Instructions to Authors

Scope of the Journal

The Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) has a reputation for publishing articles of the highest scientific quality in theoretical and empirical economics for a global audience. 

• 1. Submissions 
• 2. Journal Policies 
  • 2.1 Peer Review, Confidentiality, and Editorial Handling
  • 2.2 Publication Ethics
  • 2.3 Supplementary Material and Data Policy
    • 2.3.1 Data Replication Policy
    • 2.3.2 Replication package
  • 2.4 JEEA Disclosure Policy
• 3. Open Access 
• 4. Permission To Reproduce Figures And Extracts
• 5. General Guidelines to Authors of Accepted Papers for Preparation of Final Manuscript
• 6. Permissions, Translations, and Commercial Reprints
• 7. Author Toll Free Link and Discounts
• 8. Manuscript Transfer
• 9. Contact Us

Submissions

EEA Membership

To submit a paper, and re-submit a revised paper, to JEEA you must be a member of the European Economic Association. The membership fee gives you full online access to JEEA. Members can submit an unlimited number of papers to JEEA and have access to other benefits.

For membership rates, please visit the EEA membership webpage. The procedure to join the EEA is simple and rapid.

Manuscript Submission

Once a member, you can submit your paper from the members only section of the EEA website. 

• Papers should be in English. To ensure articles are accessible, please submit alt text for images, graphs, and tables included in your paper.
• For JEEA style guidelines and associated files, please download this file.

Journal Policies

Peer Review, Confidentiality, and Editorial Handling

All submissions to the journal are initially reviewed by a co-editor. Co-editors do not handle manuscripts (co)authored by a researcher at their institution, their recent coauthors, those with who them have close professional or personal relationship, or by someone who has served as a graduate student advisor or advisee. Manuscripts may be rejected without peer review if they are not a good fit with the journal's scope. Otherwise, manuscripts are sent out for peer review. Co-editors aim to provide a fair and fast decision, within 8 weeks where possible.

Manuscripts are reviewed according to the single-blind principle. The name of the author(s) are disclosed to the reviewer(s), while the reviewer(s) stay anonymous to the author(s).

JEEA publishes comments – these can be for papers previously published in JEEA or elsewhere. To be considered, comments need to be substantive contributions in their own right. They need to make a case for how the conclusions of earlier published work might be revised in a first order way. They would need to have the same broad appeal to a general interest audience as other papers we publish, and so need to provide insights beyond the specifics or field of the original paper. Comments go through the same refereeing process as regular submissions.

Publication Ethics

Authors should observe high standards with respect to publication ethics as set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Falsification or fabrication of data, plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the authors' own work without proper citation, and misappropriation of the work are all unacceptable. Any cases of ethical misconduct will be treated seriously and will be dealt with in accordance with the COPE guidelines. For papers requiring IRB or ethics committee review, authors will be asked to submit the relevant approval documentation during the manuscript submission process.

Supplementary Material & Data Policy

1. Supplementary Material

Supplementary material that is not essential for inclusion in the main text of the manuscript, but would nevertheless benefit the reader, can be placed in Online Appendices, and linked from the manuscript. The material should not be essential to comprehension of the article but should be relevant to the article content. This includes all replication materials.

The supplementary material cannot be altered or replaced after the paper has been accepted and will not be edited. Please ensure that supplementary material is referred to in the main manuscript where necessary, for example as, “Supplementary material” or, “see Online Appendix Figure 1”. All elements in the Appendix or online appendix should be labeled with A, B, etc.

2. Data Replication Policy

Please read this section carefully as we are unable to enter submissions which do not comply with our policy on data into the editorial process.

JEEA will publish papers only if any data used in the analysis are clearly and precisely documented, are systematically checked by the JEEA Data Editor, and are readily available to any researcher for purposes of replication. Authors of accepted papers which contain empirical work, simulations, or experimental work, must provide to JEEA, prior to publication, the data, programs, and other details of the computations sufficient to permit replication. The JEEA Data Editor will check these data and programs to make sure the results replicate, and any empirical paper can only be formally accepted after the Data Editor completes this verification process. JEEA endorses DCAS, the Data and Code Availability Standard. All replication packages will be posted publicly through JEEA's Community at Zenodo. JEEA’s data and code availability policy is compatible with DCAS and authors are encouraged to follow the Data and Code Availability Standard.

Below, we provide more details on what should be submitted as part of replication materials for empirical and experimental papers. In general, however, all code necessary to re-produce the tables and figures in papers as well as in the supplementary materials should be provided. This includes code used to run simulations or Monte Carlo studies. We encourage authors to set a seed so the exact numbers that are reported can be obtained.

Authors are expected to cooperate with investigators seeking to conduct a replication, although replicators are also expected to be able to use all materials provided independently.

