Journal of Business Disciplines Submission Guidelines

All submissions are made electronically. Please send manuscript as a Microsoft Word file attachment to jbd@ship.edu. 

Include in the email, the following information about the author(s).

Name
Affiliation
Address of affiliation
Email address

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  All manuscripts must be unpublished work and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.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