Types of Papers
The Journal of the Economic Science Association publishes the following articles:
- Original Papers
(Please see the Aims & Scope section and the Size Limitations section below)
- Replication Papers
Replication Papersis a special section in the Journal of the Economic Science Association, intended to feature replications of published experimental results that are considered to be of interest to the broader experimental community. Publication of manuscripts in this section is subject to the following criteria:
(1) an author cannot replicate his or her own study
(2) the manuscript must not exceed 2,000 words (including references, tables, figures and abstract) without the Editors’ approval.
Publication does not depend on whether the replication was successful.
- Experimental Tools
Experimental Tools is a special section in the Journal of the Economic Science Association, intended to publish new releases of tools that are considered to be relevant to the experimental community. Publication of manuscripts in this section is subject to the following criteria:
(1) the tool must be of interest to the general readership of this journal;
(2) only non-commercial tools (licensed for free or at a nominal cost) will be considered;
(3) the tool must already be used at other locations than that of the developer.
(4) the manuscript must not exceed 5,000 words (including references, tables, figures and abstract) without the Editors’ approval.
Submissions fulfilling these criteria will be considered. If accepted, these papers will be published in a section that is clearly separated from the other papers in the issue. This section may also publish short software reviews on new software releases (irrespective of whether they were announced in the Journal of the Economic Science Association).
- Preregistered Replications
JESA proposes a fast track to encourage replication studies. For this JESA accepts registered reports for replication studies. The replications can be direct or conceptual. Direct replications consist in closely reproducing the design of the original study, while conceptual replication use different methods to investigate the robustness of the initial result.
The acceptance of a registered report in JESA will be based on the importance of the result being replicated, on the power of the proposed replication, and on the relevance of the approach in the case of conceptual replications.
If the authors of the registered report are invited to proceed, they will have to carefully follow the design and procedures described in the report. Acceptance of the final paper will not depend on the obtained results but only on whether the proposed plan was followed.
Submitted registered report should feature the following sections:- Overview of previous results
- Design of the replication, highlighting the differences to the to be replicated study
- Analysis plan and power analysis
Size limitations
Original Papers and Experimental Tools must not exceed 5,000 words, including references, tables, figures and abstract. The abstract should not exceed 150 words.
Replication Papers must not exceed 2,000 words, all inclusive. Submissions that exceed these limits without prior approval by the Editors may be sent back to the authors.
For each standard figure please deduct 200 words from the size limit.
Please note:
Submissions that exceed these limits without prior approval by the Editors may be sent back to the authors.
At the submission stage, no size restriction is imposed on manuscript. However, any invitation to revise a manuscript will require for the manuscript to meet the size limitations above at the resubmission stage. If the manuscript initially submitted is substantially longer than these size limitations, the authors may want to discuss in their cover letter how they would shorten their manuscript, if invited to do a revision.
Appendices should be submitted as a separate file. In the event a paper is accepted, the appendix will publish as supplementary material.
Title Page
Please make sure your title page contains the following information.
Title
The title should be concise and informative.
Author Information
- The name(s) of the author(s)
- The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
- An active e-mail address of the corresponding author
- If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 words or less. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Statements and Declarations
The following statement should be included under the heading "Statements and Declarations" for inclusion in the published paper. Please note that submissions that do not include relevant declarations will be returned as incomplete.
- Competing Interests: Authors are required to disclose financial or non-financial interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication.
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
Text
Text Formatting
Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.
- Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.
- Use italics for emphasis.
- Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
- Do not use field functions.
- Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
- Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
- Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
- Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).
Manuscripts with mathematical content can also be submitted in LaTeX.
Headings
Please use the decimal system of headings with no more than three levels.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
References
Citation
Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:
- Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Thompson, 1990).
- This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman (1996).
- This effect has been widely studied (Abbott, 1991; Barakat et al., 1995; Kelso & Smith, 1998; Medvec et al., 1999).
Authors are encouraged to follow official APA version 7 guidelines on the number of authors included in reference list entries (i.e., include all authors up to 20; for larger groups, give the first 19 names followed by an ellipsis and the final author’s name). However, if authors shorten the author group by using et al., this will be retained.
Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text.
Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.
Journal names and book titles should be italicized.