3. Replication package

For empirical, simulation and experimental papers, authors should provide the following replication package:

1. Data: (i)  raw data and (ii) analysis data (generated to obtain results)
2. Codes: (i) data cleaning codes and (ii) analysis codes that produce all the tables and figures included in the paper and approved online appendices.
3. A README  file: file in pdf with data citations and instructions on how to reproduce the results. It is highly recommended to use the following template (or at least to include all the items that appear in it): https://social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_README/

Please submit the replication package above as a ZIP folder that includes all the files and directories required for reproducing the paper as well as approved online appendices.  Please submit it here: https://editorialexpress.com/jeea_data

Additionally, when submitting your replication package you will be asked to submit a checklist in order to make the replication process efficient. Download the checklist.

4. Exemptions

Requests for an exemption from providing the Supplementary Materials described, or for restricting their usage, should be stated clearly when the paper is first submitted for review. The cover letter should notify the co-editors if the requirements above cannot be met. It will be at the editors’ discretion whether the paper can then be reviewed. Exceptions will not be considered later in the review and publication process.

5. Proprietary Data

We will consider papers based on proprietary data. If a request for an exemption to the above policy is made based on data being proprietary, authors should inform the co-editors if the data can be accessed or obtained in some other way by independent researchers for purposes of replication. Authors are also asked to provide information on how the proprietary data can be obtained by others in their Readme PDF file. A copy of all other Supplementary Materials (code etc. used produce the final results) is still required, as described above.

6. Pre-registration

JEEA encourages authors of papers that use RCTs to register their experiments (whether their experiment is based in the lab or the field).  Registration of RCTs is not mandatory. Registration is free. If you choose to register, please acknowledge registration in the acknowledgement footnote, including the registration number.

7. Preprint Policy

Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels, and this does not prevent submission to the journal. For further information see our Online Licensing, Copyright and Permissions policies. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI, as described on our Author Self-Archiving policy page.

JEEA Disclosure Policy

Submissions to JEEA should conform to the following disclosure principles -

1. Every submitted article should state the sources of financial support for the particular research it describes.
2. Each author of a submitted article should identify each interested party from whom he or she has received significant financial support, summing to at least Euro 10,000 in the past three years, in the form of consultant fees, retainers, grants and the like. The disclosure requirement also includes in kind support, such as providing access to data. If the support in question comes with a non-disclosure obligation, that fact should be stated, along with as much information as the obligation permits. If there are no such sources of funds, that fact should be stated explicitly. An “interested” party is any individual, group, or organization that has a financial, ideological, or political stake related to the article.
3. Each author should disclose any paid or unpaid positions as officer, director, or board member of relevant non--profit organizations or profit making entities. A “relevant” organization is one whose policy positions, goals, or financial interests relate to the article.
4. The disclosures required above apply to any close relative or partner of any author.
5. Each author must disclose if another party had the right to review the paper prior to its circulation.
6. For published articles, information on relevant potential conflicts of interest will be made available to the public.

When submitting a paper, the authors should prepare a separate page entitled ‘Disclosure Statement' that will be uploaded on step 4 of the online submission form. If the paper involves several coauthors, the disclosure statement should specify separately the position of each coauthor.

If after reading the policy above, the authors can attest that they have nothing to disclosure, authors can click on a nothing to disclose button on step 4 of the submission process and will not be expected to upload any statement.

The disclosure statement will be available to referees. For papers accepted for publication, disclosure will take two forms: If the disclosure statement is brief, it will be included in the “acknowledgments” footnote. If the disclosure statement is longer, then disclosure will have two parts: (i) a brief statement summary of interest that will be included in the “acknowledgments” footnote; (ii) a more detailed description of the activities and relationships that are the source of a potential conflict of interest. This more detailed account will be available to the public, but only electronically, on the journal's website. The “acknowledgments” footnote will include a pointer/link to the detailed electronic version of the disclosure statement which will be archived on the publisher's website.

Failure to disclose relevant information at the submission stage may result in reversal of acceptance decisions. If the paper is already published, the Journal reserves the right to post a note on the Journal's website and in its printed version notifying readers that the authors of the paper violated the JEEA disclosure policy. Violations of the disclosure policy will be brought to the attention of the Executive Committee of the European Economic Association who will decide on the appropriate course of action.

Disclosure is author-, and paper-specific; a specific relationship may be relevant for one of an author's papers, but not for another. In cases of uncertainty regarding whether to disclose a particular relationship, a guiding principle should be the answer to the question: “Would I or my institution or a reasonable person be embarrassed if I had not disclosed this relationship and it was subsequently discovered by a journalist, colleague or university administrator?” If the answer to this quest ion is “yes”, the relationship should be disclosed.

JEEA policy is based on the disclosure policy of the American Economic Association which is in turn similar to the NBER policy. For examples to help clarify the policy we encourage authors to visit the AEA website and the NBER website.

