INSTRUCTIONS FOR ECONOMETRICA AUTHORS, REVISED 2007
This page links to explanations of current editorial procedures and policies of Econometrica; it is primarily addressed to authors who plan to submit manuscripts to the journal.
- AIMS AND SCOPE
- SUBMITTING TO ECONOMETRICA
2.1. Important Basic instructions: Papers should be original unpublished work, and submitted electronically in PDF format, preferably without a cover letter. They should be organized in an easy to read manner, with ample margins, spacing, 12 point font, and under 45 pages. (Details in 2.1 below.)
2.2. General instructions: Basic membership, copyright, etc.
2.3. Our Replication Policy
2.4. Additional instructions regarding Experimental submissions
2.5. Submitting Supplemental material
2.6. Advice on creating PDF files
2.7. Click here to link to the Online submission form
- REVIEW PROCESS
3.1. The process
3.2. The decisions
3.3. “Appeals”
- INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS OF ACCEPTED PAPERS
4.1. The publication process
4.2. Essentials of manuscript preparation for publication
4.3. Copyright form
4.4. Preparing Supplementary material
4.5. FYI only: Econometrica style and formatting policies
- PUBLISHING END MATTER: Announcements, reports and other society business
1. AIMS AND SCOPE
The purpose of the Econometric Society is defined in Section 1 of the Constitution: "The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics . . . Its main object is to promote studies that aim at the unification of the theoretical-quantitative and the empirical-quantitative approach to economic problems and that are penetrated by constructive and rigorous thinking."
Econometrica publishes original articles in all branches of economics—theoretical and empirical, abstract and applied—providing wide-ranging coverage across the field. It promotes studies that are supported by rigorous analysis. The topics published are unrestricted, including the frontier of developments in economic and econometric theory, research on applied economic problems, and empirical studies. The crucial ingredients for the papers we publish are that they be interesting, original, and well crafted, and that they use whatever mathematical and/or statistical tools are appropriate for the problem at hand.
Econometrica has no tightly controlled policy towards subject matter. No paper is rejected because it is "too mathematical" or "too quantitative," nor is a paper rejected because it is "not mathematical enough" or "too applied." A theoretical paper need not have an application to be insightful, and empirical or applied work can successfully address an important question without providing a methodological contribution.
Because our membership includes economists with a variety of research interests, it is necessary that contributions be of interest to a wide audience, and prepared so that non-specialists understand the main message and why the results are important. Authors of papers with highly abstract theoretical analysis should therefore write the motivation and description of the main results (and as much of the paper as possible), in a manner that is accessible to a broad audience, and authors of applied papers should make their work accessible to members who may have less acquaintance with, for example, some of the institutions being considered.
Econometrica maintains a long tradition that most submitted articles are refereed carefully. Nevertheless, some papers are rejected after having been read by a member of the editorial board but without providing detailed reports. This is intended as a service to authors to avoid them waiting when papers are clearly not suitable, and also to save on the scarce resource of referees. An international board of editors, together with the generous help of many referees, works hard to maintain the deep and timely reviews, thereby encouraging submissions of the highest quality. The list of referees and turnaround time can be found in the yearly reports.
We strongly encourage recent Ph. D. graduates to submit their work to Econometrica. Our policy is to take into account the fact that recent graduates are less experienced in the process of writing and submitting papers.
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2. SUBMITTING TO ECONOMETRICA
2.1. Basic instructions
Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format, preferably without a cover letter, and at least one co-author must be a member of the Econometric Society. Submission implies that the work is original, unpublished and not under review elsewhere; related work that is forthcoming or under concurrent review should be brought to the attention of the Editors.
The link for submissions is http://editorialexpress.com/econometrica.
Authors may consult our online Advice on creating PDF files or retrieve a LaTex template from the journal's support page for LaTex at http://www.e-publications.org/ecta/support/ (the use of the template is optional). In exceptional cases, those who are unable to submit electronic files in PDF format can submit one copy of a paper prepared according to these guidelines by mail addressed to our Editor’s office (including, if possible, media containing an electronic version of the paper).
A letter of submission should not be included unless it contains information pertinent to the review process. If the author has submitted related work elsewhere, or does so during the term in which Econometrica is considering the manuscript, then it is the author's responsibility to provide Econometrica with details.
Papers should be formatted to be easily readable and should be under 45 pages.
Submitted manuscripts should be formatted for paper of standard size with margins of at least 1.25 inch on all sides, 1.5 or double spaced text in 12 point font. Material should be organized to maximize readability, for example footnotes, figures, etc., should not be placed at the end.
