Formatting Information for Authors

When submitting a paper to the Journal of Circular Economy, please include the following information and observe the formatting requirements:

• Full name of all authors.
• ORCID (if applicable) for each author.
• Affiliations: department, address, country/region, corresponding author’s email address.
• Abstract (ca. 150 words).
• Keywords.
• Citation style: APA 7.
• If included: tables’ and figures’ numbers and titles. All tables, figures, and images must have a source. If the Authors are the source they may be cited as such in the current year.
• Author contributions, structured as follows:
  Person X: conceptualisation, methodology, testing, etc.
  Person Y: review and editing, etc.
• Declarations:
  • Funding declarations
  • Data availability (more info below)
  • Competing interests
  • Ethics approval/consent (if applicable)
  • Open Access
  Please find our standard declaration on funding, competing interests and open access below. Authors must provide these statements themselves when providing their final draft of a manuscript.
• Data availability statement (required for all manuscripts submitted after 30 June 2025 or published after 31 December 2025): The statement must specify:
  • Whether and how the supporting data can be accessed,
  • Repository name and link (if applicable),
  • Any restrictions or conditions for access,
  • A justification if data cannot be shared (e.g., ethical, legal, proprietary reasons).

Declarations

Funding: The authors declare that no funding was received for this research.

Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

Open Access: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

The images or other third-party material in this article are included under the Creative Commons license, unless stated otherwise in a credit line. If material is not included and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, permission must be obtained directly from the copyright holder.

To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Final Manuscript Submission

When submitting your final manuscript following acceptance, please fill out this template with the contents of your manuscript. Your manuscript will be formatted by our team to the journal’s standards following submitting the manuscript in this format. Once we have received the completed template for the accepted manuscript, a preprint version will be made available on our website. Minimal edits will be made prior to publishing the preprint and the authors will not be consulted before publishing. The preprint will be de-linked once the formatted manuscript is published. All references to the preprint should hence use the DOI to direct to the source.

Any and all edits required must be undertaken by the authors before submitting their manuscript for publication formatting by the Journal of Circular Economy (JoCE). Should further edits be required, the authors will be asked to make them themselves before the publication process can continue. JoCE will not edit the contents of the manuscript, including but not limited to spelling errors, reference errors, and grammatical errors.

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