Paper Submission:

Papers must be in English and should be submitted electronically, as explained below.

Upon receipt of your submission and the submission fee, the JEDC Office will contact you with the reference number of your manuscript and the name of the Editor, who will handle the evaluation process for your paper.

Submitted papers should describe original, unpublished work. Papers may not be submitted elsewhere while under review by JEDC.

Papers will be prescreened by the Editors for suitability. Because of the increased number of submissions it has become editorial policy to reject part of the submissions immediately ("desk rejections") without sending them to referees. Submission fees for these "desk rejections" will be non-refundable. After this first selection papers will be circulated in an effort to get good referees. A submission implies an author's consent on this procedure. The Editor does not accept responsibility for any damage or loss of papers submitted. 

Upon acceptance of an article, author(s) will be asked to transfer the copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.

Electronic Submission of Initial Version:

To submit your paper electronically, please click here and follow the instructions to upload a manuscript, cover letter, or other files or supporting documentation for your submission.

Please submit your manuscript as a single PDF file. Please embed all fonts when creating the PDF file and check to make sure that the text, equations, tables, and graphs display correctly when viewed on another computer.

Please pay the submission fee immediately, so that we can start processing your submission right away.

Electronic Submission of Revised Version: please click here.

Submission Fee:

The submission fee for manuscripts is US$ 100 or € 70. The fee can be paid either by credit card or by using your PayPal account.

To pay in US$, please click the button below.

To pay in Euro, please click the button below.

Electronic Submission of Final Accepted Version:

Please send all files for your accepted paper (including pdf, word processing files, and graphics) together in a single zip file to the JEDC Office at jedc@uva.nl. Please put your MS reference number in the subject line of the email via which you send the zip file. For the names of your files, please refrain from using spaces, accented characters, symbols like @, #n, %, &,*,<,> or very long file names. When sending a zip file, please note that any directory structures will be lost after the JEDC Office uploads the files to the publisher. Please inform the JEDC Office when a directory structure is vital (e.g LaTeX submissions).

The zip file will be sent to the publisher and your paper will be put into production by Elsevier. You will hear from the publisher in due course.

If possible, please include versions of your paper in both pdf and the original word processing formats. Elsevier can accept most standard word processing files, although Word, WordPerfect and LaTeX are preferred. Graphics should be high-resolution (preferred formats are either TIFF or EPS). Please make sure that all figure captions are available and all tables are present (including title, description, footnotes).

Please adhere strictly to the JEDC's style guidelines. This means that fewer changes have to be made, which reduces the possibility of errors being introduced. Most formatting codes are removed or replaced when Elsevier processes your article so there is no need for you to use excessive layout styling. Please do not use options such as automatic word breaking, justified layout, double columns or automatic paragraph numbering (especially for numbered references). Do use bold face, italic, subscripts, superscripts, etc., as appropriate. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, please use only one grid for each separate table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is being used, use tabs to align columns instead of spaces.

Finally, please take care to update all bibliographic data in your reference list, keeping in mind that many cited manuscripts have been published since the time that you first submitted your paper to the JEDC.

When you create your manuscript, please make sure it is in the following order:

Title
Authors
Affiliation
Abstract
Keywords
Main Text
Acknowledgement
Appendix
References
Figure Legends
Tables

Note: Do not import the Figures into your word processing file.

If you use LaTeX to write your article, Elsevier has separate LaTeX instructions, which can be found on http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/elsarticle. The document class elsarticle.cls, described on that page, will give you the closest match to the JEDC's layout.