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Author Guidelines
The Journal of Management & Organization invites submission of papers and articles, within its Aims and Scope, for peer review, especially if empirically rigorous, conceptually original and innovative. Selection of papers and case studies for publication will be based on relevance, clarity, topicality, individuality and interest to academics and practitioners.
JMO publishes three general editions and two special issues per year. Prospective contributors are reminded that JMO offers significant advantages:
timely review and publication
high calibre editorial board offering double blind peer review
distribution, as an Academy journal, to all ANZAM members
high circulation due to professional publishing service
combines practitioner perspectives with scholarship
provides a forum for thesis literature reviews and methodology articles
focuses on management education and learning.
In addition to academic merit, novelty and integrity, criteria for selection are that articles are relevant, concise, practical, informative and useful to readers of the Journal. They should preferably address the principal foci of the Journal.
JMO does not ordinarily publish more than one article per author per volume, unless multiple authorship is involved.
Overview
Articles within the aims and scope of the journal should be approximately 6000 to 8000 words in length, exclusive of References, Appendices, Tables and Figures. However, shorter or longer articles of exceptional quality may be accepted by the Editor.
Articles should be prepared according to the Style Guide below - this also applies to sample articles, summaries, key words, reference lists, tables and figures. The Style Guide is intended as a guide to contributors and the editorial team is most willing to provide additional help and encouragement. Please do not hesitate to make contact.
Initial submission
The publisher, eContent Management Pty Ltd, uses a semi-automated manuscript tracking system to receive and accept reviews of research articles, case studies and literature reviews. Manuscripts submitted for publication are subject to a peer review process. To ensure prompt review of your manuscript, and to preserve anonymity in the review process, please observe the instructions on-screen and take note that:
Manuscripts should be saved as a Microsoft Word or Open Office Writer files. These should contain: title of the manuscript, key words, article text, references, figures, and tables in that order, as one document.
A 100-150-word abstract is loaded into a form on a following page. You should copy/paste it from a existing document.
Do not include any author information or acknowledgements in the manuscript or abstract. Office 2003 or earlier: enable the removal of personal information from file properties on save, this is set under the Tools/Options/Security menu. Office 2007 or later: use Document Inspector (Office menu, Prepare document) to find and remove personal information. Open Office users should consult this online help wiki for removing personal user data.
Your manuscript will be forwarded directly to reviewers and should not contain any identifying information.
Other information such as email contact details are added during the submission process. All correspondence will be sent to the the first listed author.
Please list all authors in the order they are to appear on the title page.
Acknowledgements are added to the manuscript by the author following peer review and acceptance to publish.
Resubmitting manuscripts
The above requirements also apply to authors resubmitting revised manuscripts. Peer review recommendations are to be addressed and incorporated by authors before submitting.
It is important that authors re-submitting revised manuscripts indicate how they have addressed the referees' comments, either in summary form at the head of their revised manuscript or as a supplementary file that has does not contain identifying information (see step 3 above). This information will assist further assessment by the original reviewers before the manuscript can proceed to publication.
These requirements also apply to authors returning revised versions of manuscripts which have been accepted with minor revision.
Please refer to the 'Style guide' below for references, citation and spelling conventions and to 'Tables and figures' below for acceptable file and photo types for print publishing.
Journal of Management & Organization uses an adaptation of the Harvard system of referencing (see References below). 'American' or 'English' spellings are acceptable, providing they are used consistently. Translation of articles from other languages into English is encouraged and should be provided by professional translators. The Editors reserve the right to make editorial and literary corrections.
Style Guide
Body of manuscript should be one document file commencing with the manuscript title; an Abstract of about 100-150 words; at least 6 Key words; the article text; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Figures and Tables - in that order.
Acknowledgements should not be included in the text but in the covering metadata, to preserve anonymity during the review process. It will be reinserted prior to publication.
Citations and References should be accurate, timely and consistent throughout. JMO uses an adaptation of Harvard Referencing Style as outlined below. Please ensure that in-text citations appear in References, and vice-versa as appropriate. The accuracy and format of reference citations is the authors' responsibility (see also Copyright below).
Headings and Sections: JMO uses only three levels of headings (see examples below). Use boldface for all three. Papers failing to comply with these standards may be returned to authors.
Main headings (all capital letters; centered) are first and should be used to identify the (normal) three or four major sections of the manuscript. It is unnecessary to have a heading such as 'Introduction'.
Second-level headings (title-style; flush left; nothing else on the line) are next.
Third-level headings (first letter of first word capitalized; indented and italicized) are next.
