Main Document should be uploaded as a “LaTeX Supplementary File.”
- Title page: Refereeing at the Journal of Finance: Insights and Perspectives (JF: I&P) is single-blind. The first page of your paper should be a title page that includes the names of the authors, the title of the manuscript, and an abstract of not more than 100 words. Designation of a corresponding author is not required at the initial submission stage, but will be required in the final version if the paper gets accepted.
- Disclosure statements: You must provide a conflict-of-interest disclosure statement that includes a separate disclosure for each author by name, which must be uploaded as a separate file in the submission system. Resubmissions must include a disclosure statement, too. The disclosure statement must be included even if the authors have nothing to disclose (this fact should then be explicitly stated, e.g., “I have nothing to disclose”). Click here to see an example. Please carefully review the Conflict-of-Interest Disclosure Policy before submitting the paper. Submissions without disclosure statements will be returned to the submitting author immediately.
- Length: Your manuscript must not exceed 7,000 words. Each exhibit reduces the maximum allowance by 200 words (e.g., a manuscript with 5 exhibits has a maximum of 6,000 words). The maximum number of exhibits (figures or tables) is five.
- Word Count: You must enter the word count in the Cover letter space during submission (no other language is necessary). Authors must also submit a word count based on a modified version of the manuscript PDF (a “word count PDF”). The word count PDF should include the main body of the text, footnotes, and endnotes, but exclude the title, author names, abstract, acknowledgement footnote, reference list, and exhibits. To obtain the official word count, upload the word count PDF to a PDF word counter that handles equations, such as https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/word-count/.
- Internet Appendix: Additional material may be included in an Internet Appendix, which must be uploaded as a separate file to the submission system. It does not count toward the 7,000 word limit. However, the paper must be self-contained so that readers can understand the study in its entirety without having to rely on any separate material.
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Code sharing policy: If your paper is accepted for publication, the code used to produce the paper’s results must be submitted with the final version of the paper and will be made available in the Supplementary Information section of the online version of the article. Please see the Code Sharing Policy and Code Sharing Policy FAQ for further explanations. By submitting to the JF: I&P, the authors agree to comply with this policy. Requests for exemption must be made in the cover letter to the editor at the time of the first submission.
Cover letter: You must enter the plain text word count in the Cover letter space during submission. No other language is necessary unless you have specific information for the editors such as a request for exemption from the code sharing policy, information about potential conflict of interest that referees, associate editors, or editors may have in evaluating your paper. Aside from the word count, all information provided in cover letters is not shared with reviewers and will remain confidential between authors and editors.
Resubmission Policy: After a revise and resubmit decision, authors will have twelve months to resubmit their paper. If necessary, the editor may grant an extension. When returning a revised submission, you must provide a version of it that tracks any changes made since the last submission as well as a letter that responds to the reviewer and editor comments.
Submission Fees
Before finalizing your submission, the appropriate submission fee must be paid via PayPal. Proof of this payment is required and should be uploaded to the submission page as a supplemental document (e.g., the invoice). If an invoice is not available, the transaction information must be included in your cover letter.
- High-Income Economies. *AFA Members: $300, Non-Members: $425.
- Middle-Income Economies. *AFA Members: $75, Non-Members: $125
- Low-Income Economies. **No Submission Fee
*To receive discounted member pricing, join the AFA here.
**Click here for lists of economies by income level. Please note: To qualify for a fee waiver or reduced fee, all authors of the submission must currently reside in a low- or middle-income-economy country.
Return/Refund Policy: The submission fee will be refunded if the editorial decision on a submission is rendered more than 100 days after the receipt of the submission by the editorial office. This refund policy applies only to a manuscript’s first submission. For desk rejections (except for resubmissions of previously rejected papers), the JF: I&P will refund 50% of the submission fee.
Open Access: The JF: I&P is an open access journal. Submissions will be subject to an Article Publication Charge (APC) if accepted and published in the journal. More information on open access, including fees, can be found on Wiley’s JF: I&P open access page. In addition, the JF: I&P allows authors to self-archive pre-publication versions of their accepted paper in online repositories such as SSRN or authors’ own websites.
Editorial Policies: All other editorial policies are consistent with those of the Journal of Finance and can be found here.
Insights Papers
You can submit a new paper to the Journal of Finance: Insights here:
If you have any questions for the editorial office, please email the Editorial Assistant Emma Washburn at JFIPeditor@afajof.org.
For technical help with the submission system, please review Wiley’s Research Exchange Author Help Documents or contact submissionhelp@wiley.com.
Perspectives Papers
Papers submitted to the Journal of Finance: Perspectives are commissioned by the editors. All of the above submission requirements apply although exceptions can be made for the word limit if necessary. Proposals for Perspectives papers can be sent to the Editorial Assistant Emma Washburn at JFIPeditor@afajof.org.
Appeals
The Journal of Finance: Insights and Perspectives allows authors to appeal rejected submissions for a fee of $500.
For an appeal to potentially have merit (and to trigger a fresh review), the author must provide a solid argument that the referees, AE, and/or the editors have made an error in the evaluation of the paper based on what was in the original submission. The appeal only has merit if the author can argue that substance in the original paper (or possibly elsewhere in existing literature) refutes points raised by the reviewing team that were material in the decision to reject the paper. For example, arguments that issues that lead to rejection could be fixed in a revised version of the paper are not valid grounds for appeal. Moreover, the errors have to be mistakes concerning facts. Appeals based on subjective judgments about the contribution of the paper will not be considered.