Author Guidelines

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS


Papers based on theoretical/experiments/empirical research and experience should satisfy good quality research and must reflect the practical applicability/policy implications of the research.

Timeline

Initial assessment : Upto 7 days
Review: 30 days
Publication: One to four months
Note: Some papers may take longer depending on the date of submission

Processing Fee
There is no fee for submission of manuscript or its publication. There is no article processing charge.

Open Access to published articles is not provided

Paid rapid review / publication is not done.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

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1) Manuscripts should follow APA Style Manual or APA style. Papers submitted in APA style will however be published in IEEE style.

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2) The Manuscripts should be in MS-Word format.

3) Two or more referees review all contributions by following the double blind peer review system- that is, with the author's name and credentials deleted, so that the reviewers don't know who is authoring the work. It is mandatory to mention a valid email address and phone number with the content submitted online. We will acknowledge the receipt of your paper by email and an article id will be issued to the corresponding author. The author(s) should keep in mind that it would be mandatory to cite this id while sending a query about the paper submitted online.

4) Every manuscript should be labeled as being :

• A Research Paper
• A Review
• A Case Study
• A Book Review

REFERENCING

5) References and citations should be complete in all respects in order to enable readers to look up the source materials and most importantly, to demonstrate that your paper is well - researched and gives credit to the author(s) of the source materials.

6) Contributors whose papers are accepted or rejected will be informed by email only. Hence, it is mandatory to mention a valid email address with the submitted content.

7) WE DO NOT ACCEPT HARD COPIES OF PAPERS. The paper has to be submitted in MS-Word format only. There is no charge for submitting papers for blind review.

8) Authors should be careful while submitting papers for review. Please read about the scope and topics covered by our each title, and then make the submission. Please do not make multiple submissions of one paper to our other titles - a paper being submitted for publication in AMC Indian Journal of Entrepreneurship should not be submitted to Indian Journal of Finance, Prabandhan : Indian Journal of Management, and Arthshastra : Indian Journal of Economics & Research, Indian Journal of Marketing and vice-versa.

9) Specification for images

i) All images should have resolution of atleast 600 dpi.
ii) Text in images should be clear, readable, and not blur.
iii) Image dimension should be atleast 612 X 612 pixels.
iv) Image should be grayscale.

10) Publication Ethics

All manuscripts submitted will be subjected to plagiarism check.

Information on financial support must be disclosed by the authors in their papers. They must also disclose if they have involvement in any entity with any financial interest, or non-financial interest in the subject matter, or materials discussed in the manuscript. The contribution of each author should also be

A description of the contribution of each author in the paper must be disclosed by the authors.

11) ORCID id for each author must be provided

12) Authors needing assistance should contact us. Please check the Contact Us page

COPYRIGHT

To enable the Publisher to protect the copyright of the journal, the corresponding author must include the following declaration:

  1. The paper is my original contribution and has not been plagiarized from any source/individual. It does not infringe on any copyright, trademark, patent, statutory right, or propriety right of others and the paper does not contain any 0libelous or unlawful statements. All the references are duly acknowledged at the appropriate places and I sign for and accept the responsibility for releasing this material on behalf of my co-authors.
  2. The work has been submitted only to AMC Indian Journal of Entrepreneurship, New Delhi and it has not been previously published or submitted elsewhere for publication in a refereed or copyrighted publication.
  3. It is agreed that the sole and exclusive rights in the whole copyright of the said paper to the contribution identified above is transferred to AMC Indian Journal of Entrepreneurship, New Delhi. This copyright transfer covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the contribution, including reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form (offline, online), or any other reproductions of similar nature. I agree that I have not assigned any kind of rights of the above said paper to any other person/institute/publication.
  4. I have permission from copyright owner(s) to reproduce/adapt any content that I have reproduced or adapted in this paper.
  5. I agree to indemnify AMC Indian Journal of Entrepreneurship, New Delhi against any claim or action alleging facts which, if true, constitute a breach of any of the foregoing warranties.

REVIEW PROCESS

1) After a paper is received, it is sent to the subject matter expert for blind review.

2) Manuscripts are judged on the basis of the following criteria :

  1. Overall contribution of the paper to the field of Entrepreneurship;
  2. Significance and relevance of the topic to the scope of AMC Indian Journal of Entrepreneurship;
  3. Originality of the content ;
  4. Adequacy of the Literature Review ;
  5. Conceptual rigor ;
  6. Logical and technical soundness ;
  7. Organization of the content ;
  8. Writing quality ;
  9. Practical/managerial/theoretical/ policy implications of the research ;
  10. Limitations of the study and scope for further research;
  11. References.

3) The Editor reserves the right to accept or refuse an article for publication, without assigning any reasons.

4) After the review process is completed, the corresponding author will be informed about the decision of the reviewers by email.

AFTER A PAPER IS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

  1. If a paper is accepted for publication, the corresponding author will be informed by email about the acceptance.
  2. An electronic version of the manuscript in Microsoft Word would be required once the paper is accepted for publication.
  3. The corresponding author of the paper will have to sign the Author Disclosure Form and the scanned soft copy of this form has to be submitted to the Editorial Office of AMC Indian Journal of Entrepreneurship. A paper cannot be withdrawn once this form is signed and submitted.
  4. Copyright of published articles will rest with AMC Indian Journal of Entrepreneurship.
  5. The final draft is subject to editorial amendments to suit the journal's requirements.
  6. Each author will receive three copies of the Journal issue that carries his/her published paper.

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

Articles published in AMC Indian Journal of Entrepreneurship are associated with DOIs so that papers can be accessed even if the website is not available for any reason.