Submission Preflight for JOM (jom-submission)

When to trigger

• The manuscript is written and you are about to submit
• You need to assemble the cover letter, checklist, and disclosures
• You must choose Departments and recommend reviewers
• You are anonymizing files for double-anonymous review

Where and how

Submit through the Wiley Research Exchange (ReX) portal at wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/JOOM. There is no submission fee; JOM is hybrid open access (subscription publication is free; an APC applies only if you choose CC-BY — amount 待核实, confirm on the Wiley JOM page).

The cover-letter protocol (prescriptive — do not skip)

JOM's cover letter has unusual, mandatory requirements:

1. Name 2 Departments, one marked preferred, from the 12: Healthcare Operations; Innovation and Project Management; Inter-organizational Operations; Intervention Based Research; Operational Systems; Operations Interfaces; Public Policy and Industry Studies; Social Impact; Strategy and Organization; Sustainable Operations; Technology Management; Empirical Research Methods.
2. Recommend at least 3 Associate Editors and at least 3 Editorial Review Board (ERB) reviewers who are free of conflicts of interest.
3. Disclose any AI use, prior dissertation/conference versions, prior use of the data, and any previous "reject and resubmit" decision on this work.
4. Justify the similarity score if overall iThenticate/CrossCheck similarity exceeds 15% (and ensure no single source exceeds ~1% outside quotations).

The required checklist

A completed submission checklist must accompany the manuscript — "Submissions will not be considered in the absence of this checklist." Complete every item before uploading (see templates/checklist.md).

Double-anonymous (asymmetric) anonymization

Review is double-anonymous with an asymmetric rule: author identities are shared with the Editors-in-Chief and Department Editors but not with reviewers or Associate Editors. Practically: strip author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and self-identifying citations/file metadata from the manuscript, while supplying full identities in the portal's author fields.

Format compliance

Double-spaced, single-column, 12-point, one-inch margins, numbered pages, no running headers/footers; ~40-page guidance (over-long manuscripts are returned for streamlining); APA style; Wiley Data Availability Statement required for research/synthesis articles; ORCID linked.

Checklist

• Submitted via Wiley ReX (JOOM)
• 2 Departments named, one marked preferred
• ≥3 Associate Editors and ≥3 ERB reviewers recommended, conflict-free
• AI / dissertation / prior-data / prior reject-and-resubmit disclosures made
• Manuscript fully anonymized (names, affiliations, metadata, self-cites)
• Completed JOM submission checklist attached
• ~40 pp, double-spaced 12-pt, one-inch margins, APA, no headers/footers
• Similarity: single-source <1%, overall <15% (or justified in cover letter)
• Data Availability Statement included; ORCID linked

Submission-package readiness table

A JOM submission is returned without review if mandatory elements are missing. The map below ties each requirement to its failure mode; verify exact current requirements (APC amount, length guidance, similarity policy) against the Wiley/JOM author pages, as several values change.

Desk-reject and return triggers at the portal

• The mandatory checklist is missing — an automatic non-consideration.
• The cover letter omits the two-Department naming or the reviewer recommendations.
• The manuscript exceeds the ~40-page guidance and reads as un-streamlined.
• Author identity is inferable from un-stripped acknowledgements or file metadata.

Worked vignette: assembling a clean cover letter

A team submitting an archival operations study marks Inter-organizational Operations preferred and Operational Systems alternate, names three conflict-free AEs and three ERB reviewers, and discloses a prior conference version plus prior, non-overlapping use of the dataset (illustrative). They report an iThenticate score of 12% with no single source above 1%, so no justification paragraph is needed. They confirm double-spaced 12-point with no headers, attach the completed checklist, and include the Wiley Data Availability Statement. That package clears the portal's mechanical gate and routes cleanly to the Department Editor.

Referee and editor friction points to pre-empt

• "Routing is unclear" — state the preferred Department and why the phenomenon fits its mission.
• "Prior use not disclosed" — disclose dissertation, conference, and prior-data use proactively; surprises erode editor trust.

Output format

【Portal】Wiley ReX (JOOM)
【Departments】preferred ...; alternate ...
【Reviewer recs】AEs: ...; ERB: ...
【Disclosures】AI/dissertation/prior-data/reject-resubmit ...
【Anonymization】pass/issues
【Checklist attached】yes/no
【Next step】jom-review-process

See templates/cover_letter_template.md and templates/checklist.md.