Examples:
METHODS
Data and Sample Measures
Independent variable
Dependent variables
Artwork Presentation:
Tables and Figure graphics: Each table or figure should have a sentence in your text that introduces it. Useful tables and figures do not duplicate the text or each other. Carefully consider what each table or figure adds to your work. Look at tables and figures in published, hard-copy issues of the journal to get ideas for preferred formats.
Figures and Tables should be placed at the END of your text file (following references) with their desired locations cross-referenced within the text, as: [Insert Table 1 here]
Tables should remain editable after inserting at the end of the file. Create tables with Word's table-creation tool or in Excel and copy/paste into the text file as an Excel Worksheet Object.
Do not convert tables or graphics into picture/bitmap formats.
They should be centered and numbered consecutively (one sequence for Tables, one for Figures) using Arabic numerals (eg Table 1, Figure 2, etc.) and have self-explanatory captions, in bold, title-style, left-aligned, above the figure or table, eg Figure 2: Distribution of the Online Learning Literature
Important: Artwork labels (such as axes labels or legends, etc) are to use minimal capitalisation, and appear using only bold, roman or italic Helvetica, Arial or Times New Roman fonts, otherwise distortion occurs.
The final published dimensions will be 200mm x 145mm, placed portrait or landscape. Artwork must be suitable for immediate BLACK and WHITE reproduction (do not use similar colours), because it will not be redrawn.
Use more than one page if needed for Tables to achieve a neat, readable presentation. Do not use code names and abbreviations, eg Use 'Profitability' not 'PRFT'.
Each table should report one type of analysis (identified by its title), and each column and row should contain only one type of data. Place labels across the top or down the side. The body of your table should contain only data.
Report only two decimal places for statistics. Place correlation coefficients in the lower-left corner.
For general footnotes to tables, use superscript small letters. For 'p' footnotes, use asterisks. These go under the general table footnotes. Always use a single asterisk for the .05 level. Example: *p < .05; **p < .01
Language: 'English' or 'American' spellings are acceptable, provided they are used consistently. Translation of articles from other languages into English is encouraged and must be provided by professional translators.
Technical terms: Help your work to be accessible to JMO's wide-ranging readership. Define key technical terms. A technical term is a word or phrase not in a general-use dictionary with a meaning that you (or even you and other published scholars) ascribe to it. Put the first appearance of a technical term in single quotation marks.
Abbreviations: Avoid using abbreviations for the names of concepts. Use ordinary words for variable names - not code names or other abbreviations. Use the same name for a variable throughout your text, tables, figures and appendices.
Names of organizations and research instruments may be abbreviated, but give the full name (with abbreviation in brackets) the first time you mention one of these.
Reporting mathematics: Do not 'talk in maths language' in regular text. Use words. For instance: 'We surveyed 100 employees' not 'We surveyed n = 100 employees' and 'We used a chi-square test to evaluate fit' not 'We used a c2 test'.
Do use mathematical symbols and numbers to provide illustrative results and formulas. In both, italicize letters that are customarily italicized, such as p, r, F, and Z. Use boldface italic for vectors. Put spaces around equals signs and other operators.
Illustrative results go in parentheses. The text introducing them should be a complete sentence. Example:
One coefficient for the interaction was significant (model 3: b = 0.06, p = .05; model 5: b = 1.06, n.s.)
Equations: Depending on their role and content, equations are either part of your regular text (run in) or displayed. Examples:
Run-in equation - We used Craig's (1992: 20) distance formula (d = xyz).
Displayed equation -
Define each new term in each equation.
Sexist or biased language: Avoid language that might be interpreted as denigrating to ethnic or other groups. Do not use 'he' as a generic pronoun to avoid implying gender-based discrimination. Using plural pronouns - changing 'the manager . . . he' to 'managers . . . they' - usually helps.
Active voice and first person: Put sentences in the active voice ('I did it'; 'They did it') instead of the passive voice ('It was done') to make it easy for readers to see who did what. Use the first person ('I' or 'we') to describe what you, or you and your coauthors, did. Examples:
Passive (less desirable) - Two items were found to lack factor validity by Earley (1989).
Active (more desirable) - Earley (1989) found that two items lacked factor validity.
Third person (less desirable) - The author developed three new items.
First person (more desirable) - I developed three new items.
Anthropomorphism: Avoid describing inanimate entities (models, theories, firms, and so forth) as acting in ways only humans can act.
Footnotes should be used sparingly, and not used to cite references. Place at the bottom of the page to which it pertains. Use sparingly. Place each at the bottom of the page it pertains to.
