Types of Papers

The Journal of the Economic Science Association publishes the following articles:

• Original Papers

  (Please see the Aims & Scope section and the Size Limitations section below)

• Replication Papers

  Replication Papersis a special section in the Journal of the Economic Science Association, intended to feature replications of published experimental results that are considered to be of interest to the broader experimental community. Publication of manuscripts in this section is subject to the following criteria:

  (1) an author cannot replicate his or her own study

  (2) the manuscript must not exceed 2,000 words (including references, tables, figures and abstract) without the Editors’ approval.

  Publication does not depend on whether the replication was successful.

• Experimental Tools

  Experimental Tools is a special section in the Journal of the Economic Science Association, intended to publish new releases of tools that are considered to be relevant to the experimental community. Publication of manuscripts in this section is subject to the following criteria:

  (1) the tool must be of interest to the general readership of this journal;

  (2) only non-commercial tools (licensed for free or at a nominal cost) will be considered;

  (3) the tool must already be used at other locations than that of the developer.

  (4) the manuscript must not exceed 5,000 words (including references, tables, figures and abstract) without the Editors’ approval.

  Submissions fulfilling these criteria will be considered. If accepted, these papers will be published in a section that is clearly separated from the other papers in the issue. This section may also publish short software reviews on new software releases (irrespective of whether they were announced in the Journal of the Economic Science Association).

• Preregistered Replications

  JESA proposes a fast track to encourage replication studies. For this JESA accepts registered reports for replication studies. The replications can be direct or conceptual. Direct replications consist in closely reproducing the design of the original study, while conceptual replication use different methods to investigate the robustness of the initial result.

  The acceptance of a registered report in JESA will be based on the importance of the result being replicated, on the power of the proposed replication, and on the relevance of the approach in the case of conceptual replications.

  If the authors of the registered report are invited to proceed, they will have to carefully follow the design and procedures described in the report. Acceptance of the final paper will not depend on the obtained results but only on whether the proposed plan was followed.

  Submitted registered report should feature the following sections:
  • Overview of previous results
  • Design of the replication, highlighting the differences to the to be replicated study
  • Analysis plan and power analysis

Size limitations

Original Papers and Experimental Tools must not exceed 5,000 words, including references, tables, figures and abstract. The abstract should not exceed 150 words.

Replication Papers must not exceed 2,000 words, all inclusive. Submissions that exceed these limits without prior approval by the Editors may be sent back to the authors.

For each standard figure please deduct 200 words from the size limit.

Please note:

Submissions that exceed these limits without prior approval by the Editors may be sent back to the authors.

At the submission stage, no size restriction is imposed on manuscript. However, any invitation to revise a manuscript will require for the manuscript to meet the size limitations above at the resubmission stage. If the manuscript initially submitted is substantially longer than these size limitations, the authors may want to discuss in their cover letter how they would shorten their manuscript, if invited to do a revision.

Title Page

Please make sure your title page contains the following information.

Title

The title should be concise and informative.

Author Information

• The name(s) of the author(s)
• The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
• An active e-mail address of the corresponding author
• If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 150 words or less. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Statements and Declarations

The following statement should be included under the heading "Statements and Declarations" for inclusion in the published paper. Please note that submissions that do not include relevant declarations will be returned as incomplete.

• Competing Interests: Authors are required to disclose financial or non-financial interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication. 

Text

Text Formatting

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.

• Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.
• Use italics for emphasis.
• Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
• Do not use field functions.
• Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
• Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
• Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).

Manuscripts with mathematical content can also be submitted in LaTeX.

Headings

Please use the decimal system of headings with no more than three levels.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Footnotes

Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.

Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.

Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

References

Citation

Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:

• Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Thompson, 1990).
• This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman (1996).
• This effect has been widely studied (Abbott, 1991; Barakat et al., 1995; Kelso & Smith, 1998; Medvec et al., 1999).

Authors are encouraged to follow official APA version 7 guidelines on the number of authors included in reference list entries (i.e., include all authors up to 20; for larger groups, give the first 19 names followed by an ellipsis and the final author’s name). However, if authors shorten the author group by using et al., this will be retained.

Reference list

The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text.

Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.

Journal names and book titles should be italicized.

If available, please always include DOIs as full DOI links in your reference list (e.g. “https://doi.org/abc”).

• Journal article Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm000...
• Article by DOI Hong, I., Knox, S., Pryor, L., Mroz, T. M., Graham, J., Shields, M. F., & Reistetter, T. A. (2020). Is referral to home health rehabilitation following inpatient rehabilitation facility associated with 90-day hospital readmission for adult patients with stroke? American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHM.00...
• Book Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.
• Book chapter Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115–129). Routledge.
• Online document Fagan, J. (2019, March 25). Nursing clinical brain. OER Commons. Retrieved January 7, 2020, from https://www.oercommons.org/aut...

Tables

• All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
• Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
• Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.

Artwork and Illustrations

For information regarding artwork and illustrations, please view the Journals artwork guide.