Journal of Financial Ecosystems — Financial ecosystems.
Download Word templates
Download and complete these two editable Word files: first the Title Page including Author Contributions, then the anonymous manuscript. Replace the bracketed prompts and remove instructions before upload. Enter every author separately in OJS; uploading these files does not create contributor records.
- Download Title Page including Author Contributions (Word .docx) — identified file for editorial use.
- Download Anonymous Main Manuscript (Word .docx) — anonymous file for peer review.
All authors must be entered in OJS
Uploading a Title Page does not add co-authors to OJS. Before completing submission, add every author individually in the Contributors step, including the submitting author if they are an author. A person named only in an uploaded file is not a complete OJS author record.
- Enter each author’s full given and family names, email, institutional affiliation and country; use the same spelling and author order in OJS and all identified documents. For a genuinely single-part name, use the supported OJS fields without inventing a surname and explain the convention to the editorial office.
- Identify the corresponding author explicitly. The submitting account and corresponding author need not be the same person. Do not enter only the corresponding author for a multi-author paper.
- Add each author’s ORCID iD if available, using their own identifier; Use the Connect ORCID option where available to authenticate your own iD, or provide your own ORCID iD in the contributor details. Do not invent identifiers or reuse another author’s iD.
- Confirm that every named author qualifies for authorship, has reviewed the final submission, agrees to the author order and has approved submission to this journal. Do not add a non-author merely to grant access.
- Before clicking Submit, compare the author count, names, order, affiliations and corresponding author across the OJS contributor list, Title Page, including its Author Contributions section. Check the manuscript title and abstract in OJS as well.
Incomplete or inconsistent metadata will be returned for correction before external review. The editorial office must reconcile discrepancies with the submitting author; it must not silently infer, add, delete or reorder authors from a PDF or an automated extraction. After submission, authorship changes require a reason, written agreement from all affected authors and editorial approval.
Upload two documents in order
- 1. Title Page including Author Contributions — editorial use only. Include the manuscript title, target journal or book, all authors in agreed order, affiliations, countries, email addresses, ORCID iDs if available and the corresponding author. Include funding, competing interests, ethics and consent, acknowledgements and other identified declarations. Within this same file, complete the Author Contributions section for every author using agreed CRediT roles and specific contributions, with final approval and accountability. Contributions must be agreed by all authors; a role label alone does not establish authorship.
- 2. Anonymous Manuscript — for peer review. After the Title Page is uploaded, upload the manuscript with its title, abstract, keywords, main text, references, tables and figures. Remove author names, affiliations, emails, ORCID iDs, identifying acknowledgements, comments, tracked changes and identifying document properties. Cite your own work in the third person without suppressing necessary references. Provide anonymous declarations where needed and full identified details in the Title Page.
Both documents are required. Do not upload a separate Author Contributions file. You can save a draft and return later, or replace an uploaded document. Initial uploads accept PDF, DOCX or ODT, up to 2 MB per file; convert legacy DOC files to DOCX. Include tables and figures in the manuscript. Contact the editor to arrange any additional supporting material. Editors must exclude the identified Title Page from reviewer access and select only anonymous review files; filenames alone do not ensure confidentiality. Restore named contributions and other masked details before publication.
Editorial metadata clearance before review and production
- Compare the OJS Contributors list with the Title Page, including its Author Contributions section. Main Manuscript must remain anonymised during review.
- Check author count, exact names, author order, complete affiliations/countries, emails, corresponding author, and valid ORCID values where supplied. An absent ORCID alone does not block a submission.
- Return mismatches to the submitting author for clarification and obtain necessary approvals. Record the reconciliation and any approved authorship change in the OJS editorial record.
- Before sending files to reviewers, inspect the selected files and their metadata. Exclude the identified Title Page and remove identifying comments, tracked changes and properties from the review copy.
- Before production or future Studio transfer, repeat the comparison against the accepted version and OJS metadata. The OJS record becomes the authoritative export source only after this editorial check.
- If future Studio output omits or changes authors, affiliations or order, stop the transfer/publication and correct the source records. Do not treat PDF extraction or an AI guess as an authorship decision.
- Obtain author confirmation of the final metadata at proof stage. Reconcile approved changes back into OJS before publication.
Implementation boundary: these are mandatory editorial requirements and submission acknowledgements. The current local installation does not automatically compare uploaded documents with OJS contributor records. Studio remains disconnected. No automated completeness gate or active Studio validation is claimed.