Submission Guidelines

The manuscript should be as concise as the subject matter and research methods permit.
1. Soft copy of the manuscript will be accepted from any country submitted in English
language only.
2. The length of the manuscript should be between 2000 and 8000 words, inclusive of
tables, figures, and references. Manuscripts with multiple studies can be accepted
beyond the described length.
3. The manuscript will be accepted in MS Word format only. The text should be in
single-column format.
4. Material (text) of the manuscript should be formatted in Times New Roman, font size
12 and single-spaced.
5. The primary heading should be in capital letters (UPPERCASE) and boldface. The
sub-headings should be in title-case capitalization (First Letter of Each Word in
Capital) and in boldface. Each heading should be appeared on the separate line.
6. Tables and charts should appear at the end of the text indicating the likely place in
the text where it is to be appeared. All tables and charts should be numbered serially.
7. Figures should be numbered consecutively. Wherever necessary, the source should be
provided at the bottom. The figures should also be given relevant titles. The images
(figures) should be of high resolution. All charts and graphs should be drawn legibly
and figures should be indicated in millions and billions.
8. The manuscript should be divided into clearly stated numbered sections. Sections
may be numbered as 1, 2, ..., while subsections of section 1 as 1.1, 1.2, ..., and further
1.1.1, 1.1.2 .... However, the abstract should not be numbered in sections. This
numbering should also be used for the cross-referencing of the text.

9. Manuscripts should be submitted as per order: front page, abstract along with key
words, introduction, relevant literature review, methodology, results &
discussion, conclusion and references.
10. The front page should include the following: (a) The title of the article, (b) Name of
author(s) and complete address for communication, (c) Name of the corresponding
author, (d) E-mail address of all authors with contact numbers, (e) Acknowledgements
(if any), and (f) Brief biographical sketch of the author(s). The author(s)' name or
affiliation(s) should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript.
11. Every manuscript should be labelled as a research paper, review paper, abstract of
doctoral dissertation, book review, case study, short communication and bibliography.
12. Following the front page, from the second page, start with an abstract of about 200
words exactly conveying the content of the article (i.e. purpose, methodology, major
findings, and implications of the research) and key words up to 10. References and
non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided in the abstract. However,
the author(s) may use the abbreviations elsewhere in the manuscript. The nonstandard or uncommon abbreviations should be defined within the text.
13. In the introduction section of the manuscript, the background and objectives of the
research/work should be detailed. The relevant literature survey should be detailed in
the literature review section. Methods employed in compiling the research/work
should be explained in the methodology section. Result & discussion section should
comprise clear and concise results as well as the significance of the results of the
research/work. Discussion of previously published literature and citations should be
avoided in result & discussion section. The main conclusions of the research/work
should be based on the results and presented in the conclusions section.
14. There will be no footnotes, but citations may be made within the text. However, a set
of references will have to be given at the end alphabetically and so numbered.
References to publications must be in Harvard style and carefully checked for
completeness, accuracy and consistency.

15. References should be cross-referenced in the text by using the author's last name and
publication year in the style of Kamdar, 2013 for single author; Shetty and Gujarathi,
2013 for two authors, and Mousakhani et al., 2013 for multiple authors. More than
one reference from the same author(s) in the same year should be cross-referenced
and appeared with letters 'a', 'b', 'c', ..., placed after the year of publication (Kamdar,
2013a, Kamdar 2013b, ...).
16. List of references should appear alphabetically on a separate page as per the format
indicated below:

Articles in Journals
Shetty, Bhavna R. and Gujarathi, Rajashree (2013), "Students' Perception About
Management Education in India and USA", MERC Global's International Journal of
Management, Vol. 01, Issue: 01, pp. 01-14.

Books
Pradhan, S. (2009), Retailing Management- Text & Cases, Tata McGraw Hill
Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi, India.

Chapter in Books
Bhattacharya, A. K. (2004), Corporate Financial Reporting in Reed and Mukherjee,
eds, Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms and Development pp. 94-115.

Published Conference Proceedings

Kumar, A. (2011), Ascendancy of Store Image on Customer Behaviour: An
Empirical Analysis, Recent Trends in Business, Management and IT proceedings of
the international conference in Pune, India, 2011, pp. 240-246.

Working Papers

Jack, P. (2011), "Reward System: Does it really works", working paper, University
Business School, University of Pune, Pune, 28 June.

Web Sites
Kamdar, Sangita (2013), "Socioeconomic Impact of Employment Generation Program
on Poor Urban Women", MERC Global's International Journal of Management, Vol.
01, Issue: 01, pp. 15-35, available at: http://www.mercglobal.org/ijm-vol1-issue1july2013.html (accessed 1 August, 2013).

Newspaper Articles (Authored)

Chawala, P. (2009), "Economic Development", Indian Express, 21 June, pp. 5-9.

Newspaper Articles (Non-Authored)

The Hindu (2010), "Economic Reforms", 2 April, pp. 5.