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Instructions for Preparing Electronic Documents Instructions for Authors Information for Impatient Authors Style Instructions (formatting, footnotes, references, grammar, etc.) Status of Manuscripts Under Review Instructions for Preparing Tables and Figures Status of Manuscripts Accepted for Publication JEL Classification Codes LaTeX Style Sheets Elsevier Policy on Art Work New Open Access Option Good advice on writing from the Chronicle of Higher Education, June 9, 2009 [PDF]

Tips for Authors from Prof. Ren&eacute M. Stulz

• [JFE Advisory Editor and former Editor of the Journal of Finance]

Joint Editorial by David Hirshleifer, G. William Schwert, and Kenneth J. Singleton
Editors, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Finance, 2013 "Edifying Editing", The American Economist, Spring, 2010, by R. Preston McAfee
(great article about journal editing) Joint Editorial by Richard Green, Maureen O'Hara, and G. William Schwert
Editors, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics, 2002 A Pre-Submission Checklist for Journal Articles by Timothy Falcon Crack, Robin Grieves, and Marianne G. Lown

Historical Information About JFE Papers

JFE median turnaround time and rejection rates, 1973-present

JFE 12-month rolling submissions and real submission fees, 1973-present

JFE pages published and days late, 1973-present
[Note: Publishers' format change causes the pages series to be non-comparable starting in January 2008]

JFE Editors' Reports, 1998-2007

JFE All Star Papers
[all papers with 5 or more average citations per year through 2005]

Past Winners of JFE Best Papers Contests, 1997-2011
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Number of Papers, Citations, etc. All Institutions with Authors Who Have Published JFE Papers, 1974-2012
Number of Papers, Citations, etc. Authors with the Most Papers Published in the JFE, 1974-2012
[3 or more papers] Distribution of the Number of JFE Papers Written by Authors, 1974-2012 Authors with the Most Citations to Their JFE Papers, 1974-2010
Ranked by Citations per Co-author,
Where Each of N Co-authors Receives Credit for 1/N Citation Distribution of the Number of Citations to JFE Papers, 1974-2012

Institutions with the Most JFE Papers Published, 1974-2012
[3 or more papers]

Distribution of the Number of JFE Papers Written by Authors at a Given Institution, 1974-2012 Institutions with the Most Citations to JFE Papers, 1974-2012
Ranked by Citations per Co-author,
Where Each of N Co-authors Receives Credit for 1/N Citation Distribution of the Number of Citations to JFE Papers Written by Authors at a Given Institution, 1974-2012

Journal of Financial Economics
Simon School of Business
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627