Getting your research published is an essential step to ameliorate your academic career. This guide will take you through the necessary steps required in publishing a paper. Discover the production process and the understand the nuances of peer reviewed article.
Submission of Articles
Before submitting the paper it is essential that you choose the journal which suits your need. Following is a check list you should peruse before submitting your paper:
- Visit our journals webpage and browse the scope of each journal.
- Check whether the publication method is meeting your needs.
- Ensure that you are submitting your article to one journal at a time. International ethics standards prohibit multiple submissions of an article at a time.
- Communicate with your co-authors and do not forget to credit them for their contributions.
- If you are writing your first article, do not hesitate to ask your supervisor or colleagues for help.
- It is very important that the articles that you give in reference lead directly to the same article.
- Avoid any ambiguous words and check for redundancy.
- Reading previously published articles will help in constructing a good article.
Type of contributions we expect from you
MBA Journals has international journals that focuses on publication of original research and review articles carried out globally. All contribution that you will make is refereed rigorously and selected on the basis of quality and originality of the work. The journal publishes the most significant new researches and review works in all areas pertaining to its scope, thus ensuring its scientific priority and significance. The type of articles that MB Journals look forward to receive is mainly an out-come of original research and the review articles that summarizes the state-of-the-art scenario of a specific research field pertaining to the focus and scope of STM Journals. Other contributions include, research communications, and editorial letters.
Manuscript Structure
Writing a paper, be it a research article or any other form of communication, follows a rigid pattern or format that an author should follow. The format that we follow is a consequence of a tedious process that focuses on the transfer of information to the community. Here is a general format that an article follows:
Section
- Title: Should reflect the main point of focus in your manuscript
- Author: Mention the name(s) of all the contributors
- Abstract: Brief summary of your research and conclusion
- Keywords: These make sure that your article is easily identified
Body of Text
Section
- Background: Baseline of your research
- Methods: Describe the techniques followed
- Results: Mention your findings
- Conclusion and discussion: Infer your findings with justification
- Acknowledgement: People who helped deserve to be recognized
- References: Previously published work should be recognized as well
- Supplements: Additional information related to your research
Title
The main objective of your title is to enable the reader to decide in an instant whether they want to read your article or not, whether the article is relevant to their field of research. The title should be simple, enticing, and it should state the content of the article clearly and in a precise manner. Restrict your title to a maximum limit of 50 words.
To summarize:
- Title should highlight the content of the manuscript
- Should not be more than 50 words
- Unambiguous and specific, avoid unnecessary words and punctuations.
- Enticing and should be able to draw the reader to itself
Authors
All the authors who have made a contribution to your research deserve to be credited for the work and the names should be listed in the same line separated by a comma. It is not necessary that the corresponding author should always be the first author, and the order of name may vary as per your convenience. But it is advised to highlight the name of the corresponding author with an asterisk (Example: Abhishek Prasad*) to make it easy for the readers to identify the corresponding author. Correspondence author's email address, telephone and postal address are mandatory.
Affiliation or address
It is mandatory for you to include the affiliation or address(s) of the institute where the work has been carried out.
Example:
Retention Techniques in Corporate Sector
Dr. Name used For example* Prof. (Dr.) Second name Used as Example
Management example, University of Business Studies and example study
Notice here the star is marked at the name of the corresponding author and the affiliation is written below the name of the author(s).
Abstract
An abstract is one of the major components of your article. It should define your research; it should also give a brief account of your methodology adopted, results, and conclusion that you came upon in your research. In short abstract describes your research in fewer words. We would advise you to restrict your abstract to 250 words. Avoid the use of tables, figures, or any other type of illustration in the abstract. References need not be mentioned in the abstract, and make sure that it gives sufficient details to the reader.
Keywords
Choosing the right keyword is very important as it will increase the chances of your article being found. The keywords should reflect your research, and it will be an advantage if your keywords are already used in the title. Restrict your keywords to a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 7.
Background
The background should be brief; it should provide the framework of the research or study; it should also highlight the aim of the study or research. Further, state the relevant finding and results of others' studies that you found challenging and the issues that you are extending in your article.
Methodology
Commonly known as materials and methods, this section includes enough data so that your research can be replicated easily by an expert in your field. If you are using a previously known technique, you should state the name of the technique, and if you are modifying techniques, you should give the necessary amendments that you have made. You should also state the type of data recorded its frequency and should also state any statistical method or software used in the analysis of your data. It is also advised to write the article in the past tense as the research has already been conducted.
Results
This section of your article should include a detailed account of the findings that have been recorded, and the author should provide a clear explanation of the findings, their significance, and relevance. Raw data is rarely included in any scientific article so it is advised that you should analyze the data beforehand and should represent it in form of graphs, charts, or tables.
Discussion and Conclusion
In simple words, this section describes what your research finding means. You should also interpret your results and give an account of their significance. You should also try to answer the hypothesis that led you to research on the first basis. Lastly, your conclusions should be based on the findings and should have a logical explanation instead of making biased judgments.
Acknowledgement
You should make this section brief and should give the names of all the contributors that have helped you in conducting your research.
