Guide for Authors

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

General Submission Information:

1.   Papers must be in English.

2.   Any paper submitted to the Journal of International Economics is understood to be an original piece of scholarly work.  By submitting a paper to the Journal at any stage of the review process or at the time of final submission the author is representing that she or he has no knowledge of similar published or unpublished work.  The editorial staff will investigate and pursue accusations of plagiarism and, when deemed appropriate, expose their findings.

3.   Papers must be submitted electronically at http://ees.elsevier.com/jie/. The fee for submissions is US$85. The fee may be paid by any of the following: Checks in U.S. currency from American banks or banks with American branches; International Money Orders; Cash or Travelers Checks. Checks should be made payable to the Journal of International Economics. Under exceptional circumstances, the submission fee can be waived, upon application to the Editors. We are unable to accept credit card payments. The submission fee should be mailed to the editorial office (address below.)

        Journal of International Economics

        Department of Economics

        1180 Observatory Drive
  University of Wisconsin

        Madison, WI  53706-1393

        USA

5.   Submission of a paper will be held to imply that it contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere.

6.   The Editors do not accept responsibility for damage or loss of papers submitted. Upon acceptance of an article, author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.

Paper Format Requirements

1.   Papers in excess of 35 pages will not ordinarily be considered for publication.

2.   Manuscripts should be typewritten and double-spaced with wide margins. The size of type font used should be large enough to be easily read (not smaller than 10 point). All pages should be numbered consecutively.

3.   Tables, references, and legends for figures should be typed on separate pages. Titles and subtitles should be short.

4.   The first page of the manuscript should contain the following information:

·          Title

·          Name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s)

·          An abstract of not more than 100 words.

·          A footnote on the same sheet should give the name, address, telephone and FAX numbers, and E-mail address, if available, of the corresponding author (addresses for all authors are requested).

·          Classification code: at least one classification code according to the Classification System for Journal Articles as used by the Journal of Economic Literature

·          Five key words should be supplied.

·          Acknowledgments and information on grants received can be given in a footnote on the first page of the manuscript or before the References.

5.   Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively throughout the text with superscript Arabic numerals. Footnotes should be double-spaced, and not include formulae.

6.   Important formulae (displayed) should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript as (1), (2), etc. on the right-hand side of the page. Where the derivation of formulae has been abbreviated, it is of great help to referees if the full derivation can be presented on a separate sheet (not to be published).

7.   Illustrations will be reproduced photographically from originals supplied by the author. Illustrations of insufficient quality, which have to be redrawn by the publisher, will be charged to the author. Please provide all illustrations in quadruplicate (one high-contrast original and three photocopies). Care should be taken that lettering and symbols are of a comparable size. The illustrations should not be inserted in the text, and should be marked on the back with figure number, title of paper, and author's name. All graphs and diagrams should be referred to as figures, and should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. Illustrations of papers submitted as electronic manuscripts should be in traditional (i.e. hard-copy) form.

For additional information on preparing artwork for publication, please see the Author Artwork Guidelines, available on the Elsevier website at:  http://authors.elsevier.com/ArtworkInstructions.html?dc=AI1

8.   Tables. All unessential tables should be eliminated from the manuscript. Tables should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals and typed on separate sheets.

REFERENCES:

1.   References should include only the most relevant papers. In the text, references to publications should appear as follows:

'Smith (1992) reported that..." or "This problem has been studied previously (e.g. Smith et al. 1969).

2.   The author should make sure that there is a strict 'one-to-one correspondence" between the names and years in the text and those on the list.

3.   The list of references should appear at the end of the main text (after any appendices, but before tables and legends for figures). It should be double-spaced and listed in alphabetical order by author's name. References should appear as follows:

For monographs
Hawawini, G., Swary, I., 1990. Mergers and Acquisitions in the U.S. Banking Industry: Evidence from the Capital Markets. North-Holland, Amsterdam.

For contributions to collective works
Brunner, K., Meltzer, A.H., 1990. Money supply, in: Friedman, B.M., Hahn, F.H. (Eds.), Handbook of Monetary Economics, Vol. 1. North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 357--396.

For periodicals
Griffiths, W., Judge, G., 1992. Testing and estimating location vectors when the error covariance matrix is unknown. Journal of Econometrics 54, 121--138.

Note that journal titles should not be abbreviated.

ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTS

Please adhere strictly to the general instructions above on format, arrangement and, in particular, the reference style of the journal.  Any manuscript which does not conform to the above instructions will be returned for the necessary revision before publication.

Page proofs will be sent directly from Elsevier to the corresponding author. Proofs should be corrected carefully; the responsibility for detecting errors lies with the author. Corrections should be restricted to instances in which the proof is at variance with the manuscript. Extensive alterations will be charged.

Fifty reprints of each paper are supplied free of charge to the corresponding author; additional reprints are available at cost if they are ordered when the proof is returned.

All questions arising after the manuscript has been sent from the JIE office at the University of Wisconsin to the Elsevier Editorial Office, especially those relating to proofs, should be directed to Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd., Elsevier House, Brookvale Plaza, East Park, Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland.