JEMSPRO
Manuscript Readiness Desk
Check your manuscript's preparation requirements before submitting to JEMSPRO.
Check a manuscript
Choose your manuscript
A Microsoft Word document (.docx). It is opened and checked in your browser, on this device. It is not uploaded, not sent to an AI or any other service, and not stored; closing or reloading this page forgets it.
Submit through the journal
Submission happens on jemspro.org, in the journal's own system, after you log in or register there. This desk does not submit anything, and a check here has no bearing on the editors' decision.
What the desk checks
The desk reads the structure of a Word document and compares it with what the journal's Author Guidelines and submission checklist ask of a manuscript's preparation. Each result is one of four kinds: requirement detected, possible issue, manual review required, or not assessed.
- Document structure. A title; the sections the guidelines list (introduction, literature review, methodology, findings and discussion, conclusion, recommendations, acknowledgements, references, and a conflict of interest statement where applicable); keywords and a paper type; tables and figures within the text.
- Abstract. An identifiable abstract with the journal's five labelled parts: Purpose, Material/methods, Findings, Conclusion, Value.
- References. A reference list with entries, author and year citations in the text, and whether each citation found has an entry with the same surname and year.
- Formatting. Times New Roman, 12 point, single-spaced, as the document itself states them.
- Declarations. What only you can vouch for (originality, no other journal considering it, your co-authors' permission, conflicts of interest, ethical approval, permissions) is asked of you as declarations. The desk does not check them.
It does not judge whether references follow APA style correctly or are accurate, whether the work is original, or the quality of the research. It is a preparation aid: the journal's pages govern, and its editors decide.
Summary by EmpiricQuest of the journal's Author Guidelines; the journal's pages govern.
Where The Clerk helps
The Clerk is EmpiricQuest's research-writing software for Microsoft Word. Where a finding names one of its tools, the link opens that tool in The Clerk's browser app; in Word, the same tools are in the pane. Nothing is sent to The Clerk from this desk: you bring the manuscript to it yourself.
- Journal audit: checks formatting and structure against a journal's author instructions.
- Format for Journal: checks and formats the manuscript against the journal's guidelines.
- Find reference: resolves a pasted reference and gives it as a .ris file.
- Using The Clerk in Microsoft Word, and how to install it.
The Clerk's checks use AI models from other companies, under your access code or your own keys; this desk uses none.
The author's route
- 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.