Journal of Causal Inference

MANUSCRIPTS
Journal of Causal Inference encourages the submission of substantial full-length bodies of work. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner.

All submissions must be made via online submission system ScholarOne. In case of problems, please contact the Editorial Office of this journal (jci_editorial@degruyter.com).

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts have to be written in LATEX, AMS-TEX, AMS-LATEX. We do not accept papers in Plain TEX format. For an initial submission, the authors are strongly advised to upload their entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file. Authors are strongly advised to submit the final version of the paper using the journal’s LaTex Template.

For detailed information, please see Instruction for Authors

EDITORIAL POLICY
Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.
Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.
Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists. Authors are encouraged to fill in the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Form (available here) and send it in the electronic format to the Managing Editor.
Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the License To Publish. Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.
Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication. For more details the role of authors please see: https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/for-authors/for-journal-authors/role-of-authors
Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.
Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.

Editors
Elias Bareinboim, Columbia University, USA
Jin Tian, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE
Iván Díaz, New York University, USA

Editorial Advisory Board
Kosuke Imai, Harvard University, USA
Judea Pearl, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Maya Petersen, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, USA
Mark van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, USA

Editorial Board
Alberto Abadie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Laura Balzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
David Benkeser, Emory University, USA
Marco Carone, University of Washington, USA
Matias Cattaneo, Princeton University, USA
Antoine Chambaz, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France
Carlos Cinelli, University of Washington, USA
Rhian Daniel, Cardiff University, UK
Philip Dawid, University of Cambridge, UK
Peng Ding, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Avi Feller, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Maria Glymour, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Joseph Halpern, Cornell University, USA
Larry Han, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
Nima Hejazi, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
Jennifer Hill, New York University, USA
Christopher Hitchcock, California Institute of Technology, USA
Paul Hünermund, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Cheng Ju, University of California Berkeley, USA
Luke Keele, Georgetown University, USA
Manabu Kuroki, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan
Karthika Mohan, Oregon State University, USA
Joris Mooij, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Romain Neugebauer, Kaiser Permanente, USA
Jonas Peters, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Sam Pimentel, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Helene Rytgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ilya Shpitser, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ricardo Silva, University College London, UK
Elizabeth Stuart, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Teppei Yamamoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Editorial Contact
Kumaran Rengaswamy
Assistant Managing Editor, Compuscript
journal.editor@degruyter.com

Managing Editor
Monika Maleszka
Monika.Maleszka@degruyterbrill.com

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