Author Guidelines

Agricultural Economics is the flagship journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and aims to serve IAAE members by disseminating the most important research results and policy analyses in our discipline from around the world. The editors are selected by the Executive Committee of the IAAE.

All authors submitting to Agricultural Economics are encouraged to also serve as reviewers upon invitation by our editorial team.

Aims and Scope

The journal publishes Original Research Articles covering the economics of agriculture in its broadest sense, from agricultural production, distribution, marketing, trade, consumption and nutrition to land use and the environment, natural resources, and climate change at every scale of analysis from households to markets and the macroeconomy. We seek research articles that make a strong contribution to applied economics, are grounded in economic theory, provide novel insights, advance our understanding of the field, and have wide implications for decision-making at all levels. Applicable methodologies include econometric and statistical hypothesis testing, theoretical models, optimization and simulation models, experiments, and policy evaluation and assessment. 

The journal also occasionally publishes peer-reviewed Perspective Articles on invitation by the editors. These short articles are on topics of broad interest to the agricultural economics profession, discussing new ideas, approaches, or research and policy trends and needs from a personal viewpoint.

The journal editors will consider proposals from authors for Special Issues on a case-by-case basis. Special issues must be on topics of broad disciplinary and multidisciplinary interest.   There should be an open call for Special Issue submissions, we do not consider Special Issue proposals with a pre-selected set of papers. All papers submitted for a Special Issue are subject to the same double-blind peer review process as an Original Research Article, and the co-editors have the final say on which papers are included in the special issue. Given the high volume of submissions, the journal can usually accommodate only one Special Issue every other year. 

Submission of a manuscript is understood to imply that the article is original and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance by the journal, the author(s) will be asked to transfer the copyright of the article to the publisher to ensure its widest possible dissemination.

The journal maintains a double-blind reviewing procedure. Manuscripts for consideration should be submitted electronically in Word or LaTeX format, without indication of authorship in file name or content, following the instructions provided online at:

 https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/AGEC

This procedure ensures that manuscripts and associated correspondence will be handled securely, with password-protected access from anywhere in the world.  Use of the system-generated PDF ensures that the anonymity of authors and the integrity of the paper are maintained.

Authors with limited internet access may also contact the editor directly:

Professor Sangeeta Bansal

Centre for International Trade and Development
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India 

Email: [email protected]    

Free format submission 

Agricultural Economics offers Free Format Submission to simplify the submission process.

Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing for a fee, 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 Manuscript for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript. 

Title page

A separate cover page must be submitted containing:

  • An informative title
  • Full names and affiliations of authors
  • Funding statement and (if applicable) acknowledgements

Preparation of Manuscripts

  1. The main manuscript and all accompanying written material must be submitted as either Word or LaTeX files. Conversion to an anonymized PDF will be done at the time of submission through Research Exchange. Please ensure that your files contain no identifying information in the file name or meta-data. Authors can follow the instructions for anonymizing Word file properties here as needed: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/remove-hidden-data-and-personal-information-by-inspecting-documents-presentations-or-workbooks-356b7b5d-77af-44fe-a07f-9aa4d085966f.
  2. Manuscripts should be written in American English. Authors are strongly advised to have their manuscripts checked carefully for spelling, grammar and usage before submission.
  3. The manuscript should make no reference to author names to enable double-blind review.
  4. Manuscripts can be prepared using any document-processing software. The first page of the manuscript should show:
    • the paper’s title
    • Up to 250 words abstract
    • 2 to 4 highlights with less than or equal to 125 characters each
    • up three JEL codes
  5. The minimum structure for the main body includes: Introduction, Materials & Methods (including Theory), Results, Discussion, Conclusion, References.
  6. For ease of reading and reviewing, manuscripts should use standard margins and double-spaced text with all pages numbered.
  7. Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words, or word-equivalents, including abstract, figures, tables, and graphs.

Tables and Figures

  1. Tables should be numbered and included in the text where appropriate and come with title (above) and notes if needed. Avoid large and complex Tables or place them in a separate supporting information file (see below).
  2. Figures should be numbered and included in the text and where appropriate and come with title (below) and a legend if needed. Avoid large and complex figures or place them in a separate supporting information file (see below). Please follow these basic figure requirements.
  3. All text in figures and tables should be clearly legible, and all graphics and legends should be easily distinguished ideally also when printed in black and white.
  4. Notes under each table and figure should be used to explain and specify the source of all data shown.   