Supplements
If you have any supplement raw data, video or any other documented evidence that you feel to share you should include that in the supplementary material or you can give the URL of the page from where the reader can download the content.
References
A research is mostly derives knowledge from the previous research that has already been made public and that has been tested over time, it is important to acknowledge any previously published work.
Citation
It is imperative to give a citation of the previously published work as it appears in the content of an article. It should be mentioned in Vancouver or numbered format. The references cited should always be in square brackets and should always appear before the punctuation.
Reference list
You should list the references as it appears in the text. The number of references should be limited to 60.
Presentation
Section Headings or typography
Typography is one major component of the written form of communication and it is very important that you follow the prescribed format that is mentioned under this section.
Headings
There can be three levels of headings:
Level 1: Main heading
- Main heading should be Bold, and all caps
- Heading should be numbered
- Font used should be Times New Roman (bold) and 12 points
Level 2: Sub heading
- The subheading should be italics and should have a space between the main heading and the content
- It should also be numbered under the main heading
- Font used should be Times New Roman(italics) with 10 point
Level 3: Sub-sub heading
- It should be italics and should not have space between the content paragraph but should have a space between the subheading if the sub-sub heading is given directly under the subheading.
- The font used should be Times New Roman(italics) with 10 points.
Bullets
Bullet points can be used anywhere in the content, but the bullet size should be small.
Line spacing
Line spacing in the content should be 1.0
Colors and highlight
Font and text color should be black (Hex#000000), and highlights should not be used anywhere in the article.
Images, tables and graphs
Images, tables, and graphs should be numbered and should always be followed by their caption in the article.
Review before submission process
Once your manuscript is ready for submission, we would suggest you to take a moment, ready our manuscript thoroughly and ensure that you haven’t missed something important either a finding or something in the method that you have followed. Reading your manuscript will help you in structuring your article better and will also help the reviewer to accept your manuscript without any problem or delay. We suggest you to make a check list like given below and follow:
- Is your manuscript complete in all aspect?
- Have you followed the format carefully?
- Is the quality of artwork satisfactory and properly placed?
- Are the references mentioned complete and lead to the journal directly?
We would also suggest you to communicate with your co-authors, supervisors and colleaguesand ask for help if you are writing a manuscript for the first time.
Detail of submission process
Submitting your manuscript with Journal’s Pub is very easy and demands less time as compared to most of the publishers. Here we have made this process more interactive so that you do not feel neglected and can keep track of your manuscript easily. We have made online submission and review of manuscripts mandatory for all types of papers. When your manuscript has been prepared in accordance with the above instructions and you are ready to submit online.
Steps for submitting your manuscript:
- Go to website www.management.celnet.in
- Locate the journal in which you would like to submit your manuscript
- Register in the journal and then log on to the journal by entering the user id and password or directly click to submit the article and fill the form
- On successful submission, you will receive an email acknowledgment mail to your registered email address
- Subsequent correspondence should be routed via the managing editor on the email id given in the about section of the journal.
Important
During the process of summiting an article, the author has to agree to the terms and conditions of the journal and have to agree to the author’s declaration:
- The undersigned author is the author of the article entitled “………” that has been submitted for publication to CKME.
- The idea that is presented in the article along with the thought content is original and is in support of the previous research work that has already been published.
- The submitted article maintains high standards of research.
- The author declares that the article does not violate any intellectual property right and the author is not obligated by any copyright
- The article that has been submitted for publication has significance in the scientific community and society in general
- The article will demonstrate appropriateness in approach, experiment, and techniques that are experimental, statistical, or analytical.
- The result deduced after the experimentation is relevant and credible.
- The conclusion deduced is solely based on the data collected during the experiment and is not biased and unjust.
- The article is under the scope of the journal.
- Upon agreeing to this, the author gives the publisher the right to publish the article in the appropriate format, and the right to save its electronic format
- Authors should understand that the decision regarding the acceptance and rejection of the article depends on the editorial board and the decision of the editorial board would be considered final.
Further Correspondence
We at MBA Journals understand that getting a manuscript published is a big step for you and
we ensure that you do not face any difficulty in the process. For your ease we provide
you with the e-mail id of the Managing Editor who will be available all the time to
communicate with you to answer all your questions.
What We Do at CKME
We at CKME will do whatever we can to get your manuscript published correctly as quickly as possible. We ensure that we demand less time from you which ensures that you focus more on your research and leave the publication process to us.
