General Guidelines for authors
Structure of the article:
Article length: Between 6000 and 8000 words maximum, including notes and bibliography.
Titles and paragraphs
The text needs to be typed in Word doc.
– Font Times New Roman
– Format 12, Single Line spacing
Text presentation
Checklist of Manuscript and Submission (Very Important Items): In particular, the following must be addressed and met the requirements and guidelines:
1. IJGMBS Engagement: If the literature current, relevant, and broad enough to set the context for the research, you should engage with the style and the discussions published in IJGMBS. The work in the journal evolved considerably as you can see on IJGMBS Archive. To fully contribute to the subject, you will need to engage with IJGMBS. To do so: you should include at least 3 – 5 relevant references in IJGMBS. Your paper should reflect the cutting edge thinking of relevant literature in IJGMBS.
2. Abstract: Abstract must adhere to the following: A concise and factual abstract is required. Please rewrite abstract to reach about 200 words in total for this purpose from current 314 words in your case. The abstract should describe the following items in order of: 1) the purpose of the research (The study aims to investigate…, 2) data, materials, and methodology (This study employs samples/survey data/time series data of ….), 3) the results (The results show/reveal that ……), and 4) major findings (The findings of this study suggest that …, in an unstructured manner. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.
3. Tables and Figures: IJGMBS accepts Tables/Figures created by the author’s own work only. Number Tables/Figures consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Tables must be adjustable. Avoid vertical rules. Extremely large tables that take more than one page print are NOT acceptable. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. A paper in IJGMBS from now on may include a maximum of six (6) tables/figures/appendixes in total. In particular, IJGMBS does not accept any figures/artworks borrowed from others (i.e. output of AMOS, charts and reports of Statistics Agency’s), if not created by the author’s own creative work. Please reduce a number of tables/figures/appendixes and resize/adjust the oversized tables to fit in a single page print, if any corrections required in your case.
4. Citation and Reference Style Guides: Authors are expected to adhere to the guidelines of APA 6th or 7th edition (American Psychological Association). Please provide full information of publications complying with the APA citation and reference styles. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa).
Please note that your manuscript will be reviewed and will not publish your paper if does not comply with the following instructions:
1. Template instructions such as paper length, margins, and fonts embedding, title, authors and their affiliations, abstract, introduction, conclusions, References …
2. The plagiarism is higher than 15%
3. Manuscript has been ‘spell checked’ and ‘grammar checked’
4. Check for the number of self-citation (preferably less than 3) and we invite you to refer
5. All list of references must be cited in the body text and are listed in bibliography section and all figures and tables must be cited in the text and before they can be inserted in the body text
6. Caption of tables should be above the table and must be in the same page of the table.
7. Caption of figures should be below the figure and must be in the same page of the figure.
8. Check the type of references used and avoid use of Wikipedia references, etc.
9. Make sure that at least one third of all references are in the last 10 years.
10. Acknowledgements: Please list those who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance, proofreading the article, etc.).