Guidelines for Submitting Manuscripts

Agricultural Finance Review is published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

For those of you who have not submitted to AFR recently we invite you to consider our journal. It can be found at

http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?PHPSESSID=h1aj7l8700lnfg8c0tpd4rpo96&id=afr


Agricultural Finance Review now uses ScholarOne Manuscripts for online submission and tracking. ScholarOne Manuscripts is an intuitive and author-friendly interface for submitting articles to Emerald journals over the Internet. Online submission facilitates a fast and efficient publication service and provides the author with the ability to track their paper through the review process. All Emerald journals are moving to online submission.

 

To submit your paper online you must create an author account at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/afr then follow the on-screen guidance which takes you through the submission process.

Registering on ScholarOne Manuscripts

To register please follow the instructions below:

Log on to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/afr

Click on the create account link at the top right of the screen.

Follow the on-screen instructions, filling in the requested details before proceeding

Your username will be your email address and you have to input a password of at least 8 characters in length and containing two or more numbers

Click 'Finish' and your account has been created

Submitting an article on ScholarOne Manuscripts

Once Registered go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/afr with your username and password. This will take you through to the Welcome page.

 (To consult the Author Guidelines for this journal; click on the Home Page link in the Resources column).

Click on the Author Centre button.

Click on the submit a manuscript link which will take you through to the Manuscript Submission page.

Complete all fields and browse to upload your article.

You must upload a minimum of 2 files - your article file (with NO author details) and a separate title page (with all author contact details)

When all required sections are completed, preview your .pdf proof.

Submit your manuscript.

Guidance can be found on the Emerald ScholarOne Manuscripts Support Centre (http://msc.emeraldinsight.com ).

If you are unable to find the answer you are looking for please e-mail manuscriptcentral@emeraldinsight.com for assistance.

When your paper is successfully submitted you will receive an email indicating that your paper has been received together with its unique identity number. This means that the Editor, Publisher, and Reviewers will be able to process your paper in addition to you being able to track your paper at each stage of the publishing process. If you do not receive an e-mail please first check that you have entered your e-mail address correctly. If that is correct and your paper is not in 'unsubmitted manuscripts' please e-mail manuscriptcentral@emeraldinsight.com Please quote the journal you are submitting to and your article title.