Journal of Business Disciplines

Submission Guidelines

All submissions are made electronically.

The typical review period is two months and begins once the submission fee is received.
Manuscripts are blind peer-reviewed.  JBD has an acceptance rate between 15 and 20 percent.  All manuscripts must be unpublished work and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Submitted manuscripts should follow the following format.

• No reference to authors or author affiliation (This information and authors email addresses are contained in the transmittal email.)
• Use 1” margins
• Use single spacing within paragraphs

Paragraphs: separated by a blank line and not with tabbed indents

Tables figures: place where they should appear

• Text: 12-point Times New Roman; use left justification

Title: 18-point

Primary headers: bold, centered, 16-point font

Secondary headers: bold, flush left, on their own line, 14-point font

Tertiary headers: upper and lower case, italicized, bold, followed by a period, and then followed by text.

• Please do not use footnotes or endnotes for references
• References: APA format
• Page numbers: all pages except for the first page, number only, centered at the bottom of the page
• Approximately 100-word abstract
• Overall length excluding references, appendices between 12 and 16 pages

For information concerning APA manuscripts, click the following link APA Manuscript