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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 six general editions 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 and SSCI listing;
  • Publication of research that makes a difference to practice;
  • Publication of latest developments in management education and learning.

In addition to academic merit, novelty and integrity, criteria for selection are that articles are relevant, concise, informative and useful to readers of the Journal. 

JMO does not ordinarily publish more than one article per author per volume, unless multiple authorship is involved.

Overview

Articles should conform with the aims and scope of the journal and 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 considered but should not be submitted until after discussion with the Editor.

The language of the journal is English.  Manuscripts not conforming to high quality written formal English standards as judged by a Native English speaking professional copy-editor will be desk rejected (not sent out for review).

Manuscripts must conform to the style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition, available at:

http://www.apastyle.org/manual/whats-new.aspx

Manuscripts must include a title page (title and keywords) followed by a page containing the abstract (paper summary without citations) of up to 150 words and up to five keywords that scholars interested in the subject matter are likely to use in conducting online searches.  All references must be complete and accurate. Figures and Tables must not appear in the main text and must be presented on separate pages after the reference list. Only Helvetica, Arial or Times New Roman fonts should be used.  Font size for main text is 12 point.

 

Manuscripts undergo a double blind reviewing process and thus submitted manuscripts should not provide any indication of author identity. All identifying information (e.g., author information, acknowledgements) is to appear in a secondary document uploaded as "Supplementary Material Not for Review". 

 

Minimising a desk reject

  • Follow the referencing style in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition, available at:

    http://www.apastyle.org/manual/whats-new.aspx

  • Ensure written English is of a high standard and all grammatical and spelling errors are corrected. Employ a professional Native English speaking copy-editor if necessary to polish your manuscript before submission.
  • Follow appropriate standards for academic writing.
  • You may find the material on how to write scientific articles in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition helpful.
  • Ensure you have included an abstract.
  • Make sure you have removed all personal and identifying information from your manuscript including acknowledgements
  • Ensure all references are accurate and that citations in text are in reference list and vice versa.
  • Ensure ideas of others are properly acknowledged with citations.  Submitted manuscripts are regularly checked through Turnitin for plagiarism.
  • 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.
  • If you have previously submitted a version of the manuscript to JMO which was rejected, ensure the new submission meets the criteria of a "new submission" as identified in the editorial at URL: 

    http://www.aom.pace.edu/amj/editorials/06_IrelandFeb09FTE.pdf


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 blind 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:

  1. Manuscripts should be saved as a Microsoft Word or Open Office Writer file. The file should contain: title of the manuscript, key words, 100-150 word abstract, article text, references, figures, and tables in that order, as one document.

  2. Copy and past the abstract from the manuscript into the form on a following page.

  3. 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.

  4. Your manuscript will be forwarded directly to reviewers and should not contain any identifying information.

  5. Other information such as email contact details are added during the submission process. All correspondence will be sent to the the first listed author.

  6. Please list all authors in the order they are to appear on the title page.

  7. Acknowledgements should be only 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.

The Editors reserve the right to make editorial and literary corrections.

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. Follow the APA Manual in formatting tables and figures.

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.

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.

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.

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.


Tips For Getting Published

 

Tips on Writing a Scholarly Journal Article

1.        If you are not a native English speaker, get a native English speaker to copyedit your manuscript before submission.

2.       Become familiar with what a high quality journal article submission is like by reading the free sample JMO articles (scroll down to "Free Sample Articles" at URL http://jmo.e-contentmanagement.com/ ) and articles in other leading management journals (e.g., Academy of Management Journal).

3.       Read the material on how to write scientific articles in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition.

4.       Ensure you follow to the letter a journal's editorial instructions.  JMO articles must be prepared in accordance with APA style as outlined in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition available at http://journals.aomonline.org/amj/style_guide.html .

5. Put sentences in the active voice ('I did it'; 'They did it') instead of the passive voice ('It was done', 'were found') to make it easy for readers to see who did what. 

6. Use the first person ('I' or 'we') to describe what you, or you and your coauthors, did. Avoid use of the third person ('The author').

7. Avoid anthropomorphism or describing inani­mate entities (models, theories, firms, and so forth) as acting in ways only humans can act.

