Guidelines for Contributors to Asian Journal of Management Cases
1. Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to: The Editor, Asian Journal of Management Cases, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Opposite Sector U, DHA, Lahore Cantt, Pakistan. E-mail: ajmc@lums.edu.pk.
2. Contributors must provide their affiliations and complete postal and e-mail addresses with their papers.
3. All articles and cases should be submitted in duplicate and accompanied by an abstract of 200 words. Up to six keywords should also be supplied. All articles should be typed on one side of the paper (preferably A4) and double-spaced throughout (not only the text but also the abstract, displayed quotations, notes, references and any other matter). Manuscripts should be accompanied by a CD-ROM or floppy disc in IBM compatible format, preferably in MS Word, and identical in every respect to the hard copy. Notes should be numbered serially and presented at the end of the article. Notes must contain more than a mere reference.
4. British spellings throughout; universal 'z' in '-ize' and '-ization' words.
5. Single quotes throughout; double quotes used within single quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed. Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text and indented with one space with a line space above and below.
6. Use 'twentieth century', '1980s'. Spell out numbers from one to ninety-nine, 100 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements use figures (3 km, 9 per cent in text not %). Use thousands and millions, not lakhs and crores.
7. Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimal, but consistent.
8. Tables and figures should be indicated in the text by number separately (see Table 1), not by placement (see Table below). Present each table and figure on a separate sheet, gathering them together at the end of the article.
9. A consolidated alphabetical list of all books, articles, essays and theses referred to (including any referred to in the tables, figures, graphs and maps) should be provided. It should be typed in double-spacing and will be printed at the end of the article. All articles, books and theses should be listed in alphabetical order of author, giving the author's surname first followed by the first name. If more than one publication by the same author is listed, the items should be given in chronological order. References should be embedded in text in the anthropological style. For example: '(Sarkar 1987: 145)'. Citations should be first alphabetical and then chronological, for example, '(Ahmed 1987; Sarkar 1987; Wignaraja 1960)'. The detailed style of referencing is as follows:
A. FOR PUBLISHED SOURCES:
a) Books:
Korten, David. 1995. When Corporations Rule the World. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler.
b) Edited Volumes:
Spears, Larry (ed.). 1996, Reflections on Leadership. New York: John Wiley
c) Articles in Edited Volumes:
Moon, C. 1994. 'Changing Patterns of Business-Government Relations in South Korea', in A. MacIntyre (ed.), Business and Government in Industrialising Asia, pp.222-46. St. Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
d) Articles in Journals:
Parke, Barbara, Yoram Zeira and Tarek Hatem. 1996. 'International Joint Venture Managers', Journal of International Management, 2 (1): 1-29.
B. UNPUBLISHED DISSERTATIONS AND THESES:
Sandee, H. 1995. 'Innovations in Production', unpublished Ph.D. thesis. Amsterdam: Free University.
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