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Submission Guidelines
Use these guidelines to prepare a manuscript for submission to NEJSR.
Before you begin
Confirm Journal Fit
Manuscripts submitted to NEJSR should address a topic within business or management and should use a systematic review or related evidence-synthesis approach that fits the journal's approved manuscript categories.
Submission package
Files and Information for Submission
NEJSR uses a double-anonymous peer-review model. Authors must upload two files to complete a submission: a separate title page and an anonymized main manuscript.
- Required: Title page with author and affiliation information
- Required: Anonymized main manuscript
- Optional: Cover letter
- Optional: Applicable reporting checklist
- Optional: Search strategy
- Optional: Figures and images when submitted separately
- Optional: Supplementary materials and datasets
Required declarations and metadata are completed in the OJS submission workflow rather than uploaded as separate files.
Manuscript structure
Organize the Review Transparently
The exact section structure may vary by review design. Authors should present enough methodological information for readers and reviewers to understand how the evidence base was identified, screened, appraised, analyzed, and synthesized.
Title and Abstract
Identify the topic and review design clearly. The abstract should summarize the objective, methods, principal findings, and implications.
Introduction
Explain the management problem, existing knowledge, review rationale, and research question or synthesis objective.
Methods
Report the search, eligibility, screening, extraction, appraisal, and synthesis procedures appropriate to the review design.
Results
Present the included evidence, study characteristics, synthesis results, and review flow in a form appropriate to the method.
Discussion
Interpret the synthesis, limitations, implications, research gaps, and contributions to management knowledge or practice.
Declarations
Disclosures and Research Statements
The submission workflow is planned to collect structured declarations that support transparent scholarly reporting.
- Conflicts of interest
- Funding information
- Data availability statement
- Ethics statement when applicable
- Artificial intelligence use disclosure when required
Policy approval required
Final declaration wording and applicability rules will appear after the related policies are approved.
Files
Prepare Submission Files
NEJSR will support Microsoft Word and PDF where appropriate. The production workflow may request editable source files before an accepted article enters final publication preparation.
The title page and anonymized main manuscript are the only required upload files. Authors may provide a cover letter, reporting checklist, search strategy, supplementary materials, datasets, figures, images, or other supporting files when relevant to the submission.
Peer review
Peer-Reviewed Publication
NEJSR uses double-anonymous peer review. Submitted manuscripts first undergo editorial screening. Manuscripts advanced to external review normally require at least two confirmed reviewers. Reviewer invitations use a seven-day response period, and accepted reviews normally have a twenty-one-day completion period.
Submit
Ready to Submit?
Complete the submission checklist before entering the secure manuscript-management system.