Instructions for Authors🔗

Submission process / Style guidelines / Review process / Copyright / Plagiarism Check / Publication ethics statement / Promote your work

 
Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal's requirements.

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Guidelines

Submitting a Manuscript🔗

Manuscripts must be sent online through our Submission Platform based on the OJS System. Before submit your manuscript you must be registered in the platform. In case of questions you can contact JMBE Editor: jmbe@redaedem.org
Manuscripts must be original, unpublished and not in the process of revision or approved for publication in another journal.
The language of the manuscripts can be Spanish or English.
Use the JMBE Microsoft Word templates to prepare your Title Page and Manuscript

Preparing your paper
Checklist: what to include

1.Title Page (use the title page template)
Please include:

  • Title of the manuscript (maximum 80 characters without spaces)
  • Authors: their position, affiliation (university, department, postal address), the e-mail address. Where appropriate, please also include ORCiDs and social media handles (Twitter or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author.
  • Acknowledgments if applicable.
  • Financing funds, if applicable.
  • Abstract (in Spanish and English): This summary of your article is normally no longer than 200 words. The policy of JMBE is that citation is not used in the summary.
  • Keywords: Authors should provide 5 key words that describe the work.

2.Manuscript (use the manuscript template)
Please include:

  • Title of the manuscript (maximum 80 characters without spaces)
  • Abstract (in Spanish and English): This summary of your article is normally no longer than 200 words. The policy of JMBE is that it is not used in the summary.
  • Keywords: Authors should provide 5 key words that describe the work.
  • Text: single space, no maximun length. A font of 12 points. Arial font. The first line of each paragraph will have an indentation of 0.5 cm. We prefer not to use footnotes.

Style guidelines🔗

Titles and subtitles
The titles and subtitles of the manuscript should not be listed and will be pasted to the left (without indentation) in bold:
THIS IS A FIRST LEVEL TITLE
This is a second level title
This is a third level title
This is a fourth level title. Text continues in the same line.

Tables and figures
Tables, figures, graphs and other illustrations will be cited as "Tables" or "Figures", numbered consecutively.

In text citation
JMBE follow the style guidelines American Psychological Association (APA).
1 author: García (2017) señala que… o… (García, 2017).
2 authors: García y Smith (2017) señalan que… o… (García & Smith, 2017).
3 authors: García, Smith, y Thomson (2017) señalan que… o… (García, Smith, & Thomson, 2017).
4 or more authors: García et al (2017) señalan que… o… (García et al, 2017).

When multiple works are cited at the same time they must be ordered alphabetically: (Espinar, Rodríguez & Martín, 2018; García & Smith, 2017).

When more than one work by the same author is published in the same year it should be cited: (García & Smith, 2017a, 2017b).

References
All references must have been cited in the text.
Please include doi of cited documents.
A French indentation of 0.5 cm will be used.

Examples of reference style:
García, J.A.; Fernández-Cruz, R. & Ramos-Sintra, L. (2017). Why is it so important. Revista de Empresa, 67(2), 81-95. https://doi.org/10.35564/jmbe.2018.0001
Ortiz, M. & Crown J.M. (2017). Los beneficios de la educación. Madrid: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.35564/jmbe.2018.0001
García, J.A.; Fernández-Cruz, R. & Ramos-Sintra, L. (2017). Why is it so important. En M. Ortiz & J.M. Crown (Eds.), Los beneficios de la educación (pp. 57–69). Madrid: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.35564/jmbe.2018.0001
García, J.A. (2017, May 21). Cómo hacer una referencia. Obtenido de https://www.howand.com.

Review process🔗

Manuscripts considered consistent with the JMBE mission and standards will be sent for review through a double-blind peer review process. All manuscripts will be submitted to external evaluators except those expressly requested by the editorial board.

The authors will receive the comments of the first review in approximately 4-6 weeks. The time from submission to publication is about 12-18 weeks

The reviewers will evaluate the manuscripts according to the following criteria:

  • Originality and importance of the central ideas
  • Quality of the treatment of the existing literature
  • Quality of the presentation of ideas
  • Design and execution of the research methodology (if applicable)
  • General contribution of the article to the advancement of education in management and business.

Copyright🔗

Since Volume 2 (2019), articles published in JMBE are under CC BY-NC license.

You are free to: (i) Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; (ii) Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits

The journal allow the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions.

Plagiarism Check🔗

Plagiarism screening will be conducted by JMBE Editorial Board using Turnitin Plagiarism Checker

Publication ethics statement🔗

This journal subscribes to the principles and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Please check our Ethics and Good Practices webpage for more information about it.

Research data🔗

This journal encourages and enables you to share data that supports your research publication where appropriate and enables you to interlink the data with your published articles. Research data refers to the results of observations or experimentation that validate research findings. To facilitate reproducibility and data reuse, this journal also encourages you to share your software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods and other useful materials related to the project.

Promote your work🔗

Sharing your paper is a great way to improve the visibility of your work.

You can get started by sharing your paper on Social Networks as: Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Mendeley readers and Blogs.

Sample

Title , authors @journalmbe Read here: DOI
#ResearchHighlight #EducationalResearch #BusinessResearch  

OPTIMIZATION OF THE PROFESSIONALS SELECTION AND TRAINING BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE by Gómez-Martínez et al. @journalmbe Read here: https://doi.org/10.35564/jmbe.2020.0009
 #ResearchHighlight #EducationalResearch #BusinessResearch