When to Trigger
- "Submitting tomorrow"
- Final check before being ready to click the submit button
- Unsure which attachments the submission system requires
Basis notes: In the following, items marked [Official] are official/authoritative requirements verified online; items marked [Empirical] are from past calls for papers or community compilations, which may be fine-tuned year by year,the official website for the current submission period (erj.ajcass.com "Submission Guidelines / Author Center / Download Center") shall prevail. For item-by-item sources, see
resources/official-source-map.md. For the detailed checklist and templates, seetemplates/checklist.md、templates/manuscript_template.md。
Basic Facts about the Journal and Submission [Official]
- Sponsor: Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Supervising body: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; monthly; founded in 1955; ISSN 0577-9154; CN 11-1081/F; Editor-in-ChiefHuang Qunhui(Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; as of the 2026-06-22 online recheck still incumbent; before submission, it is recommended to recheck against the current issue's copyright page masthead).
- Indexing: CSSCI, Peking University Chinese Core, AMI Top (social sciences,not CSCD—that is a science and technology index).
- Submission and review system:https://erj.ajcass.com/Admin/user/login(official mirror jjyj.ajcass.org);since 2018-10-01, online submission only, paper manuscripts are not accepted.
- No review fee and no page fee(¥0; multiple sources agree, consistent with the policy of journals under CASS; for the self-hosted fee statement, the official website shall prevail).
- Implementsanonymous review: author names/order/affiliations/funding and other information must be placed on aseparate page, and the main text must be anonymized.
Pre-submission Checklist
Anonymity (double-blind) [Official]
- In the main text,any content that can identify the authorhas been removed
- For self-citations, use "existing research (XX, 2020)", do not write "the author's prior research"
- Author names, order, affiliations, funding, and acknowledgments are placed on aseparate page, not in the main text
- Author contact information is filled in only in the submission system, not written in the main text
- File names and file properties do not contain author names / affiliations
Authorship [Official]
- No more than 5 signed authors
- Confirm and only confirm 1 corresponding author (if not specified, the first author is the corresponding author)
- Each author may have no more than 2 signed affiliations; no more than 2 signed funded projects; total number of funded projects ≤ number of authors + 2
- Information changes: before acceptance, only one change is allowed, and a signed written explanation must be submitted
Abstract and Keywords
- Chinese content abstract approximately 300 characters [Official]
- The English summary coversfive elements(background and significance / topic and approach / methods, theory, data and sources / main conclusions and policy recommendations / innovation and contribution) [Official]
- For those that have an additional English summary,the Chinese counterpart(For editorial review only, not for publication) [Official]; the official guidelines do not specify its word count [empirical value: because the abstract is a long summary condensing the full text, it is usually noticeably longer than a roughly 300-word abstract by comparison]
- 3–5 Chinese keywords + corresponding English Key Words [empirical value]
- JEL classification codes have been provided [empirical value, strongly recommended — published articles generally include JEL, but the official submission guidelines do not show an explicit mandatory requirement]
Main Text and Length
- Section numbering: 一、二、三 (first level) → (一)(二)(second level) → 1、2、3 (third level)
- Figures and tables are numbered consecutively and correspond to citations in the main text; equations are on separate lines, centered, with numbers on the right
- The introduction/literature review is sufficiently substantial, and the conclusion and policy discussion are sufficiently developed [empirical value; unofficial sayings such as "introduction ≥5000 / conclusion ≥1500 / main text 15,000–25,000 characters" and other such numbersare not found in the official original text, mostly come from citations of other journals (Finance & Trade Economics, Review of Economic Research) and are subject to the official website]
References [Official: style has been verified]
- author-date system(not the numbered citation system): in-text citations (author, year [, page number]);do not appear
[1][2]、[J]/[M]、[27,28,29] - At the end of the textChinese-language references first, foreign-language ones after, each sorted A–Z by surname pinyin / alphabet
- Each reference is complete: author, year, title, journal (volume, issue, pages) / publisher; foreign-language references must include both volume and issue
- Every citation in the text appears in the end list, and every item in the end list appears at least once in the text
- Theoretical literature is complete (Economic Research Journal is likely to find fault here); self-citations are not clustered (recommended ≤3 items)
- The number of items is moderate [empirical value: the unofficial "≤50 items" is not seen officially; subject to the official website]
Academic Standards [Official]
- Original in Chinese, completed independently by the author;not submitted to multiple publications(official penalty: intentional plagiarism/fabrication/multiple submission → no publication within 10 years)
- Academic misconduct detection has been carried out, and the duplication rate meets the requirements [empirical value: community experience < 10%; the official body has not published a numerical threshold; subject to the official website]
- Has the working paper / conference paper version been declared?
Attachments / Supplementary Materials (mostly submitted after acceptance according to the editorial office's requirements)
- Acknowledgments page, funding support statement, author bio (allseparatelysubmitted)
- Appendix (Word); data files matching the statistical software / Excel; software code files (recommended to include a one-click reproduction master, see
er-reproducibility) - Data availability statement (for commercial databases that cannot be made public, explain the source and access method); (if any) conflict of interest statement, rights holder restriction statement
Key Points for Operating the Submission System [empirical value]
- Before submitting in the system, reconfirm that the author information is complete and the manuscript is the latest version.
- Be sure to select the "research type" accurately (empirical / theoretical / review / commentary).
- Specific rules such as recommended / avoided reviewers and single-upload sizeare subject to the system page at the time of submission(unofficial numbers are not seen officially; do not copy them).
Anti-patterns
- Staying up all night to revise and not doing a double-blind check; author information remains in the main text or file properties
- References are still in EndNote's default APA / numbered citation format and have not been converted toauthor-date system
- Figure and table numbering is discontinuous / Figure 3 is referred to as "Figure 4" in the main text
- Treating folk numbers from previous years (word count, plagiarism check %, reference limit) asofficial hard constraintsand hardcoding them—the current official website's current-term version should prevail
- Forgetting to delete the acknowledgments from the working paper version when submitting
Output format
【匿名合规】通过 / 待修改:[...]
【署名规则】作者X位 / 通讯1位 / 单位≤2 / 课题合规:是·否
【摘要】中文≈300字 是·否 / 英文梗概五要素 齐·缺[...] / 中文对照 有·无
【参考文献体例】著者-出版年制 ✅ / 残留顺序编码 ❌
【学术规范】查重X% / 一稿多投声明 有·无
【附件齐全】是 / 否
【下一步】等待外审 / 收到 R&R → er-rebuttal
Supplementary resources
templates/manuscript_template.md— Manuscript structure skeleton (Chinese and English abstracts, variable definition table, author-date reference format)templates/checklist.md— Pre-submission self-check list ([official]/[rule of thumb] tiered labeling)../../resources/official-source-map.md— Official fact-check table (VERIFIED / to be verified tiers + sources)../../resources/external_tools.md— Quick reference for data resources and statistical software packages