Submission Preflight (jpam-submission)

The last check before pressing submit through Wiley Authors / Research Exchange. JPAM uses an anonymized preflight in this pack, so the most common avoidable failure is an under-anonymized manuscript — and unlike most journals, JPAM requires APPAM membership or a paid submission fee before a paper is considered. Verify volatile specifics on the official author page before relying on them (检索于 2026-06-22；以官网为准). As of 2026-06-22, Erdal Tekin (American University) is the sitting Editor-in-Chief and the fee schedule below (non-member USD 100 / USD 40 student) is current on the APPAM JPAM Authors page; re-verify before submission.

When to trigger

• "Submitting tomorrow" — last pass before upload
• Unsure which files/metadata Research Exchange expects
• Confirming anonymization, the fee/membership requirement, and the data-availability statement

Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page)

• Owner / publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) / Wiley.
• Portal: Wiley Authors / Research Exchange. APPAM routes submitters through Wiley; a Wiley 2026 editor-note search rendering says JPAM recently transitioned from the older portal to Research Exchange. Follow the live Research Exchange prompts at upload.
• Review model: prepare as double-blind/anonymized — anonymize the manuscript; keep a separate title page ready and follow Research Exchange file labels.
• Article types: Feature Research Articles, Methods for Policy Analysis, Policy Retrospectives (peer-reviewed); Point/Counterpoint and Policy Insights (invited, not peer-reviewed); Book Reviews.
• Membership-or-fee: APPAM members submit free with no submission cap; non-members pay a submission fee (USD 100 professionals / USD 40 students, student ID required), with no fee for resubmission and waivers for economically disadvantaged countries / financial hardship via info@appam.org.
• Abstract / length: confirm the current abstract cap and feature-article length guidance on the author page and live Research Exchange prompts. The sourced numeric cap in this pack is Policy Insights at 3,000 words or fewer.
• Style: Wiley/APPAM house reference style; have the corresponding-author ORCID and standard declarations ready if prompted.
• Data availability: a data-availability statement and an archived data/code package are expected for publication (see jpam-transparency-and-data).

Preflight checklist

Type & length

• Article type chosen; peer-review status understood (Feature vs. invited types)
• Abstract within the current cap; states question + policy + design + finding + implication
• Length within the current guidance for the chosen type

Anonymity (double-blind)

• No author names, affiliations, or acknowledgments in the manuscript
• Self-references neutralized ("as shown in…"), funding/IRB identifiers removed from the main file
• Identifying file metadata stripped (document properties, comments)
• Separate (non-anonymous) title page prepared as a distinct file

Fee / membership & metadata

• APPAM membership current or submission fee paid or approved waiver in hand
• Corresponding-author ORCID ready (confirm requirement)
• Figures/tables self-contained and accessible (see jpam-tables-figures)

Compliance & files

• Ethics / IRB / human-subjects compliance stated as needed
• Original work; preprint status checked against Wiley policy
• Data-availability statement included; replication package staged (see jpam-transparency-and-data)

Anti-patterns

• Leaving author identifiers in the text, acknowledgments, or file metadata (breaks anonymity)
• Forgetting the membership-or-fee step and having the submission held or returned
• Sending a full research paper to the invited, non-reviewed Point/Counterpoint or Policy Insights slots
• Submitting with no data-availability statement when the policy expects one
• Following older portal instructions instead of Wiley Authors / Research Exchange

Output format

【Type】Feature / Methods / Retrospective / (invited type) — peer-reviewed? [Y/N]
【Anonymized】text + self-refs + file metadata clean? [Y/N]
【Abstract】within cap; states implication? [Y/N]
【Fee / membership】member / fee paid / waiver? [which]
【ORCID + data-availability statement】[Y/N]
【Repro package】staged (see jpam-transparency-and-data)? [Y/N]
【Next】await decision → jpam-rebuttal on R&R

Supplementary resources

• templates/checklist.md — the full pre-submission checklist as a worksheet
• ../../resources/official-source-map.md — official JPAM / APPAM / Wiley URLs behind every fact