Author Guidelines

Submission Guidelines for Journal of IMS Group

Manuscript Preparation

• Manuscripts should be composed in MS Word, using Times New Roman 12 font with double spacing, and should be submitted in digital format.
• Upon acceptance for publication, authors will be supplied with a copyright form to sign. If there are multiple authors, the corresponding author is responsible for signing the form.

Types of Contributions:

• Full length articles (5000- 8500 words): Original high quality research papers.
• Management cases (5000- 7000 words): and case Analyses (1000- 2500 words).
• Review Articles (Systematic literature review, Bibliometric analysis, Critical literature review of published work (5000-10000 words)
• Book reviews (800-2000 words).

Basic formatting of the manuscripts

• Submit manuscripts with a cover page that includes only the title of the article, author/s' names, designations, official addresses, phone/fax numbers, and email addresses, and ensure that the author/s' name does not appear on any other page. Specify the person who will handle correspondence throughout the review and publication process, including after publication. Provide updated contact information, including phone numbers with country and area codes, email addresses, and complete postal addresses.
• Accompany all articles with an abstract of 150-250 words and 4-6 keywords.
• Include the following details in book reviews: the name of the author/editor, the book reviewed, the place of publication and publisher, the year of publication, the number of pages, and the price.

Spelling and numerical usages

• Use British spellings exclusively, such as "Programme" instead of "program", "labour" instead of "labor" and "centre" instead of "center"
• Use "z" spellings instead of "s" spellings (e.g, "recognize" instead of "recognise", "organize" instead of "organise" and "civilize" instead of "civilise"
• Use "twentieth century" instead of "20th century" and "1980s" instead of "1980's", spell out numbers from one to nine and use figures for numbers 10 and above, except for exact measurements, which should be expressed in figures only (e.g 3 km, 9 percent, not %) . Use "thousands" and "millions" instead of "lakh" and "crore"

Quotations, notes, tables and figures

• Use single quotes throughout the text, and only use double quotes within single quotes. Do not change the spellings of words within quotations, and if a quotation is 45 words or more, separate it from the text by indenting it with one space and including a line space above and below.
• Number notes serially and include them at the end of the article. Notes should provide more than just a reference.
• Indicate tables and figures by number (e.g Table 1) instead of by placement (e.g the table below).
• All photographs and scanned images should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi and 1500 pixels and should be in the TIFF or JPEG format. Obtain the necessary permissions for any photographs or images that are copyright protected.

In-text citions (as per APA, 7^th edition):

• (Smith, 2003) or (Smith, 2003, p. 50) for a specific page
• (Johnson & Brown, 2007) or (Johnson & Brown, 2007, pp. 50-66) for a specific range of pages
• (Williams et al., 2007) for three or more authors
• ("Research shows," 2007) for a newspaper or magazine article with no author
• (Anonymous, 1998) for a source with no known author
• (Miller, 1996; Rodriguez, 1999) for multiple sources in the same citation

References: 

• Book: Brown, J. (2010). The History of Economic Thought. New York: Macmillan Publishers.
• Book Chapter: Wilson, T. (2015). The Impact of Technology on Economic Growth. In M. Johnson and L. Davis (Eds.), The Evolution of Economic Systems (pp. 100-120). London: Springer.
• Journal article: Smith, A. (2012). The Role of Education in Economic Development. Journal of Development Studies, 45(3), 267-289.