Open Access

JEEA offers the option of publishing under either a standard licence or an open access licence. Please note that some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify any such requirements with your funder or institution.

Should you wish to publish your article open access, you should select your choice of open access licence in our online system after your article has been accepted for publication. You will need to pay an open access charge to publish under an open access licence.

Details of the open access licences and open access charges. 

OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.

Please note that these charges are in addition to any colour-printing charges that may apply.

Permission To Reproduce Figures And Extracts

In order to reproduce any third party material, including tables, figures, or images, in an article authors must obtain permission from the copyright holder and comply with any requirements the copyright holder may have pertaining to this reuse. When seeking to reproduce any kind of third party material authors should request the following:

• non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the specified article and journal;
• electronic rights, preferably for use in any form or medium;
• the right to use the material for the life of the work; and
• world-wide English-language rights.

Further guidelines on clearing permissions can be found on the Rights & Permissions webpage.

General Guidelines to Authors of Accepted Papers for Preparation of Final Manuscript

[If you are a LaTeX user please format your manuscript using the instructions under jeea.cls] found on the Submissions Guidelines and Information page.

Line spacing. Before a paper is typeset, copyeditors mark up a hard copy with corrections
and instructions to the typesetter. Therefore, the manuscript must be doublespaced
(not 1.5 or 1.7-spaced) throughout, including text, footnotes, and references.
Only tables and figures may be left single-spaced. (LaTeX users can put “\renewcommand{\
baselinestretch}{2}” in the preamble of the source le.)

Text width. The text width must approximate that of JEEA and you should format
your equations to this width. (Otherwise the typesetter, who can only guess your
intentions, will have to make decisions about breaking equations and what to display
or not to display.) Set the width to about 12.4cm (4.9in) for 11pt Times-Roman font;
13.4cm (5.3in) for an 11pt font that is less compact than Times-Roman, such as TeX’s
Computer Modern; or scaled appropriately for other point sizes.

Paragraph indentation. The only reliable way to indicate new paragraphs on doublespaced
copy is by indenting the first line.

Front page. The front page should show title and authors so that we can identify the
paper, but otherwise the format of this material (including affiliations, email addresses,
abstract, and acknowledgements) does not matter. Instead, you need to fill out and return
the “JEEA Information Sheet for Authors of Accepted Papers” (which you normally
receive together with these guidelines).

Figures. All figures will be reproduced photographically. Therefore, it is up to you
to provide high-quality figures that will look well in print. When possible, use Times-
Roman fonts. Avoid halftones in diagrams if practical (e.g., highlight a region of a graph
with diagonal lines or crosshatch rather than with solid gray). Do not use lines thinner
than 0.5 points in line art. Any resolution-dependent artwork must have a resolution of
1200 dpi. In particular, never use screen captures or web graphics. Please note there will
be a charge of £350 per figure for colour reproduction of figures in print. Alternatively, figures
can be printed in black and white and appear in colour online only for no charge.

Percentages. Write “12%” rather than “12 percent”. Write ranges as “10%–13%”.

In-line fractions. With rare exceptions, your document should have no “stacked” fractions in the running text, because these break up a page and are hard to read in tightly-spaced typeset copy. Instead, use a slash "/" and clearly denote numerator and denominator with parentheses. For example, write (x + 1)/(y + 8). Stacked fractions are appropriate in displayed equations. Display all equations which are longer that half a line. (Do not leave these changes—which require a clear understanding of the mathematical expressions—to the typesetter.)

Theorems, Definitions, Proofs, etc. Your document must make clear where theorems, definitions, proofs, and related environments end.

Math letters. Consistently italicize all math letters throughout paper, including in figures and tables, as appropriate. (This is important because the typesetter prefers to not risk making mistakes adjusting author’s notations).

Sections, Appendices and Online Appendices. A small change in the numbering of sections or equations can have repercussions throughout a paper. Therefore, such changes should not be left to the typesetter and you should follow the JEEA numbering conventions, as described below. Furthermore, double-check all cross references once you have brought your manuscript into conformance with these conventions.

JEEA uses sections, subsections, and subsubsections numbered with Arabic numerals. The paper must open with Section 1, which is typically the introduction: “1. Introduction”. Subsections are numbered 1.1, 1.2, …, 2.1, 2.2 etc. Subsubsections are numbered 2.3.1, 2.3.2, etc. Unnumbered subsections or subsubsections are allowed if the numbering is a distraction, but it must be clear what kind of section heads are to be typeset.

Tables, figures, and equations should be numbered consecutively 1, 2, etc. throughout the paper (rather than, for example, numbering the equations in Section 2 by 2.1, 2.2, etc.).

