Author Guidelines

Guidelines for authors seeking to submit a paper for Current Topics in Management.

Overview

The annual series—Current Topics in Management—is edited by Afzal Rahim and published by Transaction Publishers. You can submit your chapter to Dr. Rahim (afzal.rahim@icam1990.com) for our review as attached file in Word (do not send archived, compressed, or zipped files).

Please Note

  1. You should write your chapter for middle and top managers, graduate students (in Management, Public Administration, Psychology, Industrial Sociology, Communication, and Healthcare Administration), and faculty.
  2. You should write your chapter with minimum number of references. Remove dated references.
  3. Complex tables should be moved from text to Index.
  4. There will be correction charges of $75 for author errors in the revised chapters.
  5. Please conduct a literature search through PsycINFO and update your literature review.
  6. Please buy a copy of the APA Publication Manual from your bookstore and prepare your final revision strictly according to the guidelines in this Manual. Please read several articles from the Current Topics in Management before preparing your revision.
  7. You should pay particular attention to the citations (authors’ last name and year of publication) and References.
    1. Each citation must match with its corresponding reference.
    2. Each reference must be complete. Authors very often neglect to include page numbers of a chapter in an edited book and issue numbers (in addition to the volume numbers) of magazines such as California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, and Personnel Administrator.
  8. The Discussion section must include, among others, subsections for (a) Implications for Management, (b) Directions for Future Research, and (c) Limitation of the Study. There should be separate subheadings for these.
  9. Name, affiliation, address, phone, fax, and email of each author MUST appear on the title page AND after the References. Please include your home phone number, which may be used when you cannot be contacted at your office. We also need each author’s names, affiliation, address, phone, fax, and email on separate sheets which will be submitted to the publisher.
  10. You must provide degrees of freedom in the parentheses for each F-ratio, t-ratio, and r. You must provide degrees of freedom and N in parentheses for each Chi-square.
  11. Keep only 2 digits after each decimal for b, β, F-ratio, t-ratio, r, and R2. You can keep more than two digits after decimals for significance levels.
  12. Make sure that your “A” (centered, upper-lower bold), “B” (left adjusted, upper-lower bold), “C” (part of a paragraph, upper-lower bold), “D” (part of a paragraph, lower case bold), “E” (part of a paragraph, upper-lower italics) headings are properly done.
  13. If you have a Figure in your chapter, it must be prepared in Word 2000 in 10-point Times New Roman font (in bold upper lower cases, see Current Topics in Management sample chapter). Please note that the maximum area we can provide for a Figure is 7″ x 4.5″.
  14. We also need a 250-word word summary of your chapter in a separate file. Please indicate the number of words in the parentheses at the top of the summary. There must be a separate file for the summary.
  15. After a paper is accepted, a 60-word Biographical Note for each author must appear at the end of your chapter. Here you can discuss your academic attainments, publications, and research interests.
  16. Your acknowledgement(s), if any, should appear at the bottom of the title page.
  17. All the footnotes should be integrated in the text.

Sample Chapter

A  sample chapter has been included to assist with formatting and presentation of your paper.