Submission Guidelines

Submission Policy and Requirements

Getting Started

Manuscripts should be submitted online at the ScholarOne site for Organization Science.

Manuscript Format

Submissions must be double-spaced, with 11-point font and 1-inch margins all around, and must be no more than 35 pages all-inclusive.

References

References cited in the text should be listed alphabetically by author at the end of the paper, beginning on a separate page headed "References." Avoid references to unpublished works. For details on reference style please download the style files.

Endnotes and Footnotes

Endnotes and footnotes should be avoided. If the note is necessary, it should be indicated in the text.

Tables and Figures

Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively and grouped together after the references. Tables and figures should complement arguments presented in the text, and the position of tables and figures should be cited in the text.

Ethics Policy

Submitted Papers

When submitting a manuscript, the author must certify that the manuscript is original material, is not copyrighted, has not been accepted for publication and has not been published by any refereed journal or book, and is not being reviewed elsewhere simultaneously. (The paper may be submitted to a conference at the same time as it is being reviewed with Organization Science.) If the paper has been or will be published in a non-refereed publication, you must provide the publication details to the Editor-in-Chief when the manuscript is submitted to Organization Science, so that the suitability of the paper for Organization Science can be assessed.

Accepted Papers

Organization Science requires that at least one author of each accepted paper sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement form. As a condition of final acceptance for publication in Organization Science, the author(s) must indicate if their paper is posted on a working paper website. If so, authors are responsible for ensuring that, if any part of their paper has been copyrighted for prepublication as a working paper, the copyright can and will be transferred to INFORMS when the paper has been accepted. This includes both print and electronic forms of the paper. On acceptance, the text, or any link to the full text, must be removed from the working paper site.

Complete Policy

Please see the complete INFORMS policy.

The Review Process

Editors and Reviewers

Organization Science has a decentralized editorial structure composed of Senior Editors and an Editorial Review Board committed to working with authors to develop interesting ideas into publishable papers. Each Senior Editor has the autonomy to accept or reject a paper for publication or to request that the author revise and resubmit the paper. Authors are invited to nominate up to three reviewers (with suitable expertise and no conflict of interest with the author(s) or the paper being reviewed). Organization Science will make every effort to select one author-nominated reviewer. Manuscripts are reviewed in a double-blind process by at least two reviewers. The Senior Editor integrates his or her comments with those of the reviewers to arrive at a decision about the suitability of the manuscript for publication in Organization Science.

Revisions

If a revision of a manuscript is invited, we urge the authors to resubmit the manuscript within three months and no later than one year from the date a revision is requested.

NIH Public Access Policy

The author is responsible for complying with the NIH Public Access Policy. INFORMS follows Method C of NIH's submission methods guidelines (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process.htm) and has no obligation to notify an NIH-funded author about the requirement

Questions

If you have questions regarding submission and/or the review process, please contact the managing editor, Kate Luckey, at kathleen.luckey@informs.org.