A single appendix should be called “Appendix”. Multiple appendices should be labeled “Appendix A”, “Appendix B”, etc. Each appendix, whether there is one or many, can have a title, such as “Appendix: Proofs” or “Appendix B: Data”. If one appendix has a title, then all must have titles. The numbering of tables, figures, and equations within each appendix is restarted and preceded by the letter of the appendix (or by “A” if there is a single unlettered appendix), such as A.1, A.2, B.1, B.2, etc.

Cross-references. When cross-referencing Sections and Tables, capitalize the "S" in Section and the "T" in Table.

References. Put the list of references at the end of the paper (after any appendices), with the unnumbered section heading “References”. References appear in alphabetical order by last name. Multiple references by the same author(s) are listed chronologically.

Consult a recent issue of JEEA and match as closely as possible the format of the references and citations. (For example, use round brackets rather than square brackets for the years in citations.) An exact match may be beyond the capabilities of you and your software, but the closer you follow the format, the fewer errors will be introduced during the typesetting. Furthermore, your paper cannot be typeset unless the references contain all required information:. Put the list of references at the end of the paper (after any appendices), with the unnumbered section heading “References”. References appear in alphabetical order by last name. Multiple references by the same author(s) are listed chronologically. Consult a recent issue of JEEA and match as closely as possible the format of the references and citations. (For example, use round brackets rather than square brackets for the years in citations.) An exact match may be beyond the capabilities of you and your software, but the closer you follow the format, the fewer errors will be introduced during the typesetting.

Furthermore, your paper cannot be typeset unless the references contain all required information:

• Include the first name for each author.
• Include full page range when appropriate.
• For most journals, an article can be identified by the volume and page range, because pages are numbered consecutively from issue to issue within the same volume. Include the issue number for an article if and only if this is not true.
• Unpublished papers and manuscripts must include an institutional affiliation.
• Check that any references listed as unpublished have not come out in print.
• Check that web links are still alive. If not, remove them from your references.

Figure accessibility and alt text

Incorporating alt text (alternative text) when submitting your paper helps to foster inclusivity and accessibility. Good alt text ensures that individuals with visual impairments or those using screen readers can comprehend the content and context of your figures. The aim of alt text is to provide concise and informative descriptions of your figure so that all readers have access to the same level of information and understanding, and that all can engage with and benefit from the visual elements integral to scholarly content. Including alt text demonstrates a commitment to accessibility and enhances the overall impact and reach of your work.  

Alt text is applicable to all images, figures, illustrations, and photographs. 

Alt text is only accessible via e-reader and so it won’t appear as part of the typeset article. 

Detailed guidance on how to draft and submit alt text. 

Miscellaneous.

• Figure captions go underneath the figure and notes are integrated into the caption.
• For tables, captions go above the table and notes go below it.
• When using quotes, please use double quotes instead of single quotes.
• Do not italicize Latin expressions; e.g., "et al."

Permissions, Translations, and Commercial Reprints

All JEEA authors retain certain rights to their article’s re-use, self-archiving, and deposit into institutional repositories. Learn more about your rights as an author.

If someone other than the author is seeking permission to reuse or translate JEEA article content, they can request permission by clicking on “Order Permissions” within the table of contents and/or at the bottom of the article’s abstract to open the Rightslink page. There may be a fee associated with the permissions sought. For more details on how to use the Rightslink system, visit OUP’s Rightslink page. Please visit OUP’s Rights & Permissions page for more information.

Further questions about translation rights and permissions can be sent to [email protected] and [email protected]. In your message, please include the full reference of the material you want to use: (journal name, volume and issue numbers, page numbers, author, title of article, figure numbers where appropriate, etc.). We also require a detailed overview of what you would like to use the material for (e.g. in a book, coursepack, etc.).

For commercial reprint options, please visit OUP’s Advertising and Corporate Services website.

Author Toll Free Link and Discounts

All corresponding authors will be provided with a free access link to their article upon publication.  The link will be sent via email to the article’s corresponding author who is free to share the link with any co-authors.  Please see OUP’s Author Self-Archiving policy for more information regarding how this link may be publicly shared depending on the type of license under which the article has published.  

All authors have the option to purchase up to 10 print copies of the issue in which they publish at a 50% discount. Orders should be placed through this order form. Orders must be made within 12 months of the online publication date.

Manuscript Transfer

JEEA sends transfers to other journals on related topics published by Oxford University Press. All transfers are sent according to the choice of the authors. Unless a reviewer declines to have their feedback shared, reviewer reports and the original decision letter are included in the transfer, but the reviewer identities are not shared. Transferred manuscripts may be sent out for additional peer review, and a decision will be made on the manuscript based on the feedback from all reviewers and the judgment of the editorial team.

Contact Us

JEEA Editorial Office: [email protected]

Post-publication Corrections: [email protected]

Author Payments or Invoices: jnls.cust.serv@oup.com

Author Discount Copies: [email protected]