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 source is not the paper itself. Tables must as a general rule not be in the form of a picture but instead created within the document itself. The journal does not format tables from scratch.
• 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 with relevant data 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 ensure all the details above are incorporated into the manuscript. Once we have received the final edit of the authors the manuscript will be formatted by the journal for publication. The authors will be provided with the final draft before publication for their approval.

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.