Pages should be numbered, and an abstract (of no more than 150 words), as well as keywords and complete author affiliations, should be included in the paper in the title page. (JEL numbers are optional.)
We strongly encourage authors to submit manuscripts that are under about 45 pages / 17,000 words including everything (except detailed data descriptions and experimental instructions). While we understand some papers must be longer, if a paper (except for data and instructions) is longer than the aforementioned length it may be rejected without review, and if the main body of a manuscript (excluding appendices) is more than the aforementioned length, it typically will be rejected without review.
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2.2. General instructions and policies
Membership is required: There is no charge for submission to Econometrica, but only members of the Econometric Society may submit papers for consideration. In the case of coauthored manuscripts, at least one author must be a member of the Econometric Society. Membership is not required for resubmission of an invited revision.
Copyright: As described in our Copyrights Transfer Form, it is a condition of publication in Econometrica that copyright of any published articles be transferred to the Econometric Society. Therefore, submission of a paper will be taken to imply that the author agrees that copyright of the material will be transferred to the Econometric Society if and when the article is accepted for publication, and that the contents of the paper represent original and unpublished work that has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors may post accepted work on their personal or institutional websites. There is no page fee, nor is any payment made to the authors.
Previous and simultaneous submission of related work: If an author has submitted or published related work elsewhere, or does so during the term in which Econometrica is considering the manuscript, then it is the author's responsibility to provide Econometrica with details. This notification must include appearances in Proceedings volumes (such as AER P&P, JEEA P&P, IEEE Proceedings and so on.) The determination of what constitutes previous publication is difficult and takes into account many features, such as whether it is available in a format likely to be held in perpetuity by libraries, whether the previous format is paper or electronic, and sold or freely available, whether the format is considered by colleagues as publication for review purposes, the extent of peer review, the extent of overlap, and so on. Obviously each criterion is arguable, and in any case this will be decided on a case-by-case basis. But authors must note all cases of publication other than in working paper series or on personal or university websites. In all cases, work that is submitted to Econometrica will be evaluated based on its contribution relative to the existing published literature, which includes any instances that are determined to constitute previous publication as described previously and all work under consideration for publication elsewhere (as we cannot know what will be accepted, the presumption will be that work simultaneously submitted elsewhere is published.)
Submitting a comment on an article which has appeared in Econometrica, requires including correspondence with the author only if the comment indicates an error in the original paper. However, we recommend such correspondence in any case. (If an author does not respond after a reasonable amount of time, indicate this when submitting). Authors will be invited to submit for consideration a reply to any accepted comment.
General writing advice: Avoid definitions in the first paragraphs or pages; try to avoid formulae and specialized terminology in the introduction. Write crisply but clearly. Avoiding grammatical and notational errors, though important, is only the first step. Good writing, especially good mathematical writing, calls for something more: the extra effort involved in revising and reworking the manuscript until it will be clear to most if not all of our readers. For a good test of the "readability" of a paper, the comments of a colleague in another specialty should alert you to problems in comprehension which our readers might face.
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2.3. Replication Policy
Econometrica has the policy that all empirical, experimental and simulation results must be replicable. Therefore, authors of accepted papers must submit data sets, programs, and information on empirical analysis, experiments and simulations that are needed for replication and some limited sensitivity analysis. (Authors of experimental papers can consult the more detailed posted information regarding submission of Experimental papers.)
This material will be made available through the Econometrica supplementary material web-page. Submitting this material indicates that you license users to download, copy, and modify it; when doing so such users must acknowledge all authors as the original creators and Econometrica as the original publishers.
At the same time the editors understand that there may be some practical difficulties, such as in the case of proprietary datasets with limited access as well as public use data sets that require consent forms to be signed before use. In these cases detailed data description and the programs used to generate the estimation data sets must be provided, as well as information of the source of the data so that researchers who do obtain access may be able to replicate the results. This exemption is offered on the understanding that the authors made reasonable effort to obtain permission to make available the final data used in estimation, but were not granted permission. We also understand that in some particularly complicated cases programs may have value in themselves and the authors may not make them public. Similarly, there may be compelling reasons to restrict usage, and if we agree we will post a notice on the web site regarding such restrictions.
Requests for an exemption from providing the materials described here, or for restricting their usage, should be stated clearly when the paper is first submitted for review. It will be at the editors’ discretion whether the paper can then be reviewed. Exceptions will not be considered later in the review and publication process.
