Guide for Authors

Guide for Authors

updated: 2024.12.30

 

Read the guidelines thoroughly. Papers will not be reviewed if they do not follow our submission guidelines.

All papers should be submitted to http://ier.ut.ac.ir. 

Upon receipt of your paper, a confirmation email will be sent to you electronically.

 

 Application Fee

  • When submitting an article to the Iranian Economic Review (IER) journal, the submitting author must agree to pay the publication charge for checking the paper by editor-in-chief and then, the reviewing process will start. Therefore, if papers are enough qualified, they will be sent to the reviewers.
  • After acceptance, the article will enter the production cycle, and the author will be asked to pay the publication charge for the acceptance. When final formatting corrections are made, and the author approves their article for publication, payment of the publication charge must be received before the article will be published online.

For Iranian authors:

After submitting each article: 2,000,000 Rial

After acceptance of each article: 4,000,000 Rial

 

Papers Format

- All manuscripts should not exceed 22 pages. This limit includes reference lists, figures, and tables.

- You need to upload two files in submission stage:

      a) for the main manuscript: The file type of paper should be "manuscript main file (without the authors' name)",(including title, abstract, main text, and all tables and figures, but without authors' names).

      b) for the title: The file type of title should be "title page", (including title, abstract, names, and information of all authors).

- All letters of your paper's title, your name, or other parts in your article should not be capitalized. Only the first letter of each word should be capitalized; For example: "Deficits and Inflation: An Open Economy Model of the United States".

- Please use 12- Times New Roman font for the paper's main text and 14-Times New Roman for the paper's title.

- All papers must include an abstract (150-250 words) with Keywords (5 words/word group at least) and JEL Classification.

- The Keywords should be ordered alphabetically.

-To find JEL Classification, please use this link: https://www.aeaweb.org/jel/guide/jel.php 

- Formulas should be typed in Microsoft Equation 3.0. Please do not use images for formulas.

- All figures and tables should have a title, a number (1,2,3, ...), and a source; For example: Table 1, Figure 2, ...

- If the source of your tables and/or figures is your research, please write this line, under the table or figure:

"Source: Research finding."

- Margins should be 3 centimeters on the top, bottom, and sides. 

- All references should be translated into the English language.

- APA standards should be used for the References format. Please use the examples of this link (exactly and in all details): http://www.usq.edu.au/library/referencing/apa-referencing-guide

-It is necessary to have your ORCID iD for publication; therefore, please add it to your profile on our webpage. Please use this link if you do not have an ORCID number, or you do not remember it: https://orcid.org/register

*ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and distinguishes you from every other researcher.

  • IER Journal will not accept adding new authors after acceptance; therefore, when you submit your paper for the first time, please be careful to write the names of all authors in the title page you uploaded and on the webpage account of corresponding author.

plagiarism checking

  • For plagiarism checking, please use ithenticate website, and uplaod the result on your webpage on our website.
  • For Iranian citizens: for plagiarism checking, please email your paper to: englishedit.ir@gmail.com

 

Some examples for References format (APA Standard):

 

- Please translate ALL references into the English language.

- Every word in the titles of books/articles/… should be capitalized; For example: Globalization and the Manufacturing Sector: A Study of Some Selected Textiles Firms in Nigeria

  • About articles, just the name and number of journals should be in italics.
  • The titles of books should be in italics.
  • All books should have the name and city of publication; or their available link.

 

Articles:

1)  Articles with one author:

Aluko, M. (2004). Globalization and the Manufacturing Sector: A Study of Some Selected Textiles Firms in Nigeria. Journal of Social Science, 9(2), 122-127.

Aldemir, Ş. (2007). The Impacts of Exchange Rates on Import Prices in Turkish Economy: 1988- 2004. International Economic and Foreign Trade Policies, 1, 53-57.

 

2)  Articles with two authors:

Aluko, M. A., & Akinola, G. O. (2004). Globalization and the Manufacturing Sector: A Study of Some Selected Textiles Firms in Nigeria. Journal of Social Science, 9(2), 122-127.

Abizadeh, S., & Yousefi, M. (1998). Deficits and Inflation: An Open Economy Model of the United States. Applied Economics, 30, 107-316.

