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Author Guidelines

The Journal of Research in Business Education is the journal of the National Business Education Association, Council for Business Teaching and Research. The scope of the journal is:

  • Original research in business disciplines (management, marketing, accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, global business, information technology, human resources management, etc.)
  • Original research in business teacher preparation or business teaching and learning (instructional strategies, clinical practice, student teaching, edTPA, student organizations, etc.)
  • Applied research in business disciplines at the K-12 or post-secondary level; business education teacher preparation; international business/global business

 

Please follow these guidelines as you develop your manuscript.

  • The length of the manuscript is between 5,000 - 8,000 words including the title page, abstract, and body. References and Appendices are not included in the word limit.
  • References and in-text citations are formatted using APA 7. The References are single-spaced with a space between each reference.
  • There is a Title Page submitted separately as a Word document. The Title Page includes: title, names, position titles, affiliations, email addresses of all authors, date, and name of the corresponding author.
  • On the Title Page, if appropriate, include an acknowledgment statement for agencies that assisted with authorship or research funding.
  • On the Title Page, include this statement, “This manuscript has not already been published, and it is not under consideration by another journal.”
  • There is a single-spaced abstract that describes your study at a glance and has a maximum word count of 150.
  • There are 4-7 keywords in the abstract.
  • If institutional review board approval was required and obtained, state that in the manuscript.
  • Tables and figures are included in-text and formatted in APA 7.
  • The manuscript is submitted in Microsoft Word.
  • The manuscript is double-spaced with 1” margins.
  • Pay attention to sentence structure, logic and comprehension, flow, word choice, spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
  • There is an in-text citation for each Reference. 

Make sure your uploads have personal identifications removed. 

To ensure the integrity of anonymous peer-review, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

  • The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.
  • The authors of the document have removed personal information from the file properties by taking the following steps:
    • Microsoft Word for Windows:
      • Go to File
      • Select Info
      • Click on Check for Issues
      • Click on Inspect Document
      • In the Document Inspector dialog box, select the check boxes to choose the type of hidden content that you want inspected.
      • Click Remove All
      • Click Close
      • Save the document
    • Microsoft Word for MacOS:
      • Go to Tools
      • Click Protect Document
      • Select Remove personal information for this file on save
      • Click OK and save the file
    • PDF:
      • Go to File
      • Select Properties
      • Remove any name in the author field
      • Click OK
      • Save the document

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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 file has been anonymized for blind review.
  • All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the formatting, stylistic, and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Copyright Notice

Under copyright law, you hold the copyright to your creative works for your lifetime and 50 years thereafter. Before the National Business Education Association and the Council for Business Teaching and Research can publish your manuscript, the Association must receive all copyrights from you, including specifically the rights to: 1.Use this material in NBEA and Association for Business Teaching and Research publications; 2.Give other publishers permission to prepare derivative works; 3. Reproduce this material, including electronic media and making photocopies. It is understood that any reproduction of the above material will be clearly identified as your work. You will retain the right to excerpt it freely, but we ask that you indicate the original source of publication. I agree that I will not submit this manuscript in its entirety for publication elsewhere if it is published in the Journal for Research in Business Education. 

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