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2.4. Experimental papers: Provision of Experimental Data and Protocols
Information about experimental procedures is relevant to the decision of whether or not to publish a paper reporting results from laboratory and field experiments and researcher conducted surveys. Detailed information of this type is also valuable to scholars who subsequently do related work or attempt to replicate results. Therefore, author(s) of such manuscripts should include with their submission sufficient material on the procedures to enable review. If accepted, additional material to facilitate replication and follow up analysis will be expected, and will be made available through the Econometrica supplementary materials website. During the submission process, all this material will be password protected and available only to the editor and referees evaluating the manuscript with the understanding that the material will be used for the sole purpose of evaluating the submitted paper (and not, e.g., for research purposes). Examples of material to be included upon submission and upon acceptance are described below. Any impediments to providing such material at the acceptance stage should be indicated upon the initial submission. For manuscripts that are rejected, supplementary material will be removed if the author requests it.
Important procedural aspects should be explained at the submission stage (either in the body of the paper or an appendix as is appropriate for the particular paper and aspects). We leave the decision on what details to initially include to the author. If during the review process the editor or referees feel additional information is needed, requests for that material will be made, and may naturally cause delay in processing, hence we encourage as complete a submission as feasible.
If any accompanying materials, such as experimental instructions, are not written in English, then a translation should be provided.
Suggested information to provide for the review process:
1. The subject pool and recruiting procedures.
2. The experimental technology – when and where the experiments were conducted; by computer or manually; online, and so forth.
3. Any procedures to test for comprehension before running the experiment, including the use of practice trials and quizzes.
4. Matching procedures, especially for game theory experiments.
5. Subject payments, including whether artificial currency was used, the exchange rate, show-up fees, average earnings, lotteries and/or grades.
6. The number of subjects used in each session and, where relevant, their experience.
7. Timing, such as how long a typical session lasted, and how much of that time was instructional.
8. Any use of deception and/or any instructional inaccuracies.
Additional information for publication on the supplementary website
A detailed appendix is required to facilitate replications and data analysis and should consist of whatever can be provided for these purposes. This will include further detail on the items above, and provision of original materials. The following are items that are desirable and typically expected, but further detail about what is needed in each case can be obtained from the coeditor handling the paper.
1. Detailed statement of protocols.
2. Samples of permission forms and record sheets.
3. Copies of instructions and slides and/or transparencies used to present instructions.
4. Source code for computer programs used to conduct the experiment and to analyze the data. This does not include compilers (such as ztree) that are publicly available.
5. Screen shots showing how the programs are used.
6. The experimental data together with adequate documentation of the format.
Reasonable judgment should be used. For example, if instructions for different sessions differ only slightly, then one sample of the instructions suffices, with the differences noted in a short accompanying document. These rules should be understood also to apply to surveys conducted by the authors. When the authors are not the primary source of the data, we require only the data, a statement of where it came from and the programs used to process it – detailed documentation of the procedures used by the original data providers about how it was collected is not required.
We understand that there may be a need for exceptions to the policy for confidentiality or other reasons. When this is the case, it must be clearly stated at the time of submission that certain data or other appendix materials cannot or will not be made available, and an explanation provided. Such exceptions require prior approval by the editors.
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2.5. Supplementary material
In addition to regularly published material in the journal, Econometrica also provides a website of supplementary material. It includes material to enable replication of empirical, experimental and simulation results as well as extensions of more narrow interest and other material related to papers that appear in the journal.
Supplementary material is handled as a regular part of the editorial process. As described in our Replication policy, providing supplementary material to enable replication of empirical and experimental work is mandatory. In some other cases, as part of the process of publication, the editor may also require that certain additional material be published on the supplementary website. If you wish to have part of your submission appear as supplementary material, you should make this known to the editor handling your manuscript, who has final discretion over whether the material will be included on the supplementary material website.
Supplementary files can be submitted with the main paper via the on-line submission form (or via e-mail to the Editor’s office). Large files should be compressed to .zip format. Currently the on-line submission facility only enables two attachments, so if more than two files are being submitted they would have to be submitted in a single .zip file containing a directory with all submitted files. (This is not necessary when sending files by e-mail to the main office.)
Licensing: Programs, data and experimental instructions are licensed by authors and by Econometrica to be available to users to download, copy, and modify. In doing so they must acknowledge all authors as the original creators, and Econometrica as the original publisher. If you have a compelling reason we may post restrictions regarding such usage.
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2.6. Advice on creating PDF files
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2.7. Online submission form
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3. REVIEW PROCESS
3.1. Reviews
We cannot pre-review papers. Only papers submitted as described above will be considered.
