International Journal of Management and Social Sciences (IJMSS)

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Author Guidelines

General Guidelines for Authors

Prepare your manuscript in accordance with the following instructions.

• Guidelines for Articles / Research Papers

1. Author Guidelines

• Typescript preparation

1. The original typescript should be submitted electronically in A4 size format, with a word count of 4000-6000 (excluding figures), following the other submission.

2. Typescript should have double line spacing at the time of submission.

3. A final paper which would exceed 6000 words or occupy more than 15 pages of the Journal may be returned for abridgement.

4. The text of the paper should include title, abstract, text, references and notes, tables, figure captions, figures, but not the names of authors, their biographical notes nor any acknowledgements. Please make sure that author’s names are not included in the document/file properties.

5. For email submissions, you will need a separate file containing the title of the paper, plus the names, affiliation and complete addresses, e-mail and fax number of authors, and an abstract, keywords, brief biographical notes about authors and any acknowledgements; and Resume of the contributor.

6. All papers must be written in English. If English is not your first language, please ask an English-speaking colleague to proofread your paper.

• International context

1. It should not be assumed that the reader is familiar with specific national institutions or corporations. Authors are encouraged to approach their chosen topic with an international perspective.

2. Countries and groupings of countries should be referred to by their full title (for example, 'Asia’, 'Europe' and 'America' are all ambiguous).

3. Special attention should be paid to identifying units of currency by nationality.

4. Acronyms should be translated in full into English.

• Title, abstract, keywords, addresses, biographical notes

Please assist us by following these guidelines:

1. Title : as short as possible

2. Authors Details and Address : Author Name and Position, department, name of institution, full postal address and email address for each author

3. Abstract: approximately 100 words, maximum 150

4. Keywords: approximately 10-15 words or phrases. Keywords are important for online searching.

5. Biographical notes : approximately 100 words per author, maximum 150.

6. Affiliation : If any.

• References and notes

1. IJMSS journal uses the Harvard (name and date) short reference system for citations in the text with a detailed alphabetical list at the end of the paper. Forexample 'Hamel (2000) suggests ...' or 'Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) found that ...' or 'A study of economic change (Nelson and Winter, 1982) has shown that ...'

2. Footnotes should be avoided, but any short, succinct notes making a specific point, may be placed in number order following the alphabetical list of references.

3. References should be made only to works that are published, accepted for publication (not merely 'submitted'), or available through libraries or institutions. Any other source should be qualified by a note regarding availability.

4. Full reference should include all author’s names and initials, date of publication, title of paper, title of publication (italics), volume and issue number (of a journal), publisher and form (books, conference proceedings), page numbers.

• Figures

All illustrations, whether diagrams or photographs, are referred to as Figures. Figures may be black and white or colour; and numbered sequentially. Please note that in the printed version they will be in black and white. Kindly prepare all figures, especially line diagrams, to the highest possible standards.

• Translated works

1. Difficulty often arises in translating acronyms, so it is best to spell out an acronym in English (for example, IIRP – French personal income tax).

2. Similarly, labels and suffixes need careful attention where the letters refer to words which have been translated.

3. The names of mathematical functions may change in translation - check against an English or American mathematical reference text.

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2. Cover Letter

This is required for all submissions. Online submissions will need to include the names of 3 experts as detailed below. Any further information in support of online submissions can be entered as a note for the editor or uploaded as a supplementary file.

August 1, 2011

Dear Editor

International Journal of Management and Social Sciences (IJMSS)

Enclosed is a paper, entitled "Management and Social Science Research in the Society." Please accept it as a candidate for publication in the IJMSS. Below are our responses to your submission requirements.

1. Title and the central theme of the article.

Paper title: “Management and Social Science Research in the Society." This study reviews the concepts management and social science research in the society. It proposes a model based on collaborative management and social sciences practices. The contribution will serve the academic as well as corporate community.

2. Which subject/theme of the Journal the material fits

Management and Social Science Research

3. Why the material is important in its field and why the material should be published in IJMPS?

The necessity of collaborative management and social sciences in the society is the need of an hour for successful development in short and long run. We strongly believe the contribution of this study warrants its publication in the IJMSS.

4. Names, addresses, and email addresses of three experts in the subject of your paper who are personally unknown to you*, are not members of the editorial board of the journal, are not from your institution and at least two of whom must be from a different country from you.

Prof. Dr. William Gates 
Chair Professor of Information Technology 
321 Johnson Hall 
Premier University Lancaster, NY 00012-6666, USA 
phone: +1-888-888-8888 - fax: +1-888-888-8886 
e-mail: wgates@lancaster.edu 
Expertise: published a related paper ("TCP/IP and OSI: Four Strategies for Interconnection") in CACM, 38(3), pp. 188-198. 
Relationship: I met Dr. Gate only once at a conference in 1999. I do not know him personally.

Assoc Prof. Dr. John Adams 
Director of Network Research Center 
College of Business Australian University 
123, Harbor Drive Sydney, 
Australia 56789 
phone: +61-8-8888-8888 - fax: +61-8-8888-8886 
e-mail: jadams@au.edu.au 
Expertise: published a related paper ("Creating Mobile Agents") in IEEE TOSE, 18(8), pp. 88-98. 
Relationship: None. I have never met Dr. Adams.

