New Manuscripts (see Revisions below)

• Authors should submit their manuscripts through the JCR web site. Please read the instructions carefully.
• Everything must be double spaced. Times New Roman 12 font must be used. Numbering begins on the title page (page 1), and is in the upper right corner. The paper must be left justified. There must be one-inch margins on all sides. Please use letter format (not A4 or international). Please be sure that all electronic comments and corrections between authors have been removed (not just turned off).
• There should be no footnotes.
• The abstract should be no longer than 150 words.
• Please include an excellent abstract that carefully summarizes your work. Your abstract should contain: 1) Motivation/Problem (what gap your research will fill; 2) Approach/Methods; 3) Results; 4) Implications and Conclusions. Use keywords (very important for indexing and abstracting). Do not include any citations, tables, figures, or any information that is not in your manuscript.
• Authors should suggest the names of the associate editor and reviewers they consider most appropriate for their manuscript, as well as the editor. Brief explanations should accompany these suggestions. While it cannot be guaranteed that author recommendations will be followed, they will be taken into consideration. Please do not suggest colleagues, friends, advisors, or people who have already seen the manuscript.
• All identification information must be provided for each author.
• Please note that the manuscript file must be complete (title page, author note, abstract, text, appendix, references, tables, figures and photographs--in this order) as one file only. Please use black and white for figures and photos to reduce the file size. We cannot accept anything sent as multiple files or with incomplete information. Please do not mail hard copies.
• Please note: Files for review must not be any larger than 1 MB. Please do not send any zipped files. Please check with your tech support people at your university if you have questions about preparing your file for submission. Files will not be accepted for review unless they meet the submission guidelines. Once a file is accepted for publication, there will be no file size constraint.
• The "Reflections" section is by invitation only (please do not submit articles for this section).

Revisions

Revisions must follow the guidelines above. Please be sure to delete any footnotes. When you resubmit your paper, please include a set of revision notes first describing how you addressed the broad issues and reviewer concerns summarized in the AE report. You may also provide separate comments to each reviewer explaining your choices. While you may write as much or as little as you think appropriate, we have found that eight single-spaced pages is more than sufficient.

Keep in mind that your goal is to win the support of the associate editor and the editor, not all the reviewers on all details. Reviewers advise the editors about potential weaknesses, and the editors decide whether the weaknesses are serious or not. We are not looking for votes from the reviewers, not unanimity nor a majority vote. We want to see the quality of their critique and its arguments, and then the editors make up their minds. Use the AE report as your guide and use the reviews for more detail on issues raise by the AE. Your revision notes should explain any choices that you made in your resubmission that are not apparent in the paper itself.

Please be sure to follow the editor's instructions from the decision letter.

Please return your revision in a timely manner.

Questions

• Contact jcr@bus.wisc.edu.

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