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Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript — the SFS Editorial Express portal, cover letter, formatting, Internet Appendix, submission fee, and SFS norms. Checks readiness; does NOT write the paper or the rebuttal.

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# Submission Preflight (rfs-submission)

## When to trigger

- "We submit this week"
- Final check before clicking submit on the portal
- Unsure which files the portal expects (manuscript, IA, cover letter, code/data)

## Portal & process

- RFS submits through the **SFS Editorial Express portal** (editorialexpress.com), reached from sfs.org/review-of-financial-studies/submit-a-paper — **not** ScholarOne or Editorial Manager. Create/verify your account.
- The handling structure is an **Executive Editor (Tarun Ramadorai, LSE/Imperial, 2024–2027) → handling Editor → referees**. An Editor desk-screens before sending out; many manuscripts never reach referees.
- **Submission fee** (tiered by World Bank income band and SFS membership; schedule effective 8 July 2024, **re-verified 2026-06-22** on sfs.org): high-income economies **$400 SFS member / $460 non-member**; middle-income (all coauthors resident) **$260 / $320**; low-income **waived**. Desk-reject refund **$200** (high-income) / **$130** (middle-income); an appeal costs **$860**. SFS membership lets you submit to any SFS journal at the member rate, so joining is often cheaper than the non-member differential. The fee is **waived for current-year SFS members on a conditionally accepted paper** and for invited dual submissions (first round); **re-verify the current figures on sfs.org/review-of-financial-studies/submit-a-paper before submitting**.
- **Two RFS-specific on-ramps JF/JFE lack:** (1) **Registered Reports** — Stage 1 design-only review and in-principle acceptance (`rfs-identification`); (2) **dual submission with the SFS Cavalcade** — the conference reviews the paper and forwards it with reviews to RFS *at no charge*; do not also submit it to RFS directly while that is pending. For an invited Cavalcade dual submission, the **first-round fee is waived**.
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