Requirements for articles accepted for publication in Judgment and Decision Making

Timing: Regular issues of the journal appear every two months starting February. Final versions of articles are due the 15th of the month in which the issue appears. In most cases, when an ariticle is accepted pending revision, the revision (with a letter explaining what was done) is the final version, even if some further editing is required.

Style notes

• Please use APA citation style. (Not the rest of APA style.) This means that articles are cited by author within the text, and citations are alphabetical at the end, with authors initials (not names) following each author's last name (e.g., "McCaffery, E. J., & Baron J. (2006)." --- note the spaces and periods). Volume numbers are in italics following the journal name (also in italics), followed by a comma. No issue numbers. Page numbers are required for everything. Use "and" when citing multiple authors in the text, "et al." for three or more (unless it is important to list all authors), and "&" for citations in parentheses and for authors listed in the reference section.
• Include an abstract and key words.
• The title of your article, all article and book titles in the references, all headings and subheadings, and all graph and table labels, use upper case for only: the first letter of the first word, the first word after a colon, proper nouns, and (optionally) names coined in the paper (such as names of variables). Journal titles have all major words begin with upper case.
• Spellings: "et al.", "etc.", "i.e.", followed by commas if the sentence continues. Don't use "cf." It is better to say, in a couple of words, why you are citing something, e.g., "see X for a review," "for additional supporting results," or "but see X for an opposing perspective."
• Punctuation: Despite earlier issues of the journal, we now put all punctuation, including commas and periods, outside of quotation marks, unless the punctuation was itself part of the quotation.
• For additional thoughts about writing style see these recommendations.

Graphics

For graphs, use vector formats such as eps (Encapulsated PostScript, which is what I use), PostScript (ps), xfig, or svg (scalable vector graphics). These can be re-sized easily. Unfortunately, these formats can include raster (bitmap, non-vector) data, and many proprietary program tend to include these raster images even when they are saved in a vector format. Please send all figures separately (as well as in the document itself).

If you have a choice of fonts, please use Helvetica (or, if you have it, Nimbus Sans). Other fonts (aside from Times Roman, Courier, and probably Arial) should be embedded (defined in the file you send).

One program that does everything correctly "out of the box" is R, which is what I use when I need to re-draw something. If you use R, send the R code. Stata and Matlab produce good eps output. With SigmaPlot, use the option for "eps" output with "no preview" and "convert to postscript fonts". Some people have had success with Adobe Acrobat: 1., create a Word document with the figure on one page; 2., save as pdf; 3., read the pdf into Adobe Acrobat and save as PostScript.

For other images, such as photos, a bitmap (raster) format is necessary (e.g., bmp, png, gif, tiff, jpg). The bigger the better. It is easy to shrink. Hard to expand.

Text formats

• Tables. Think about whether a table will fit in one column or two. Do not use sideways tables, or tables wider than a page. Do not try to make the table look nice on a double-spaced one-column manuscript. It will not appear that way. Better to to have an ugly table that is easy to convert. Tables must be text, not images. Apparently these instructions are very difficult for Word users to follow, so the simplest thing might be to submit tables separately in LaTeX format.
• Do not attempt to control position on the page, except as part of a display (for example, a response scale).
• Do not control the font style (bold, italic), position (center), or size, with the sole exception of italics and bold in the text itself, for emphasis or math.
• For sections, subsections, etc., either number them (1, 1.1, 1.1.1) so that I know the level of each or use semantic formating ("heading," "subheading" and so on, which are available on most word processors). Do not try to indicate these with centering, font size, or font style.
• Do not format the title page. Either use the LaTeX template or follow the instructions at the end of this page.
• Use " " [space] between authors' initials, e.g., Sorkin, J. M.
• Do not use single quotes in the text, except between double quotes.
• Do not use sideways tables, or tables wider than the text on a page.
• In tables, do not use empty rows or columns
• Put tables and figures in the text, not at the end.
• Do not use vertical lines in tables except when reproducing stimulus materials.
• Use footnotes, not endnotes.

Special notes for LaTeX

Use LaTeX for formatting if possible. Please use a minumum of additional packages and do not attempt to control positioning, spacing, or width (unless you use the template). Specifically:

• Use "--" between numbers.
• Use " --- " (with spaces on both sides) for an em-dash.
• Use \label and \ref as usual.
• Do not use longtable or any packages specific to Scientific Workplace.
• Do not rely on bibTeX; I can't face getting it to work with APA style.

A template is here. If you do not use this, then please send the title page separately following the instructions at the end of the section on word processors, below.

Every published article has a .tex version. To find it, look at the URL of the html version, replace "htm" or "html" with "tex". Later articles are better examples to imitate (because I'm using Hevea rather than Tth to make the html version).

Special notes for word processors

The general principle is that I convert these to LaTeX using many wonderful open-source programs (OpenOffice, writer2latex, sed, and hevea for the html). What is easy for these programs and what is easy to read on a printed page are two different things.

• Remove hidden codes (such as those made by Endnote); CTRL-SHIFT-F9 will do this in Word.
• Math. Equations, formulas, and other mathematical expressions must be text, not images. Greek letters are fine, so long as they are represented as characters, not pictures of characters. Since 2007, Microsoft Equation Editor makes pictures. Avoid it. (Science suggests using the Mathtype plug-in, or an earlier version of Word.) I don't mind re-writing a few equations, but, if a paper is full of math, it is best to write it with LaTeX formatting from the outset. Alternatively, if all the math is in one section, you can send that separately as a text file using LaTeX math notation.
• For tables, do not use empty rows or columns, or tables within tables. Do not specify the position of each item within each cell (e.g., center). Use italic and bold fonts sparingly. If you have your table in Excel, please use Excel2LaTeX and send the output separately. If you use R, the xtable packages produces LaTeX tables, so you may send me either the tables or the R code. (Apparently Matlab can also produce LaTeX tables.) To create LaTeX tables with a graphical user interface, you might try TeXTable (apparently for Mac only), Texmaker, or LyX. I would be interested in reports about these tools.
• The title page should include only the following, in standard font only (e.g., no bold or italics), with no formatting (e.g., centering).
  1. A running head. Use upper case only for the first letter of the first word and for proper nouns.
  2. The title. Use upper case only for the first letter of the first word and for proper nouns.
  3. A list of the authors' names, in order, one per line, first name first. After each author, put numbers in curly braces indicating the author's affiliations, e.g.,
     "Jonathan Baron {1,2}".
  4. A list of the meanings of the affiliations, one per line, e.g.,
     "{1} Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
     {2} Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania".
     Departments are optional.
  5. The acknowledgements, as one paragraph. These include any thanks and also the postal and email address of the corresponding author(s).

Some technical details

For converting word-processor formats to LaTeX, and LaTeX to html.
My notes on LaTeX
Batch file to convert .sxw (made by OpenOffice) to .tex, using writer2latex
configuration file for writer2latex
configuration file for H^EV^EA (for making html)
CSS file for html version

For RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), table of contents, citations, and notifications. (Perl scripts by Adam Kramer and Alan Schwartz.)
notes on usage
Template for 'dat' format
Make table of contents
Convert 'dat' to APA format
Make RePEc 'rdf' format
Make 'ris' format
Extract abstract from .tex files
R script for making rss feed from RePEc rdf
R script for DOAJ (and archives)

When I need to re-draw figures, I use R. Here are some examples. The numbers are related to the articles. For example, "8221/figs.R" has results in "8221/jdm8221.pdf".