Submission / Commissioning Preflight (ecopol-submission)

When to trigger

• You have a commissioning invitation and need a conference-ready draft checked
• You are pitching the Managing Editor to be commissioned and want the proposal tight
• The paper has been through the panel and you are preparing the camera-ready version
• A coauthor assumes there is an open submission portal and you need to correct the route
• Final format/style check before the file goes to the journal

EP has no open portal — it is commissioned

The single most important preflight fact: since the 2025 relaunch as Economic Policy: Papers on European and Global Issues, EP is online-only and commissioned — "all articles are invited by the Managing Editor"; EP does not accept unsolicited submissions (verified 2026-06-22；以官网为准). The current Managing Editor is Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan (Brown University) (verified 2026-06-22 — re-confirm on the live editorial-board page before pitching). There is no Manuscript-Central-style portal where you upload a cold submission. The realistic "submission" paths are:

1. Get commissioned. Circulate a strong working draft, pitch the Managing Editor on a timely policy question, and be visible in the CEPR / CESifo / Sciences Po policy networks. The proposal must read as a Panel-worthy, timely policy question (see ecopol-topic-selection).
2. Deliver a conference-ready draft. Once invited, the paper is presented at a biannual conference and discussed by two invited discussants.
3. Produce the camera-ready. After the panel, the final version is published with the discussants' comments within ~6 months of presentation (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准).

Authors receive a journal template and style guidance at the time of commissioning; files are submitted in editable format (Microsoft Word or LaTeX) (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Exact word/abstract limits are 待核实 — not quantified in the public guidelines; confirm against the template you are given.

Preflight by stage

Stage 1 — Commissioning pitch

• Headline policy sentence is timely, important, and Panel-worthy (ecopol-topic-selection passed)
• Working draft circulated / visible; a clear hook for the Managing Editor's thematic priorities
• European or global policy relevance is explicit

Stage 2 — Conference-ready draft

• Main text accessible to a policy reader; technical machinery in the appendix (ecopol-writing-style)
• Identification and robustness done; top discussant objections pre-empted (ecopol-referee-strategy)
• Headline exhibits in policy units, CIs shown, no asterisk-driven headline (ecopol-tables-figures)
• Data + code package ready for a provenance challenge (ecopol-replication-package)
• File in editable format (Word/LaTeX); affiliations as they should appear

Stage 3 — Camera-ready (post-panel)

• All discussant points addressed (fixed or rebutted in text) — they publish alongside you
• Journal template applied; style guidance followed
• Figures carry alt text per accessibility policy (待核实 exact spec)
• Data/code submitted for journal verification and publication alongside the article
• Disclosure / funding / authorship per OUP research-ethics policy

Anti-patterns

• Looking for an open submission portal and concluding the journal is closed — the route is commissioning (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准)
• Pitching a topic that is academically novel but not timely or policy-decision-relevant
• Submitting a PDF-only manuscript when editable Word/LaTeX is required
• Treating discussant comments as optional — they are published next to your paper
• Inventing word limits or fees instead of confirming against the commissioning template (待核实)

Output format

【Journal】Economic Policy (EP)
【Skill】ecopol-submission
【Route】commissioned — no open portal (检索于 2026-06)
【Stage】pitch / conference-ready / camera-ready
【Format】editable Word or LaTeX; affiliations set? [Y/N]
【Accessible main text + technical appendix】[Y/N]
【Discussant points addressed (if post-panel)】[Y/N]
【Data/code for verification ready】[Y/N]
【Limits】word/abstract limits 待核实 — check template
【Next step】deliver to Managing Editor → ecopol-rebuttal after the panel

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