Submission (Judgment and Decision Making)

Style notes

• Please use APA citation style. (Not the rest of APA style.) This means that articles are cited by author within the text, and citations are alphabetical at the end, with authors initials (not names) following each author's last name. Volume numbers are in italics following the journal name (also in italics), followed by a comma. No issue numbers. Page numbers are required for everything. Use "and" when citing multiple authors in the text, "et al." for three or more (unless it is important to list all authors), and "&" for citations in parentheses.
• Include an abstract, key words, and, for articles that are of interest to economists, JEL codes.
• The title of your article, and all article and book titles in the references, and all headings and subheadings, should use upper case only for the first letter of the first word, and the first word after a colon (and of course proper nouns). Journal titles should have all major words begin with upper case.
• Spellings: "et al.", "etc.", "i.e.", followed by commas if the sentence continues.
• For additional thoughts about writing style see these recommendations.

Graphics

For graphs, use vector formats: eps (best), svg, wmf, or emf (extended Windows metafile). These can be re-sized easily. Do not simply convert a non-vector image (bmp, png, gif, tiff, jpg, etc.) to a vector image to make the figure. Use a vector format from the outset. If the figure can fit in one column, make sure the font is large enough to read. If you use R, send the R code. (I use R when I need to re-draw a graph.)

For other images, such as photos, a bitmap (raster) format is necessary (e.g., png, gif, bmp, tiff), or jpg. The bigger the better. It is easy to shrink. Hard to expand.

Digital Expert may be helpful (although it is even more critical of Microsoft than I am, which is saying a lot - I think WMF and EMF are acceptable).

Text formats

I prefer text files formatted in LaTeX, especially for articles with a lot of math. See below for special notes.

I cannot accept Word 2007 (docx) or OOXML.

• Math. Equations, formulas, and other mathematical expressions must be text if possible, not images. Greek letters are fine, so long as they are represented as characters, not pictures of characters. Microsoft Equation Editor seems to make pictures, at least in recent versions. Avoid it if you can. You can use TeX notation (or these symbols) even within a word-processor document. See also Science Magazine's advice about making math work in Word. That will work here too (I think). Finally, Peter Wakker's notes seem to work.
• Tables. Think about whether a table will fit in one column or two. Do not use sideways tables, or tables wider than a page. Do not try to make the table look nice on a double-spaced one-column manuscript. It will not appear that way. Better to to have an ugly table that is easy to convert. Tables must be text, not images.
• Do not attempt to control position on the page, except as part of a display (for example, a response scale).
• Do not control the font style (bold, italic), position (center), or size, with the sole exception of italics and bold in the text itself, for emphasis or math. Instead, use semantic formatting commands like "heading" and "subsubheading." These are available menu items on most word processors.
• Do not number sections, subsections, etc., unless you fail to use semantic formatting. (It is easer for me to remove the numbers than to guess what you intend.)
• Do not format the title page by controlling fonts and centering. List the title, the short title, the authors and their affiliations. For papers with many authors, or more than one affiliation for author, use footnote style, e.g., Jonathan Baron{1,2}, and then describe the 1 and 2 later. Put the acknowledgements all in one paragraph, with address and email of the corresponding author at the end.
• Use " " [space] between authors' initials, e.g., Sorkin, J. M.
• Do not use single quotes in the text, except between double quotes.
• Do not use sideways tables, or tables wider than the text on a page.
• In tables, do not use empty rows or columns.
• Put tables and figures in the text, not at the end.
• Do not use vertical lines except when reproducing stimulus materials.
• Use footnotes, not endnotes.

Special notes for LaTeX

Use LaTeX for formatting if possible. Please use a minumum of additional packages and do not attempt to control positioning, spacing, or width (unless you use the template). Specifically:

• Use "--" between numbers.
• Use " --- " (with spaces on both sides) for an em-dash.
• Use \label and \ref as usual.
• Do not use longtable or any packages specific to Scientific Workplace.
• Do not rely on bibTeX; I can't face getting it to work with APA style.

For those more ambitious, a template is here.

Every published article has a .tex version. To find it, look at the URL of the html version, replace "htm" or "html" with "tex". And replace "http://journal.jdm.org" with "http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron/journal". Later ones are better examples to imitate (because I'm using Hevea rather than Tth to make the html version).

Special notes for word processors

The general principle is that I convert these to LaTeX using many wonderful open-source programs (OpenOffice, writer2latex, sed, and then hevea for the html). What is easy for these programs and what is easy to read on a printed page are two different things.

• Remove hidden codes (such as those made by Endnote); CTRL-SHIFT-F9 will do this in Word.
• For math see Science Magazine's advice. That will work here too (I think).