| name | govern-submission |
| description | Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript on the Wiley submission system — double-blind anonymization plus separate title page, the ≤ 9,000-word cap, ~150-word abstract, the Data Availability Statement, ORCID, and scope self-check. Final checks; it does not draft content. |
Submission Preflight (govern-submission)
The last check before pressing submit on the Wiley submission system. Governance is double-blind,
so the single most common avoidable failure is an under-anonymized manuscript — followed closely by a
scope miss (corporate governance or a literature review) that the desk rejects on sight. Verify the
volatile specifics on the official page before relying on them.
When to trigger
- "Submitting tomorrow" — last pass before upload
- Unsure which files/metadata the Wiley portal expects
- Confirming the cap is met, the manuscript is anonymized, and the scope is in remit
Process facts (verify volatile items on the official page)
- Owner / publisher: Wiley(-Blackwell), in association with IPSA Research Committee 27 —
Structure & Organization of Government (SOG). Founded 1988; quarterly. ISSN 0952-1895 (print) /
1468-0491 (online).
- Editors-in-Chief: Paolo Graziano (University of Padova) and Adam Sheingate (Johns Hopkins University) (verified 2026-06-22; re-verify the masthead before submission).
- Portal: Wiley submission system ("Wiley Authors" / Research Exchange). Older guidance
references ScholarOne, but Wiley migrated to its new system — verify the live portal (检索于
2026-06；以官网为准).
- Review model: double-blind — at least two referees review anonymously; anonymize the
manuscript and provide a separate title page.
- Length: ≤ 9,000 words excluding citations/bibliography as the working cap (a third-party
listing cites 3,000–5,000; treat the official 9,000 as binding, 待核实).
- Abstract: ~150 words.
- Data Availability Statement: required at submission (states whether replication materials are
available and how to access them; DOI-citable repository recommended). It is mandatory as a statement
but not a verified pre-publication reproduction gate (see
govern-transparency-and-data).
- Citation style: author-date style typical for the field; confirm the exact style on the live Wiley/
journal guidelines (待核实).
- ORCID: per Wiley norms for the corresponding author (待核实).
- Fee: no submission fee (verified 2026-06-22). Hybrid Wiley journal; Gold OA via Wiley OnlineOpen is optional post-acceptance — confirm the journal-specific APC on the live Wiley OnlineOpen pricing page before choosing open access.
Preflight checklist
Scope & length
Anonymity (double-blind)
Transparency & format
Files & compliance
Anti-patterns
- Leaving author identifiers in the text, acknowledgments, or file metadata (breaks double-blind)
- Submitting a corporate-governance paper or a bare literature review (desk-rejected on scope)
- Abstract well past ~150 words; manuscript over 9,000 words with material that belongs in the supplement
- Omitting the Data Availability Statement (it is required at submission)
- Trusting older ScholarOne references instead of confirming the live Wiley portal
Output format
【Scope】in remit (exec politics / policy / PA / state)? not corporate gov / lit-review? [Y/N]
【Length】≤ 9,000 words excl. citations/bibliography? abstract ~150? [Y/N]
【Anonymized】text + self-refs + file metadata clean; separate title page? [Y/N]
【Data Availability Statement】included + matched to materials? [Y/N]
【Style + ORCID】author-date consistent; ORCID ready? [Y/N]
【Portal】Wiley submission system confirmed live? [Y/N]
【Next】await decision → govern-rebuttal on R&R
Supplementary resources
