Guides and resources
Documentation
Guides and resources for The Clerk, and for publishing with JEMSPRO.
Publishing (JEMSPRO)
The journal
- Journal overviewThe journal on this site: its scope, its current issue and how to submit.
- Current issueThe issue's articles, each linked to the journal's own site.
- Article explorerSearch the published articles by title, author and keyword, and copy a citation.
- Publishing at EmpiricQuestThe publishing arm, and how the journal works.
- ImprintThe publisher: its details, correspondence address, fees and ISSN status.
Prepare and submit
- Author guidelinesjemspro.orgThe journal's own guidelines: they govern.
- Manuscript preparationA checklist summarised from the guidelines.
- Manuscript Readiness DeskCheck a Word manuscript against the preparation requirements, in your browser.
- Online submissionjemspro.orgThe journal's submission checklist and online submission.
- Submission processThe stages of a submission, and the way to the journal’s submission page.
Policies
- Peer reviewWhere the journal sets out its review process.
- Publication ethicsjemspro.orgThe journal's ethics policy.
- Open access and feesThe APC is USD 100 per accepted manuscript, payable following acceptance and before publication. There are no submission fees. Reading is free (open access).
- Editorial teamjemspro.orgThe journal's editors.
- Editorial contactjemspro.orgThe journal's editorial office.
Entries marked jemspro.org open the journal's own site.
The Clerk
Get started
Set up
From manuscript to submission
- Discover JEMSPRORead the current issue and search the published articles.Explore the articles
- Review the guidelinesThe journal's Author Guidelines govern what a manuscript needs.Author Guidelines
- Check your manuscriptA preliminary check of structure, abstract, references and formatting, in your browser.Manuscript Readiness Desk
- Use The ClerkWork through what the check found, inside Microsoft Word.Using The Clerk in Word
- Submit through the journalSubmission and editorial decisions happen on jemspro.org, in the journal's own system.Submit on jemspro.org
The Clerk is separate software. Using it, or this site's checks, gives a manuscript no advantage with JEMSPRO's editors: every submission is judged by the journal, on its merits.