# Ier Submission > Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript via the Editorial Express portal — the submission fee gate, the ≤50-page limit, format and style, proprietary-data notification, and the AER data policy. Final checks; it does not draft content. - Skill: `thedixitjain/ier-submission` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds add thedixitjain/ier-submission` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/thedixitjain/ier-submission/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Coding & Dev Tools - Author: thedixitjain (https://skillmd.com/u/thedixitjain) - Updated: 2026-09-08 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/thedixitjain/ier-submission --- # Submission Preflight (ier-submission) ## When to trigger - "Submitting tomorrow" — last check before uploading to the IER portal - Unsure which files, fee, and format the IER submission expects - Confirming the manuscript is within the page limit and conforms to house style - Deciding whether proprietary data require notifying the Editor now (it does — at submission) ## Process facts (检索于 2026-06；editor + US$150 fee re-verified 2026-06-22；以官网为准) - IER is owned by the **University of Pennsylvania Department of Economics** and **Osaka University's Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)**, published with Wiley; founded **1960** as a forum for modern quantitative economics. It appears **five times a year** (Feb, May, Aug, Oct, Dec). Editor (re-verified 2026-06-22): **Dirk Krueger** (Penn); Co-editor **Masaki Aoyagi** (Osaka, ISER) — re-verify before naming in a cover letter. - **Portal:** submission is through **Editorial Express** (editorialexpress.com/ier) — *not* ScholarOne/Manuscript Central. Verify the live link before submitting. - **Submission fee:** **US$150 (or ¥15,000)**, payable at submission. **The manuscript is not reviewed until the fee is received.** No student waiver is stated on the page (待核实). - **Length:** **not more than 50 pages**, single-sided, **double-spaced**. Manuscripts must conform to the style guidelines (available on request from the editorial office). - **Copyright:** assignment to the University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University is a publication condition. - **Data policy:** the **AER data availability policy (effective Jan 1, 2022)** applies; deposit is post-acceptance, but **proprietary or restricted data must be flagged to the Editor at the time of submission**. - **Peer review model, exact abstract limit, and reference style** are **待核实** — confirm in the style guidelines / official pages before relying on them. - **Open Access** is optional at acceptance with an article processing charge (Wiley lists it around US$3,570 / £2,330 / €3,010; verify the current amount — 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). This APC is *separate* from and additional to the US$150 submission fee; do not conflate them. ### The two-cost structure that trips up first-time submitters IER has an unusual cost profile worth flagging to the user up front: a **submission fee** of US$150 paid at submission (and the paper is genuinely not reviewed until it clears — this is a hard gate, not a formality), and a **separate, optional Open-Access APC** of several thousand dollars only if the author chooses OA at acceptance. Non-OA publication does not incur the APC. Many authors confuse the two; the submission fee is small and mandatory, the APC is large and optional. Budget and plan for the right one. ## Preflight checklist ### Format & length - [ ] Manuscript **≤50 pages**, **double-spaced**, single-sided - [ ] Conforms to the IER style guidelines (request from the editorial office if not held); reference style consistent (待核实 for exact format) - [ ] Figures and tables legible, self-contained notes, **no significance asterisks** (SEs/confidence sets instead) - [ ] Abstract present (exact word limit 待核实); title page with affiliations and JEL/keywords - [ ] Online/supplemental appendix carries long proofs and secondary exhibits so the main text fits the ceiling ### Files & fee for Editorial Express - [ ] Main manuscript PDF; supplementary/online appendix as a separate file - [ ] **Submission fee (US$150 / ¥15,000) ready** — manuscript is not reviewed until paid - [ ] Confirmed the live portal link (editorialexpress.com/ier) before uploading ### Declarations & policy - [ ] **Proprietary/restricted data flagged to the Editor at submission** (AER-policy requirement) - [ ] Replication deposit plan ready for conditional acceptance (README PDF, repository, data availability statement) — see `ier-replication-package` - [ ] Confirmed the paper is not under review elsewhere; AI not listed as an author - [ ] Cover letter makes the general-interest case and draws the sibling boundary (from `ier-referee-strategy`) ### Fitting the contribution into 50 double-spaced pages The ≤50-page, double-spaced ceiling is tighter than it looks — double spacing roughly halves the words per page relative to a single-spaced working-paper draft. Authors used to long working papers routinely arrive over the limit. The disciplined fix, decided before the final preflight, is a clean main-text / online-appendix split: the main text carries the model, the headline results, the one or two decisive robustness checks, and the key exhibits; the online appendix carries long proofs, secondary derivations, additional robustness, and overflow tables. Plan this split during `ier-writing-style` and `ier-tables-figures`, not at the submission deadline, so the main text reads as a complete, self-contained argument within the ceiling. ### Portal and format confirmation before upload Because IER uses Editorial Express rather than the ScholarOne/Manuscript Central system most economists default to, confirm the live portal URL and the exact upload format it expects before the deadline. Verify the current style-guideline requirements (request them from the editorial office if you do not hold them), since exact abstract length and reference format are 待核实 and can change. A last-minute discovery that the portal or format differs from expectation is an avoidable delay on a paper that is otherwise ready. ## Anti-patterns - Uploading and assuming review starts — at IER **nothing happens until the $150 fee clears** - Submitting over the 50-page limit, or single-spaced - Significance asterisks or figures/tables that need the body text to be read - Discovering proprietary-data restrictions at acceptance instead of flagging them at submission - Looking for a ScholarOne portal — IER uses Editorial Express - Treating the Open-Access APC (if chosen at acceptance) as if it were the submission fee ### Last-mile sequence on submission day 1. Confirm the live Editorial Express link and the format it expects. 2. Verify the manuscript is ≤50 pages double-spaced; if over, move overflow to the online appendix now, not after. 3. Strip any significance asterisks; confirm exhibit notes are self-contained. 4. Have payment ready for the US$150 / ¥15,000 fee — and remember review does not start until it clears. 5. If any data are proprietary/restricted, ensure the cover note to the Editor flags it at this submission. 6. Attach the cover letter that makes the general-interest case (from `ier-referee-strategy`). Run this list once more right before pressing submit; the fee gate and the page ceiling are the two items that most often delay an otherwise-ready paper. ## Output format ```text 【Journal】International Economic Review 【Skill】ier-submission 【Length】≤50 pages, double-spaced? [Y/N] 【Style】house-guidelines conformant; no significance asterisks? [Y/N] 【Portal】Editorial Express link confirmed? [Y/N] 【Fee】US$150 / ¥15,000 ready (review starts only after payment)? [Y/N] 【Proprietary data】flagged to Editor at submission if applicable? [Y/N] 【Deposit plan】AER-policy README/repository plan ready for acceptance? [Y/N] 【Cover letter】general-interest case + sibling boundary? [Y/N] 【Next step】submit via Editorial Express → ier-rebuttal after the decision ``` --- **Source:** [`brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills`](https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) → `International-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/ier-submission/SKILL.md`