Once a submission has been made the Editor will reply with an electronic message that acknowledges receipt of the manuscript. After the author membership is confirmed and the manuscript checked for compatibility with our instructions (as described in the submission instructions), the review process will begin and a second electronic message will be sent to the corresponding author indicating the manuscript number (MS#) assigned to it. This number should be cited in all future correspondence.
Most, but not all, papers are sent to one or more outside referees, one of whom is typically an Associate Editor of the journal. These Associate Editors are leading economists who have been kind enough to agree to referee a large number of papers for us in a timely manner; we are very grateful for their help and try to use it wisely. We also try to be considerate of all of those who donate their time to referee papers for the journal. Thus, referees are instructed that we do not expect them to try to decipher poorly prepared manuscripts; a submission may be rejected solely because typographical errors and imprecise definitions make it hard to understand.
The desire to economize on scarce refereeing resources is the main reason that the Coeditor in charge will sometimes choose to reject a paper without calling on outside referees. This may happen if the paper has an obvious mistake, or is so poorly written that its correctness cannot be determined; it can also occur when the paper is both correct and clear, but seems inappropriate for this journal for various reasons. In such cases, the best policy for all concerned is that the paper be returned to the author(s) as quickly as possible.
Beyond ensuring that published papers are novel, important, and correct, the editorial staff would also like them to appear in a timely fashion. Usually, we aim to complete the review process within four to five months, although some papers may take longer. (We attempt to send out decisions on papers that are rejected without review within a couple of weeks.) The yearly Editor's Report published in the January issue of the journal and online at http://www.econometricsociety.org/editorsreports.asp, contains statistics regarding our current performance. We welcome reminders and complaints from authors who experience a long delay.
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3.2. Decisions
Manuscripts may be rejected, returned for specified revision, or accepted.
Revisions are, in general, of two forms: those cases where the editors see potential promise, but cannot identify even likely conditions for acceptance, and those where the editors have a better sense of the potential paper they would like to see. We aim to provide specific suggestions, but obviously will be more successful only in the latter case. In the former case, the likelihood for significant further revision is high.
In the ordinary course of events, we expect authors who are offered the opportunity to submit a revised version of their paper to return it within one year. If a paper is returned after two years, there will be no presumption that it will be sent to the original Co-Editor (especially if he/she has left the board) and, given the passage of time, the Co-Editor will be able to use his/her decision process.
The decision letter regarding the revisions provides as much detail as the editor is capable of providing. We ask that authors not contact us for further advice, or send us outlines for suggested revisions, or even “tentative” revisions. We will review revisions upon resubmission only.
Accepted manuscripts may be published as a paper or in the notes and comments section of the journal--this decision is made by the editor handling the paper.
Unless the coeditor specifies otherwise, decisions are final. Unsolicited revisions of rejected papers will be rejected without review.
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3.3. "Appeals"
What happens if you disagree with the referee reports and the Editor's decision? The general principle (but not inflexible rule) is that our decision is final. Referees are rarely convinced by counterarguments to their reports. Sometimes the problem is one of communication; for example, the referee does not understand what the author really means. The fact, however, that such a problem exists for a supposedly expert (but sometimes unsympathetic) referee is important information. Editors on their part are rarely convinced by arguments that a referee who failed to understand the paper was incompetent or sloppy, as they have additional information contained in the referee’s cover letter and their identity (and often further correspondence with the referee).
It is important to understand that referees often make various specific comments, but that the reason for rejection is based on the more general consideration that the contribution is not sufficient. Arguing about one of the detailed comments is not fruitful; in fact, many of those comments are intended to be useful advice and not explanations for the assessment.
To conclude, rejections are very often a matter of subjective judgment regarding the importance and relevance of the contribution, and neither the editorial board not the journal can survive if these subjective assessments are open to debate. For these reasons our decisions are (almost always) final. (An appeal may be appropriate when the issue is one of unambiguous fact and when the fact was clearly a major part of the decision to reject the paper. For example, the referee says that "Theorem A in the paper is a trivial consequence of the well-known result B;" however, B does not apply since one of its conditions is not satisfied. The importance or relevance of the work is not an issue of fact but of judgment and an appeal on such grounds will not be considered.)
However, we are not final arbiters. When we reject a paper, it can be (and usually is) submitted to another independent journal. This is the "appeal procedure" which is built into the system; our policy that rejections are normally definitive relies upon this type of initiative by authors who disagree with the reports of referees.