Assoc Prof. Dr. Chia-Ho Chen 
Chair of MIS Department 
College of Management 
Open University 
888, Putong Road 
Keelung, Taiwan 100 
phone: +886-2-8888-8888 - fax: +886-2-8888-8886 
e-mail: chchen@ou.edu.tw 
Expertise: published a related paper ("Network Management for E-Commerce") in IJ Electronic Business, 1(4), pp. 18-28. 
Relationship: Former professor, dissertation chairman.

Finally, this paper is our original unpublished work and it has not been submitted to any other journal for reviews.

Sincerely,

XYZ

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3. Author Agreement

Each author must sign a copyright agreement (Author Agreement) form and send the signed forms, in electronic format, to the Editor, together with your paper. Signatures of all authors may appear on one form or be sent on individual forms.

So that we can ensure both the widest dissemination and protection of material published in IJMSS, we ask authors to assign copyright in their papers, including abstracts, to SPEAK Foundation. This enables us to ensure copyright protection against infringement, and to disseminate your article, and our journals, as widely as possible.

1. In consideration of the undertaking set out in paragraph 2, and upon acceptance by Editor-IJMSS for publication in the Journal, the Author hereby assigns and transfers grants to IJMSS and SPEAK Foundation, the copyright in and to the Article entitled :

_______________________________________________________________________________

by _____________________________________________________________________________

to be published in IJMSS.

This assignment provides SPEAK Foundation the sole right and responsibility to publish the Article, including the right to sub-license publishing or distribution rights as may be appropriate, the Article in both printed and electronic form; the Article may be published in printed, online, CD-ROM, microfiche or in other media formats.

2. In consideration of this assignment, SPEAK Foundation hereby undertakes to prepare and publish the Article named in paragraph 1 in the Journal, subject only to its right to refuse publication if there is a breach of the Author’s warranty in paragraph 4 or there are other reasonable grounds; in such case SPEAK Foundation reverts and assigns to the Author any and all copyright and other rights in the Article otherwise assigned to it under this Agreement.

3. The Editor of the Journal is empowered to make such editorial changes as may be necessary to make the Article suitable for publication. Every effort will be made to consult the Author if substantive changes are required.

4. The Author warrants that the Article is the Author’s original work, has not been published before, and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere; and that the Article contains no libelous or unlawful statements and that it in no way infringes the rights of others, and that the Author, as the owner of the copyright, is entitled to make this assignment.

Signed by the Author _____________________________________

Date : _________________________________________________

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5. Checklist

Submission Preparation Checklist (All items required)

• The submission has not been previously published in English nor is it before another journal for consideration; or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor.

• The text meets the formatting requirements outlined in the Submission Guidelines section.

• The submission file is in Word document file format. In some cases.

• You have identified three experts (names, full addresses and expertise) in the subject of your paper. These experts should be personally unknown to the authors and at least two of them should be from a different country from the author(s). [Optional]

• You have completely filled the required Author Agreement (Copyright) document (get this document in PDF format).

• Check that you have prepared Three files :

o File 1. Title Page- The title of the paper, plus the names, affiliation and complete addresses, e-mail and fax number of authors, and an abstract, keywords, brief biographical notes about authors and any acknowledgements (Annexure -1)

o File 2. The text of the paper, including text, abstract, references and notes, tables, figure captions, figures, but without the names of authors, their biographical notes or any acknowledgements

o File 3. The cover letter

For all Submissions: Check that you have removed all author identification (names and affiliations) and any acknowledgements from the main manuscript that you are going to submit. Please make sure that author’s names are not included in the document/file properties. Do not remove the title, abstract or the keywords from your paper.

Note : Editors of IJMSS reserve the right to change any guidelines without prior consent of authors or contributors. The decision in that shall be final and should be acceptable to the authors/contributors/stakeholders.

Annexure -1
Title Page

TITLE OF THE PAPER

Name of first author
Institution/Affiliation 
Title 
Designation
Postal Address
E-mail: 
Contact No.:

Name of second author
Institution/Affiliation
Title 
Designation
Postal Address
E-mail: 
Contact No.:

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Key Words: Keyword1, Keyword2, Keyword3, Keyword4, Keyword5, Keyword6.

─Bibliographical Notes ─

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published in English/any other language, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
7. The text meets the formatting requirements outlined in the Submission Guidelines section.
8. You have identified 3 experts (names, full addresses and expertise) in the subject of your paper. These experts should be personally unknown to the authors and atleast two of them should be from a different country from the author(s). [Optional]

9. Check the three files have been prepared for submission.
   File 1 - Title Page
   File 2 - Text without any author(s) name, bibliographical note, acknowledgement.
   File 3 - Cover Letter

Copyright Notice

Copyright and Author Rights and Responsibilities

SPEAK Foundation is wholly committed to the highest standards of management and social sciences. In all that we do, we work to ensure the widest possible access to the articles that we publish, to enhance the reputation of the author, the journal, its editor and editorial board, and the value that we add as an organization.

In order that we can do this properly and professionally, we ask authors to sign our Author Agreement assigning (or transferring) copyright to SPEAK Foundation. The transfer of copyright is standard practice in journal publishing. This enables us, to negotiate subsidiary licenses to database aggregators and document supply companies, and allows permissions to reproduce articles in books, course packs, electronic reserve or for library loan to be handled efficiently and with sensitivity to changing library and reader needs. This relieves authors of a time-consuming and costly administrative burden. It also enable us to defend and enforce author’s rights against plagiarism, copyright infringement, unauthorized use and, most important for authors’ professional reputation, breach of author’s moral rights.

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