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Journal of Student Managed Investment Funds

The first issue will be published Fall 2024.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND REQUIREMENTS

We invite investment professors and students to contribute articles on the various aspects of investing, portfolio management, trading, and administration in student managed portfolios. To help prospective authors understand that style, we have provided the following guidelines. The editors reserve the right to make changes for clarity and consistency.

Topics should be of interest to a practitioner of student investment management funds. Topics that cannot be used in the management of student portfolios will be rejected without review. Our journal aims for a readable style. Suggestions of preferred writing style include:

Keep in mind that writing is for the readers.

Write the way you talk.

Keep it simple. Brevity and conciseness are valued.

Create interest. Colorful language and examples are encouraged.

Formatting

FILE FORMAT

All papers must be in PDF or Word format and submitted electronically.

TITLE PAGE

The first page of your paper should be a title page that includes the names, affiliation and contract information for the authors, the title of the manuscript, and an abstract of not more than 100 words. Designation of a corresponding author is required.

LENGTH

Your manuscript must not exceed 50 pages in length (with at least 1.5 line spacing, 12-point font, 1-inch side margins, and 1.5-inch top/bottom margins). This page limit includes internal appendices, reference lists, figures, and tables. Papers exceeding this page limit will be immediately desk-rejected.

ARTICLE FORMAT

Place all equations on the same indents as for paragraphs.
Place end notes at the end of the article on a separate page, organized by superscript Arabic numbers, and please follow the exact style found in this journal.
References, endnotes, tables, and figures should appear on separate pages at the end of the text.
Limit references to works cited in the text and list them alphabetically. Citations in the text should appear as “Smith [1990] suggests that ...” Use page numbers for quotes.
Number and title all exhibits, with one to a page. Write out the column heads and legends; they should be understandable without reference to the text.

Submission Fees

NOTE: As part of the journal launch, all submission fees will be paid by The Center for Investment Research for submissions received by December 31, 2024.

SMIFC Members:

$300

Non-Members:

$350

Submission fees will be paid via credit card (Visa, MasterCard or American Express) as part of the submission procedure.

Open Access

The Journal of Student Managed Funds is currently an open access journal with articles freely available to everyone, including non-subscribers. In the future there may be an additional fee for open access articles. In addition, the journal allows authors to self-archive pre-publication versions of their accepted paper in online repositories such as SSRN or authors’ own websites.

Submission

When an author has followed all the submission requirements above, they can submit a new paper to the Journal of Student Managed Investment Funds by emailing the paper to submissions@smifjournal.com or by submitting the article via the form below.

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