Aims and scope | Article types | Preparing your article for submission | Author checklist | Policy on prior publication | Authorship and contributorship | Author affiliations | Competing interests | Supplementary materials | Seeking permissions for copyright material | Publishing ethics | ORCID | Author Hub | English language editing services
Aims and scope
The mission of the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (JAAE) is to publish scholarly work related to research, extension and teaching aspects of agricultural and applied economics of national and international relevance. Original research articles as well as review studies with strong policy and/or methodology contributions in the economics of agribusiness, natural resources, and rural development are equally encouraged. Articles published 2015 and later are open access. The journal is owned by the Southern Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) and is published by Cambridge University Press.
Types of Article
JAAE publishes:
Research Articles*
Review Articles*
*All or part of the publication costs for these article types may be covered by one of the agreements Cambridge University Press has made to support open access. For authors not covered by an agreement, and without APC funding, please see this journal's open access options for instructions on how to request an APC waiver.
Preparing for submission
Title Page
Authors must upload a title page file as a separate file containing the title of the article and the name, department, institution, city and country of each author. The title page is made visible to the editor handling the paper but not the reviewers.
In addition, the title page should also include the following:
1. Acknowledgments (optional): You may acknowledge individuals or organisations that provided advice, support (non-financial).
2. Competing Interests (required): Situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on an author’s presentation of their work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations. Competing Interests do not necessarily mean that an author’s work has been compromised. Authors should declare any real or perceived Competing Interests in order to be transparent about the context of their work. If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting the manuscript must include Competing Interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a Competing Interest statement is as follows:
Competing Interests: Author A is employed at company B. Author C owns shares in company D, is on the Board of company E and is a member of organisation F. Author G has received grants from company H.
If no Competing Interests exist, the declaration should state: Competing Interests: Author A and Author B declare none.
3. Data Availability Statement: The title page must contain a Data Availability Statement explaining how data and other resources were created, from where they are available, along with information about any restrictions on the accessibility of data and other resources. See the JAAE Transparency and Openness Promotion policy for more details, including example Data Availability Statements
4. Funding Statement (required): Please provide details of the sources of financial support for all authors, including grant numbers. For example:
Funding Statement: This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant number XXXXXXX).
Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma and space, and where research was funded by more than one agency the different agencies should be separated by a semi-colon, with 'and' before the final funder. Grants held by different authors should be identified as belonging to individual authors by the authors' initials. For example:
Funding Statement: This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (A.B., grant numbers XXXX, YYYY), (C.D., grant number ZZZZ); the Natural Environment Research Council (E.F., grant number FFFF); and the Australian Research Council (A.B., grant number GGGG), (E.F., grant number HHHH).
Where no specific funding has been provided for research, please provide the following statement:
Funding Statement: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
5. AI contributions to research: The authors must declare in the title page whether AI was used in any way in the generation of the paper.
Article File
JAAE article templates in LaTeX and Word will be available shortly.
To ensure a double-blind peer review process the article should be anonymised: there should be no information that identifies the authors in the manuscript.
Abstract
The first page of the manuscript should include an abstract not exceeding 100 words, followed by no more than eight key words or short phrases listed in alphabetical order.
JEL Classifications
Please provide JEL classification codes listed in the following format: JEL Classifications: R51, R58, O21, O23, R11, R38
Main text
The main body of the article can be separated using headings and subheadings.
Footnotes
Number footnotes consecutively throughout the manuscript. Type the content of the footnotes on separate pages placed immediately after the main text. Footnotes should not be used solely for citations or directives to other literature. Reference citations should be incorporated into the main text or into the text of the footnotes.
Mathematical Formulations
Use Arabic numbers enclosed in parentheses placed flush left on the first line of the equation. Number equations consecutively throughout the manuscript. Indent the equation after the equation number. Punctuate all mathematical material.
Figures
Submit your figures as separate files to help us produce your work to the best possible standards, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and a high level of detail. Please see the Journals Artwork Guide for more information.
JAAE Reference Style Sheet
To ensure the fit of your manuscript for JAAE, please check your references to see if a JAAE article is cited in the manuscript. Place all references cited in the text, alphabetized by author’s last name (use initials for first names), on separate pages immediately after the footnotes.
