brycewang-stanford Submission Preflight (pubar-submission)
The last check before pressing submit. PAR is double-blind, so the single most common avoidable failure is an under-anonymized manuscript, followed by missing Evidence for Practice points. Verify volatile specifics on the official page before relying on them.
When to trigger
- "Submitting tomorrow" — last pass before upload
- Unsure which files/metadata the portal expects
- Confirming the chosen article type's expectations are met and the manuscript is anonymized
Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page — 检索于 2026-06-22；以官网为准)
- Owner / publisher: American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) / Wiley.
- Editors (re-verified 2026-06-22): Editors-in-Chief Jos Raadschelders (Ohio State) and Katherine Willoughby (University of Georgia); Editor Hongtao Yi (Ohio State); term 2024–2026. Because the term runs through 2026, re-confirm the masthead on the editorial-board page before submitting.
- Portal: online submission system — the PAR submission page lists Editorial Manager
(
editorialmanager.com/par); some older guidance and the task seed reference ScholarOne / Manuscript Central. Confirm the live portal before submitting. 待核实. - Review model: double-blind — anonymize the manuscript; separate title page.
- Article types: Scholarly Take, Conceptualizing Public Administration, Early Career Intel, Practically Speaking, Public Administration in Print (book reviews).
- Word count: ≤ 8,000 words including abstract, endnotes, and references; tables, figures, charts, and appendices are excluded.
- Abstract: ≤ 150 words, on a page preceding the first page of the manuscript.
- Evidence for Practice: 3–5 sentence-length takeaway points for practitioners — encouraged at submission, required at revision.
- Style: APA author–date (confirm current edition).
- Transparency: TOP-guideline materials and a data-availability statement (Dataverse / QDR; see
pubar-transparency-and-data). - Fee: no submission fee (re-verified 2026-06-22; no source states one); open access is optional and would carry a post-acceptance Wiley APC — confirm the current figure only if you opt in.
Preflight checklist
Type & length
- Article type chosen and its expectations met
- Word count ≤ 8,000 (incl. abstract, endnotes, references; excl. tables/figures/appendices)
- Abstract ≤ 150 words, states question + approach + finding
- Evidence for Practice: 3–5 takeaway points present (required by revision)
Anonymity (double-blind)
- No author names on the title page / in the manuscript
- Own prior work referred to in the third person; self-citations neutralized
- Acknowledgments, institution names, identifying URLs removed
- Identifying file metadata stripped (document properties, comments)
- Separate (non-anonymous) title page prepared as a distinct file
Format & transparency
- APA author–date formatting; consistent citations
- Figures/tables self-contained, accessible (see
pubar-tables-figures) - Data-availability statement + TOP materials staged (Dataverse/QDR)
- Ethics / IRB / human-subjects compliance documented
Anti-patterns
- Leaving author identifiers in the text, acknowledgments, or file metadata (breaks double-blind)
- Forgetting that references and endnotes count toward the 8,000-word limit
- Submitting without Evidence for Practice (required by revision)
- Budgeting for a submission fee that is not charged (verify)
- Submitting to the wrong portal because the system changed — confirm the live URL
Output format
【Article type】Scholarly Take / Conceptualizing PA / Early Career Intel / Practically Speaking
【Word count】≤8,000 incl. abstract/endnotes/refs? [Y/N]
【Abstract】word count (≤150)
【Evidence for Practice】3-5 points present? [Y/N]
【Anonymized】text + self-refs + file metadata clean? [Y/N]
【APA style】[Y/N]
【TOP materials】data-availability statement + repository staged? [Y/N]
【Portal】confirmed live submission URL? [Y/N]
【Next】await decision → pubar-rebuttal on R&R
Supplementary resources
templates/checklist.md— copy-paste preflight checklist../../resources/external_tools.md— reference managers, anonymization, repro tooling../../resources/official-source-map.md— official PAR URLs behind every fact in this pack