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Official JBAM Style Guide for Accepted Papers |
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| This document presents the overall format
of articles that JBAM publishes in its journal. This style guide
is not binding for original submissions. All aspects of an accepted
paper other than formatting must comply with current APA protocol.
For foreign authors and those not familiar with APA protocol, information
can be found at the following website. Properly prepared final manuscripts should be submitted as Word Document files (along with Excel and/or PowerPoint files) formatted as in the example that follows. Important Note: Final drafts of articles accepted for publication must be formatted as in the example that follows. Articles scheduled for publication that do not follow the style guide and do not comply with APA protocol will be returned to the author and publication delayed until they are made compliant. Important Note: Prior to publication, accepted articles will be subjected to an authentication review using a variety of electronic sources. Articles generating reports that indicate problems with authentication will be withheld from publication until the author(s) has/have resolved the issue. |
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Style Guide: Instructions for Authors in Preparing the Final Version of their Accepted Papers to JBAM for Publication |
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| Daniel James Rowley - University of Northern Colorado | |||||||||||||||||
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| The entire paper should be composed with the
MS Word Style set to Normal, changing individual font and justification
settings as appropriate. That is, do not change the style to Heading
1 for first level headings, Heading 2 for second level headings,
etc. as provided by your Word templates. Instead, change individual
font settings as needed. For example, to create a first level title,
explicitly set the text to bold and center. This will reduce the
risk of inadvertent reformatting during publication due to differences
in templates. The entire document should use Arial 12-point font. In the final draft, lines should be single spaced. The title of the paper should be written with both upper and lower case font face, centered, and bolded. The author lines should also be written with both upper and lower case font face and centered, but not bolded. The name of the author can contain either a middle initial or name, or at the option of the author, contain neither. No professional title (such as Dr. or Ph.D.) or position name (such as Professor of Management) should be included in the name line, though titles such as "Jr." are appropriate. The word "ABSTRACT" should contain all upper case font and be centered and bolded. The abstract, itself, should contain no more than 100 words. |
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The Body of the Text |
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| Paragraphs are never indented. They begin flush
to the body of the paragraph. Further, authors should not use full
justification in preparing the final manuscript. Left justification
is the normal publishing style of JBAM. Authors should use center justification
for certain subtitles as discussed below. Authors may use center justification
for tables, charts, images, and any other inserted objects that present
better when centered. Right justification should not be used. Text
within each paragraph should be single-spaced. Double-space between
paragraphs and all other manuscript elements (e.g., titles, subtitles,
author names). Further, authors should not include running heads, footers,
or headers in the body of the final manuscript. |
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| The journal is published based on an 8 1/2
X 11 page with 1" margins left, right, top, and bottom. To ensure
that the paper lays out as expected when published, authors should
set their margins accordingly and should ensure that text, tables,
and figures remain inside the margins. |
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| In general, the policy of JBAM is not to publish
either footnotes or endnotes. The author should include the material
one might put in an endnote or footnote directly into the body of
the manuscript for explanatory material or into the References for
citation material. Attributions for material that authors might use
for tables or figures may appear at the bottom of either the table
or the figure (though a full citation should be included in the References
section). Be certain to contact the editors for permission if you
wish to include either a footnote or endnote within the body of the
manuscript. |
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| The authors warrant that the material they
have submitted to JBAM is original and that it has not been published
elsewhere either by the submitting authors or by other authors. If
material previously published is cited within the body of the submitting
author's material, proper citations must be included in the References
section. For material such as lists, tables, and figures that have
been published elsewhere, it is the responsibility of the authors
to obtain legal permission from the original publishers of that material
for JBAM authors to publish this material along with their own material
in JBAM. |
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| In final manuscript preparation, authors should
place objects such as tables and figures (charts and images) directly
into the text. The objects may be either embedded or linked, centered
or left justified. If linked, the author must be sure to submit the
file containing the linked object. Authors need to be careful to
ensure that tables and figures display as intended. The final electronic
format of the journal is Adobe PDF. If the author has access to Adobe
Acrobat, he/she should preview the manuscript in PDF format to ensure
that there are no conversion problems. If the editors discover conversion
problems, the author will be notified and given an opportunity to
make corrections. However, if the problems cannot be corrected in
a timely manner, publication may be delayed or the paper may be rejected
altogether. |
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| Appendices are acceptable as part of the manuscript
preparation for publication in JBAM. References within the body of
the manuscript should be made specifically to an appendix such as "see
Appendix A" or (Appendix A). Use capital Roman letters to organize
appendices, not numbers. Appendices will appear at the end of the
text, prior to the References section. |
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Authors should use the APA style guide for the preparation of citations in the reference section. Below are a few examples of proper reference protocol. However, for more detailed information, authors are strongly encouraged to consult the website.
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