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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.

Author Guidelines

All submissions must meet the following criteria, 

  • The journal supports multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to business, quantitative methods and economics. Thus, it encourages original, innovative and critical thinking which will contribute to knowledge and understanding in different areas.
  • Articles based on empirical work are highly encouraged, as working papers having strong literature base with advancements/novelty in theoretical/grounded theory or economic modelling which represents/ depicts development in a particular field.
  • The focus of the journal is on the research rigour, modelling, data-driven innovations, interpretation of results and how the results of the research may be translated into practice.
  • The length of an article, including the title, author information, abstract, text, tables, figures, notes, references, and appendices, should not exceed 5000-7000 words.
  • The journal does not charge any article processing or article submission fees.

For detailed Author's Guidelines Click here

Copyright Notice

ICR follows an open-access publishing policy and full text of all published articles is available free, immediately upon publication of an issue. The journal’s contents are published and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license. Thus, the work submitted to the journal implies that it is original, unpublished work of the authors (neither published previously nor accepted/under consideration for publication elsewhere). On acceptance of a manuscript for publication, a corresponding author on the behalf of all co-authors of the manuscript will sign and submit a completed the Copyright and Author Consent Form.