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Jagannath University Journal of Business Studies (JnUJBS)

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

Criteria

Research Articles should present originality in findings and insights and offer theoretical, empirical, experimental, and methodological advances to their respective research fields. Null and negative findings and re-analyses of previous studies leading to new and confirmatory results are also encouraged.

Language

All articles must be written in good English. UK and US English are accepted, but this must be consistent throughout the manuscript.

Authors

All authors should have contributed significantly to the work and agree to be accountable for the parts of the work they have done. All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following:

The conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data.
Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
Final approval of the version to be submitted.

All authors should agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work to ensure that the questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

1. Title

Please provide a concise and specific title that clearly reflects the content of the article.

2. Abstract

Abstracts should be up to 200 words long and provide a succinct article summary. Although the abstract should explain why the article might be interesting, the importance of the work should not be over-emphasized. Citations should not be used in the abstract. Abbreviations, if needed, should be spelled out. Abstracts are structured into Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.

3. Keywords

Authors should supply up to FIVE relevant keywords that describe the subject of their article. These will improve the visibility of your article.

4. Main Body

The format of the article's main body is flexible: it should be concise, making it easy to read and review, and presented in a format appropriate for the type of study presented. A Research Article should be no more than 8,000 words (including references and appendices).

For most Research Articles, the following standard format will be the most appropriate:

Introduction: The introduction should clearly state the objectives of your work. We recommend that you provide an adequate background to your work but avoid writing a detailed literature overview or summary of your results.
Literature Review: A literature review needs to draw on and evaluate a range of different types of sources, including academic and professional journal articles, books, and web-based resources.
Methodology: The methodology section should provide sufficient details about your methods to allow your work to be reproduced by an independent researcher. Some guidelines:

If the method you used has already been published, provide a summary and reference the originally published method.
If you are quoting directly from a previously published method, use quotation marks and cite the source.
Describe any modifications that you have made to existing methods.

Analysis and Findings: Analysis and findings should be clear and concise. We advise you to read the sections in this guide on supplying tables, artwork, supplementary material and sharing research data. This section should also explore the significance of your results but not repeat them. We recommend that you avoid the use of extensive citations and discussion of published literature in the discussion section.
Conclusions: The conclusion section should present the main conclusions of your study. You may have a stand-alone conclusions section or include your conclusions in a subsection of your discussion or results and discussion section.

5. Acknowledgments

This section should acknowledge anyone who contributed to the research or the writing of the article but who does not qualify as an author; please clearly state how they contributed. Authors should obtain permission to include the name and affiliation, from all those mentioned in the Acknowledgments section. Please note that grant funding should not be listed here.

6. Funding sources

Authors must disclose any funding sources who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article. The role of sponsors, if any, should be declared in relation to the study design, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, writing of the report and decision to submit the article for publication. If funding sources had no such involvement this should be stated in your submission.

7. Tables

Tables must be submitted as editable text, not as images. Some guidelines:

Place tables next to the relevant text of your article.
Number tables consecutively according to their appearance in the text.
Please provide captions along with the tables.
Place any table notes below the table body.

We recommend that you use tables sparingly, ensuring that any data presented in tables is not duplicating results described elsewhere in the article.

8. Figures, images, and artwork

Figures, images, artwork, diagrams, and other graphical media must be supplied as separate files along with the manuscript.

9. References

9.1 References within text

Any references cited within your article should also be present in your reference list and vice versa. Some guidelines:

APA Style Citation and Reference for Journal Article

Material Type

In-Text Example

Reference List Example

Journal Article: Single author

"Black tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world after water” (Ruxton, 2016, p. 34).
OR
Ruxton (2016) suggests "Unsweetened tea can be part of a recommended diet” (p. 40).

Include page numbers for direct quotes.

Ruxton, C. (2016). Tea: Hydration and other health benefits. Primary Health Care, 26(8), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.7748/phc.2016.e1162

Where a DOI is available it must be included at the end of the reference, in the format https://doi.org/10.xxxx

Journal Article: 2 authors

... connection and optimism (Aspy & Proeve, 2017), but others contend ...
OR
Aspy and Proeve (2017) have found ...

Cite both authors each time the reference occurs.

Aspy, D. J., & Proeve, M. (2017). Mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation: Effects on connectedness to humanity and to the natural world. Psychological Reports, 120(1), 102-117. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294116685867

Journal Article: 3 to 20 authors

(Wilmott et al., 2018)
OR
Wilmott et al. (2018) noted that…

Cite only the surname of the first author followed by et al. and the year.

