Business Perspectives and Research

Guidelines for Contributors
 

1.  Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to: Dr. Preeti S. Rawat, Professor OB/HR, Editor-Business Perspectives and Research, K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research,Vidyanagar, Vidyavihar, Mumbai 400077; e-mail: bpr@somaiya.edu
    
2. Business Perspectives and Research adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties.
    
3.  Contributors must provide their affiliations and complete postal and e-mail addresses with their articles.
    
4. Articles should not exceed 6,000 words. All articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150–200 words. Notes should be numbered serially and presented at the end of the article. Notes must contain more than a mere reference.
    
5. Use American spellings rather than British throughout (“labor” not “labour,” “center” not “centre”; universal “-ize” and “-zation” of words). Use serial comma.
    
6. Use double quotes throughout. Single quotes only to be used within double quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed. Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text and indented with one space with a line space above and below.
    
7.  Use ‘twentieth century’, ‘1980s’. Spell out numbers from one to nine, 10 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements, use only figures (3 km, 9 per cent, not %). Use thousands and millions, not lakhs and crores.
    
8. Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimized, but used consistently. Tables and figures to be indicated by numbers separately (see Table 1), not by placement (see Table below). Present each table and figure on a separate sheet of paper, gathering them together at the end of the article. All Figures and Tables should be cited in the text. Source for figures and tables should be mentioned irrespective of whether or not they require permissions.
    
9. All photographs and scanned images should have a resolution of minimum 300 dpi/1500 pixels and their format should be TIFF or JPEG. Due permissions should be taken for copyright protected photographs/images. Even for photographs/images available in the public domain, it should be clearly ascertained whether or not their reproduction requires permission for purposes of publishing (which is a profit-making endeavor).
    
10. A consolidated listing of all books, articles, essays, theses and documents referred to (including any referred to in the tables, graphs and maps) should be provided at the end of the article.

    Inverted names: In each reference, authors’ names are inverted (last name first) for all authors (first, second or subsequent ones); give the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work unless the work has more than six authors. If the work has more than six authors, list the first six authors and then use et al. after the sixth author’s name.

    Arrangement of references: Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work

    Chronological listing: If you have more than one work by the same author(s), list them in order by the year of publication, starting with the earliest.

    Sentence case: In references, follow sentence case for the titles of papers, books, articles, etc.

    Title case: In references, Journal titles are put in title case.
     

11. Citations and References should adhere to the guidelines below (based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6^th edition).

    (a) In text citations:

• One work by one author: (Kessler, 2003) or ‘Kessler(2003) found that among the epidemiological samples’
• One work by multiple authors: (Joreskog & Sorborn, 2007) or ‘Joreskog and Sorborn(2007) found that…’.
• One work by more than two authors: (Basu, Banerji & Chatterjee, 2007) or Basu et al.(2007)
• Groups or organizations or universities: (University of Pittsburgh, 2007) or University of Pittsburgh (2007).

  (b) Books: Patnaik, Utsa (2007). The republic of hunger. New Delhi: Three Essays Collective.

  (c) Edited Books: Amanor, Kojo S., & Moyo, S. (Eds) (2008). Land and sustainable development in Africa. London and New York: Zed Books.

  (d) Translated books: Amin, S. (1976). Unequal development (trans. B. Pearce). London and New York: Monthly Review Press.

  (e) Book chapters:
  Chachra, S. (2011). The national question in India. In S.Moyo and P. Yeros (Eds), Reclaiming the nation. (pp. 67–78). London and New York: Pluto Press.

  (f) Journal articles:
  Foster, J. B. (2010). The financialization of accumulation, Monthly Review, 62(5), 1-17.

  (g) Newsletter article, no author:
  Six sites meet for comprehensive anti-gang intiative conference. (2006, November/December). OOJDP News @ a Glance. Retrieved from http://www.ncrjs.gov/html

  (h) Newspaper article:
  Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects economic, social status. The Washington Post, pp. A1, A4.

12. Book reviews must contain name of author/editor and book reviewed, place of publication and publisher, year of publication, number of pages and price.

Publication ethics

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