Registration
- As soon as you submit your manuscript to us, we provide you with a unique reference Id that will help you to communicate better with us and will also help you to track your manuscript
- We check whether the article that has reached us is complete or not. Also, if the artwork or illustrations are of good quality and clear
- Send the corresponding author an acknowledgment e-mail stating the Reference Id
- At acceptance, we send the corresponding author a Journal Publishing Agreement
Copyediting
- Here we make sure that your artwork is added to the right place
- When the completed article is ready, it is copyedited according to the format of our journal and structured for online publication. Here the artwork, tables, and graphs are sized according to the requirement of the format, and the proof is generated for your final review
- CKME makes available the final camera-ready copy of your manuscript to the principal author responsible for correspondence for final proof review. No changes in the accepted thought contents are allowed at this stage. The Authors should note that the ultimate responsibility for ensuring the accuracy, the inclusion of up-to-date suggested revisions rests upon them
- It is highly unlikely that there would be mistakes in your manuscript, but still, we make sure that there should not be a scope for error. For this, we send your manuscript to copyeditors; they look for mechanical mistakes in spelling, grammar, and punctuations. Copyeditors are not experts and may alter the meaning of your text. Hence we suggest you read your manuscript carefully and look for mistakes if any
Publication
- We correct any mistakes identified by you on the proof
- Give the corresponding author intimation of the publication
- Send the final copy to the printer
- Distribute the journal to our subscribers
Author’s access to the journal articles
- Journal allows free access to its corresponding author for three months in which the author can view and download all the published articles in that particular Journal
- Hard copy compilation of all the Journals is also available at the end of the year to all the authors at nominal prices
Peer Review
All articles considered for publication are subjected to a stringent reviewing process. These manuscripts are edited by acknowledged experts in their respective fields. The editor can decide whether or not to send a manuscript for review and handle the review process by themselves.
- They ensure that only good quality research is published, the reviewer determines the originality and significance of the work
- Appropriate reviewers sometimes suggest minor alterations in the manuscript or research
- If the article fails in the terms of originality and validity, the reviewer has the right to reject the articles
What do reviewers do?
Reviewers are generally academicians who have colossal experience in their fields and are acknowledged as experts in the field. What a reviewer does is recommend the editor of the journal to accept the manuscript, accept with modification, or reject the manuscript. For the assessment, they have stringent guidelines that make certain that only a good quality manuscript is published. They also have an editorial form and a checklist to help them evaluate the content for its authenticity and closely look at the methodology that is adopted in the manuscript, they also check for the structure of the manuscript, and whether you have referenced the articles correctly. Based on these stringent guidelines they recommend publishing the manuscript.
Type of Reviewers
Single Blind Review
Identity of the author is not disclosed to the reviewer
Double Blind Review
Identity of reviewer and author are undisclosed to each other
Open Review
Both author and reviewer are known
Word of caution
By publishing your article with us, you enter into a legal agreement with CKME and accept the terms and agreement of publishing with us and it is the responsibility of an author to act ethically and soundly. We at CKME are dedicated to protecting the rights of an author; we make it certain that your work is solely credited to your name. We would suggest you go through and understand the terms and conditions carefully.
Certifications, Copyrights, Reproductions & Permissions
- It is the responsibility of the author to check for the copyright and ownership-related issues to the content published in the article and if such content does appear in the article, the author must obtain permission from the copyright or ownership holder. Also, the content should be properly credited.
- Submission of a manuscript to the journal also implies that the author has contributed to materializing the research.
Transfer of Copyright
- To facilitate the transfer of copyright, a declaration, and copyright transfer form is provided on the website of the journal and a sample form is also available in Annexure I and II respectively.
- From the authors, the copy of the duly signed form (scanned copy or image) should reach the publication management team within 48 hours of the final accepted copy of the manuscript for proofreading, the hard copy of the document should follow.
- If the publication management team does not receive the copy of your form timely, the journal will hold the article for publication in the target issue.
- The article submitted here is not been published anywhere else and is not under consideration in any other journal, if selected the article will be published with journal and will not be published anywhere else.
Ethical issues
The value of publishing relies on everyone involved in behaving ethically and at CKME we are committed to uphold the integrity of work we publish.
Authorship
- Before submitting of the manuscript for publication at the journal the author should be certain that it is free from any disputed and obligation, and do not violate any copyright or ownership issue.
- While determining the authorship, it should be made sure that all the researchers who have contributed to the article are graded as authors, and their contributions should be acknowledged. Also, the primary authorship should be awarded to the researcher who is behind the idea of the research in the first place
- The manuscript should include full affiliation of the institution. The authorship is a joint decision of all the authors and some co-authors who have contributed to a part of the article are also entitled to the full authorship of the article
- Manuscripts that include trials on animals or human beings should include documentation of approval obtained by the ethical board
Handling Cases of Misconduct
- No journal is competent to police such cases. We at CKME believe it is the primary responsibility of the employer to check and train the researchers for the code of conduct.
- Journal does not have any legal intimacy to investigate in any matter related to scientific misconduct
- In case it comes to its notice that the evidence of trust has been compromised by the actions of the author or reviewer, the publication management team of the journal may seek the advice of the members of the editorial board
Plagiarism and Copyright Violations
- Plagiarism is copying of idea, thought, and text of someone else without proper citation and presenting it as one’s own idea. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain the permission of authors to reuse or republish their work.
- CKME uses software such as Viper, Plagiarism checker, and copy scape to ensure that plagiarism free content is accepted and published
- Authors should ensure that the manuscript that they are submitting is plagiarism-free and all the citations are properly provided. It should also be noted that citations do not justify mass copying of content to which the owner has the rights.