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