Submission Preflight (jfe-submission)

When to trigger

• "We are submitting this week"
• Final check before pressing submit in the editorial system
• Unsure which files and statements the system requires

The JFE-specific facts (verify on jfinec.com before relying)

ACCURACY NOTE (re-verified 2026-06-22 on jfinec.com): the US$850 fee and the masthead are current — Editor-in-Chief Toni M. Whited (U. Michigan); Co-Editors Dimitris Papanikolaou, Philipp Schnabl, Nikolai Roussanov. Re-verify before submission.

• Portal: submit through Editorial Manager at editorialmanager.com/finec (the JFE database code is finec, not the journal's old abbreviation).
• Submission fee: US$850 for an initial submission (re-verified 2026-06-22, unchanged), paid at submission and largely non-refundable. No fee for a revise-and-resubmit. Referees who report on time earn submission rights that cut the fee (roughly US$567 with one right, US$283 with two, $0 with three). Only US$400 is refunded on a desk reject (capped at four desk-reject refunds per author per calendar year), and the whole fee is refunded if a decision takes more than 120 days.
• Abstract: 100 words maximum. Include JEL codes and keywords.
• Format: double-spaced, 12-point-or-larger font, at least one-inch margins.
• References: JFE uses an author-date (name-year) in-text style with a reference list — not a numbered style.
• Internet/online appendix: JFE expects any online appendix attached to the end of the main manuscript file at submission (a JFE quirk — it is not always a wholly separate upload). Still number it as its own IA series.
• Code & data: for papers originally submitted on/after 1 July 2021, code and non-proprietary data are mandatory at acceptance, deposited to Mendeley Data (or a domain repository) and linked from ScienceDirect. Any exemption (e.g., for proprietary CRSP/Compustat data) must be requested in the cover letter of the initial submission to the editor-in-chief.