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4. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS OF ACCEPTED PAPERS
4.1. Publication process
When a paper is accepted, the Coeditor notifies the Managing Editor, who awaits the arrival of the files and copyright transfer forms from the authors.
Copyright: Upon acceptance, authors will be asked to complete a copyright transfer form emailed to them by the Editorial Assistant. All authors must sign the form (either one or separate copies for different authors) and either mail, fax or email (it must be a PDF scanned copy with ACTUAL signatures) it (them) to our Managing Editor.
Submitting final versions: Please note that in order to avoid delays in publication, in case there are extensive changes after acceptance authors should bring these to the attention of the coeditor who handled the manuscript, together with a brief explanation of the changes, before sending the final version to the managing editor.
The final version of accepted papers, prepared as described in Essentials of manuscript preparation for publication below (including all graphics files for figures, files for tables if separate from the manuscript files, and files for any supplementary material to be posted on the web), should be sent to the Managing Editor by email as both .pdf files and complete electronic source files attachments (latex files are preferred, but any word processing files can be used). If the manuscript contains figures, also send the graphics files (.eps or .jpg files are preferred). If there is a supplement to the paper that the editor has accepted for publication on the Society’s web site, then authors should consult the information on preparing Supplementary Material for publication.
Copyediting: When all requested materials have been supplied, the manuscript is prepared and copyedited for typesetting according to Econometrica style. (Many aspects of our style are described in Econometrica Style and Formatting Policies below, for author’s information. The submitted manuscript need not be prepared according to these specifications which are implemented by the copyeditor and typesetter.) Grammar and spelling are corrected and reference citations are checked. If minor ambiguities are noted, a query is addressed to the author on the front of the manuscript, so the matter may be addressed when proofs are corrected.
Author checking of proofs: After the paper is typeset, the author is notified by e-mail how to download the page proofs and the copyedited manuscript, and is instructed on how and where to send corrections and offprint orders. The author should take special note of any queries on the front of the manuscript, the instructions for checking references, the deadlines for return of proofs and offprint order, and the different places to which these items should be returned, as set out in the instructions for obtaining the proofs. Proofs will contain a list of hyperlinks from the article, and a list of bibliographic references obtained automatically (that will be used for hyperlinking the references). Both of these should also be checked with care, and compared with the actual references provided by the author. Return proofs as soon as possible; the issue to which a paper is finally assigned depends in part on the date corrected proofs are received from the author(s).
Final typesetting: When the Managing Editor receives the corrected proofs, all author and printer corrections are compiled on a single set of proofs. Following a thorough review for any additional errors, the corrected proofs are returned to the typesetter for final correction.
Distribution and offprints: Preparation and distribution of the completed issue are undertaken when the corrected proofs and a compilation of offprint orders for an issue are received by the printer. After the issue itself has been completed and distributed, the printer distributes the offprints directly to authors.
Currently, papers appear approximately six months from the date of acceptance. (The yearly Editor's Report published in the January issue of the journal and online at http://www.econometricsociety.org/editorsreports.asp also may provide information concerning the current backlog.)
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4.2. Essentials of manuscript preparation for publication
Enumeration and cross referencing
Enumerate and label equations, tables, definitions, etc., clearly and without redundancies to facilitate finding cross references.
Only number equations to which there is a subsequent reference.
Use Arabic numerals to number equations and figures, roman numerals for tables.
To minimize confusion between references to different enumerations, try to use non Arabic numerals for enumerations other than equations and tables, e.g., use lower case Roman numerals in parentheses ((i), (ii), etc.).
In general use simple alphanumeric references (Proposition 2, Table IV, equation (5), part (iii) of the proof, property (b) etc.). Do not use location references (“graphed in the figure after theorem 1). Try to avoid using references that are not completely transparent (e.g., “the above condition is called condition M…see condition M,” “as in the table describing the domestic data,” or “the main theorem shows”).
Online pdfs of papers will include links to cross references within the paper if these are provided by the author (e.g, by internal cross referencing in TeX), or obvious (see above).
Mathematical, statistical and formal writing
In formal definitions indicate which term is being defined by italicizing only that term.
In reporting estimation results (whether in an equation or a table), parenthetical expressions presented below estimates should contain standard errors rather than t ratios. If t ratios are used you will be asked to supply standard errors.
General
Avoid unnecessary hyphenation; many hyphenated words can be treated as one or two words.
Avoid starting a sentence with lower case mathematical symbols or equation numbers.
Appendices should be given a content heading, especially if there is more than one appendix (e.g., Appendix A: Proof of Proposition 1).
