Policy Document

Please read the guidelines below before visiting the submission site!

International Journal of Social and Business Sciences (IJSBS) hosted on OJS, a web-based online submission and peer review system. Please read the Manuscript Submission Guidelines below, and then visit https://www.ijsbs.com/index.php/ijsbs/login  to login and submit your article online. Remember you can log in to the submission site at any time to check on the progress of your paper through the peer review process.

Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of International Journal of Social and Business Sciences (IJSBS) will be reviewed. 

Original Article (Empirical Research Papers on Social and Management-related Areas, Book Review case study etc.

Articles should not exceed 8000 words. All regular articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150–200 words and 4–5 keywords.

There are no fees payable to submit in this Journal. Open Access options are available

As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere.

Peer Review Policy

International Journal of Social and Business Sciences (IJSBS) adheres to a rigorous double-anonymize reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties.

The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for possible publication in the Journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor/Board member will have no involvement in the decision-making process.

Authorship

All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.

If the named authors for a manuscript change at any point between submission and acceptance, IJSBS must be informed on its editorial email. An addition of an author is only permitted following feedback raised during peer review. Authorship change/addition/deletion request will be accepted before final acceptance only. All requests will be moderated by the Editor and/or Support staff

Acknowledgements

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.

Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.

Funding

International Journal of Social and Business Sciences (IJSBS) requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. If you did not receive any funding/grant for your research, please mention that also. Following is an example in such a case.

“This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors”.