JFQA Submission Preflight (jfqa-submission)

Run this before pressing submit on Editorial Manager (editorialmanager.com/jfqa/). JFQA requires an account separate from a Cambridge Core account.

Process facts (verify on the official page)

• Published by Cambridge University Press for the University of Washington Foster School of Business.
• $350 fee (re-verified 2026-06-22, unchanged), credit card only; $275 refunded if the paper is not sent to a reviewer (a desk reject keeps $75). Double-anonymous review; the text-searchable PDF goes blind to reviewer(s). No fixed length limit, but over-long papers are likely desk-rejected.
• Editor structure: JFQA has no single Editor-in-Chief — seven Managing Editors (Bessembinder, Duchin, Foucault, Harford, Li, Pennacchi, Siegel as of 2026-06-22) handle papers by assignment. Upcoming: Pennacchi steps down 1 Sep 2026, replaced by Mariassunta Giannetti (announced 4 Jun 2026). Re-verify the current slate before submission.

Preflight checklist

Manuscript & formatting

• Single text-searchable PDF (no image-only pages, no separate figure files).
• 8.5 × 11 paper, 1-inch margins, 12-pt Times New Roman, double-spaced body and appendices.
• Abstract: one paragraph, ≤ 100 words (see jfqa-contribution-framing).
• Tables/figures embedded, numbered, with self-contained notes (see jfqa-tables-figures).