Issue Information – Backmatter

• Published date: 01 June 2016
• Date: 01 June 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jfir.12072

JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH

Manuscript Style Guide

Authors are advised to read “Important Information from the Executive Editors” at http://fi nance.ba.ttu.edu/

jfr/SubmissionPolicy/ before submitting an article. Articles submitted to the Journal of Financial Research

should be sent to jfr@ttu.edu as two unprotected pdf fi les. One fi le should include the title page with author

information. For blind review purposes, the second fi le should exclude any author information, in addition

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Manuscripts should conform to the following guidelines:

1. In general, manuscripts should follow the Chicago Manual of Style.

2. Please edit manuscripts carefully, writing in the active voice. Avoid expressions such as “This paper

tests.” Do not use italics to indicate emphasis.

3. Eliminate excess verbiage and avoid redundancies. In the introduction do not describe the contents of

the subsequent sections.

4. On the title page, include the title, author’s name, author’s affi liation, and personal footnote, if desired.

Double-space all text, including abstract, footnotes, and references. Print on one side of page only.

5. Include a single-paragraph abstract of no more than 100 words after the title page. Place JEL

classifi cation code(s) after the abstract.

6. Use footnotes instead of endnotes. Keep number and length of footnotes to a minimum.

7. Center primary headings, using Roman numerals. Begin subsection headings at the left margin.

8. Tables should be able to stand alone. Make column headings descriptive and easily understood. Defi ne

all variables and abbreviations.

9. Number tables and equations with Arabic numbers, and number fi gures with Roman numerals. Enclose

equation numbers in parentheses and place them in the right margin.

10. Present each table or fi gure on a separate page. Figures accepted for publication must be available in

electronic form.

11. Cite selectively in the text. Do not string cite. Cite references in the text by placing the publication date

in parentheses, for example:

Bernanke, Reinhart, and Sack (2004) fi nd . . .

or

Several researchers (e.g., Brunnermeier and Pederson 2009; Jensen and Moorman 2010) report . . .

12. List source references alphabetically at the end of the manuscript using the format shown below. Do not

list any reference not cited in the text. When citing several publications that appear in the same year by

the same author(s), add a, b, c, etc. to the publication date.

Jensen, G. R., and T. Moorman, 2010, Inter-temporal variation in the illiquidity premium, Journal of

Financial Economics 98, 338–58.

Cochrane, J. H., 2005, Asset Pricing (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ).

Lambert, R., and D. Larcker, 2004, Stock options, restricted stock, and incentives, Working Paper,

University of Pennsylvania.

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