Very important technical requirements for Judgment and Decision Making (JDM), 2022 only

This information applies to articles that are accepted for publication before November, 2022. Articles submitted for review do not need to follow these guidelines, although they should be in pdf, with page numbers, and with the footnotes, figures and tables in the text rather than at the end. Articles submitted through Cambridge University Press will have different requirements. Below are the main points, followed by details.

We now request ORCID numbers for all authors. Please include these in the title page along with institution, and email of the corresponding author(s).
Remember that we require data, materials and code, insofar as they are necessary to replicate your analysis. Good advice (not yet requirements) about including these things is here.
If you use Word, we recommend our Word template. It makes conversion to LaTeX much easier. If you cannot do that, use the Styles menu to insert headings, subheadings, etc. Do not indicate headings by controlling the font or position directly. The heading style you choose doesn't matter.
If you used LaTeX to write the paper, see the instructions below and use the LaTeX template.
With Word, do not use unnecessary codes, fonts, styles or formatting. Do not use centering or otherwise try to control position on any page, including the title page, or in a table. Really.
If some authors are not regular LaTeX users, consider Overleaf as a way of writing and/or collaborating on the paper. You can also cut and paste from Word.
If your paper has a lot of math or tables use LaTeX formatting for the whole thing. LaTeX is the preferred format, and all papers are converted to it. Overleaf can help with the main text, but not so much with figures and tables.
Do not use Word's equation editor. However, if you have already used it and you are asked to convert to the required format, try this serice, (even the free version will work).
For graphics, use software that will be able to produce EPS, if possible.

So far we have no charges for authors. This is because we (Jon Baron, mostly) do the production, with the help of lots of open-source software. We can tolerate a few minor deviations from these guidelines, but, if the deviations require extra work, I will ask you to fix them. This may delay publication. You are free to hire someone to help you meet these requirements, and this will probably cost you much less than the usual "article processing charges" of proprietary journals.
Timing: Regular issues of the journal appear every two months starting January. Final versions of articles are due the 15th of the month in which the issue appears. In most cases, when an ariticle is accepted pending revision, the revision (with a letter explaining what was done) is the final version, even if some further editing is required.

Checklist for users of Microsoft Word: Details below

If possible, use our Word template for writing the paper. It will make some things easier.
Title page without any formatting. No bold, italics, or centering. Just a simple list: author, affiliation, author, affiliation, etc., all separated by double line breaks.
Semantic formatting of headings, sub-headings, ... No numbers. (LaTeX assigns them automatically.) The Styles menu does this.
No unnecessary fonts, positioning, or indenting.
No images for math. Use LaTeX for more than a little math.
Simple tables.
EPS figures, not converted from other formats, sent separately as well as in the paper.
Footnotes in the text, not at the end.
APA reference style. (Not other aspects of APA style.)

Style notes

Be consistent in the way you report statistics. Italics for "t", etc., are not required, but if you use them then use them consistently. Likewise spacing around "="; use it or not, consistently. Use parentheses, not commas, for statistical tests, and put the at the end of a sentence or clause if possible. Minimize the number of statistics you include. See our statistics page for other suggestions.
Please use APA citation and reference style. (Not the rest of APA style.) This means that articles are cited by author within the text. Use "and" when citing multiple authors in the text, "et al." for three or more (unless it is important to list all authors), and "&" for citations in parentheses and for authors listed in the reference section. Do not put commas before the last "and" or "&".
References are alphabetical at the end, with authors initials (not names) following each author's last name (e.g., "McCaffery, E. J., & Baron, J. (2006)."---note the spaces and periods). Volume numbers are in italics following the journal name (also in italics), followed by an optional issue number in parentheses (with no space before it) and a comma. Page numbers are required for everything. Journal titles, but not book titles, have all major words begin with upper case. Examples: Judgment and Decision Making (a journal title); Thinking and deciding (a book title)
Include an abstract and key words.
Spellings: "et al.", "etc.", "i.e.", followed by commas if the sentence continues. Don't use "cf." or "see". It is better to say, in a couple of words, why you are citing something, e.g., "see X for a review," "for additional supporting results," or "but see X for an opposing perspective."
Punctuation: Footnotes at the end of a sentence or clause come after the period or comma. Use British style for quotations: all punctuation, including commas and periods, go outside of quotation marks, unless the punctuation was itself part of the quotation.
Put tables and figures in the text, not at the end.
Use footnotes, not endnotes.

