Revision Advice for Authors

Make sure that you are familiar with the process of submitting a revised manuscript via the EES system, as described here. It is particularly important that you read the instructions if you are planning on sending a letter/memo/response to the referee on the prior round.

1. Style Issues

a.     The title contains no than 8 words;

b.     The abstract summarizes the core contributions of the article; contains no more than 100 words and does not start with “This paper …”.

c.     The words “I” and “we” are used only for emphasis, not a regular construction.

d.     Subsection headings do not directly follow section headings

e.     References to supplementary documents available on the internet (such as Replication Materials, Technical Appendices and Working Paper versions) are listed in an early footnote in the manuscript.

f.       Figures are placed separately at the end of the document, one figure per pages

a.     Tables are placed separately at the back of the document, one figure per page.

b.     Experiment with reducing the dimension of Figures to 4” wide by 3” high, which is the approximate size of many ½ page figures in the JME. Make sure that your figure elements are distinguishable at that scale (particularly important for scatter plots).

2. Technical type-setting issues

If you are using Scientific Workplace, then please prepare your revision using the draft mode of the JME Shell or, on final acceptance, using the final mode. Instructions on the SW-TeX are available here.

a.     Remember to number equations on the right.

b.     Notation: this is not really part of type-setting, but it is highlighted when one looks at a typeset document.  Please make your notation as simple as possible and try to make it help the reader understand concepts. It is not an accident that “c” is used for consumption in many examples, rather than “x”.

c.     Look carefully at the structure of your equations. A run-on equation is even worse than a run-on sentence!