[Prepress] Style Change Information

[Cathy Pawlowski]

Good morning all

Just wanted to make you aware of a change for AEJs in references when citing working and discussion papers.

This is how we have been formatting them. Spelling out the organization such as National Bureau of Economic Research then (NBER) in parens.

Galle, Simon, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, and Moises Yi. 2017. “Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade.” National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper 23737.


Marinescu, Ioana, and Ronald Wolthoff. 2015. “Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: The Power of Words.” Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Discussion Paper 9071.

This is the new style. As most of these organizations are recognizable by their acronym they are dropping spelling out the organization and using the acronym without parens.  

Galle, Simon, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, and Moises Yi. 2017. “Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade.” NBER Working Paper 23737.


Marinescu, Ioana, and Ronald Wolthoff. 2015. “Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: The Power of Words.” IZA Discussion Paper 9071.

AER has been doing this for a while. AEJ is now complying. That being said - we do get the references directly from the AEJ staff so they should be fixed before we get them but please keep an eye out for this change.



On another note….

I want to thank you all for your hard work. I have been working on book corrections the last couple days. (This stage is once the book is paginated and printed for the managing editors to look at one last time before sending files to printer). In a perfect world there would be just a few changes that need to made at this stage, since it has been formatted, proofread in our department, AEJ staff looking at tables and figures, then copyediting, going to the author who proofs it, author changes proofed by us and the AEJ staff looking at those changes. However, I am finding more and more sloppy errors at this point. Footnotes with missing periods at the end of sentences. Table alignment issues and misspellings. Errors in graphics, bad breaks on pages, etc. Little bit of everything. I do feel it is the responsibility of the editorial staff to catch these things (obviously at an earlier stage), but we are the service department and have to make these changes (with a smile ;). So I am asking you all to please be careful and watch for these things earlier in our process. We usually have 2-3 journals going out within a couple days of each other so timing is everything and the less we have to correct the better. The next couple months are our “slower” time - so we should all take the time to be a little more diligent and check our work over.

I take pride in the Prepress team. You are a conscientious and dedicated group! I am grateful.

Reminder - next week Gian and Bill are headed to Seattle for the Creative Pro conference. Gian is attending the Illustrator heavy symposiums and Bill is attending the InDesign. I am sure they are going to comeback renewed, refreshed and excited. We will have a prepress meeting the week of the 17th (date/time to be announced later) for them to share their wealth of knowledge with us all.

Have a wonderful Wednesday 

Cathy






 

 



Cathy Pawlowski
Prepress Manager
American Economic Association
2403 Sidney Street, Suite 260
Pittsburgh, PA 15203-2167
(412) 432-3272






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