Hypotheses should be fully and separately stated, with a distinct number (Hypothesis 1) or number-letter (Hypothesis 1a) label. Display hypotheses in indented blocks, in italic type, as follows:
Hypothesis 1a. Concise writing has a positive relationship to publication.
Hypothesis 1b. Following JMO's 'Style Guide for Authors' has a positive relationship to publication.
Appendixes: Present long but essential methodological details, such as explanations of the calculation of measures, in an appendix or appendixes. Be concise. Avoid unusual formats (such as reproductions of surveys). Look at previously published, hard-copy JANZAMs for models.
Label multiple appendixes 'APPENDIX A,' 'B,' and so forth, followed by a substantive title, such as 'Items in Scales'. Label tables within appendixes 'TABLE A1,' 'B1,' and so forth.
Photographs: If author photographs are to be supplied, they should be clear, with good contrast, be of the head and shoulders, and be cropped to approximately 40mm x 50-mm in dimension.
Electronic black and white (greyscale) TIFFs of high resolution (300 dpi minimum) are preferred, around 300 KB in size.
Low resolution (ie under 150 dpi) JPEGs or GIFs are NOT suitable for printing. Do not repeat-save JPEGs, because the JPEG automatically compresses with each save, thereby losing detail each time.
Supplementary Files: Authors can also upload files of photographs, figures, tables and graphics as Supplementary Files. This should be in addition to inserting them in your manuscript.
Journal Referencing Style
CITATIONS
These are your in-text, in parentheses, identifications of publications. Every work that has a citation needs to have a corresponding reference at the end of your paper (see 'References' below).
Examples
Single author:
Name-year citation - Several studies (Adams 1994; Bernstein 1988, 1992; Celias 2000a, 2000b) support this conclusion. Group names in alphabetical order. Note: 2 or more works published in the same year by one author (or by an identical group of authors) are designated by 'a', 'b', and so forth, after the year.
Year-only citation - But Van Dorn and Xavier (2001) presented conflicting evidence.
Multiple authors: If a work has two authors, give both names every time you cite it. For three through six identical authors, give all names the first time, then use 'et al' Examples:
First citation - Few field studies use random assignment (Foster, Whittington, Tucker, Horner, Hubbard & Grimm 2000).
Subsequent citations - ... even when random assignment is not possible (Foster et al 2000). For seven or more authors, use 'et al' even for the first citation. (NOTE: the corresponding reference at the end of the paper should list all authors.)
Second-level citation:
(Anderson & Adams (1992) in Border and Chism (1992)) - see Referencing format.
Quotations: Cite page numbers for direct quotations. Example:
Short quotation - Lee has said that writing a book is 'a long and arduous task' (1998: 3). Note single quotes.
Put long quotations (five lines or more) in indented blocks, in Italics, without quotation marks.
No author? Cite the periodical or organization.
Periodical as author - Analysts predicted an increase in service jobs (Australian Financial Review 1999).
Corporate author - Analysts predict an increase in service jobs in the NZ Industrial Outlook (Statistics New Zealand 2004).
Such sources can also be identified informally. No corresponding reference will then be needed. Example:
Informal citation - According to the 2004 NZ Industrial Outlook, published by Statistics New Zealand, service jobs will increase.
Electronic sources: Use a regular citation (author, year) if you can identify a human, periodical, or corporate author. If not, give the Web address that was your source in parentheses. In the latter case only, no corresponding reference need be provided.
REFERENCES
A list headed 'References' and comprising full details of all sources should be provided at the end of your article. The list should contain only work you have cited in-text and should be in alphabetical order by first author's surname. For corporate authors and periodicals, alphabetize by the first substantive word (not by 'the').
List the earliest work by an author first. Differentiate works by the same author(s) from the same year by adding 'a,' 'b,' etc, after the years. Repeat the author's name for each entry.
Journal articles and periodicals:
Each Journal reference must include author surname(s) and initials, year of publication, full title of article, full name of journal, volume and (optional) issue numbers, and page range (in full) of the article.
Jackson SE and Schuler RS (1995) Understanding human resource management in the context of organisations and their environment, in Rosenzweig MR and Porter LW (Eds), Annual Review of Psychology, pp.237-264.
Shrivastava P (1995) The role of corporations in achieving ecological sustainability, Academy of Management Review 20: 936-960.
Teo S (2000) Evidence of strategic HRM linkages in eleven Australian corporatized public sector organisations, Public Personnel Management 20(4): 557-574.
If an article has no author, the periodical is the author:
BusinessWeek (1998) The Best B-schools. October 19: 86 -94.
