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Skill brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/Strategic-Management-Journal-Skills/skills/smj-submission

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for a Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) manuscript via ScholarOne — format, anonymization, files, and cover letter. Checks readiness; it does not write the paper or the rebuttal.From its SKILL.md

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npx -y skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smj-submission

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Submission Preflight (smj-submission)

When to trigger

  • "I'm submitting tomorrow"
  • Final check before clicking submit in ScholarOne Manuscripts
  • Unsure which files and metadata the system needs
  • Preparing the cover letter and reviewer suggestions

Before anything: verify the live guidelines

SMJ is published by Wiley on behalf of the Strategic Management Society (SMS). Submissions are handled through Wiley's workflow; legacy submissions and tracking live at ScholarOne Manuscript Central (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smj). Per the SMJ Author Instructions (last updated 23 May 2025), there is no submission fee (verify) — open access via Wiley OnlineOpen is optional and only applies after acceptance. Page limits, fee/open-access options, and required statements are periodically updated. Verify the current Author Guidelines on the official SMJ page before submitting — do not rely on remembered numbers. Use this skill for the durable process; confirm volatile specifics yourself.

Manuscript readiness

  • Structure complete: intro, theory & hypotheses, methods, results, discussion, references
  • Contribution to strategy theory is explicit in the introduction
  • Endogeneity / identification is addressed in the body (the most-scrutinized element)
  • Two abstracts: a research summary (≤125 words, stands alone, no citations) and a managerial summary (≤125 words, plain practitioner language). This dual-abstract requirement is distinctive to SMJ — AMJ/ASQ require only one abstract
  • Five (5) keywords selected; manuscript length within current guidelines (full articles ~40 pages incl. tables/figures/references; short research articles ~20 pages — verify)
  • Tables/figures self-contained; secondary material in an online supplement
  • References in APA author-date style (e.g., "(Collins, 2005a, 2005b)"); every in-text cite appears in the list and vice versa

Anonymization (double-blind)

SMJ uses double-blind review. Before upload:

  • Author names, affiliations, and acknowledgments removed from the manuscript file
  • Self-citations phrased neutrally ("prior work shows (Author, 2021)"), not "in our earlier paper"
  • Funding/acknowledgment details placed only where the system requests them, not in the main file
  • File metadata/properties scrubbed of author identity
  • File names contain no author or institution names
  • No identifying data-provider or proprietary-dataset language that reveals the team

Files & metadata in ScholarOne

  • Anonymized main manuscript (with embedded or separate exhibits per guidelines)
  • Title page with author details (separate, non-anonymized) if required
  • Cover letter (see below)
  • Online appendix / supplementary materials, if any
  • Any required statements (data availability, conflict of interest, ethics) — confirm current requirements
  • Suggested reviewers (and any opposed reviewers), if the system invites them
  • Correct article type selected (Article vs. Research Note / short article vs. special issue)

Cover letter

  • Brief: state the title, the strategy contribution in 2–3 sentences, and why SMJ (not the SMS siblings SEJ or GSJ) is the right outlet.
  • Confirm the work is original, not under review elsewhere, and that all authors approve.
  • Note any special-issue call you are responding to.
  • Do not oversell or summarize the whole paper; a Co-Editor screens it first and an action editor reads the manuscript.

Anti-patterns

  • Submitting one abstract when SMJ requires both a research summary and a managerial summary
  • Leaving author identity in metadata or acknowledgments under double-blind review
  • A reference list still in a default citation-manager style, not APA author-date
  • A cover letter that pitches generic "management" relevance instead of the strategy (competitive-advantage / performance) contribution
  • Forgetting required statements (data availability / conflicts) the system mandates
  • Routing an entrepreneurship- or internationalization-first paper to SMJ when SEJ or GSJ fits better

Output format

【Guidelines verified on official page】yes / TO DO
【Dual abstracts】research summary [n≤125] / managerial summary [n≤125]
【Keywords】[5]
【Anonymization】pass / fix: [...]
【Files staged】main, title page, cover letter, supplement, statements
【Reference style】APA author-date conformed / fix
【Article type】Article / Research Note / special issue: [name]
【Reviewer suggestions】[n]
【Next step】smj-review-process (then smj-rebuttal on decision)

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