Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Instructions for Authors

The corresponding author should ensure that authorship is limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the submitted paper.

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint).

Language

Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these).

Plagiarism Policy

Following the instructions of Higher Education of Pakistan for Researchers/Authors, the journal will not accept the the papers having 20 percent or more similarity index detected by plagiarism checking software ‘Turnitin’.  The author will be responsible if plagiarism is detected at any stage of review publication, after publication and during review process. Even after publication of paper if plagiarism is indicated by someone and confirmed by Editorial Staff of the Journal, the papers publication will stand canceled and author or institution will be informed.

Publication Fee

Journal charge $200 as publication fee after blind peer review and acceptance of manuscript in order to meet the processing expenses. The journal may give concession the publication fee in the case of financial hardship.

Title Page

The title page of manuscript must include the full title, the full name and affiliation of all authors as well as full contact information of corresponding author.  The abstract  should be on second page of manuscript.

References

References should be in APA style/format but there are no strict requirements on reference formatting at submission. The format as long as the style should be consistent. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the pagination must be present.

For further details, you can contact to managing Editor. 

Copyright Notice

Submission of work requires that the piece to be reviewed has not been previously published. Upon acceptance, the Author assigns to the Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE) the right to publish and distribute the manuscript in part or in its entirety. The Author's name will always be included with the publication of the manuscript.

The Author has the following nonexclusive rights: (1) to use the manuscript in the Author's teaching activities; (2) to publish the manuscript, or permit its publication, as part of any book the Author may write; (3) to include the manuscript in the Author's own personal or departmental (but not institutional) database or on-line site; and (4) to license reprints of the manuscript to third persons for educational photocopying. The Author also agrees to properly credit the Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE) as the original place of publication.

The Author hereby grants the Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE) full and exclusive rights to the manuscript, all revisions, and the full copyright. Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE) rights include but are not limited to the following:

(1) to reproduce, publish, sell, and distribute copies of the manuscript, selections of the manuscript, and translations and other derivative works based upon the manuscript, in print, audio-visual, electronic, or by any and all media now or hereafter known or devised; (2) to license reprints of the manuscript to third persons for educational photocopying; (3) to license others to create abstracts of the manuscript and to index the manuscript; (4) to license secondary publishers to reproduce the manuscript in print, microform, or any computer-readable form, including electronic on-line databases; and (5) to license the manuscript for document delivery. These exclusive rights run the full term of the copyright, and all renewals and extensions thereof.