How to Submit

All articles must be in English. All articles must be submitted via the following website: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/joie. Spelling, punctuation and grammar may be in US or UK English. Please submit your document in Microsoft Word.

Detailed instructions for submitting your manuscript online can be found at the submission website by clicking on the ‘Instructions and Forms’ link in the top right of the screen; and then clicking on the ‘Author Submission Instructions’ icon on the following page.

The Editor will acknowledge receipt of the manuscript, provide it with a manuscript reference number and assign it to reviewers. The reference number of the manuscript should be quoted in all correspondence with JOIE Office and Publisher.

Procedure after Submission

The JOIE Editors will preliminarily assess all papers. A paper will be rejected at this first stage if it does not comply with the above guidelines, is evidently of insufficient academic quality or interest, or lies outside the scope of the journal. If a paper passes this preliminarily assessment, then normally it will be sent out to referees. The five editors will make the final decision, taking account of the referee’s reports. The decision will normally be either

(a) acceptance of the paper without further revision,

(b) acceptance subject to minor editorial revisions to be checked by the editor-in-chief,

(c) conditional acceptance of the paper subject to revisions to be checked by the editors and not by referees,

(d) a request for a substantially revised version that will be sent out again to the referees, or

(e) rejection without the option of resubmission.

With (b) or (c) the authors are asked to comply with the format and house style of JOIE, as exhibited in issues of the journal.