Equations

  1. Equations and formulae should be composed in an equation editor to ensure appropriate spacing and lettering when printed.
  2. Equations should be presented on a separate line and numbered sequentially at the right-hand margin of the page, in parentheses.
  3. All variable names, symbols, subscripts and superscripts should be explained in the text where they are first used.

Footnotes

  1. Footnotes should be used sparingly. In many cases it will be possible to incorporate the information in normal text.
  2. If used, footnotes should be numbered in the text, indicated by superscript numbers, and kept as brief as possible. Equations or other complex text should not appear in footnotes, since they will be difficult to read.

References

References should be prepared following the author-date method whereby the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998). The complete reference list should appear alphabetically by name at the end of the paper. Please note that a DOI should be provided for all references where available.  

Supporting Information

For peer review, written supporting information or appendices are included in one PDF with the manuscript. Supporting code and data files are submitted as numbered separate files, clearly labeled as “Supporting Information”. View Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.

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.

Proofs

  1. On acceptance, after typesetting the author will be asked to check the galley proofs for typographical errors and to answer queries from the copy editor.
  2. Wiley, at its discretion, is entitled to recover from the author(s) of any paper or report published in the journal, any cost occasioned by alterations made by the author(s) in the printer's proofs other than correction of typesetting errors and essential additions which update information in the paper: the latter preferably as sentences at the end of existent paragraphs or as new paragraphs.

Early View publication

When proofing and production are complete, the final type-set version of the article is available as full-text HTML or PDF in Early View prior to inclusion in an issue. The article can then be cited as a reference using its Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number.

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.

PDF Offprints

Once your article has been published, you can find it available through “My Dashboard” in your Wiley Author Services account. Select the “Manage Article” button on the individual article listing then select ‘Download article PDF’ (you may need to accept terms and conditions presented on screen):

Please note that clicking on the “article DOI link” will take you to the Wiley Online Library version and you may need to be authenticated to access the full text. 

Selecting the "Download article PDF" button will let you access your online PDF, which is considered your e-Offprint or PDF Offprint. 

Wiley has great advice and support on Wiley Author Services to help you promote your work. 

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS HAS NO PAGE CHARGES

Hybrid Open Access 

Hybrid Open Access is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With Hybrid Open Access, the author, the author’s funding agency, or the author’s institution pays a fee (APC) to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. For more information on this journal’s APCs, please see the Open Access page.

Copyright Transfer Agreement 

If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login to Author Service; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper. 

For Authors Signing the Copyright Transfer Agreement

The corresponding author will be presenting with the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs below:

CTA Terms and Conditions

Wiley’s 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

Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name. Requests to change an article’s author list after acceptance or publication of the paper are strongly discouraged. Such requests will be carefully reviewed by the Publisher and Editor, in line with the authors and contributors policies outlined in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics, by Committee on Publication Ethics guidance, and in the journal’s Author Guidelines available on Wiley Online Library, and will be approved only in exceptional cases when there is a compelling justification for the same. 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.

Data Sharing and Data Availability Statement

Agricultural Economics mandates data sharing upon a manuscript’s publication. For more information and standard templates, we refer to Wiley’s Data Sharing Policy.

As a condition for publication, code and data supporting results in the paper must be archived in an appropriate public repository, such as Harvard Dataverse, ICPSR, FigShare or Dryad. (Visit re3data.org for extensive catalogues of registered and certified data repositories.) If a paper is accepted for publication, authors are required to provide a data availability statement, including a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the data they have shared. Scripts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the editor, for example, if sharing data compromises privacy of human data, ethical standards or legal requirements. Exceptions must be requested on initial submission. If an exception is granted then authors are not required to share data, but are still expected to share scripts. Restrictions must be described in the data availability statement.

We recommend to provide replication data and code already when submitting your paper to facilitate the review process.

Data Citation & Data Protection

Please review Wiley’s Data Citation Policy and Wiley’s Data Protection Policy.

Publishing and Research Ethics

Agricultural Economics 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 guidelines surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines. We encourage the use of open science practices, such as pre-registrations and pre-analysis plans.

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

We use 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.