jpart-submission

Submission Preflight (jpart-submission)

The last check before pressing submit on Editorial Express. JPART is double-blind, so the most

common avoidable failure is an under-anonymized manuscript; the second is forgetting that the word cap

includes the abstract, tables, and references. Verify volatile specifics on the official page first.

When to trigger

• "Submitting tomorrow" — last pass before upload
• Unsure which files/metadata Editorial Express expects
• Confirming the word cap is met and the manuscript is properly anonymized

Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page)

• Owner / publisher: Public Management Research Association (PMRA) / Oxford University Press (OUP).
• Editors (re-verified 2026-06-22): Editor-in-Chief Ole Helby Petersen and Co-Editor **Kim Sass

Mikkelsen** (both Roskilde University), serving a four-year term; re-verify the masthead on the live

Editorial Board page before relying on it.

• Portal: Editorial Express (editorialexpress.com/jpart). Submit one PDF containing title,

abstract, text, references, all tables/figures, plus any appendices.

• Review model: double-blind — anonymize the manuscript; identifying info (name, funding,

acknowledgments) goes on the cover sheet only.

• Length: **no longer than ~12,000 words, including abstract, tables, and references** (检索于

2026-06-22；以官网为准).

• Abstract: state theoretical approach, method and data, results, and implications for theory

(no fixed word limit stated — 待核实).

• Keywords: 3–5; the first three should indicate theory, research theme, and method.
• Style: OUP author-date; alphabetical reference list with DOIs.
• Data policy: authors must, where ethically possible, publicly release data and code as a

condition of publication, with a mandatory Data Availability Statement (see

jpart-transparency-and-data).

• Fee: no submission fee (re-verified 2026-06-22); open-access publication requires an OUP-handled

APC after acceptance (current figure 待核实 — confirm on the OUP page if choosing open access).

• ORCID: not confirmed as required on the guidelines page (待核实).

Preflight checklist

Length & format

• [ ] Manuscript ≤ ~12,000 words including abstract, tables, and references
• [ ] Abstract states theory → method/data → results → implications for theory
• [ ] 3–5 keywords; first three signal theory / research theme / method
• [ ] OUP author-date citations; reference list alphabetical with DOIs

Anonymity (double-blind)

• [ ] No author names, affiliations, funding, or acknowledgments in the manuscript
• [ ] Self-citations phrased in the third person; no "as we showed in…"
• [ ] Identifying file metadata stripped (document properties, comments)
• [ ] Separate cover sheet prepared with name/funding/acknowledgments
• [ ] Pre-registration report blinded (hyperlinks anonymized) or placed on the cover sheet

Transparency & compliance

• [ ] Data Availability Statement drafted; data + code staged for public release
• [ ] Ethics / IRB / human-subjects compliance addressed
• [ ] Original work; not under review elsewhere
• [ ] Online supplement/appendix uploaded if used

Anti-patterns

• Leaving author identifiers in the text, funding lines, or file metadata (breaks double-blind)
• Forgetting the word cap counts the abstract, tables, and references (a common overrun)
• An abstract that omits the theoretical approach or implications for theory
• Submitting without a Data Availability Statement / public data-and-code plan
• Budgeting a submission fee that is not charged (verify; the APC applies only to open access)

Output format

【Length】≤ ~12,000 words incl. abstract/tables/references? [Y/N]
【Anonymized】text + self-refs + file metadata clean; cover sheet separate? [Y/N]
【Abstract】theory → method/data → results → implications for theory? [Y/N]
【Keywords】3-5, theory/theme/method first? [Y/N]
【OUP author-date + DOIs】[Y/N]
【Data Availability Statement + public package】[Y/N]
【Next】await decision → jpart-rebuttal on R&R

Supplementary resources

• [./templates/checklist.md](templates/checklist.md) — full pre-submission self-check
• [../../resources/external_tools.md](../../resources/external_tools.md) — reference managers, anonymization, repro tooling
• [../../resources/official-source-map.md](../../resources/official-source-map.md) — official JPART URLs behind every fact in this pack