References
Only include in the reference list entries for which there are text citations, and make sure all citations are included in the reference list.
References in text should be cited by author (date), author (date, p. xx), or author (date, Proposition 3), etc. References in the bibliography should be complete, including the last names and initials, and date of publication. References to books should include place of publication and publisher. Articles in edited books should include editors and pages. Unpublished manuscripts and thesis should include locations. Electronic (only) journals and unpublished materials should specify the URL at the end of the reference. Supplementary material should be cited as bellow. Do not abbreviate any titles. See the following illustrations:
Aumann, R. J. (1987): Correlated Equilibrium as an Expression of Bayesian Rationality, Econometrica, 55, 1-18.
Peck, J. (1994): Competition in Transactions Mechanisms: The Emergence of Competition, Unpublished Manuscript, Ohio State University.
Enelow, J., and M. Hinich, eds. (1990): Advances in the Spatial Theory of Voting. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Wittman, D. (1990): Spatial Strategies when Candidates Have Policy Preferences, in Advances in the Spatial Theory of Voting, ed. by M. Hinich and J. Enelow. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 66-98.
Smith, A., and B. Smith (2007): “la la la” journal, 5, www.lala.
Cahuc, P., F. Postel-Vinay, and J.-M.Robin (2006): “Wage Bergaining with On-the-Job Search: Theory and Evidence, Supplementary material: Extensions” Econometrica Supplementary Material, 74, http://www.econometricsociety.org/ecta/supmat/4866extensions.pdf.
Figures and tables
Electronic files (.jpg or .eps preferred) of all illustrations (no matter how simple) must be provided by the author. Include all labels and keys appearing within the figures and on the axes. The figures should be generated in black (no colors) for printing. However, if color figures are also provided they will be used for the online version of the article.
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4.3. Copyright form
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4.4. Preparing supplementary material
Title
The title of the Supplementary material should be as follows:
[Main paper title], Supplementary material: [Type of Supplementary material] [Optional number if there are multiple files].
Description
Each file submitted should contain (or, if it is not a text file, be accompanied by) a brief abstract describing its contents. This serves the same purpose as the abstract of any paper. It can (and typically should) refer to the main paper and other files that are submitted. For instance the abstract can describe a submitted file instructions.pdf as containing instructions for using the two provided programs, a.exe and b.exe, that calculate the equilibria described in sections A and B of the main paper; the abstract for a.exe would then refer to instructions.pdf for instructions. If more than one file is provided, and if the abstracts cannot be written as above in a way that clearly describes their relationship, then there should be a text file that describes the complete set.
Submitting files
The files can be submitted either via the on-line submission form or via e-mail to the Editor’s office. Each file must be no more than 4mb. Within that constraint, files larger than 1mb should be compressed to .zip format. (Currently the on-line submission facility only enables two attachments, so if more than two files are being submitted they would have to be submitted in a single .zip file containing a directory with all submitted files. This is not necessary when sending files by e-mail to the main office.)
File Formats
Supplementary material files should be submitted in the following formats:
Files that contain mostly text, such as information describing how experiments were run, information on subjects, descriptions of how data was processed or developed, proofs, extensions, consent forms, will be typeset and should be submitted in both .pdf format and source files such as .tex or .doc format (just like the main body of an accepted paper).
Tables, graphs, etc., should be provided both as source and .pdf files. If there are only few tables /graphs they will be typeset. Extensive tables and graphs are typically posted as provided in .pdf files and not typeset.
Data and programs should be submitted in ASCII. In addition, it can be provided in a standard binary format such as Stata's .dta. It is critical that these ASCII files be well formatted, so that they are in fact useful. Poor formatting will result in publication delays while the editor requests improvement. A detailed file in .pdf format describing the data, any processing of the data, and any other issues pertaining to possible replication should be included.
Instructions to subjects, forms, and other material that seems useful to have in usable form should be provided in the format in which it was originally created. Material that is only available in hard copy can be scanned and submitted as .pdf files.
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4.5. Econometrica Style and Formatting Policies
This is a (subset) of our style standards. As noted adhering to these is not required, but may simplify and minimize processing.
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5. END MATTER
Issues of Econometrica include an "Announcements" section which is reserved for Econometric Society business, including calls for papers and other information pertaining to forthcoming Econometric Society meetings, Annual Reports of the Society's Officers, announcements of Econometric Society awards, other Econometric Society organizational matters, and lists of accepted manuscripts forthcoming in Econometrica.
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