How to Submit An Article 

By submitting a manuscript, you certify NO PART of it (including figures, abstracts, tables) is copyrighted or under review elsewhere. 

Reviewers must be able to read your manuscript. Word processing files (particularly equations) may appear differently on different computers. The following instructions solve this problem. Follow these five steps:

1. Send your manuscript and a copy of the submission form by e-mail to mktgsci@cba.ufl.edu.  Remember to include the Marketing Science submission form with the manuscript. For information on formats, click here. You should receive an acknowledgment within 3 business days of receipt of your manuscript. 

2. Before submitting a manuscript, carefully check the manuscript for errors and check that the manuscript prints as intended. Be sure to include your submission form with the manuscript.    Always embed all fonts. Use TrueType or Type 1 fonts.  Note:  See our note for TeX and LaTex usersClick for Tex stylesheets.  

3. Identify authors and affiliations on only the first page and no other page of the manuscript. Submit the entire article as a single file and without links to other files. Embed artwork when possible. [Scan artwork or other pages that you cannot embed and send as separate files.]

4. When sending a manuscript, you have two options.

Option 1.
Send your manuscript as an unprotected Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) file.  Note that Adobe Reader cannot produce PDF files. In order to produce a PDF file, you must either use Adobe Acrobat or Adobe’s on-line service. It is best to create the PDF File on the same computer you used to create the original document. Send the submission form in any common electronic format (e.g., DOC, TXT, PDF).  Processing begins immediately.  Click here for more.

Option 2.
Send your manuscript as a DOC (Microsoft Word Document) file, a PS (Post Script Image) file or a TeX DVI (DeVice Independent) file.  We will convert the file to PDF format. Check Word files for corruption, AVOID BITMAP FONTS and embed all fonts. We will ask you to review and approve the PDF file before processing the manuscript.

5. Please e-mail submissions to:  mktgsci@cba.ufl.edu


Professor Steven M. Shugan
Editor-in-Chief, Marketing Science
Warrington College of Business Administration
University of Florida
201 Bryan Hall
Campus Box 117155
Gainesville, FL 32611-7155
E-mail: mktgsci@cba.ufl.edu 

WE WILL NOT PROCESS A MANUSCRIPT UNTIL WE OBTAIN ELECTRONIC COPIES OF BOTH THE MANUSCRIPT AND THE SUBMISSION FORM.

A PDF version of your manuscript file is sent to reviewers.

NOTE: Our e-mail program automatically blocks viruses. Be sure to scan for viruses. Also, make sure you get an acknowledgement that we received your manuscript.

Authors should correspond with the Editor-in-chief who is responsible for the processing of manuscripts. We use a double-blind review process. Area editors, reviewers and authors are anonymous. Anonymous evaluators provide an important advisory role but decisions reside with individuals known to authors. Anonymity encourages more participation and objectivity.

We require that at least one of the authors of each accepted manuscript sign a copyright transfer form. 

Remember, we must have full copyright permission (figures, abstracts, tables, etc.) to process (copy, distribute, etc.) a manuscript.

Note: At the time of publication, we require a paper copy of the manuscript as well as an original word-processing file for the production folks. TeX and LaTeX files can be acceptable but must comply with the journal guidelines. Although PDF and PS submissions are useful for reviews, they are unusable during the final publication phase. We will send the authors complete details.

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INFORMS Policy:

 

Note: By submitting a manuscript, the author certifies that NO PART of the manuscript is copyrighted (including the abstract, figures, etc.) and the manuscript is not currently under review for any journal,

conference proceedings or other outlet. If the manuscript (or any part of it) has appeared, or will appear in another  publication of any kind, all details must be provided to  the editor-in-chief at the time of submission.  As a condition of  final acceptance of a paper for publication in Marketing Science, the author(s) must indicate if their paper is posted on a working paper website, other than their own.  They are responsible for assuring that, if any part of the paper has been copyrighted for prepublication as a working

paper, the copyright can and will be transferred to INFORMS when the paper has been accepted.  This includes both print and electronic forms of the paper.  On acceptance, the text, or any link to full text, must be removed from working paper websites, other than the author's own website. 

 

 

As a condition of final acceptance of a paper for publication in an INFORMS journal, the author must indicate if the paper is posted on a website other than the author's personal website. The author is responsible for ensuring that, if any part of the paper has been copyrighted for prepublication, for example, as a working paper, the copyright can and will be transferred to INFORMS when the paper has been accepted. This includes both print and electronic forms of the paper. Authors may post their papers on websites after acceptance and prior to publication, as long as the sites are not copyrighted or do not serve as formal repositories. Authors may not post their page proofs on websites prior to publication. Contact permissions@informs.org <mailto:permissions@informs.org> for further information. 

 

 

 

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