SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Abstract format:

1. Please send a Word document to Daniella Ryding: daniella.ryding@manchester.ac.uk.

2. Include title/s, author name/s, institution/s, country/ies.

3. The abstract should be between 150-300 words in length.

4. The main body should include:

   • A brief introduction or background/key issues from the literature,

   • An overview of the methods and

   • Results/findings if any.

5. Five key words.

Deadiline for abstract submission: February 1st 2016

Acceptance notice: within February 8th

Deadline for registration and payment: February 12th

 

Paper format:

Please supply the text of your article in a Microsoft Word file. All of the text must have the minimum of word processing features.

Give your article a title; and list all of the authors at the top of the page. Include an abstract of no more than 300 words and also a list of keywords.

Attach the document in a email to Daniella Ryding: daniella.ryding@manchester.ac.uk

Deadiline for full paper submission: March 30th 2016

 

Paragraph features and layout
The text should be in Arial (size 12) using the following features:

• Single-line spacing

• Left-aligned text, unjustified

• A single space between sentences

• A single carriage return between paragraphs

• No additional paragraph formatting, e.g. Word headings or style

 

Headings

If the pattern of headings is complex, please distinguish them by making main headings bold, the next level normal and the subheadings in italics.

 

Display features
Do not use any automatic features of Word-like blobbed and numbered lists. Put theses in via your keyboard with the numbers, blobs and tab spacing. Set up tables and figures as simply as possible so that they can be converted for typesetting. Only cross-reference tables and figures in the main file; at the very least, put them on separate pages-ideally, send additional Word or Excel files.

Warning: Do not, under any circumstances, send graphics or pictures embedded in Word Files. Most Word graphics are inextricable from text files. Please type out your captions separately in Word and send in a hard copy of how you would like the diagram to look.

 

The text
For the word, be as consistent as you can with spelling, references and nomenclature.

• Use English ‘connection’, ‘colour’, ‘capitalise’, spellings in preference to US ‘x’, ‘or’, and ‘z’. If there is variable spelling, please use your word processor to check that you have used it consistently.

• Numbers should be words from one to ten and in figures thereafter using commas to separate large ones e.g. 1,000,000.

• Where you use a blobbed list, the entries should be punctuated as sentences – with capital letters and full stops – where they involve a verb , like this one.

• If the list is part of a sentence like the one for paragraph features above no punctuation will be required until the last blob.

• Punctuation should be kept to a minimum and full stops only left for genuine abbreviations like e.g. or ibid. (n.b. there is no extra space) For references please see below.

• Capitalisation of initial letters should also be kept to a minimum. Only dignify titles with capitals where a specific managing director, professor or senior lecturer is mentioned. The initial letters of proper names and titles of books and magazines are capitalised; the titles of articles and the headings in your article will not be. Do not capitalise the internet.

• Only the initial letter of the first word of a heading or the article title should be capitalised – follow the style of this page. No full stops at the end of headings.

• Spell out the contents of the acronym in brackets after it; the International Journal of Management Cases (IJMC). For subsequent references, DSA is fine.

• Use en dashes – like these – without space for parenthesis. Don’t worry if you cannot find these on your machine, they can be put in later. All number series, particularly page references to articles in endnotes, should be separated by an en dash without space: e.g. pp 228 – 412.

• Use single ‘smart’ (i.e. curly) quotes for all quotations and inverted commas, except where there is a quotation inside a quotation, then use double ones.

• Use conventional abbreviations for quantities, without spaces between the number and the measure: so £10m, 35% or 25kg, and no extra full stops are required.

• Show percentages as a figure (35%) rather than spelling it out (per cent).

 

References

The list of books, articles and sources referred to is placed at the end of the article. It is important that the Harvard referencing system is adopted.

 

Note

• The handling of author initials

• Of multiple authors if there are no more than three use et al (no full stops)

• Book and journal article titles receive contrasting treatment

• There is no full stop with p or pp

• An en dash between the page numbers with no full stop at the end

Also, US spelling conventions are observed in the spelling of US references, following the original.

 

Pictures
Please send pictures as separate email attachments. Colour or greyscale jpegs are fine, but they must be at least 300 dpi in quality, and larger than you expect them to be reproduced.

 

Procedures

Copyright
When an article is accepted for IJMC the publishers will wish you to assign them the exclusive copyright and you will be sent an assignment form. The author(s) may use the material with appropriate acknowledgement in their other works.

Permissions
Copyright material, including others’ unpublished work, must not be used without written permission of the author and the publisher and it is the responsibility of the author(s) of the articles to ensure that this is obtained and shown to the publisher.

Author’s copies
Authors are entitled to one copy of the issue in which their article appears and these will be forwarded by the publishers as soon as they are available.

 

Brief statement summarising the main points for ethical procedure

All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted manuscript and completed all the relevant journal documentation. Manuscripts may be rejected by the editorial office if it is felt that the work was not carried out within an ethical framework.

 

Competing interests
Authors must declare all potential competing interests involving people or organisations that might reasonably be perceived as relevant. Ethical approval for any type of research project needs to be obtained by a relevant body and a statement to this effect shown in the paper submission. This will be vetted at the review stage.

 

Editors and Reviewers responsibilities
Editors will blind referee all manuscripts as will reviewers, to the guidelines explicitly highlighted by COPE.

http://publicationethics.org

 

Plagiarism
Plagiarism in any form constitutes a serious violation of the most basic principles of scholarship and cannot be tolerated. Examples of plagiarism include:

Word-for-word copying of portions of another’s writing without enclosing the copied passage in quotation marks and acknowledging the source in the appropriate scholarly convention. The referencing code is not important but the referencing source is.
The use of a particularly unique term or concept that one has come across in reading without acknowledging the author or source is constituted as plagiarism. This is a difficult area to stipulate as any contribution to knowledge may infringe on other peoples’ work.

The paraphrasing or abbreviated restatement of someone else’s ideas without acknowledging that another person’s text has been the basis for the paraphrasing is also an example of plagiarism. It goes without saying, that paraphrasing does take place as long as it’s realistic and not the basis of the published work.

False citation: material should not be attributed to a source from which it has not been obtained. Every endeavour for correctness has to be secured, notwithstanding errors can be made.

Unacknowledged multiple submission of a paper for several purposes without prior approval from the parties involved. Notwithstanding that papers with similar empirical materials are submitted to differing journals.