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ecj-submission
GitHub用于Economic Journal投稿前的最终机械检查，涵盖Editorial Express门户要求、单PDF格式、作者-日期引用、单盲评审、JEL代码、全文/短文选择、费用及数据政策。
Trigger Scenarios
明天提交前的最后机械检查
不确定Editorial Express门户所需的文件和元数据
确认格式、引用、评审模式和数据政策符合EJ要求
最终决定在全文和短文路线之间选择
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecj-submission -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "ecj-submission",
"description": "Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript via Editorial Express — single PDF format, author-date references, single-blind review, JEL codes and keywords, full-length vs. short-paper choice, submission-fee awareness, funding disclosure, and the RES\/EJ data-and-code policy. Final mechanical gate; it does not improve the economic argument."
}
Submission Preflight (ecj-submission)
When to trigger
- "Submitting tomorrow" — the last mechanical check before pressing submit
- Unsure what the Editorial Express portal requires as files and metadata
- Confirming format, references, review model, and data policy are EJ-correct
- Deciding finally between the full-length and short-paper routes
Process facts (verified 2026-06-20; re-confirm on the official OUP/RES pages)
- EJ (founded 1891, the Royal Economic Society's flagship, published by Oxford University Press; editor-in-chief Francesco Lippi) is submitted through the Editorial Express portal (editorialexpress.com), not ScholarOne. The submission must be a single PDF including appendices (but not the cover letter or past reports).
- Review model: single-blind — referee identities are kept from authors as far as possible, but authors are not anonymized, so do not strip your identity from the manuscript. This differs from a double-blind journal.
- Short-paper option: EJ encourages short papers in the AER:Insights style — roughly <6,000 words and ~5 exhibits; full-length articles may be longer. Choose the route deliberately.
- Metadata: JEL classification codes and keywords are entered in Editorial Express; provide title, abstract, authors, and affiliations.
- References: author-date style. The accepted-author guide gives EJ-style examples and asks for an alphabetized, then chronological, reference list; data and replication packages should be cited.
- Accepted-author production limits: short title 40 characters or fewer, abstract 100 words or fewer, and keywords 20 characters or fewer each. Treat these as production-stage limits and keep submission metadata comfortably within them unless the live portal says otherwise.
- Submission fee: RES charges for each new EJ submission: current listed fees (re-verified 2026-06-22; non-member rate updated effective 8 May 2026) are GBP 248 for non-members, GBP 50 for student / Tier A / unemployed members, and GBP 113 for Tier B-C-D members / Fellows, before 20% VAT. Resubmissions are not charged. Re-confirm the live RES fee table before paying.
- Funding: all sources of research funding must be acknowledged in the manuscript.
- Data & code: EJ runs pre-acceptance reproducibility checks (since July 2019) via the EJ Data Editor; the package is deposited to Zenodo at acceptance under the RES policy (DCAS-endorsed). Request any data exemption at first submission (see
ecj-replication-package).
Pre-submission checklist
Format
- Manuscript is a single PDF including appendices (cover letter and past reports separate)
- Sections ordered logically (intro → model/theory → data → strategy → results → mechanisms/robustness → conclusion)
- Equations numbered and referenced as "equation (n)"
- Figures legible in grayscale; tables self-contained with full notes
- Online appendix material prepared (proofs, full robustness, descriptive tables)
- Short paper? within ~6,000 words / ~5 exhibits; full-length? exposition complete
References (house style)
- Author-date citations throughout — not numbered/bracket
- Reference list complete; alphabetized then chronological for each author
- Dataset and replication-package citations included where relevant
- Every in-text citation appears in the list; every list entry is cited
Review model & identity (EJ is single-blind)
- Confirm format target: full-length article or short paper (AER:Insights-style)
- Author identities are visible to referees, so no manuscript anonymization is required
- Title page with authors, affiliations, acknowledgments, and funding sources included
- Submission fee category known; payment path ready for a new submission
Data, code & policy
- RES/EJ data-and-code policy reviewed (DCAS, EJ Data Editor, Zenodo); package staged (see
ecj-replication-package) - Restricted/proprietary data: exemption requested at first submission
- Not under review elsewhere; no duplicate/overlapping submission
Exhibits & supplementary
- Main-text exhibits report economic magnitudes, not stars alone
- Online appendix complete and referenced from the main text
- Any restricted-data documentation prepared
Portal metadata (Editorial Express)
- Title and abstract entered; accepted-author abstract cap is 100 words
- JEL classification codes entered
- Keywords entered; accepted-author guide asks each keyword to be 20 characters or fewer
- All co-authors and affiliations correct; corresponding author set
- Suggested referees (and any opposed referees) prepared with brief justification
- One-page cover letter: question, contribution, fit with EJ's broad-interest mandate
Anti-patterns
- Wasting effort anonymizing the manuscript — EJ is single-blind, so author identity is expected
- Numbered citations left in from a different journal's template instead of author-date
- Submitting via ScholarOne by habit — EJ uses Editorial Express
- Padding a clean short result to full length instead of using the short-paper route (or vice versa)
- Forgetting to acknowledge funding sources, or omitting JEL codes/keywords in the portal
- Requesting a restricted-data exemption only at acceptance instead of at first submission
Output format
【Target】full-length article / short paper (AER:Insights-style)
【Format】single PDF incl. appendices, exhibits OK? [y/n]
【References】author-date; list alphabetical/chronological; data citations included? [y/n]
【Review model】single-blind — no anonymization needed [confirm]
【Metadata】JEL codes + keywords + <=100-word abstract ready? [y/n]
【Fee】new-submission fee category/payment ready, resubmission fee exempt if applicable? [y/n]
【Funding】acknowledged in manuscript? [y/n]
【Replication】DCAS package staged; exemption (if any) at first submission? [y/n]
【Next】await decision / on R&R → ecj-rebuttal
Bundled resources
templates/checklist.md— 8-section pre-submission self-check across format, references, single-blind review, data policy, exhibits, and portaltemplates/manuscript_template.md— EJ manuscript skeleton (section order, author-date references, variable table)../../resources/external_tools.md— economics data sources and Stata / R / Python packages for identification, structural estimation, and replication
Version History
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