Issue Information ‐ Style Instuctions

• Date: 01 August 2016
• Published date: 01 August 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.12337

STYLE AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

(1)—-Authors must submit papers electronically. Instructions for submission and manuscript

preparation are available at the submission site, http://www.afajof.org/details/page/2870711/

submissions.html.

(2)—-All submitted manuscripts must be original work that is not under submission at another journal

or under consideration for publication in another form, suchas a monograph or chapter of a book.

Authors of submitted papers are obligated not to submit their paper for publication elsewhere

until an editorial decision is rendered on their submission.

(3)—-Refereeing at the Journal of Finance is single-blind. The first page of your paper should be a title

page containing the title of the manuscript, the names of the authors, and an abstract of not more

than 100 words

(4)—-All manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and must not exceed 60 pages in length,

with 1.5 line spacing, 12-point font, 1-inch side margins, and 1.5-inch top/bottom margins. This

page limit includes internal appendices, reference lists, figures, and tables. Papers exceeding this

page limit will be immediately desk-rejected. Additional material may be included in an Internet

Appendix, uploaded separately. However, the paper must be self-contained so that readers can

understand the study in its entirety without having to rely on any separate material.

(5)—-Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced (that is, they

should not be endnotes that appear at the end of the document).

(6)—-Tables and figures can appear either embedded or at the end of the manuscript. Please ensure

that all variables and graphs are clearly labelled and easily understood.

(7)—-All but very short mathematical expressions should be displayed on a separate line. Equations

should be numbered consecutively on the right margin.

(8)—-The introductory section should emphasize the incremental contributions of your research.

Citations should be kept to the minimum required to clarify and highlight your contributions.

The article should end with a brief nontechnical summary statement of the main conclusions.

Submissions can include an Internet Appendix, which might include extra tables, extra figures,

data description, and proofs.

(9)—-If your paper uses proprietary data (that is not available for purchaseby the academic community)

and is accepted for publication, your final submission must be accompanied by an authorization

letter showing that the source of the data approves its use in a JF publication.

(10)—-All papers are subject to the JF’s Submission Guidelines and Policies and the Conflict of Interest

Disclosure Policy. See the submission website for more details.