Tables, Figures & the Electronic Companion (isr-tables-figures)

When to trigger

• The main text is over the page budget and you must decide what moves to the companion
• Exhibits are cluttered, not self-contained, or off INFORMS house style
• You have proofs, lemmas, or full measurement items competing for space in the body
• A reviewer says "Table X is unreadable" or "the model is hard to follow"

Budget exhibits against ISR's hard page cap

ISR caps manuscripts at 32 pages of text and no more than 38 pages including all material (references, appendixes, tables, figures). This discipline is tighter than many peer journals, so exhibits must earn their place. Treat the electronic companion / online appendix (published if accepted) as the home for everything that supports but does not carry the argument: full proofs and lemmas, complete measurement items and scale sources, additional robustness, and large auxiliary tables. Keep in the body only the exhibits a reader needs to follow the core claim.

Genre-specific exhibits

• Behavioral/empirical. A descriptives/correlation table with reliabilities on the diagonal; a measurement table (loadings, AVE, discriminant validity); a results table with effect sizes; interaction plots with simple slopes; the theoretical model as a path diagram.
• Analytical/economic. A clean timeline/game-tree figure of the model; a notation/assumptions table; comparative-statics figures or tables showing how the equilibrium shifts with key parameters. Push full proofs to the companion; keep only the load-bearing result and its intuition in the body.
• Design science. An artifact architecture figure; a design-objectives-to-features mapping table; an evaluation table benchmarking the artifact against baselines on objective-linked metrics.