Below you should find all the information you need to submit your paper to Risk Journals and to present it in accordance with our requirements. If you have any further queries or need more information, please contact us at journals@incisivemedia.com.

Risk Journals include:

• The Journal of Computational Finance
• The Journal of Credit Risk
• The Journal of Risk
• The Journal of Operational Risk
• The Journal of Risk Model Validation
• The Journal of Energy Markets
• The Journal of Investment Strategies
• The Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures
  

Pre-screening

All papers are pre-screened to ensure that only the most significant are sent for review. Please ensure that your manuscript satisfies the following points:

• Clarity: is the English clear and well written? Poorly written English may obscure the meaning of your paper.
• Relevance: is the material appropriate to the scope of the journal to which it is submitted?
• Referencing: has reference been made to the most recent and appropriate work?
• Length: unless previously agreed with the Journals Manager, all submissions must conform to the length policy.
• Format: please submit your paper in PDF format.
  

What we look for in your submission

Risk Journals publish academically rigorous, practitioner-focused content and resources for the rapidly evolving discipline of financial risk management. The advance presented in each paper must be significant enough and of a high enough level of interest to the financial risk management community to merit publication.

Manuscripts and research papers submitted for consideration must be original work that has not previously been submitted for consideration in another journal or any other publication outlet. 

General information

Risk Journals does not have a standard template for submissions - we just ask that you ensure your paper is written clearly and follows the below guidelines.

Submitted papers should follow Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary for spelling and The Chicago Manual of Style for punctuation and other points of style, except for the minor exceptions listed below:

• Citations must be written as (John (1999); Peter (2000) and Paul (2003)) or (John (1993) and Peter (2000))
• Please use spaced en-rules for dashes
• Please write eg, and ie, without any dots and with a comma after
• There should be no punctuation around displayed equations
• No use of serial commas

The front page should include the author’s full name, affiliation and contact email address.

The abstract should be able to stand alone for direct inclusion in abstracting services as a self-contained article. This means no table numbers, figure numbers, references or displayed mathematical expressions should be included.

Only electronic submissions of will be accepted.  To submit your paper, please email it to journals@incisivemedia.com.

*NB: if your paper is for a Special Issue please make this clear when submitting your paper.

Length Policy

Abstracts must not exceed 200 words.

Research papers and technical reports should be between 8,000 -10,000 words long.

Forum papers, to be included in The Journal of Operational Risk, The Journal of Investment Strategies or The Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures, should not exceed 8,000 words.