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Author Guidelines

EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES

1. Business and Management Studies: An International Journal (BMIJ) is a peer-reviewed journal which is published four times per year. Papers can be written in Turkish or English. Scientific and original articles in business and management areas are published in the journal.

2. Articles which are sent to publish in the journal can be written in Turkish or English. Articles which will be published in the journal should be proper with writing and linguistic rules. Scientific and linguistic responsibilities of the articles published in this journal belong to the author(s).

3. All articles should be sent via the web site of the journal (https://bmij.org). Author(s) should prepare their article proper to publication rules of the journal and ethic rules. Articles which are not proper to rules are not evaluated. Articles published or submitted for publication elsewhere are not evaluated.

4. Articles submitted to the journal are sent to at least 2 referees with the decision of the Editorial Board. The articles submitted to the journal are published with the decision of the Editorial Board, after obtaining a positive opinion from at least two different referees.

5. During the layout process is running, author(s) should reply the messages, which are about controlling and editing the article, within the specified period. If the author(s) don’t reply the messages within the specified period, their article is postponed to the following issue.

6. Articles that completed their evaluation process, are published considering their arrival date.

7. More than one articles of one author are not published in the same issue.

8. Since our journal is blinded by the peer-review system, any information that would reveal the name and identity of the author (s) should not be included in the submitted studies.

 

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

1. Length of studies which are sent to publish should not exceed 25 pages including appendix and references section. Papers should be written using “Book Antiqua” in MS Word. Studies should be formatted on A4 paper. The margins of the paper should be 2,5 cm for all sides. Main headings should be 12 pt bold, subtitles 10 pt bold, text 10 pt normal, line spacing single line, one line spacing between paragraphs, paragraphs should be prepared in a page layout starting from the beginning of the line.

2. Title of the article should be comprehensible and proper with the subject of the article.

3. BMIJ Journal recommends the IMRAD format for article content to authors. The IMRAD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion) format is the most prominent norm for the structure of a scientific journal article in the original research type (Wikipedia). IMRAD format is the writing format that defines the work in the most original way. As an alternative to the IMRAD format, studies can be prepared with the traditional format. BMIJ Journal declares that it will give priority to the submissions prepared in IMRAD format in the acceptance of the submissions to the referee review process.

4. Articles which are sent to publish must be must involve minimum 1 or maximum 3 JEL (journal of economic literature) classification codes at two-digit level. The link below can be used to determine which JEL classification code is proper with the subject of the article. http://www.aeaweb.org/jel/guide/jel.php

5. Citations in text must be done according to the rules determined by APA (American Psychological Association).  Notes must be added into footnotes with a font size of 8 font. In-text citations, the author’s last name and the year of publication and page number of the publication for the source must appear in the text. If there is not an author name, institution name must be used instead of an author name. For example (Yılmaz, 2008:15), (Öztürk and Akdoğan, 2010:225), (Öncü et al., 2005:10-12), (DPT, 2011:320).

6. Studies must include Turkish and English abstracts which not exceed 170 words. At most three keywords must be written below the abstract. Abstracts must be written regular, 8 font size. Line spacing should be single-spaced and paragraphs should be justified both right and left sides.

7. References must be written with a font size of 10 at the end of the paper. References should be started after the last page of the text and listed with alphabetical order according to the last name of authors If an author’s more than one studies is referred, a source which has older publication date should be written first. If an author has more than one studies in the same year is referred, alphabetical symbols (i.e. a,b,c..) must be used with the years in references and also in-text citations. For example; 2010a, 2010b, 2010c, etc. If any author’s single and more than one author’s studies are referred, his/her single-author study must be written first. References must be written based on APA citation rules. (e.g. Last Name, First letter of the first name. (Date), Name of Study, Place of publication: Press.)

