Submitting Your Paper

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  1. The submission may not have been previously published nor be currently awaiting consideration by another journal (without an explanation has been provided in the section ‘Comments to the Editor’).
  2. The submission should be written in professional English. Final articles should preferably be around 10-20 pages and conform to the style of American Psychological Association.
  3. All manuscripts should be prepared in MS-Word or PDF format, follow all the requirements listed online at http://ijqpm.pages.tcnj.edu, and be sent by email to the editors at ijqpm@tcnj.edu.
  4. A 100-150 word abstract and a 100-150 word brief biography of each author must accompany the manuscript.
  5. All manuscripts should follow formatting guidelines below (main body, references, appendices, and footnotes):
    • 8.5” x 11” paper
    • 1” margins top and bottom
    • 11pt Times New Roman font
    • 1.5 spacing
    • 20-25 pages

Papers are judged based on their contribution not on their length.  As such, short papers are encouraged since they often focus on a narrower but stronger contribution and allow readers to better assess the merits of the methodology adopted or the perspective advanced.  To stay within our page limit, authors may wish to follow the suggestions below:

  • use a brief introduction only to establish your research question, and not to provide conclusions;
  • avoid summarizing the sections of the paper at the end of the introduction;
  • use the conclusion only to conclude and not to repeat the research question, methodology, etc.;
  • do not discuss future research directions and limit the discussion of the limitations of your study;
  • in the discussion of all relevant literature, focus on work that provides the background to your research but limit its details, and highlight work that corroborates or contradicts your results;
  • limit the number of results included in the paper and instead focus on the main thrust of the research results;
  • include all or the bulk of the data used in the study and auxiliary materials in a supplemental file so that reviewers can confirm the results with the understanding that they will not be included in the final manuscript.

ESPECIALLY FOR OUR INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS

All authors are encouraged to approach their chosen topic with an international perspective, and to keep in mind the global readership that the Internet and electronic communication allows us to reach.  Therefore, the authors should not assume that the reader is familiar with their specific national institutions or corporations.  For example, acronyms should be translated in full into English and if necessary the name of a comparable institution in another country or a short explanation should be included in a note. Countries and groupings of countries should be referred to by their full names (for example, ‘Europe’ and ‘Asia’ are quite ambiguous).

Special attention should be paid to identifying units of currency by nationality, and provide an easy reference currency or index (e.g., GDP per capita) to facilitate international comparisons.  At times, mathematical functions or specific methodologies have quite different names that do not translate appropriately; in these cases it would be helpful to consult an English reference text.