Instructions to Authors
The Editors of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics welcome submission of articles concerning competition law and economics.
Please submit all manuscripts via our online submission system. If you have any questions about your submission, please contact the journal's editorial office ([email protected]).
All submissions must be exclusive to the Journal of Competition Law and Economics. If you have submitted this article to any other journal for review, you will be required to withdraw these other submissions to receive consideration.
Copyright
Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form. Please note that by submitting this article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.
Authors may use their own materials in other publications provided that publication in the Journal is appropriately acknowledged. Unless otherwise expressly indicated in a particular work published in the Journal, photocopying is permitted beyond that permitted by section 107 and 108 of the US Copyright Law regarding fair use, for course use in any public or private institution of learning provided that (1) copies are distributed at or below cost, including reasonable commercial cost of assembling and duplicating; (2) the author and the Journal are identified on the copies; and (3) proper notice of copyright is affixed to each copy.
Other reproduction may occur only by prior written permission of the publisher or by license obtained in the UK by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE, or in the USA by the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923. To the extent permitted by fair use laws individual scholars may make a copy of particular works in the Journal for their own research or teaching use only. Authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication. Authors will receive a free link to their article when it is published online, for personal use.
Peer Review Policy
This journal operates single-anonymised peer review, meaning that the author’s identity is known to the editor and to the reviewers, but that the reviewers’ identities are known only to the editor and are hidden from the authors. For full details about the peer review process, see Fair editing and peer review.
Open Access
Journal of Competition Law & Economics offers the option of publishing under either a standard licence or an open access licence. Please note that some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify any such requirements with your funder or institution.
Should you wish to publish your article open access, you should select your choice of open access licence in our online system after your article has been accepted for publication. You will need to pay an open access charge to publish under an open access licence.
Details of the open access licences and open access charges.
OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.
Author Toll Free Link and Discounts
All corresponding authors will be provided with a free access link to their article upon publication. The link will be sent via email to the article’s corresponding author who is free to share the link with any co-authors. Please see OUP’s Author Self-Archiving policy for more information regarding how this link may be publicly shared depending on the type of license under which the article has published.
All authors have the option to purchase up to 10 print copies of the issue in which they publish at a 50% discount. Orders should be placed through this order form. Orders must be made within 12 months of the online publication date.
Layout and Style
Figure accessibility and alt text
Incorporating alt text (alternative text) when submitting your paper helps to foster inclusivity and accessibility. Good alt text ensures that individuals with visual impairments or those using screen readers can comprehend the content and context of your figures. The aim of alt text is to provide concise and informative descriptions of your figure so that all readers have access to the same level of information and understanding, and that all can engage with and benefit from the visual elements integral to scholarly content. Including alt text demonstrates a commitment to accessibility and enhances the overall impact and reach of your work.
Alt text is applicable to all images, figures, illustrations, and photographs.
Alt text is only accessible via e-reader and so it won’t appear as part of the typeset article.
Detailed guidance on how to draft and submit alt text.
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification Codes
The Journal offers browse-by-subject using JEL codes. Authors should provide the relevant JEL codes upon submission.
Funding
In order to meet your funding requirements authors are required to name their funding sources in the manuscript. For further information on this process or to find out more about CHORUS, visit the CHORUS initiative.
Use of Mathematics
Authors are asked to use mathematics only when its application is a necessary condition for achieving the stated objective of the paper. When mathematics is used, the necessity for doing so should be explained, and the major steps in the argument and the conclusions made intelligible to a non-mathematical reader. Wherever possible, authors are encouraged to put the mathematical parts of their arguments into an appendix.
Preprint Policy
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels, and this does not prevent submission to the journal. For further information see our Online Licensing, Copyright and Permissions policies. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI, as described on our Author Self-Archiving policy page.
Availability of Data and Materials
Where ethically feasible, Journal of Competition Law & Economics strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. We suggest that data be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files or deposited in a public repository whenever possible. Information on general repositories for all data types, and a list of recommended repositories by subject area.
Data and Software Citation
Journal of Competition Law & Economics supports the Force 11 Data Citation Principles and the recommendations of the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Group. When data and software underlying the research article are available in an online source, authors should include a full citation in their reference list.
For details of the minimum information to be included in data and software citations see the guidance on Citing research data and software.
