ARER authors should consult the preparing your materials page and submit using the ARER ScholarOne site. A short checklist is provided for convenience below.
Author checklist
Here is a short checklist for your first submission to ARER. Make sure the following steps are completed before you submit your article:
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)
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.
4. The article file and references are formatted according to the preparing your materials page.
When ready, submit your article through the ARER Manuscript Central system.
Expedited process
The ARER editors have established an expedited review process for manuscripts that are solo authored by graduate students or for which a graduate student is the lead author. The process is designed to take less than four months from submission to final decision. The three-step process works as follows:
- Upon submission, the manuscript will undergo an expedited review such that the authors will receive a decision and reviews within two months (60 days). The same rigorous review process applied to regular submissions will be applied to papers submitted under Expedited Review.
- If revisions are requested, authors will be asked to complete their revisions and response to reviewers within 45 days.
- Upon receipt of the revised manuscript, the ARER editor will make a decision on whether to publish the paper based on its current condition. There will not be a second or third round of revisions, unless the ARER Editor determines that this is essential.
Authors who wish to be considered for this should select the 'Research Article - Expedited' article type when submitting to the system and indicate this in the cover letter to the editors.
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.