JME style requirements

You should consult the Guide to Authors page on Elsevier's website for detailed instructions. The editors of the JME also request you follow the instructions below. 

        General formatting

1. During the review and evaluation process, manuscripts should be submitted in double spaced format using 12 point type and with 1 inch margins.
2. While we do not enforce a page number limit at the submission stage, accepted papers must not exceed 30 pages of text, references, and footnotes in JME draft format and should not include more than 10 tables and figures (F+T<=10). Therefore it would be useful to limit the length of a new submission to the extent possible.   
3. Submit your manuscript with the material organized as follows: (a) title page, including abstract; (b) body of paper; (c) references; (d) not-for-publication appendices including data sources, details of proofs and detailed derivations.
4. Figures and tables should be placed in the text near where they are first referred to and not in the back of the paper. 
5. If your paper is published in the JME, you will have the option to include supplementary material (as described below) on the Science Direct website. You may want to think about structuring your submission or resubmission to take advantage of this option, for example, by moving material of secondary importance to appendices so as to reduce the length of the submitted paper.
   
   Title and first page
6. The first page of the manuscript should contain the following information:
   (5a)    the title;
   (5b)    the name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s);
   (5c)    an abstract summarizing the core contributions of the article, of not more than 150 words.
   (5d)    A footnote on the first page should give the name, address, telephone and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
   (5e)  At least one classification code according to the Classification System for Journal Articles as used by the Journal of Economic Literature.
   (5f)   Up to six key words, designed to help the reader identify the location of your paper in the literature and the nature of its contribution.
   (5g)  Acknowledgements and information on grants received can be given in a first footnote, which should not be included in the consecutive numbering of footnotes.
   
   Body of document
7. The manuscript should be broken into sections and subsections. Subsections are not encouraged in the introduction. Sections should be numbered with Arabic numbers, starting with "1. Introduction".  Subsequent sections, sub-sections, and sub-sub-sections should be numbered as 2; 2.1; and 2.1.1 respectively.  
8. Section titles should be short and should not run over one line.
9. Subsection headings should not directly follow section headings. No lower level heading should ever immediately follow an upper level heading without an intervening sentence.
10. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum in number and length. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively throughout the text with superscript Arabic numerals. Endnotes should not be used.
    
    Rules for text material
11. Do not use opening quotations "epigraphs" displayed prior to the introduction. If absolutely necessary, please insert such quotations in the text after introductory paragraphs or as an early footnote.
12. Do not use displayed, bulleted, or numbered lists .
    
    References
13. Text references to publications and working papers should be as follows: 'Smith (1992) reported that...' of 'This problem has been studied previously (e.g., Smith et al., 1969)'. The author should make sure that there is a strict one-to-one correspondence between the names and years in the text and those on the reference list. 
14. The list of references should appear at the end of the main text (before any appendices).  It may be either single or double spaced and listed in alphabetical order by author's name.
    
    Appendices
15. JME policy is to not publish appendices in the hardcopy/main Science Direct document. They are published as supplementary material on Science Direct. Do not include such material in the main body of your submission.
    
    Supplementary materials
16. Authors are strongly advised to place supplementary materials on Science Direct, where they will be available online to an interested reader. These materials enhance replication of and citations to research and may include: (i) appendices containing details of proofs, explanations of data sources, and details of computational algorithms, (ii) computer programs, (iii) data files, (iv) further explorations of topics studied in the published paper such as elaboration of theoretical models, robustness analysis of empirical specifications, or additional computational experiments.
17. Authors should not reference previous working papers in their paper. Any relevant information should be included in the supplementary materials.
18. Reference links to supplementary documents available on the internet (such as Replication Materials, Technical Appendices and Working Paper versions) should be listed in an early footnote in the manuscript. Authors should make sure that the main paper can be read and understood without reference to the supplementary materials.
19. An editor may require the provision of supplemental materials (such as proofs, data sets, or computational programs) as a condition of publication. However, editors do not review them with the same detail as the core paper. 
20. Authors enter supplementary files at the same "attach files" stage at which one enters the cover letter and the manuscript files within the EM system.

Formatting templates
We have some templates that can aid you in formatting manuscript submissions using Latex, Scientific Word or Microsoft Word.

Details on reference format
For monographs
Hawawini, G., Swary, I. , 1990. Mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. banking industry: Evidence from the capital markets. North-Holland, Amsterdam.

For contributions to collective works
Brunner, K., Meltzer, A.H., 1990. Money supply. In: Friedman, B.M., Hahn, F.H. (Eds.), Handbook of Monetary Economics. Elsevier, Amsterdam , pp. 357-396.

For periodicals
Griffiths, W., Judge, G., 1992. Testing and estimating location vectors when the error covariance matrix is unknown. Journal of Econometrics 54, 121-138.

Note that journal titles should not be abbreviated.

Editors
Borağan Aruoba
Eric Swanson

Associate Editors
Klaus Adam
David Argente
Christiane Baumeister
Jaroslav Borovicka
Ryan Chahrour
Davide Debortoli
Luca Fornaro
Adam Guren
Kinda Hachem
Cosmin Ilut
Ethan Ilzetzki
Anton Korinek
André Kurmann
Zheng Liu
Frederic Malherbe
Leonardo Melosi
Andreas Mueller
Pablo Ottonello
Natalia Ramondo
Felipe Saffie
Benjamin Schoefer
​Eric Sims
Luminita Stevens
Johannes Wieland
Jonathan Wright
Fang Yang