Journal of Futures Markets

1.5.1 Cover Letter

Cover letters are not mandatory, but you can upload one as a separate document at submission if you would like to include one.

Cover letters should be short and indicate the rationale for your submission and how it will advance the community. Cover letters are not shared with reviewers and will remain confidential between authors and editors.

1.5.2 Main Document

The manuscript should be an editable doc./.docx file including text and tables. Please provide figures in the highest resolution possible, whether this means they are embedded or provided separately.

Note: If the manuscript, figures, or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers, and the editorial office will send them back for revision. .

If submitting your manuscript file in LaTeX format via Research Exchange, select the file designation “Main Document – LaTeX .text File” on upload. When submitting a LaTeX Main Document, you must also provide a PDF version of the manuscript for Peer Review. Please upload this file as “Main Document - LaTeX PDF.” All supporting files that are referred to in the LaTeX Main Document should be uploaded as a “LaTeX Supplementary File.” We recommend reviewing Wiley’s New Journal Design (NJD) LaTeX Authoring Template.

The main document should be presented in the following order:

• A title page
• Abstract (if relevant)
  • Indicate the abstract’s word limit and whether the abstract is structured (include required subheadings) or unstructured.
• Keywords
  • Keywords may include acronyms as well as brief phrases common to your field of research.
• Main text, formatted as:
  1. Introduction
  2. Materials & Methods
  3. Results
  4. Discussion
  5. Conclusion
• References
• Tables
  • Each table complete with title and footnotes
• Figures
• Figure legends:
  • Figure legends or captions can be included at the end of your main document if figures are submitted as separate files.
• Appendices (if relevant)

Note: Supporting materials should be submitted as separate files.

1.5.3 Title Page

The title page should be uploaded as a separate file from the main document and include:

• A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
• A short running title of less than 40 characters;
• The full names of the authors
• Co-author details, including affiliation and email address.

Why is this important? We need to keep all co-authors informed of the outcome of the peer review process.

• Any statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies. For this journal, that includes:
  • Acknowledgements
  • data availability statement
  • conflict of interest statement

Why are these important? We need to uphold rigorous ethical standards for the research we consider for publication

1.5.4 Acknowledgments

Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor. Do not include thanks to anonymous reviewers.

1.5.5 Funding

List all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section on your title page.

You will be asked to provide your funding information at submission. You are responsible for making your funder’s credit accurate. If in doubt about how to do so, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature.

1.5.6 Conflict of Interest

When submitting your manuscript, you should disclose any potential conflicts of interests (also referred to as “competing interests”) that might appear to affect your or your co-authors' ability to present work objectively.

Potential conflicts of interest come in many forms and may include financial (for example, patent ownership, stock ownership, research funding, consultancies, or speaker’s fees), intellectual, personal, political, ideological or religious interests. You can read more about conflicts of interest in Wiley’s Best Practices for Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics.

1.5.7 Reference style

There is no submission requirement for formatting references.

We do ask that authors use a consistent reference style throughout the manuscript and include:

This journal also requires you do the following, as appropriate:

• Author(s) name(s)
• Journal title/book title
• Article title (where applicable)
• Year of Publication
• Volume & Issue / Book Chapter
• Pagination
• Optional: DOI

If your manuscript is accepted for publication, we will update the formatting into the journal style.

1.5.8 Data citation

Data must be cited just like articles, books, and websites. You are required to include data citations as part of their reference list.

You can choose to follow the format recommended in Wiley’s Data Citation policy or use your preferred data citation format.

To learn more, you can review frequently asked questions about Data Sharing and Citation.

1.5.9 Data Sharing

This journal expects data sharing.

You can learn more about data sharing in Wiley’s Data Sharing Policies resource.

1.5.10 Data Availability Statement

You must include a data availability statement with your submission.

When submitting the manuscript on Research Exchange Submission, you will be asked to select from several pre-written statements or you can use the text editor to tell us about data availability.

You can review Wiley’s Data Sharing Policies resource to understand which data availability statement is right for your submission.

