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A practical Journal of Monetary Economics (JME) submission guide for monetary economists evaluating their work against the journal's monetary bar.

What submitting to QJE actually requires: the 5-editor Harvard team, the 62% desk-rejection bar, the 250-word abstract rule, why there's no submission fee or hard page cap, and what gets cleared at desk versus held for review.

A practical Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) submission guide for geoscientists evaluating their work against the AGU letter bar.

A practical Journal of Economic Theory (JET) submission guide for theoretical economists evaluating their work against the journal's theoretical bar.

A practical MIS Quarterly (MISQ) submission guide for IS researchers evaluating their work against the journal's IS-theory bar.

A practical One Earth submission guide for Earth-systems researchers evaluating their work against the Cell Press integrated bar.

A practical Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) submission guide for I-O psychologists evaluating their work against the journal's applied-psychology bar.

A practical Global Ecology and Biogeography (GEB) submission guide for macroecologists evaluating their work against the journal's macroecology bar.

What submitting to Biological Conservation actually requires: Vincent Devictor's editorial process at the Institute of Evolutionary Science of Montpellier, the ~50% desk-rejection rate, the Elsevier ScholarOne flow, and the editorial differences from Conservation Biology (SCB/Wiley).

What submitting to Cell Host & Microbe actually requires: the 7,000-word Article cap (figure legends count, STAR Methods doesn't), the 150-word summary, the STAR Methods format at acceptance, the $10,400 OA APC, the 3-business-day presubmission inquiry, and the ~12% acceptance rate.

A practical Academy of Management Annals submission guide for management researchers evaluating their work against the journal's comprehensive-review bar.

What submitting to Diabetologia actually requires: Hindrik Mulder's editorial process, the EASD/Springer publication model with no submission fee or page charges, the mandatory 'Research in context' 200-word summary, the rapid-triage system that routes papers to better-fitting EASD venues, and the <15% acceptance rate.

A practical Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOB) submission guide for OB researchers evaluating their work against the journal's empirical-OB bar.

What submitting to Management Science actually requires: David Simchi-Levi's department-based editorial system, the $79 fee (free for INFORMS members), the 39% desk-rejection rate, the 13.1% overall acceptance, the Fast Track vs Regular distinction, and the 65-day post-review decision commitment.

A practical Academy of Management Discoveries (AMD) submission guide for management researchers evaluating their work against the journal's exploratory bar.

A practical Journal of Biogeography (JBI) submission guide for biogeographers evaluating their work against the journal's biogeography bar.

What submitting to JPE actually requires: the $250/$125 fee structure (non-refundable, unlike JF), the 14-editor U Chicago team led by Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, the referee-credit waiver path, the 431-day median time to acceptance, and the multi-format submission policy.

A practical Journal of Applied Ecology submission guide for applied ecologists evaluating their work against the BES applied-ecology bar.

A practical Journal of Econometrics submission guide for econometricians evaluating their work against the journal's econometric-theory bar.

A practical Journal of Climate submission guide for climate researchers evaluating their work against the AMS climate-research bar.