Provenance Declaration by Authors and Commitment to Service as Reviewer

Authors must disclose the following information when they submit a paper to the MIS Quarterly:

• Other papers on closely related research that they have written and that have been published or accepted for publication, that are under consideration at another journal or the MIS Quarterly, or that have been presented at conferences.
• Other papers that use the same data or a subset of the data as used in the MIS Quarterly submission.
• Other papers on closely related research that have been rejected for publication on a previous submission to the MIS Quarterly.

In the event any of the above information needs to be disclosed, authors should explain why their submission to MIS Quarterly makes a sufficient contribution to knowledge over and above the other paper(s) to merit consideration by MIS Quarterly. In this regard, authors are encouraged to seek the advice of colleagues who will provide forthright, independent advice on the extent of the unique contribution of their MIS Quarterly submission relative to their other paper(s). Further, authors are strongly encouraged to address concerns raised by a review team that may have rejected an earlier version of the paper at another journal.

If authors submit a paper on a closely related topic to another journal subsequent to their submission to MIS Quarterly, they must immediately notify the senior editor responsible for their MIS Quarterly submission.

Articles published in or under consideration for other journals or as book chapters must not be submitted.

Papers submitted to or awaiting presentation at a conference must not be submitted in exactly the same form as the conference submission; there must be substantive differences between the conference paper and the MISQ submission. Similarly, papers already presented at conferences must be heavily revised (ideally, taking advantage of feedback received at the conference) in order to receive consideration.

In recognition that their submission requires the use of a scarce resource, the services of editors and reviewers, authors, by the act of submission, are implicitly promising to serve as a reviewer on three MIS Quarterly papers during the year, if asked.