For additional thoughts about writing style see these recommendations.
Graphics
Please submit all graphics as separate files, as well as leaving them in the document. If you use Overleaf to submit the final version of the paper, after review, then you do not need to include the graphics in the tex file that Overleaf produces (although it is fine if you do); just send the graphics separately.
For graphs, use pure EPS (Encapulsated PostScript) if possible. (If you don't know, then try one and send it.) These graphs are vector graphics, so they can be re-sized easily without loss of clarity. Please specify Helvetica or Arial font, if possible. Do not try to make EPS from some other format that is not itself vector graphics, such as PNG, TIFF, GIF, or JPG.
PDF and EMF (Windows format) may also work, but only if they use vector graphics. If you cannot tell, send one example of a graph. (With EMF, I copy the file into LibreOffice Draw and export it as EPS.) If you try to make EPS with Windows and want to see what it looks like, try these instructions.
Whatever you use, choose options for "no preview" and "convert to postscript fonts" if these are available. One program that does everything correctly "out of the box" is R, which is what I use when I need to re-draw something. If you use R, send the R code. Stata, Matlab, and SigmaPlot produce good EPS output without much trouble. If you do not use R and want a really nice graphics tool, try Matplotlib. Mayura Draw> may also work.
With SPSS, use "export charts", choose "graphics only" for Document Type, "Encapsulated Postscript (*.eps)" for Graphics Type, 100 for "Size in percentage", "No" for "Inclue TIFF preview image", and "postscript fonts" for "Fonts". (Do not use "replace fonts with curves".) Try to make sure that Helvetica or Arial font is used for everything. To do this, select the area of the graph with fonts, double click on the title of the graph, and look at "Properties".
For photos or screen shots, a bitmap (raster) format is necessary (e.g., png or gif). The bigger the better. It is easy to shrink, but hard to expand. Use jpg only for photos.
Text formats
For articles with only a little math or a few tables, word-processor formats usually work: Open Document Format; LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) Writer; Word Perfect; Microsoft Word (doc, docx).
I prefer text files formatted in LaTeX. This is required for articles with a lot of math or tables. See below for special notes about LaTeX or for word processors.
You can also submit the article in plain text or Google doc (without Paperpile) format.
Special notes for LaTeX

LaTeX is the preferred format. You can use this template. You will also need to download hevea.sty and apalike3.bst and put them where latex can find them (e.g., in the same directory/folder as your paper). Or you can use our Overleaf template to make the tex file by cutting and pasting, or by writing directly on their web site, but the template will work better for those who already use latex.
Our template provides some guidance about how to do things. Please do not do fancy things. More specifically:

Please DO NOT USE ADDITIONAL PACKAGES unless you make sure that they work with HeVeA.
If you use bibtex, follow the instructions in the template and send both the bib and bbl files.
Use a minimum of new definitions, preferably none. (HeVeA sometimes chokes on them.)
Keep tables simple. Do not use sideways tables.
Use -- between numbers (e.g., 10--11). For minus signs in text, $-$ is better than --.
Use --- for an em-dash, with spaces around it
Use \label and \ref as usual.

See the instructions for the title page for word processors, below, to make sure you include all relevant information.
Every published article has a .tex version. To find it, look at the URL of the html version, replace "html" with "tex". Later articles are better examples to imitate.
Special notes for word processors

Do not try to control appearance. Do not use unnecessary fonts. Do not control position or size of text, ever. (Read on for details.) The general principle is that I convert these to LaTeX using many wonderful open-source programs described below. But these programs cannot tell what is necessary and what isn't. When you do things that are not part of the final document, I must undo them, often one by one. This is especially true for references cut and pasted from other formats (e.g., Apple to Microsoft).

