The Journal of Financial Research

Published on behalf of the Southern Finance Association and the Southwestern Finance Association

Edited by:
Jayant Kale and Gerald Gay

Print ISSN: 0270-2592
Online ISSN: 1475-6803
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 33 / 2010

TopAuthor Guidelines

To submit articles to the Journal of Financial Research, send an electronic Word document of the article along with the appropriate submission fee ($100 for members of the Southern Finance Association or Southwestern Finance Association; $150 for nonmembers, which includes a one-year subscription to the Journal of Financial Research) to jfr@gsu.edu. If electronic submission poses a particular problem for the author(s), please contact the Editorial Office at either jfr@gsu.edu or 404.413.7332.

Payment of submission fees may be made by credit card (MasterCard or Visa), please call in your information to 404-413-7332 during office hours (8:30 to 5:15 EST) or fax in your information to 404-413-7333 using our fax submittal form available from the JFR Web site at http://robinson.gsu.edu/jfr. If you have any questions, please e-mail Manager, Editorial Office, jfr@gsu.edu.

Manuscripts should conform to the following guidelines:

1. In general, manuscripts should follow the Chicago Manual of Style.
2. Please edit manuscripts carefully, writing in the active voice. Avoid expressions such as "This paper tests." Do not use italics to indicate emphasis.
3. Eliminate excess verbiage and avoid redundancies. In the introduction do not describe the contents of the subsequent sections.
4. On the title page, include the title, author's name, author's affiliation, and personal footnote, if desired. Double-space all text, including abstract, footnotes, and references. Print on one side of page only.
5. Include a single-paragraph abstract of no more than 100 words after the title page. Place JEL classification code(s) after the abstract.
6. Use footnotes instead of endnotes. Keep number and length of footnotes to a minimum.
7. Center primary headings, using Roman numerals. Begin subsection headings at the left margin.
8. Tables should be able to stand alone. Make column headings descriptive and easily understood. Define all variables and abbreviations.
9. Number tables and equations with Arabic numbers, and number figures with Roman
numerals. Enclose equation numbers in parentheses and place them in the right margin.
10. Present each table or figure on a separate page. Figures accepted for publication must be available in electronic form.
11. Cite references in the text by placing the publication date in parentheses, for example:
Cornell (1986) finds . . .
or
Several studies (e.g., Bierwag 1987; Cox 1990) report . . .
12. List source references alphabetically at the end of the manuscript using the format shown below. Do not list any reference not cited in the text. When citing several publications that appear in the same year by the same author(s), add a, b, c, etc. to the publication date.
Cornell, B., 1986, Inflation measurement, inflation risk, and the pricing of Treasury bills, Journal of Financial Research 9, 193-202.
Cox, J. and M. Rubinstein, 1983, Option Markets (Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ).
Ho, T. S. Y., 1985, The value of a sinking fund provision under interest-rate risk, in E. I. Altman and M. G. Subrahmanyan, eds.: Recent Advances in Corporate Finance (Irwin, Homewood, IL), 45-75.

Authors will be required to assign copyright in their paper to the Southern Finance Association and the Southwestern Finance Association. Copyright assignment is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been assigned. (Papers subject to government or Crown copyright are exempt from this requirement). To assist authors an appropriate copyright assignment form will be supplied by the editorial office.

Desk rejections

The editors will return/reject some manuscripts without a formal external review because of (i) poor quality of exposition, (ii) a very low level of marginal contribution, or (iii) insufficient relevance to the field of finance.

In the event a manuscript is "desk rejected," we will charge non-members $50 ($54 for authors outside of the Americas) which will be applied to a one year joint membership in the Southern Finance Association and the Southwestern Finance Association, and a subscription to the JFR. Members will not be charged.

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