 

Tips on Dealing with Common Method Bias

Podsakoff, P. M., MacKenzie, S. B., Lee, J. Y., & Podsakoff, N. P.  2003. Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88: 879-903.

David Kenny's website: http://davidakenny.net/cm/mediate.htm


Tips on Writing a Theoretical Article

Barley, S. R. 2006. When I write my masterpiece: Thoughts on what makes a paper interesting. Academy of Management Journal, 49: 16-20.

Tips on Making a Theoretical Contribution

Colquitt, J. A., & Zapata-Phelan, C. P. 2007. Trends in theory building and theory testing: A five-decade study of Academy of Management Journal. Academy of Management Journal, 50: 1281-1303.

Corley, K. G. & Gioia, D. A. 2011. Building theory about theory building: What constitutes a theoretical contribution?  The Academy of Management Review, 36: 12-32.

Tips on Writing Up Qualitative Research

Pratt, M. G. Pratt. 2009. For the lack of a boilerplate: Tips on writing up (and reviewing) qualitative research. Academy of Management Journal, 52: 856-862.

Suddaby, R. 2006. What grounded theory is not. Academy of Management Journal, 49: 633-642.

 

Tips on Ensuring Your Manuscript Meets the Criteria for a 'New' Submission

Ireland, R. D. 2009. When Is a "New" Paper Really New? Academy of Management Journal, 52: 9-10.

Tips on Responding to Reviewers

Seibert, S. E. 2006. Anatomy of an R&R (or Reviewers are an Author's Best Friends ...). Academy of Management Journal , 49: 203-207.


 

 

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. Author Warranties

    The author appointed to correspond with eContent Management Pty Ltd is authorized by all authors to enter into these warranties on their behalf.  If the corresponding author is not available, for any reason whatsoever, the other authors will become the corresponding author for the purporses of all correspondence with eContent Management Pty Ltd.

    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.

  2. Authors have secured the release of any copyright material and can provide written evidence to this effect to eContent Management Pty Ltd. It is also the author’s responsibility to obtain clearance for reproduction from the organization which commissioned the work if applicable. Submission of material to JMO implies all authors’ consent to assignment of the material’s copyright to eContent Management Pty Ltd when that material is accepted for publication in the journal, for the full legal term of copyright and any renewals thereof throughout the world in all formats and in any medium of communication.

  3. By submitting material to JMO, all authors of the material agree to indemnify eContent Management Pty Ltd, and its heirs and assigns in business, against any litigation or claims that may arise from the content of or opinions in the material provided. Submission of material to JMO also implies all authors’ consent to assignment of the material’s copyright to eContent Management Pty Ltd when that material is accepted for publication in the journal, for the full legal term of copyright and any renewals thereof throughout the world in all formats and in any medium of communication.

    If the corresponding author is no longer active any of the other authors may become the corresponding author and they will accordingly be bound by these terms and conditions

    (Note: On acceptance for publication, an agreement specifying the terms noted here and above will be sent to the corresponding author for signature by the corresponding author who is duly authorized to sign this agreement on behalf of all authors and contributors. No printers proof will be sent to the author. The copy provided by the author on acceptance is the version used for typesetting. The publisher reserves the right to make editing corrections.)

  4. Manuscripts must conform to the style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition, which is available at:

    http://www.apastyle.org/manual/whats-new.aspx

  5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.  That is, submitted manuscripts should not provide any indication of author identity. All identifying information (e.g., author information, acknowledgements) is to appear in a secondary document uploaded as "Supplementary Material Not for Review".

  6. You have created a separate Title Page file with identifying information in it.

    You have removed all identifying information from the text and document properties of your original manuscript.  Only the title, abstract and keywords should appear prior to the text body.

  7. All citations refer to a publication listed in the References section of the manuscript and all references have been cited in the text.

    References should be up to date and where previous work in the area has been published in JMO, authors should ensure they have read such work.

    Ensure ideas of others are properly acknowledged with citations.  Submitted manuscripts are regularly checked through Turnitin for plagiarism.

  8. The literature review is up-to-date and balanced and demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of the research relevant to the topic area, including what has been published previously on the topic in JMO.

  9. You have carefully copy-edited your manuscript to ensure there are no typos or grammatical errors.  If you need assistance to achieve this standard of copy-editing, please have your manuscript reviewed by a professional native English speaking copy-editor.
 

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