Submission Preflight (jmis-submission)

When to trigger

• "Submitting tomorrow" — last check before emailing the manuscript to the EIC
• Unsure exactly what files, anonymization, and formatting JMIS expects
• Confirming the paper is double-blind-ready and inside the page/abstract limits
• The team assumed a ScholarOne/T&F portal and needs the actual intake route

Process facts (source map refreshed 2026-06; re-confirm on jmis-web.org / tandfonline)

• JMIS is the Taylor & Francis (Routledge) quarterly founded in 1984 and edited by Vladimir Zwass (Fairleigh Dickinson University); Online ISSN 1557-928X.
• Intake is by email, not a portal. Manuscripts are submitted to the EIC at jmis@fdu.edu with the subject line "JMIS Submission", as MS Word or PDF attachments. There is no ScholarOne/T&F submission system at the intake stage. (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准.)
• Review is double-anonymized. The manuscript file must be fully anonymized so authors are not identifiable anywhere in the work; self-references may remain in the reference list (written so they do not reveal authorship).
• Length: the complete manuscript should not exceed 50 pages; text in 12-point, double-spaced, left-justified, pages numbered.
• Abstract: up to 150 words, with no citations; include a set of keywords/phrases.
• References: numbered in brackets (e.g., [9]) with an alphabetized reference list — an IEEE-like numbered style, not author-date.
• Attachments: a cover letter (author affiliations, contact info, brief biographies) sent separately from the anonymized paper; online appendixes may be submitted separately; survey instruments must be provided as separate anonymized attachments if not in the paper.
• No submission fee is stated in the author guidelines. 待核实 if a fee or APC appears at acceptance.

Preflight checklist

Anonymization (double-blind)

• No author names, affiliations, emails, acknowledgments, or funding IDs in the manuscript file
• Self-citations phrased so they do not reveal authorship; identifying file metadata stripped
• Survey instruments / appendixes anonymized as separate attachments

Format & length

• Complete manuscript ≤50 pages; 12pt, double-spaced, left-justified; pages numbered
• Abstract ≤150 words, no citations; keywords/phrases included
• References in numbered bracketed [n] style with an alphabetized list; formats correct for periodicals/books/chapters/proceedings
• Core claims established in the body; appendixes carry support only
• Tables/figures legible (grayscale-safe), with self-contained notes

Files & intake

• Anonymized manuscript (MS Word or PDF)
• Separate cover letter (affiliations, contact, brief bios)
• Separate online appendix / survey-instrument attachments as needed
• Email to jmis@fdu.edu, subject "JMIS Submission"
• Confirmed the paper is not under review elsewhere
• Re-read once asking "could a referee guess who wrote this?" — answer is no
• Current intake address re-checked on jmis-web.org (process facts are volatile)

Why the intake route is the easiest thing to get wrong

Because JMIS is published by Taylor & Francis, authors reasonably assume the submission flows through the T&F/ScholarOne portal used by most of that publisher's journals. It does not: JMIS keeps an EIC-managed email intake (jmis@fdu.edu). Sending the paper into a portal, or into the generic T&F system, can route it nowhere or to the wrong desk. Confirm the current intake address on jmis-web.org before sending, because this is exactly the kind of process detail that can change. (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准.)

A two-file discipline for double-blind

Keep the package as two deliberately separated parts. (1) The anonymized manuscript — no names, affiliations, emails, funding IDs, acknowledgments, or revealing self-citations, and with document metadata stripped (a leftover author name in PDF/Word properties defeats blinding). (2) The cover letter, sent separately, carrying the identifying information (affiliations, contact, brief bios) the anonymized file must not. Survey instruments and online appendixes ride as additional anonymized attachments. Treat anything that could de-anonymize the authors in the manuscript file as a defect to fix before sending.

Anti-patterns

• Submitting through a Taylor & Francis / ScholarOne portal — JMIS intake is the EIC's email
• An identifiable manuscript (names, affiliations, funding) sent into a double-blind process
• A manuscript over 50 pages, or an abstract over 150 words / with citations
• Author-date references when JMIS requires numbered brackets
• Bundling the cover letter into the anonymized file, or omitting survey-instrument attachments
• Measuring page count on a single-spaced draft, then overrunning once 12pt double-spacing is applied
• A stray citation in the abstract, or a [n] that does not map to the alphabetized reference list
• Leaving identifying metadata in the Word/PDF file properties of an otherwise blind manuscript

Last-mile checks that catch real returns

Beyond the headline rules, a few details account for most avoidable returns. Confirm the page count under JMIS's counting (the complete manuscript, with the required 12pt double-spacing, not a single-spaced draft that looks shorter than it is). Verify the abstract is genuinely citation-free — a stray "[3]" in the abstract violates the rule. Check that the reference list is alphabetized and the in-text numbers map to it correctly, since a mismatched [n] is an obvious copyedit flag. Make sure survey instruments and online appendixes are attached and anonymized, not merely promised. And re-read the manuscript once with the single question "could a referee guess who wrote this?" — the answer must be no. (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准.)

When in doubt, re-verify rather than assume

Every process fact here — the intake email, the page and abstract limits, the reference style, the absence of a fee — is the kind of detail journals change without much notice. Treat the source map as a snapshot, not a guarantee: before sending, open jmis-web.org / the Taylor & Francis journal page and confirm the current intake route and formatting rules. It is far cheaper to spend five minutes re-checking than to have a paper returned for a rule that moved. (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准.)

Output format

【Anonymization】fully blind, metadata stripped, self-cites safe? [Y/N]
【Format】≤50pp / 12pt double-spaced / pages numbered? [Y/N]
【Abstract】≤150 words, no citations, keywords present? [Y/N]
【References】numbered [n] + alphabetized list? [Y/N]
【Files】anonymized MS + separate cover letter + appendix/instruments? [Y/N]
【Intake】email to jmis@fdu.edu, subject "JMIS Submission"? [Y/N]
【Next step】jmis-review-process for what to expect

Supplementary resources

• templates/checklist.md — submission self-check
• templates/manuscript_template.md — lightweight manuscript scaffold
• ../../resources/official-source-map.md — official URLs and volatile facts