8. The links below could be visited to get detailed information about APA citation rules.

9. You can download the template file to be used in the article application by clicking the link https://bmij.org/ast.docx

10. You can visit the Layout Template (New) page for the layout file of the article formats in publication preparation.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission to be sent to our journal should not be published or submitted to another journal before.
  • While applying for the texts with two or more authors, all authors should be added according to “the Order on the Text” and an author should be identified as “the first contact person for editorial communication”.
  • In the applications submitted to our journal, the studies will be taken into consideration by the editor in terms of scientific competence and the studies whose scientific competence is not approved will be rejected without any processing.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Layout Template (New), which is found in "For Authors" menu.
  • Re-applications are not accepted for the articles which are rejected in BMIJ Journal.
  • In the studies where the decision of the editor is "Re-review After Revisions", the authors complete the corrections within 15 (fifteen) days and upload them to the journal system. When this period is exceeded for the installation of the corrections, the journal editor makes the rejection / unpublished decision.
  • In the studies with the decision of "Revisions Required" as the editor's decision, the authors complete the revisions within 10 (ten) days and upload them to the journal system. When this period is exceeded for the upload of the revisions, the journal editor can give the rejection / unpublished decision.
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  • Because of the double-blind refereeing method, the author's name should not be written on the article.
  • For cancellation of assessment and publication, texts submitted to the journal can be withdrawn within 7 days at the latest as from the application date by the author(s). After 7 days, texts cannot be withdrawn even if they have been taken into the referee assessment process.
  • In the articles to be submitted in the English language, linguistic evaluation is done after the submission is accepted to be scientific. In English articles, when the author(s) have been accepted by the editor for publication, the submission is found to be sufficient for scientific publishing. If the submission is not sufficient for publishing as a result of the linguistic evaluation, or if the linguistic corrections requested by the submission are not fulfilled by the author(s), the submission is rejected. The author(s) applying for an article in English will have accepted the result of the linguistic evaluation. Please refer to the Linguistics Assessment page under the Manuscript Review menu for the linguistic evaluation process.
  • In the articles to be submitted in the Turkish language the Extended Abstract sections, linguistic evaluation is done after the submission is accepted to be scientific. If the Extended Abstract section is not sufficient for publishing as a result of the linguistic evaluation, or if the linguistic corrections requested by the Extended Abstract are not fulfilled by the author(s), the submission is rejected. Articles that are inadequate as a result of Linguistics Control will not be included in the publication plan without making corrections.
  • It is necessary for our all subscribers as Reader, Author, Referee and Editor to add their ORCID Number to their registration information. The assessment process for articles from authors who have not entered their ORCID Number will not be started. You can get your individual ORCID for free at http://orcid.org
  • Author(s) of the studies acknowledge that their studies can be published in any issue of the journal which is determined by the editor.
  • Form of the text should be as follows: A4 paper format, margins 2.5 cm., Main headings 12 pt bold, Subtitles 10 pt bold, text 10 pt normal, line spacing single line, line spacing between paragraphs. paragraphs will start at the beginning of the line.
  • From the year 2019, the condition of specifying the type of studies (Research or Review) published in journals in TR Dizin database has been stipulated. Please state the type of your work at the top of your work when submitting your work to our journal.
  • Before applying for an article, please carefully review the BMIJ Journal Article Submission Guide.
  • Texts will be checked for plagiarism and articles with a plagiarism rate above 20% will not be assessed and will be rejected.
  • Please visit the Editorial and Publication Workflow and Timeline page under the heading "ABOUT" on the main page for the publication evaluation process and workflow chart in our papers.
  • Submission files must be smaller than 1 MB in word file format and size. Please click For information about the Article Submission Template.
  • In the article submission process, please fill and sign the BMIJ Author Form as all authors after the information e-mail sent by BMIJ Journal Editor with the title "[BMIJ] Referee Review Process Will Start After The Article Fee." You need to upload the file type "BMIJ Author Form" with the File Upload menu in the Submission Files section of the Submission tab. All contributors to the article must sign the BMIJ Author Form. Please click for detailed information about the BMIJ Author Form.
  • Please check if your submission is included in at least one of the topics on the BMIJ Journal Aims and Scope page.
  • After receiving an information message "[BMIJ] The review process of your article will start after the submission fee." from the editorials, please pay the Article Application And Process Charge. For more information, please see the BMIJ Journal Payment Pagehttps://www.bmij.org/index.php/1/payment1

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By signing this form, authors retain the copyright of their manuscript and grant ACC Publishing the non-exclusive right to publish the article. The authors agree that the article if accepted for publication by the Business & Management Studies: An International Journal (BMIJ) will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) International License which allows third parties to share the material for only non-commercial purposes by giving the appropriate credit to the original work. For further details on the license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), please see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

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