Harvard Business Review (2003) How are we doing? 81(4): 3.
Books:
Each reference must include author(s) last names and initials (commas only where indicated), year of publication (in brackets), book title (in Italics), publisher, city of publication, and if appropriate, page numbers.
Anderson JA and Adams M (1992) Acknowledging the learning styles of diverse student populations: Impklication for instructional design, in Border LLB and Chism NVN (Eds) Teaching for diversity: New directions for teaching and learning, 49: 19-34, Jossey Bass, San Francisco. [Note: Book series]
Ashkanasy NM, Härtel CEJ and Zerbe WJ (Eds) (2000) Emotions in the Workplace: Research, Theory, and Practice, Quorum Books, Westport CT.
Dutton J, Bartunek J and Gersick C (1996) Growing a personal, professional collaboration, in Frost P and Taylor S (Eds) Rhythms of academic life, pp.239-248, Sage, London.
Greene WH (1993) Econometric analysis 2nd edn. Macmillan, New York.
Legge K (1995) Human resource management: Rhetorics and reality, Macmillan, London UK.
National Center for Education Statistics (1992) Digest of education statistics. National Center for Education Statistics, Washington DC.
Rugman AM, Kirton J and Soloway J (1999) Environmental regulations and corporate strategy: A NAFTA perspective, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Wonderlic & Associates (1983) Wonderlic personnel test manual. Wonderlic & Associates, Northfield IL.
Chapters in edited books and journals:
Brenner SN (1995) Stakeholder theory of the firm: Its consistency with current management techniques, in Nasi J (Ed) Understanding stakeholder thinking, pp.75-96, LSR-Julkaisut Oy, Helsinki.
Guion RM (1992) Personnel assessment, selection, and placement, in Dunnette MD and Hough LM (Eds) Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology 2nd edn, 2: 327-397. Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto CA.
Levitt B and March JG (1988) Organizational learning, in Scott WR and Short JF (Eds) Annual Review of Sociology 14: 319-340, Annual Reviews, Palo Alto CA.
Piore MJ (1992) Work, Labour and Action: Work Experience in a System of Flexible Production, in Kochan TA and Useem M (Eds) Transforming Organisations, pp.307-319, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Reports, Theses, Symposia and Conference papers (published and unpublished):
Duncan RG (1971) Multiple decision-making structures in adapting to environmental uncertainty. Working Paper No. 54-71, Northwestern University Graduate School of Management, Evanston IL.
Hamer GA (1993) The use of technology to deliver higher education in the workplace. Occasional Paper Series, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Higher Education Division, Canberra.
Johnson R, Lundin R and Chippendale P (1992) Changing patterns of teaching and learning: The use and potential of distance education materials and methods. Commissioned Report No 19, Australian Higher Education National Board of Management, Education and Training, Canberra.
Marginson P, Armstrong P, Edwards P, Purcell J and Hubbard N (1993) The control of industrial relations in large companies: An initial analysis of the second company level industrial relations survey, Industrial Relations Research Unit, Warwick.
Paris C and Combs B (2000) Teachers' perspectives on what it means to be learner-centered. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), 24-28 April, AERA, New Orleans LA.
Teixeira SR, Chamala S and Cowan T (2001) 'Participatory approach to identify sustainable dairy industry needs', in Exploring Beyond the Boundaries of Extension, Australia-Pacific Extension Network International Conference, 03-05 October 2001, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.
Veldhoven M van (1996) 'Psychosociale arbeidsbelasting en werkstress' [Psychosocial job demands and work stress]. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Wall JP (1983) 'Work and nonwork correlates of the career plateau'. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Dallas.
Electronic documents (registered publications or otherwise):
Internet citations should indicate the date information was accessed as well as the date of the website material. Example:
Ernst & Young (2004d) Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year program, accessed at http://www.ey.com/global.nsf/International/EGC_-_Entrepreneur_of_the_Year on 05 April 2004.
International Chamber of Commerce (1991) The business charter for sustainable development, accessed at http://www.iccwbo.org/sdcharter/charter/principles/principles.asp on 12 January 2000.
Opportunity International (2004a) Annual Report 2002: Highlights, accessed at http://www.opportunity.org.au/article/articleview/208/1/6 on 07 April 2004.
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.
Author Warranties: by submission of material to the Journal of Management & Organization (JMO), all authors warrant that the material is their own, original material or that copyright clearance has been acquired to reproduce other material from employers, third parties or attributed to third parties, and that the material has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
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- Your abstract will be copy/pasted into the form on the next page.
- All citations refer to a publication listed in the References section of the manuscript and all references have been cited in the text.
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