jme-tables-figures

Tables & Figures (jme-tables-figures)

When to trigger

• The main text has more than 10 tables and figures combined
• IRF plots are cluttered, mislabeled, or missing bands
• You must decide which exhibits stay in the body and which go online
• The paper risks exceeding the 40-page accepted-length cap

The JME exhibit constraint

JME enforces a hard rule: accepted papers must not exceed 40 pages of text, references, and footnotes, and must include no more than 10 tables and figures combined. Online supplementary appendices are exempt from this limit. This is a defining JME discipline — you cannot keep adding robustness exhibits to the body. Plan the ≤10 main exhibits as the load-bearing story (the headline IRF, the key FEVD or moment-fit table, one or two robustness panels) and route everything else to the online supplement on ScienceDirect.

Formatting conventions: tables and figures are numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, with self-contained notes. The reference list sits after appendices but before tables and figures. Submissions carry line numbers and use footnotes (superscript Arabic numerals), not endnotes.

Exhibit design (monetary-macro)

• Impulse-response plots: show confidence/credible bands; label the shock unit (e.g., a 100-bp or one-SD policy shock); keep horizons consistent across panels; overlay VAR vs. LP where it is the point.
• FEVD exhibits: a compact bar chart or table; report the share of variance the identified shock explains.
• Moment / fit tables (DSGE): data vs. model second moments; mark which moments were targeted vs. untargeted.
• Estimation tables: coefficients with standard errors that match the inference (HAC/cluster/posterior); avoid 9-column kitchen-sink tables — split into a clean main table plus an online appendix.

Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)

Generate exhibits from the fitted result, not by retyping numbers. Full map:

[execution-with-mcp](../../../shared-resources/empirical-methods/execution-with-mcp.md). JME is monetary macro — SVAR, local projections, high-frequency identification; local_projections/irf are in StatsPAI, DSGE/calibration is outside this toolchain.

• Tables: etable (multi-model) or did_summary_to_latex straight from the result_id.
• Figures: plot_from_result / enhanced_event_study_plot / event_study_table —

axis units and the SE/clustering note baked in.

• Every note names the estimator + clustering and states the magnitude in interpretable units.

See a full fitted-result → exhibit chain in the [JF execution walkthrough](../../../Journal-of-Finance-Skills/resources/worked-examples/02-execution-walkthrough.md).

Checklist

• [ ] Combined tables + figures in the main text ≤ 10
• [ ] Main text on track for ≤ 40 pages (text/refs/footnotes)
• [ ] Every IRF has bands and a labeled shock unit
• [ ] Tables/figures numbered with Arabic numerals; notes self-contained
• [ ] Robustness and derivations moved to the online supplement (exempt from the cap)
• [ ] Reference list placed after appendices, before tables/figures; line numbers on

Anti-patterns

• A body with 14 figures, betting reviewers will not count toward the 10-exhibit cap
• IRFs without confidence bands or with inconsistent shock units across figures
• A dense moment table that hides which moments were targeted
• Endnotes instead of footnotes; abbreviated journal titles leaking into figure notes

Exhibit pass for Journal of Monetary Economics

Use this as a second-pass capability check. First lock the main macro object, the identifying variation, and the policy-relevant counterfactual; then test whether the manuscript addresses macro and monetary economists who expect the shock, mechanism, and policy margin to be visible early.

• Primary move: For every table or figure, state the object, sample/case base, uncertainty display, and one sentence the exhibit proves for this venue.
• Decision ledger: return claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows so the next pass can patch the manuscript directly.
• Neighbor test: compare against JIE for open-economy trade/finance emphasis, RED for dynamic macro theory, AEJ Macro for broader field positioning; if the neighboring outlet has the stronger audience claim, recommend re-routing before polishing.
• Verification floor: before submission-ready advice, re-open resources/official-source-map.md for volatile rules and name the one unresolved fact that could change the recommendation.

Output format

【Exhibit count】tables + figures in body = N (≤10?)
【Page estimate】~N pages (≤40?)
【IRFs】bands + shock unit on every panel? Y/N
【Moved online】[list of exhibits pushed to the supplement]
【Formatting】Arabic numerals / footnotes / line numbers? Y/N
【Next step】jme-writing-style