Personal Communication.
Bjorlie, W. Personal Communication. USDA-Farm Service Agency, March 1997.
Presented Paper.
Carter, C.A. “Research on Institutional Reform and Agricultural Productivity Growth in China.” Paper presented at the conference of Grain Market Reform in China and Its Implications, East-West Center, Honolulu, September 16-19, 1995.
Journal Article.
Davis, G.C. “A Semantic Interpretation of Haavelmo's Structure of Econometrics.” Economics and Philosophy 16(October 2000):205-28.
Technical Bulletin.
El-Osta, H.S., and M.C. Ahearn. Estimating the Opportunity Cost of Unpaid Farm Labor for U.S. Farm Operators. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Technical Bulletin No. 1848, 1996.
Book.
Golan, A., G. Judge, and D. Miller. Maximum Entropy Econometrics: Robust Estimation with Limited Data. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
Unpublished Manuscript.
Li, J.R., and C.B. Barrett. “Distinguishing Between Equilibrium and Integration in Markets Analysis.” Unpublished manuscript, Cornell University, June 1999.
Paul, C.J.M. “Cost Economies and Market Power: The Case of the U.S. Meatpacking Industry.” Working paper, Dept. of Agr. and Resour. Econ., University of California, Davis,1998.
Conference Proceedings.
Sanders, D.R., S.H. Irwin, and R.M. Leuthold. "Noise Trader Demand in Commodity Futures Markets.” NCR 134 Conference Proceedings, 1996, pp. 12-23.
Chapter in a Book.
Segerson, K., and B.L. Dixon. “Climate Change and Agriculture: The Role of Farmer Adaptation.” The Economics of Climate Change. R. Mendelsohn and J. Neumann, eds. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
PhD Dissertation.
Shaikh, S.L. “Modeling Time and Money Constrained Recreation Demand: The Case of California Gray Whale- Watching.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Davis, August 1999.
Discussion Paper.
Smith, V.K. “Time and the Valuation of Environmental Resources.” Discussion paper 98-07, Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, November 1997.
Online Citation.
U.S. Department of Agriculture—Natural Resources Conservation Service. Internet site: http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/NRI/intro.html (Accessed April 28, 1998b).
Government Publication.
Wilham, R.L. Guidelines for National Sire Evaluation, and Guidelines for Uniform Beef Improvement Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture/Extension Service, Pub. No. AID 1020, 1974.
Data
[dataset] Farhi, E., Maggiori, M., 2017. "Replication Data for: 'A Model of the International Monetary System'", Harvard Dataverse, V1. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8YZT9K
Author Checklist
Here is a quick digest of steps to complete before you submit your article to JAAE:
1. The manuscript file is anonymised and does not contain the names of the authors anywhere.
2. The manuscript contains abstract and JEL classifications (first page) and is formatted according to guidelines.
3. A separate title page file contains information about authors, their affiliations (department, institution, city and country) and competing interest statement, funding statement, and data availability statement (see here for more details).
4. Submit your article through the JAAE ScholarOne system.
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
CRediT taxonomy for contributors
When submitting a manuscript, the corresponding author will be prompted to provide further details concerning contributions to the manuscript using the CRediT taxonomy. CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 designated options, that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors to scholarly output. All parties who have contributed to the scholarly work, but do not meet the full criteria for authorship, should be recognised with their contributions described in terms of the CRediT taxonomy.
Our default position is that the corresponding author has the authority to act on behalf of all co-authors, and we expect the corresponding author to confirm this at the beginning of the submission process. When preparing your manuscript you should also ensure that you obtain permission from all contributors to describe their contributions using the CRediT taxonomy.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.
Seeking permissions for copyrighted material
Authors are responsible for obtaining necessary permissions to quote or reproduce material, including figures, from already published works and/or any copyrighted material. If a figure is from another source, this should be credited appropriately in the figure legend along with any terms of any re-use.
For further advice, see this page on seeking permission to use copyrighted material.
Publishing ethics
Authors should check the JAAE publishing ethics policies while preparing their materials.
Note that authors should provide a Competing Interest statement, Funding Statement and a Data Availability Statement in their title page, as detailed above. See the JAAE data transparency page for detailed policy on sharing data, code and other replication materials.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.