Journal of Management & Organization (JMO) aims to provide global perspectives on management and organizations of benefit to scholars, educators, students, practitioners, policy-makers and consultants worldwide and welcomes contributions across the management, sociology, psychology and political science areas of research. JMO invites hard hitting and controversial contributions on current or relevant topics but must be supported by good, empirical research.
JMO is the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management.
Submission Requirements
Before submitting your Research Article, please ensure that you carefully read and adhere to all the instructions provided below. Manuscripts that do not conform to these guidelines may not be reviewed. All submissions must fall within the remit of the journal, as described above.
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously, and that it is not currently being considered by another journal.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not own copyright, to be used both in print and electronic media, and for ensuring that the appropriate acknowledgments are included in their manuscript.
Manuscript Format
Title page:
The Journal of Management & Organization uses a double anonymised peer review process therefore the submitting author must ensure that they upload a title page separate to the main document with details of all authors, their affiliations, addresses and email. Please include any acknowledgments, a competing interest statement for each author and a word count. The title page should also contain a short biography of each author. Please also state your ORCID ID.
Competing interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article. Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations. If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: "Competing interests: Author A is employed at organisation B. Author C is on the Board of company E and is a member of organisation F. Author G has received grants from company H.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Main Document:
Articles must be 6000 to 8000 words in length, exclusive of References, Appendices, Tables and Figures. This must be uploaded as a Word Document and not as a PDF.
All manuscripts must be in English. Either 'British' or 'American' spellings are acceptable, provided they are used consistently.
Please use common fonts (Helvetica, Arial, Times New Roman) at 12 pt, double line spacing, and a generous margin.
All manuscripts must include an abstract and up to 5 keywords. Abstracts describing the essence of the manuscript must be 150 words or less.
Please use concise headings to help organize the manuscript. Typical headings for research articles include review of literature, method, results, discussion, and references.
Footnotes should be kept to a minimum. They should be numbered consecutively (in superscript) and appear at the bottom of the page.
Tables and Figures:
Figures and tables should be comprehensible without reading the text, and the source must be cited correctly. Both Tables and Figures should be titled with a short and concise description, numbered separately but consecutively (Table 1, … ; Figure 1, … ), and referenced in the text. They must be uploaded separately to the main document and clearly labelled.
References:
All citations and references must be complete and accurate on submission and follow the format and style described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.).
A list headed 'References' and comprising full details of all sources should be provided at the end of your article. The list should contain only work you have cited in-text and should be in alphabetical order by first author's surname.
A guide on how to format references in the APA style can be found here: http://guides.lib.monash.edu/citing-referencing/apa
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.