Wilmott, C., Fraser, E., & Lammes, S. (2018). ‘I am he. I am he. Siri rules': Work and play with the Apple Watch, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 21(1), 78-95. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417705605

Provide the names of all authors in the reference list.

Journal Article: 21 or more authors

Research indicated that "lost sense of smell is a factor" (Khan et al., 2017, p. 344).

Khan et al. (2019) used criteria which included "reduced or lost sense of smell" (p. 344).

Cite only the surname of the first author followed by et al. and the year. Include page numbers for direct quotes.

Khan, A., Huynh, T. M. T., Vandeplas, G., Joish, V. N., Mannent, L. P., Tomassen P., van Zele, T., Cardell, L.O., Arebro, J., Olze, H., Forster-Ruhrmann, U., Kowalski, M. L., Olszewska-Ziaber, A., Fokkens, W., van Drunen, C., Mullol, J., Alobid, I., Hellings, P.W., Hox, V., …Bachert, C. (2019). The GALEN rhinosinusitis cohort: Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps affects health-related quality of life. Rhinology, 57(5), 343-351. https://doi.org/10.4193/Rhin19.158

Provide the names of the first 19 authors, insert an ellipsis […] (but no ampersand [&]), then add the final author's name.

Journal Article from most Library databases: No DOI

Nairne and Wilkinson (2018) assert that "our relationship with ourselves is essential to how we each show up professionally" (p. 106).

"Our relationship with ourselves is essential to how we each show up professionally" (Nairne & Wilkinson, 2018, p. 106).

Nairne, D. C., & Wilkinson, H. (2018). What’s love got to do with it? Vermont Connection, 39(1), 106-112.

An article retrieved from most Library databases that does not have a DOI can be presented as though it were a print article.

Journal Article from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

The review included 78 trials employing a variety of intervention approaches (Hodder et al., 2019).

Hodder et al. (2019) identified 78 relevant trials that employed a variety of intervention approaches.

Hodder, R. K., O'Brien, K. M., Stacey, F. G., Tzelepis, F., Wyse, R. J., Bartlem, K. M., Sutherland, R., James, E. L., Barnes, C., & Wolfenden, L. (2019). Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD008552.pub6

Articles in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews can only be retrieved from this database, therefore the name of the database (in italics) is included as the source of the article.

Online Journal Article: No DOI

(With an Article Number)

Marion et al. (2018) explore whether evil characters in film share ...

... including stereotypical depictions of evil characters in film (Marion et al., 2018).

Marion, T., Reese, V., & Wagner, R. F. (2018). Dermatologic features in good film characters who turn evil: The transformation. Dermatology Online Journal, 24(9), Article 4. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1666h4z5

For an online journal article with no DOI (other than those retrieved from a Library database), provide the direct URL for the article.

For journal issues with article numbers (rather than consecutive pagination) replace with page numbers with the word 'Article' followed by the article number or eLocator.

Print Journal Article: No DOI assigned

… Aussie Rules is the people’s game (Duncan, 2016)…

Duncan (2016) states that a sense of belonging…

Duncan, S. (2016). Voices from the grandstands: The attitudes of Australian football fans towards the concept of creating, developing and binding communities. Sporting Traditions, 33(2), 19-40.

Note: Where a print journal article has a DOI you must include it, even though you did not access the electronic version.

Online Journal Article: No page numbers

... in all outcomes (Christensen et al., 2019).
OR
Christensen et al. (2019) examine ...

For direct quotes of online material without pagination, name the sections and paragraph number:

The authors' "objective was to identify control journals that did not require data posting" (Christensen et al., 2019, Broad Analysis section, para. 4).

Christensen, G., Dafoe, A., Miguel, E., Moore, D. A., & Rose, A. K. (2019). A study of the impact of data sharing on article citations using journal policies as a natural experiment. PLoS ONE, 14(2), Article e0225883. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225883

Secondary Sources: When you are referring to the ideas or words of an author who has been cited in another work. Also called 'secondary citation'.

Only recommended where the original work cannot be obtained.

Constituting a “global movement toward a more naturalistic approach for childbirth” (Goldbas, 2012, as cited in Sullivan & McGuiness, 2015, p. 20).
OR
Goldbas’s overview (2012, as cited in Sullivan & McGuiness, 2015) indicates…

Provide names of both authors.

Where the year is known for the original work, include it as well as the year of the publication you read.

Sullivan, D. H., & McGuiness, C. (2015). Natural labor pain management. International Journal of Childbirth Education, 30(2), 20-25. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/sn_pubs/51/

Provide the full reference for the journal article that you actually read.