Journal of Commerce and Management (JCM)

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

1. The submission has not been previously published nor is it before another journal for consideration.
2. The submission file is in open office, microsoft word document format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is 1.5 spaces using 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.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
•      The manuscript will be numbered and sent to the review committee for review-report.
•      The author will be intimidated of the review and the process will take a maximum period of 15 – 20 days.

Research Paper Formatting Rules to be followed for the submission are given below.

• The paper should only be in the font style “Times New Roman".
• The size of the font should be 12 points.
• The Title’s Alignment should be Center Aligned.The size of the font should be 18 points. Double-space again and center the title. Do not underline, italicize, or place your title in quotation marks. Write the title in Title Case (standard capitalization), not in all capital letters.
• Use quotation marks and/or italics when referring to other works in your title, just as you would in your text. For example: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasas Morality Play; Human Weariness in "After Apple Picking"
• The author's name should be Left Aligned.
• The abstract should be Center Aligned. The ideal word limit is 200- 250 words.
• Keywords must be added after paragraph of the Abstract.
• All paragraphs’ first line should be indented to .5 inch from the left margin. Paragraph of Abstract should have normal alignment without any indent.
• Page Margin should be 1-inch on the top, bottom, left and right side.
• All Headings should only have initials capitalized like, Abstract, Introduction, Conclusion. Headings should never be bolded or italicized. They should always have normal formatting.
• Works Cited or References should be on the separate page at the end of the manuscript. In-text citation and Works Cited/references should co-relate each other.
• Works Cited or References should be Center aligned (only title)
• If a references line exceeds and goes to the second line then it should have an indentation of .5 inch margin without pressing the ENTER button.
• The research paper must ideally range from 1500 – 6000 words.
• Works Cited/references must have proper inclusion in the body of a manuscript to avoid any plagiarism.
• All figures, images, tables of the manuscript should be embedded into the original text. Separate files or documents will not be accepted.
• Note: If you are not able to format your manuscript, send it as an M.S. Word file, we will format it according to our protocol.

Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically to editor-jcm@dbcyelagiri.edu.in with mention journal title (BJLL) in subject line.