Submission Agreement

Regular Edition
Book Reviews

Regular Edition:

By submitting to the Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, you agree that the manuscript is not currently under review, that it has not been previously published, nor is it forthcoming at another journal (electronic or print). You also agree that you will not submit the manuscript to another journal until completion of the review process or until you withdraw the manuscript from consideration at the Journal of Applied Economics and Policy. You may withdraw at any point during the review process. Submission fees will not be refunded once the manuscript enters the review process. 

Publication in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. Manuscripts previously published in a conference proceedings must be significantly different than its previous publication and will undergo the same referee process as other manuscripts.

As the author(s), you assume responsibility for all material, views, and conclusions in the accepted final revision.  You agree to present an accurate account of the research performed as well as provide an objective discussion of its significance. The manuscript should describe your research methodology, assumptions, and data collection in enough detail that the research could be duplicated by a peer if given the same data set. All work must be free of any plagiarism, falsification, fabrications, and obvious omission of significant information that might affect the results.

The Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, takes every precaution to insure anonymity of your review through a double-blind review process (authors do not know reviewers; reviewers do not know the authors). To insure your anonymity further, do not post your manuscript to web sites where reviewers can easily find it through a web search. When you submit your manuscript to the Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, your manuscript is stored in a secure file on the www.wku.edu server. It is submitted to reviewers through e-mail with the author(s) information removed.

All authors submitting manuscripts for consideration at the Journal of Applied Economics and Policy may be expected to review manuscripts of their peers for future editions.

Parts of this agreement were drawn from the Journal of International Business Studies Code of Ethics. 

Book Reviews:

Book reviews are always welcome. There is currently no fee for submission of a book review. Book reviews do not go through a double blind review process.