Working paper submission guidelines
The working paper series feeds directly into some rankings of the Department, so it is in our interests to have all the papers we produce appear in that series. As well as helping the Department, it also raises the visibility of research because the papers will appear on RePEc and Google Scholar, and will be more likely to be cited as a result, and it helps establish priority in cases where other researchers are working on a similar topic. Papers should be submitted either at the time they are first submitted to a journal, or at the time a first revision of the paper is submitted to the journal. Having work appear in the working paper series does not prevent staff from also posting it on SSRN, arXiv, personal websites or anywhere else. It also does not cause any copyright issues with the journals we publish in.
Maintaining a high standard for working papers that are published on the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics website is important, as they are indexed (given an ISSN) and circulated internationally. It is appropriate that our working papers not only make an original contribution, but that they are also free from expositional or notational shortcomings and other editorial problems.
A senior faculty member is assigned to review submissions to the EBS working paper series for its academic content before we release it. It is appropriate for authors to deal with any editorial issues prior to submission.
Guidelines for submission of EBS working papers
- Papers must be authored (or co-authored) by at least one EBS staff member.
- Papers being submitted should be proofread and essentially ready for submission to a quality journal, and the onus is on the author(s) to undertake this proofreading.
- An EBS staff member should take responsibility for the editorial quality of the working paper before it is submitted to the working paper series for review.For papers that are single authored by an EBS student: the student’s main supervisor should make sure that the student has proofread and edited the manuscript, and confirm that it is ready for submission.
Process
- Fill the following Google form (this includes a link to submit your paper).
- Your paper will be forwarded for review to the academic staff member responsible for the working paper series (Mervyn Silvapulle for Semester 1 and Bonsoo Koo for Semester 2).
- Experienced researchers can indicate whether their paper needs a quick read or a detailed review. Please specify this in the final section of the google form.
- Once reviewed and approved, a cover page with a working paper number will be added to your paper and sent to the web team.
- You will be notified when your paper is up on the Department’s publications website.