See the discussion of tables below. It is important enough for its own section.
For headings and sub-headings, etc., use semantic formatting (heading 2, heading 3, ..., from the Styles menu, which you get when you right-click on the text of the heading). Do not attempt to indicate levels with fonts or indentation. The heading style you choose doesn't matter. Do not use numbers; they will be assigned automatically.
Absolutely do not control the font style (bold, italic), position (center), or size, except for italics and bold in the text itself, for emphasis or math, and italics for book and journal titles and volume numbers in the references.
Remove hidden codes (such as those made by Endnote); CTRL-SHIFT-F9 will do this in Word.
Math. Equations, formulas, and other mathematical expressions must be text, not images. Greek letters are fine, so long as they are represented as characters, not pictures of characters. Since 2007, Microsoft Equation Editor makes pictures. Avoid it. (Science suggests using the Mathtype plug-in, or an earlier version of Word.) I don't mind re-writing a few equations, but, if a paper is full of math, you must write it with LaTeX formatting from the outset. Alternatively, if all the math is in one section, you can send that separately as a text file using LaTeX math notation. Grind-EQ may help convert Word documents (all or part). Also LibreOffice, which is what I use, although it cannot help when the equations are already images.
The title page should include the following, in standard font only (no bold or italics) and with no formatting (e.g., centering, indenting).

The title. Use upper case only for the first letter of the first word and for proper nouns.
A running head.
A list of the authors' names, in order, one per line, first name first, each followed by the author's affiliation. The corresponding author's affiliation should give a complete mail address and email address.
The acknowledgements, as one paragraph, without any author addresses.

Use footnotes, not endnotes. That is, footnotes should be in the text.

Tables in word-processor formats
Tables produced with Microsoft Word are extremely difficult to deal with. The conversion system I use does not convert them consistently. The simplest way to do this, if you have already written the paper in Word, is this: First make a pdf version (with page numbers, without breaking up tables over two pages, and without sideways tables). This is so that I know what you want the tables to look like. Submit this. Then remove the formatting from the tables in the Word file. To do this select each table, got to Styles in the main tools, click "More", then "remove formatting". (Or, for LibreOffice, click Format, then "Clear direct formatting".) Submit this too. Here are some other "hints".

If you have not written the paper yet, use our Word template.
Make tables as simple as possible: do not specify centering, left or right justification, line breaks within cells, vertical lines (except for reproducing stimuls materials), unnecessary horizontal lines, empty columns, empty rows, or small fonts.
Do not use sideways tables, or tables that must be wider than 6.5in.
Do not try to make the table look nice.
Do not worry if tables run off the page vertically.
Tables must be text, not images.
Use italic and bold fonts only when necessary.

If you use docx or have many tables or complicated tables, then submit the tables separately, as well as in the article, and send a pdf version of the tables or the entire article. (This helps me see where they go and what you want them to look like.) The simplest way to send them separately is in the form of plain text, of the sort you use in writing an email message. Separate the cells in each row with "&", and end the row with "\\". You can break lines in the middle of a row (because the "\\" indicates the end of the row). That is sufficient for simple tables, but LaTeX formatting is even more helpful:
Detailed instructions (much more than you need) are here. The LaTeX template has two examples. If you have your table in Excel, just send it. If you use R, the xtable packages produces LaTeX tables, so you may send me either the tables or the R code. (Apparently Matlab can also produce LaTeX tables.)
LaTeX helpers
Here are some tools that recommend themselves as ways to produce LaTeX, aside from Overleaf. I would be interested in reports about their usability and effectiveness.

A table editor. Use "Booktabs table style" rather than "Default table style", upper right); you can also cut and paste from Excel.
Another table editor. Texmaker. LyX.

Jonathan Baron