Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- 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 text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Article
PEER REVIEW POLICY
In the reviewing process, at least two peer-reviewers will review each manuscript and author(s) can also propose the candidate of reviewers. The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision based on the recommended decisions of the two peer-reviewers. Generally, the Editor-in-Chief will select reviewers based on merit and quality of publication. Articles submitted directly to Karugasik Journal of Leadership and Management will be fully peer-reviewed by at least two appropriately qualified experts in the field selected by the Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Board. All reviewing process are in double blind peer-review and follows the OJS editorial and publishing process. After being reviewed, there will be four types of decision to be reached by the Editor-in-Chief based on the reviewers’ recommendations:
- Accept Submission: the submission will be accepted without revisions.
- Revisions Required: the submission will be accepted after minor changes have been made.
- Resubmit for Review: the submission needs to be revised with significant changes, and will undergo another round of review.
- Rejected: the submission will not be published in the journal.
The Editor-in-Chief or a designated member of the Editorial Board will decide whether to accept, reject or request revisions based on the reviews and comments received.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Copyright on any article is retained by the author(s).
- The author grants the journal, the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
- The article and any associated published material is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0).
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