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name: qe-submission
description: Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for Quantitative Economics (QE) via the Econometric Society online portal — membership gate, submission fee, PDF format rules, the Econometrica-transfer option, public-posting requirement, and the no-asterisks house style. Final checks; it does not draft content.
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# Submission Preflight (qe-submission)

## When to trigger

- "Submitting tomorrow" — last check before pressing submit on the ES portal
- Unsure which files and fees the ES online submission expects
- Confirming the format rules (PDF, 12pt, spacing, line limit) and house style are QE-compliant
- Deciding whether to use the Econometrica-transfer route

## Process facts (verified 2026-06-01; re-confirm on the official ES pages)

- QE is the **Econometric Society's** empirically/computationally oriented general-interest journal; content is hosted on **Wiley Online Library** (Online ISSN 1759-7331). Submission is through the ES **Online Submission** portal (ES e-publications), as **PDF**; the form currently allows two attachments (combine extras into one `.zip`).
- **Membership gate:** at least one author must be a current **Econometric Society member** to submit (join/renew via the ES register page).
- **Submission fee:** US$100 regular member / US$50 student member, paid by credit card at submission. **Waived** for Econometrica transfers and invited resubmissions (membership still required). Residents of World Bank low-income countries are exempt. **Papers rejected without review are not refunded.**
- **Econometrica-transfer option:** a paper previously rejected by *Econometrica* may be submitted to QE with the option to transfer the coeditor's decision letter, referee reports, and cover letters. QE's process is fully independent; the transfer **waives the submission fee** (other publication fees still apply); a transferred paper needs a cover letter explaining how it differs and how referee comments were addressed.
- **Public posting:** authors must post the manuscript on a publicly available website (institutional repository or personal site) before and during review (editor exceptions possible) — review is effectively non-anonymous on the author side.

## Preflight checklist

### Format & style
- [ ] One **PDF**; font **≥12 point**; **1.5 or double spacing** throughout (including references and appendices)
- [ ] Margins **≥1.25 inches** on all sides; **≤32 lines per page**; pages numbered
- [ ] Figures and tables placed **in-text on the relevant page** (not collected at the end)
- [ ] References at the **very end**, after any appendices
- [ ] **Abstract ≤150 words**; title page has keywords and complete affiliations (JEL optional)
- [ ] Supplemental Appendix (if any) **≤25 pages**, and not used for proofs of key results — the main paper is self-contained
- [ ] **No asterisks or boldface** for statistical significance; report SEs and confidence/coverage sets
- [ ] No certified random author ordering (circled-r); author contributions may go in a footnote
- [ ] LaTeX template recommended (not required); QE house style is applied by the copyeditor at acceptance — the submitted PDF need not pre-conform

### Files & fees for the ES portal
- [ ] Main manuscript PDF (exhibits embedded in-text); extra files combined into one `.zip`
- [ ] Membership confirmed for ≥1 author; submission fee ready (or transfer route chosen)
- [ ] Manuscript posted to a public website (link ready)
- [ ] Experimental papers: instructions/survey transcripts included; own-data studies pre-registered (effective Jan 1, 2026)

### Declarations
- [ ] Disclosure statement (ES policy; US$10,000 interested-party threshold; funding sources)
- [ ] Multi-author responsibility statement prepared (required for accepted papers, effective Jan 2026)
- [ ] Confirmed the paper is not under review elsewhere; AI is not listed as an author

## Anti-patterns

- Submitting without an ES member among the authors (hard gate)
- Asterisks/boldface for significance, or figures/tables dumped at the end
- Forgetting to post the manuscript publicly during review
- Treating the per-page Open-Access fee as if it were a submission-time APC
- Using the Econometrica-transfer route without a cover letter addressing prior reports

## Output format

```
【PDF format】≥12pt / 1.5 spacing / ≤32 lines / margins ≥1.25in? [Y/N]
【Exhibits】in-text, no significance asterisks? [Y/N]
【Abstract】≤150 words + keywords + affiliations? [Y/N]
【Membership + fee】ES member among authors; fee ready or transfer chosen? [Y/N]
【Public posting】manuscript link live? [Y/N]
【Declarations】disclosure / responsibility statement prepared? [Y/N]
【Next step】submit via ES portal → qe-review-process for what to expect
```

## Supplementary resources

- [`templates/checklist.md`](templates/checklist.md) — 8-section pre-submission self-check
- [`../../resources/official-source-map.md`](../../resources/official-source-map.md) — official ES URLs behind every fact