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The manuscript should be accompanied by:
- Cover page containing title of the paper, without any author’s name, designation, official address, contact address, phone/ fax numbers and e-mail or any other information disclosing the authorship. All information related to authorship should only be placed in the submission form provided on the website.
- A non-mathematical abstract of about 150 words, the abstract should be self-contained and citation-free. The abstract shall be drawn such that it gives a very brief overview of Research Issue addressed, Research Findings, Academic and Practitioner or Policy Implications of your study. Four to five keywords with JEL classification below the abstract, please refer the link to check the appropriate JEL classification https://aeaweb.org/econlit/jelCodes.php
- A declaration by the authors (provided below) shall be signed by all the authors and must accompany the manuscript as a separate file.
The recommended length of the article is 3500 to 7500 words including figures and tables typed with 12- point font in Times New Roman on “8.5 x 11” (A-4) size papers with 1.5 inch margin on all four sides and spacing between lines being 1.5 line. Main Headings -12point font size in Capitalization, Sub-Headings – 12 point font size, Headings to be set in ‘bold’ letters and shall not be lettered or numbered. The same pattern should be followed in the entire paper.
Quotations: of four lines or more should be indented and types in single space. Shorter quotations should be included in the body of the text.
Mathematical notations: All mathematical notations should be clearly typed. Check the layout of mathematical expressions especially alignment, centering, length of fraction lines and type, position and closure of brackets.
Capitalisation should be kept to minimum and should be consistent.
All figures, images, tables, etc., should be embedded into the original file, numbered and captioned properly. They shall be self-contained and complement, not duplicate, information contained in the text. Tables should be supplied as editable files, not pasted as images. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. Source must be mentioned.
Authors using questionnaires should include a copy of the questionnaire along with the manuscript.
All authors of submitting manuscript need to disclose the following in their cover letter:
Disclosure on funding
Conflict of interest
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References
Authors are responsible for ensuring that the information in each reference is complete and accurate. All references should follow APA format. References should be placed at the end of the manuscript. The list should mention only those sources cited in the text of the manuscript, citations in text references should include the author’s name, and year of publication and should be identified using numbers in square brackets (e.g., “as discussed by Smith(2005) [9]”; “as discussed elsewhere[9, 10]”).
References shall be numbered and mention DOI (wherever applicable). References shall be in the same format as the article, not an embedded file of some other format like MS EXCEL.
Please ensure that Manuscript has been ‘spell checked’ and ‘grammar checked’.
Authors are responsible for making sure that they have not duplicated an article already published or accepted.
Nowhere in the body of the paper, the name or affiliation of author(s) be written in explicit or implicit form.
The Manuscripts not confirming to the guidelines will not be considered for publication. Authors may also be requested to modify and otherwise improve the manuscript to meet the standards of contents, presentation, and style of the Journal if necessary before the publication of the Journa
Review and Acceptance of Paper
All received contributions are initially scrutinized for general suitability for the publication in the journal. Research Papers/research articles are checked compulsorily for plagiarism with the help of suitable software. If the manuscript is found suitable after checking the plagiarism, it is sent to two different reviewers for double blind review process. Identity of author/s in any case is not disclosed to the reviewers. Normally double-blind peer review process takes around 2-3 months to provide feedback to authors. If paper is accepted, pre-print version of the research paper/article is sent to authors for proof corrections etc. (if any). Contributions in the journal are accepted, purely on the basis of their merit.
Responsibility for the content of articles and communications, also for possible infringements of copyrights, remains entirely with the author(s) concerned. Authors are responsible for making sure that they have not duplicated an article already published or accepted. Authors should certify on the cover page of the manuscript that the material is not published, copyrighted, accepted or under review elsewhere. Authors using questionnaires should include a copy of the questionnaire along with the manuscript.
When a paper is accepted for publication author must submit a soft copy of the final version in MS Word format.
Copyright
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Wherever copyrighted material is used, the authors should be accurate in reproduction and obtain permission from copyright holders, if necessary. Articles published in this Journal should not be reproduced or reprinted in any form, either in full or in part, without prior written permission from the Editor.
Author Declaration-cum – undertaking shall be provided by author/s if the paper is accepted for publication.