1.5.11 Figures

Figures should be provided in the highest resolution possible, whether this means they are embedded in the main document or provided separately.

Please review Wiley's general guidelines for figure preparation to learn more about preparing figures at different stages of the publishing process.

Figure Legends

All figures should have an accompanying figure legend that:

• describes the content
• explains any abbreviations or symbols
• clearly indicates which figure it explains

Use Arabic numerals to label each figure and legend in the order that they appear in your main document (for example, “Figure 1” and “Figure 1 Legend”).

If you embed figures in the main document, you may include the figure legend below each figure. If you upload your figures at submission, you may provide all figure legends in a separate “Figure Legend” section in the main document after the references.

1.5.12 Supporting Materials

Supporting materials and appendices should be provided as separate files.

For help providing supporting materials, you can view Wiley’s FAQs about supporting materials.

1.5.13 Embedding video and audio files

Authors can embed rich media (i.e., video and audio) within their final article.

These files should be submitted with the other submission files on Research Exchange, using either the “Embedded Video” or “Embedded Audio” file designation.

All embedded rich media will be subject to peer review.

For more detailed instructions, you can read the Embedded Rich Media Author Submission Guidelines.

1.5.14 ORCID iD

This journal requires the submitting author to provide their ORCID iD, a unique, persistent identifier available at no charge to researchers. The submitting author can provide this information in the submission system.

You can refer to Wiley’s resources on ORCID iDs or visit the ORCID site to create or check your identifier number.

1.5.15 Disclosing the use of artificial intelligence

If you or your co-authors have used Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs) to develop any portion of a manuscript, their use must be described transparently and in detail in the Methods section.

You can read Wiley’s AI policy in full in the Best Practices Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics.

1.5.16 Preprint Policy

This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers.

You will be asked to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

You may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time.

Note: This journal operates a double-anonymized peer review process.

Since this journal also encourages posting of preprints, please note that if you or your co-authors share your manuscript in preprint form this may compromise your anonymity during peer review.

You can review Wiley’s general preprint policy to learn more.

1.5.17 Reproduction of copyright material

If you have included excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties, all sources must be credited within the manuscript. At minimum, the title and author should be provided.

You are responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce the material "in print and other media" from the publisher of the original source and for supplying Wiley with that permission upon submission.

For more information, you can review Wiley’s Guidelines for Obtaining Permission to Reproduce Material.

1.5.18 Cover image submissions

This journal accepts artwork submissions for Cover Images. This optional, paid service can help increase article exposure and showcase your research.

For more information, including artwork guidelines, pricing, and submission details, you can visit the Journal Cover Image page.

Wiley Editing Services offers a professional cover image design service that creates eye-catching images, ready to be showcased on the journal cover.

1.5.19 Refer and Transfer Program

Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program.

If your manuscript is not accepted, your may receive a recommendation to transfer the manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant.

1.5.20 Author Pronouns

You can now include your pronouns in the author bylines of published articles and on Wiley Online Library. You will never be required to include your pronouns but will always have the option to do so.

Pronouns can be included in your manuscript at submission and can be added, edited, or removed at any stage on request. No author should ever add, edit, or remove a coauthor’s pronouns without that coauthor’s consent.

Post-publication changes to pronouns can be made without a correction notice to the paper to protect the author’s privacy, per Wiley’s Name Change Policy.

Terms that fall outside of the scope of personal pronouns (e.g., proper or improper nouns) are not currently supported.

4.6.1 Open Access

This is a subscription journal that offers an Open Access publication option.

After acceptance, you will have the option to make the article Open Access. If authors choose to make the article Open Access, the article will be subject to an article publication charge (APC) unless a waiver applies.

Please read more about APCs and whether you may be eligible for waivers or discounts through your institution, your funder, or a country waiver at Wiley Author Services.

4.6.2 Color figures

Color figures may be published online free of charge.

This journal does charge for publishing color figures in print. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, you will be sent a Color Charge Form with the proofs. You will be invoiced after the completed Color Charge Form is received by Production.

If the Color Charge Form is not returned by the time the article is assigned to an issue, figures will be converted to black and white for print publication.