If available, please always include DOIs as full DOI links in your reference list (e.g. “https://doi.org/abc”).
- Journal article Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm000...
- Article by DOI Hong, I., Knox, S., Pryor, L., Mroz, T. M., Graham, J., Shields, M. F., & Reistetter, T. A. (2020). Is referral to home health rehabilitation following inpatient rehabilitation facility associated with 90-day hospital readmission for adult patients with stroke? American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHM.00...
- Book Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.
- Book chapter Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115–129). Routledge.
- Online document Fagan, J. (2019, March 25). Nursing clinical brain. OER Commons. Retrieved January 7, 2020, from https://www.oercommons.org/aut...
Tables
- All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
- For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
- Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
- Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
Artwork and Illustrations
For information regarding artwork and illustrations, please view the Journals artwork guide.
Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools
We acknowledge the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the research and writing processes. To ensure transparency, we expect any such use to be declared and described fully to readers, and to comply with our plagiarism policy and best practices regarding citation and acknowledgements. We do not consider artificial intelligence (AI) tools to meet the accountability requirements of authorship, and therefore generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and similar should not be listed as an author on any submitted content.
In particular, any use of an AI tool:
- to generate images within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, and declared clearly in the image caption(s)
- to generate text within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, include appropriate and valid references and citations, and be declared in the manuscript’s Acknowledgements.
- to analyse or extract insights from data or other materials, for example through the use of text and data mining, should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, including details and appropriate citation of any dataset(s) or other material analysed in all relevant and appropriate areas of the manuscript
- must not present ideas, words, data, or other material produced by third parties without appropriate acknowledgement or permission
Descriptions of AI processes used should include at minimum the version of the tool/algorithm used, where it can be accessed, any proprietary information relevant to the use of the tool/algorithm, any modifications of the tool made by the researchers (such as the addition of data to a tool’s public corpus), and the date(s) it was used for the purpose(s) described. Any relevant competing interests or potential bias arising as a consequence of the tool/algorithm’s use should be transparently declared and may be discussed in the article.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.
Publication Ethics
All authors are required to comply with Cambridge University Press’s publishing ethics guidelines. As part of its editorial processes, this journal may share relevant submission data and manuscript content with in-house or third-party tools to perform research integrity and other submission checks. Any such information sharing is conducted in accordance with the appropriate privacy and processing laws, applicable Terms of Use, and ethical guidance. In cases of alleged or suspected misconduct, the journal will investigate in line with COPE recommendations.
All submissions of studies with human subjects must include:
1. In the text or in a footnote of the paper, include the identifying project number indicating approval of your project from the relevant Institutional Review Board. If there is no IRB approval, a statement indicating that IRB approval was not required for the project must be included.
2. In the text, papers must indicate the sample size of the study and how decisions were incentivized. Any procedures that might be considered as deception of subjects must be indicated. Information about subject eligibility or selection to participate in the study, such as exclusions based on past participation in certain experiments or college major, or exclusions resulting from the targeting of a specific demographic distribution. must also be provided. The method whereby participants were recruited must be described.
3. The original instructions to participants must be provided in full as an appendix at the time of submission.
Preregistration and citation of replications
Authors are strongly encouraged to preregister their studies in a repository. If the study is preregistered, authors should include a link to their preregistration in their submitted manuscript to aid editors and reviewers in evaluating the study.
If you are citing a previously published article reporting an experimental study, authors should also cite any replications of the original study.
Before acceptance
If your paper reports an experiment, before your paper is accepted for publication you will be asked to include a replication package for evaluation by our data editor. This package must contain:
- The original instructions (even when these are already included as an appendix to the paper). Include an English translation of the instructions as well if the experiment was not conducted in English.
- Information about subject eligibility or selection, such as exclusions based on past participation in experiments, college major, etc.
- Any computer programs, configuration files, or scripts used to run the experiment and/or to analyze the data. These should be summarized as appropriate in the submitted manuscript and provided in full as a supplementary file prior to publication.
- The raw data from the experiment. These should be summarized as appropriate in the submitted manuscript and provided in full as an ASCII or text file prior to publication, with sufficient explanation to make it possible to use the submitted computer programs to replicate the data analysis.
- A readme file describing the contents of the files in the replication package.