✓ Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to confirm that their submission complies with all applicable requirements. Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal template, scope, ethical standards, or submission requirements may be returned before external peer review.

1. General Author Guidelines

1. All contributors submitting to Moneta : Journal of Economics and Finance must comply with these Author Guidelines and the journal's official manuscript template.
2. The journal welcomes original research, technical papers, conceptual studies, and case analyses in economics, finance, and related disciplines, particularly research with clear scholarly, policy, managerial, or societal relevance.
3. Relevant fields include macroeconomics, microeconomics, financial economics, public finance, monetary economics and policy, international economics and trade, development economics, corporate finance, banking and financial institutions, capital markets and investment, Islamic economics and finance, sustainable development, behavioral economics and finance, risk management, financial stability, and regional or urban economics.
4. All manuscripts undergo initial editorial screening. Eligible submissions proceed to a double-blind peer-review process involving a minimum of two independent expert reviewers.
5. Reviewers assess scientific quality, originality, methodological rigor, relevance to the journal's scope, clarity of presentation, ethical compliance, and contribution to economics or finance. The final publication decision rests with the Editor-in-Chief or authorized editorial decision maker.
6. Authors receiving a revision decision are normally expected to submit the revised manuscript within three weeks, accompanied by a clear point-by-point response to reviewer comments and an identifiable record of changes.
7. The manuscript must be written in English. The journal uses American English as its default language style. Authors are responsible for grammar, clarity, consistency, terminology, and academic readability.
8. The journal uses plagiarism-detection procedures. Plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, inappropriate authorship, manipulated data, invented citations, and other breaches of publication ethics may result in rejection, correction, retraction, or further editorial action.
9. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy of all reported data, statistical analyses, citations, interpretations, conclusions, and declarations, including any content assisted by AI tools.
10. Submissions outside the journal's Focus and Scope or those that materially depart from the official template may be declined or returned without external review.

2. Manuscript Format

Authors must prepare their manuscripts directly using the official Moneta submission template. The preset formatting in the template takes precedence over manually applied formatting.

3.1 Title

The title must be concise, informative, and accurately reflect the principal focus or contribution of the manuscript.

• Maximum length: 16 words.
• Do not include the year of the research.
• Avoid unnecessary terms, uncommon abbreviations, unexplained symbols, and overly broad wording.
• Where possible, communicate the main phenomenon, relationship, context, result, or contribution.
• Titles should be specific enough to support indexing and discoverability.

3.2 Author Names and Affiliations

• Write each author's full name without academic or professional titles.
• List authors in the order agreed upon by all contributors.
• Provide complete institutional affiliation, including faculty/department where applicable, institution, city/region, and country.
• Use superscript numbers to connect authors with their affiliations when required by the template.
• Designate one corresponding author using an asterisk (*).
• Provide a valid and actively monitored email address and the correspondence details required by the template.
• Authors are encouraged to provide ORCID iDs and maintain consistent author-name metadata.

3.3 Abstract

The abstract must provide a concise, self-contained summary of the study and follow the structure established in the journal template.

The abstract should communicate the following elements in a coherent sequence:

3.4 Keywords

Provide exactly four (4) keywords immediately after the abstract. Separate keywords using semicolons as required by the journal template.

• Select specific terms representing the main constructs, markets, policies, methods, or economic/financial phenomena examined.
• Prefer established disciplinary terminology that supports indexing and discoverability.
• Avoid duplicating broad words that add little retrieval value.

3.5 Introduction

The Introduction should establish why the study matters, what is already known, what remains unresolved, and what the manuscript contributes.

The narrative should normally establish:

1. the economic, financial, policy, institutional, or practical context of the problem;
2. the specific research problem and its scholarly significance;
3. the theoretical or conceptual background relevant to the study;
4. the current state of the art supported by relevant and recent literature;
5. the unresolved research or literature gap;
6. the novelty or distinctive contribution of the study;
7. the research question(s), hypotheses or propositions where relevant; and
8. clear research objectives.

3.6 Method

The Method section must provide sufficient methodological transparency for readers and reviewers to assess the validity, reliability, and reproducibility of the research.

The section should be adapted to the research design. For empirical economics and finance research, authors should normally report:

Authors should justify methodological choices rather than merely list procedures. For secondary public datasets where formal ethics approval is not applicable, state this clearly when an ethics statement is required.

3.7 Result and Discussion

In accordance with the official manuscript structure, findings and their interpretation should be presented within the Result and Discussion section. Subheadings may be used where needed to organize analyses, hypotheses, themes, models, or research questions.

3.8 Conclusion

The Conclusion must directly correspond with the research objectives and findings and should provide a concise synthesis rather than repeat the entire Result and Discussion section.

The Conclusion should:

• answer the main research question(s) or objectives;
• summarize the principal findings;
• state the study's theoretical, empirical, methodological, policy, financial, or managerial contribution;
• identify appropriate implications for scholarship, policy, institutions, markets, organizations, or practice;
• acknowledge important limitations; and
• provide focused directions for future research.

3.9 Acknowledgments

Authors may acknowledge individuals, institutions, organizations, administrative or technical personnel, data providers, or other parties that supported the research or publication process but do not meet authorship criteria. Where AI-assisted language or structural support has been used, disclosure should be made in the Acknowledgments or Methods section as required by the journal's AI policy.

3.10 Declarations and Research Transparency

Authors must provide accurate declarations relevant to the manuscript. These statements support transparency, accountability, reproducibility, and publication ethics.

3.11 References

The reference list must contain only works cited in the manuscript. Every in-text citation must have a corresponding reference entry, and every listed reference must be cited in the text.

4. Tables, Figures, Equations, and Statistical Reporting

5. Generative Artificial Intelligence and AI-Assisted Technologies

Moneta permits limited, transparent, and responsible use of AI-based tools where they support communication quality without replacing the authors' intellectual and scientific contribution.

6. Data Sharing and Reproducibility

All submitted manuscripts must include a Data Availability Statement. Authors should state whether supporting data are included in the article, deposited in a repository, available from the corresponding author, or subject to legitimate restrictions.

• Recognized repositories such as Zenodo, Figshare, Harvard Dataverse, Dryad, Open Science Framework, or suitable institutional/disciplinary repositories are encouraged where appropriate.
• Open, reusable formats and sufficient metadata/documentation are encouraged to support replication and secondary analysis.
• Confidential, personal, proprietary, or legally restricted data must be handled in accordance with applicable ethical and legal requirements.
• Where public sharing is not possible, explain the reason and any conditions under which qualified access may be provided.
• Datasets that are publicly deposited should be appropriately cited and linked using a persistent identifier where available.

7. Appendices and Supplementary Materials

Appendices may include survey instruments, interview protocols, additional model specifications, robustness tests, variable definitions, supporting tables, supplementary figures, coding procedures, or other materials that assist readers and reviewers without unnecessarily interrupting the main manuscript. Supplementary materials must be clearly labeled and referenced in the main text.

8. Peer Review and Revision

Final Manuscript Quality Check