 

3)  Articles with more than two authors:

Aluko, M. A., Akinola, G. O., & Fatokun, S. (2004). Globalization and the Manufacturing Sector: A Study of Some Selected Textiles Firms in Nigeria. Journal of Social Science, 9(2), 122-127.

 

4)  If you don't have enough information about an article or a book …, please write the link after "Retrieved from". For discussion papers, working papers…, you should write the link too. Examples:

Carzonery, M., Cumby, R., & Diba, B. (1998). Is the Price Level Determined by the Need of Fiscal Solvency? NBER Working Paper, 6471, Retrieved from http://faculty.georgetown.edu/cumbyr/papers/fiscal_pricelevel.PDF

Bhattacharya, R., Ila, P., & Ajay, Shah. (2011). Monetary Policy Transmission in an Emerging Market Setting. Working Paper, 11/5, Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.186.134&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Endep. (2016). In MIMS online. Retrieved February 2, 2016, from https://www.mimsonline.com.au/Search/Search.aspx 

 

5)  Books

Baltagi, B. H. (2008). Econometric Analysis of Panel Data. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Hsiao, C. (2003). Analysis of Panel Data (2nd Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

6) Master's Thesis

Unpublished master's thesis:

Swinton, M. A. (1984).  Family Stress in Phenylketonuria (Unpublished Master's Thesis). University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Published master's thesis:

Swinton, M. A. (1984).  Family Stress in Phenylketonuria (Master's Thesis, University of Auckland, New Zealand). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

 

7)  Doctoral Dissertation

Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation:

Murray, B. P. (2008). Prior knowledge, two teaching approaches for metacognition: Main idea and summarization strategies in reading (Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation). Fordham University, New York.

Published Doctoral Dissertation:

McDonald, J. (2007). The Role of Online Discussion Forums in Supporting Learning in Higher Education (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern Queensland, Australia). Retrieved from http://eprints.usq.edu.au/3588/2/McDonald_2007_whole.pdf

 

8)   Conferences

Hughes, H. (2002). Information Literacy with an International Focus. In K. Appleton, C. Macpherson, & D. Orr (Eds.), International Lifelong Learning Conference: Refereed papers from the 2nd International Lifelong Learning Conference (208-213). Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press.

Asgharpur, H., Kohnehshahri, L. A., & Karami, A. (2007). The Relationships between Interest Rates and Inflation Changes: An Analysis of Long-Term Interest Rate Dynamics in Developing Countries. International Economic Conference on Trade and Industry (IECTI), Retrieved from http://repo.uum.edu.my/2416/1/Hossein_Asgharpur.pdf

 

9) Websites

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2011). Australia's Health in 2004. Retrieved from http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/10014

 

If you have a writer on the website:

Allen, D. (2004). Dealing with your meeting notes. Retrieved from http://www.effectivemeetings.com/meetingbasics/notes.asp

 

10) Online Databases

Endep. (2016). In MIMS online. Retrieved February 2, 2016, from https://www.mimsonline.com.au/Search/Search.aspx.

 

* If you have repetitive writers of books or articles…, please use ten space lines instead of the name of repetitive writers:

Hahn, E., Michele, C. Z., & Marcelo, S. (2007). Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Emerging Markets. ECB, Working Paper, 739, Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.165.5066&rep=rep1&type=pdf.

---------- (2003). Pass-Through of External Shocks to Euro Area Inflation. ECB, Working Paper, 243, Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=457310.

 

How to submit your revised paper or change other information you registered before

Please enter your page (with your username and password),

Then open this link: "submission sent back to author",

Then click on the Manuscript ID of your paper, which is a link,

On the left of your page, click on "attach files" (line number 9),

Then you should fill in these three fields:

- file type

- file description

-  file name:

Please delete the last files you uploaded. (Click on the red trash basket at the end of its line); Don't worry; all of them remain in our archive on the website.

Then upload the final revised paper:

For "file type", please choose: manuscript main file (without authors' name)

For your explanation for reviewer(s), please select Response to reviewer as the file type.

Then upload your file by the "browse" button.

The file description is not necessary.

Then use the "next" button until you reach "submit Manuscript" on the last page; click on it, and you will finish uploading your revised paper.

 

- The revisions can only be done on the account of the Corresponding author.

- The name of Microsoft word's file of your paper should not be your name or family name.

 

                  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email the executive manager (ier@ut.ac.ir).