International Review of Finance

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Edited by:
Henry Cao, Sudipto Dasgupta and Michael L. Lemmon

Print ISSN: 1369-412X
Online ISSN: 1468-2443
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 10 / 2010

TopAuthor Guidelines

(1) - All submitted manuscripts must be original work that is not under submission at another journal or under consideration for publication in another form, such as a monograph or chapter of a book. Authors of submitted papers are obligated not to submit their paper for publication elsewhere until an editorial decision is rendered on their submission. Further, authors of accepted papers are prohibited from publishing the results in other publications that appear before the paper is published in the Journal unless they receive approval for doing so from Wiley-Blackwell (email: PermissionsUK@wiley.com).

(2) - Manuscripts must be submitted to the International Review of Finance via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

(3) - All articles should be supplied in electronic form. Word files are preferable but we accept author-generated Tex files accompanied by a PDF where this is not possible.

(4) - All submissions will be subject to a desk review by the journal editors. The editors will decide whether the topic of the paper is of sufficiently broad interest to warrant being sent to a referee. If it is determined that the paper does not meet this requirement, then a rejection letter will be issued and no submission fee will be required. All other papers that enter the review process will be charged a submission fee of US$75. A check payable to 'The Asian Finance Association' should be mailed to the following address:

Sudipto Dasgupta
Department of Finance
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon
Hong Kong

The submission fee can be waived by the editors under exceptional circumstances.

(5) - The cover page shall contain the title of the manuscript, the author's name and affiliation. This page will be removed before the manuscript is sent to a referee. The first page of text should show the title but not the authors' name.

(6) - Each manuscript should include an abstract of not more than 100 words. The introductory section must have no heading or number. Subsequent headings should be given Roman numerals. Subsection headings should be lettered A, B, C, etc.

(7) - The article should end with a non-technical summary statement of the main conclusions. Lengthy mathematical proofs and very extensive detailed tables should be placed in an appendix or omitted entirely. The author should make every effort to explain the meaning of mathematical proofs.

(8) - Footnotes. The initial footnote, identifying the author by title and affiliation should be marked with an asterisk. Footnotes in the text must be numbered consecutively.

(9) - Tables. Tables should be supplied in an editable format (either as a separate Excel file or in an editable format at the end of the main document) and must be numbered with Arabic numerals. Please check that your text contains a reference to each table and that you indicate within the article where each table is to be placed. Tables must be self-contained, in the sense that the reader must be able to understand them without going back to the text of the paper. Each table must have a title followed by a descriptive legend. Authors must check tables to be sure that the title, column headings, captions, etc are clear and to the point.

(10) - Figures. Figures should be supplied as separate files to the main text, preferably in TIFF, EPS or PDF format, and must be numbered with Arabic numerals. Please check that your text contains a reference to each figure and that you indicate within the article where each figure is to be placed. Each figure must have a title followed by a descriptive legend. As with tables, figures must be self-contained. Lettering and datapoints should be large enough so they can be read with ease when reduced to fit on the journal page. Please see http://authorservices.wiley.com/prep_illust.asp for further information on supplying figures.

(11) - Equations. All but very short mathematical expressions should be displayed on a separate line and centered. Equations must be numbered consecutively on the right margin, using Arabic numerals in parentheses. Use Greek letters only when necessary. To reduce errors in typesetting, please differentiate clearly between the letter l (ell) and the numeral 1 (one), the letter o (oh) and the numeral 0 (zero) with marginal notations. Include the names of any Greek letters you use in the margin, and unequivocally identify sub- and superscripts as such. Do not use a dot over a variable to denote time derivative; only D operator notations are acceptable.

(12) - References. References must be typed on a separate page, double-spaced, at the end of the paper. References to publications in the text should appear as follows: "Jensen and Meckling (1976) report that …". At the end of the manuscript (before tables and figures), the complete list of references should be listed as follows:

Books: Fitzgibbons, A. (1988), Keynes's Vision. A new Political Economy. Oxford: Clarendon.

Journal articles: Brown-Collier, E. (1988), 'The Epistemology Foundations of the General Theory', Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 35, 227-41.

Articles in Books: Gerrard, B. (1992), 'Beyond the Treatise: Continuity or Change', in B. Gerrard and J. Hillard (eds), The Philosophy and Economics of J.M. Keynes. London: Edward Elgar.