Submitting a Working Paper

Submitting a Working Paper

What to send:

  1. A Working Paper submission form.
    Download in PDF
    Download in MS Word

  2. Two hard copies of your paper

    Formatting Guidlines: your paper should have 1 inch margins, be double spaced, use 12pt font size or larger, and be on 8 1/2 by 11 in paper. If at all possible, please use a standard font such as Times Roman.

  3. An electronic copy of your paper on diskette or via e-mail. (optional*)
    Acceptable formats are: MS Word, Word Perfect, TeX, HTML, or PDF.

  4. Electronic Appendices (optional)
    You can make data or other related material available on-line.
    We will put a hotlink on the abstract to direct readers to this information.

* Scanned papers generate very large PDF files. These large files may present difficulties for users overseas or with dial-up connections. For this reason, we are trying to avoid scanning whenever possible. Providing a diskette with your paper will allow us to convert your paper to PDF without scanning. If you wish to create your own PDF file, please read these suggestions for producing documents that will display and print correctly on all computers.

After your paper has been converted to PDF, you will receive an e-mail from lbethard with a link to an electronic copy of your paper. She will ask you to review the PDF version to make sure that your paper (especially your equations) were not altered in the conversion. Thank you for taking the time to do this. If you do not respond to her e-mail, your paper will be posted.

Where to send it:

Laura Bethard
National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
lbethard@nber.org

If you have questions about a working paper you already submitted, please contact Laura Bethard at (617)588-1403 or lbethard@nber.org