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Style
Guide
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updated on June, 2008
This “Style Guide for Authors” provides information for
preparing manuscripts for submission to the
Management and Organization Review (MOR). A
different document, “Information for Contributors and
Submission Guidelines” (published in each issue of
MOR and also available at http://www.iacmr.org)
describes the content domain of MOR and
submission procedures. Please note that failure to
follow this guide may result in the return of your
manuscript for reformatting before it is accepted as a
submission.
Manuscript Format
1. Manuscripts must be double-spaced throughout (this
includes notes and references) on one side of A4 or US
standard letter size paper with all margins at least one
inch.
2. Though we do not impose a page limit, we encourage
conciseness in writing. Typical manuscripts are expected to
be between 25 to 40 pages, including references, tables, and
figures. The best ideas are expressed in simple, direct
language. Excessive references are not helpful. Cite only
the most representative and authoritative sources to support
your points.
3. The cover page has the title of the paper, the names of
all the authors and their affiliations, along with the
detailed address of the corresponding author, including full
postal address, email address, phone number, and fax number.
4. The second page of the paper should have the title of the
paper and an informative abstract of no more than 200 words,
double-spaced. Provide three to five keywords or phrases to
help in identifying appropriate reviewers and to facilitate
abstracting and search functions. The title should be short,
informative, and contain a major keyword. A short running
title (fewer than 40 characters) should also be provided.
5. The body of the paper begins on page three with the main
heading INTRODUCTION, left justified. It is not
necessary to include the title on this page.
6. Primary headings should be capitalized and bold.
Secondary headings should be in upper and lower case, bold,
and with the first letters of each word capitalized. Third
level headings should be italicized with the first letter of
the first word capitalized. All headings should be left
justified.
7. Organize the manuscript into five main sections:
INTRODUCTION, THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESES
(if hypotheses are used), METHOD, RESULTS,
DISCUSSION, and CONCLUSION. Use secondary
headings within each main section to clearly organize the
presentation.
8. Put sentences in the active voice (“I did it”; “They did
it”) instead of the passive voice (“It was done”) to make it
easy for readers to see who did what. Use the first person
(“I” or “we”) to describe what you yourself did. However, be
sure to avoid any phrasing that may reveal your identity and
compromise the blind peer review process. For example, when
self-referencing, write “In Smith (2000), results showed…”
Do NOT write “In my previous research (Smith, 2000), results
showed…” or “The author’s previous research (Smith, 2000)
revealed…”
9. Use notes and not endnotes or footnotes. Notes should be
provided on a separate page immediately following the text
and before the REFERENCES under the heading NOTES.
Notes should offer significant comment. Important
information should be in the text. Minimize the use of
notes.
10. Acknowledgements should be the first entry in the
NOTES section. The source of financial grants and other
funding must be acknowledged. The contribution of colleagues
or institutions should also be acknowledged. Please note
that this information will be removed when sent to reviewers
to ensure a blind review process. The numbered notes (e.g.,
[1]) should begin after the acknowledgements.
11. Put all tables, figures, and appendices at the end of
the manuscript, following the REFERENCES.
12. All pages should be numbered consecutively in the top
right-hand corner, beginning with the title page.
13. Prepare the entire manuscript (including tables and
figures) in Microsoft Word® using Times New Roman font. Use
12 point size font for the body of the paper.
Tables and Figures
1. Each table or figure should bear an Arabic number (1, 2,
etc.) and a title and should be reasonably interpretable
without reference to the text.
2. Each table should be bracketed with a solid horizontal
line with minimum use of horizontal lines inside the table.
Do not use vertical lines in the tables or figures. Check
published papers in MOR for table and figure format.
3. Each table or figure should be presented on a separate
page at the end of the manuscript, after the REFERENCES.
Figures and tables reproduced from already published work
must be accompanied by the permission of the original
publisher (or copyright holder, if not the publisher).
Please indicate the position of figures and tables in the
text as follows:
_____________________
INSERT TABLE 1 ABOUT HERE
_____________________
4. Figures (unlike tables) have graphics. Should your paper
be accepted for publication, please ensure that all figures
are of a suitable quality and resolution to be printed.
Wherever possible please provide line figures in
encapsulated postscript (.eps) format or scanned at 800
d.p.i. Do not embed graphics in the Word document – they
must be supplied in separate files, one file per figure.
Full artwork guidelines are available on the publisher’s
website (www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/digill.asp).
5. Avoid “stacking” – write all words horizontally, not
vertically.
6. Use tabs, not spaces, to separate data points in tables.
7. Use the same variable names you use in the text. Spell
out the words or names of all the variables in the tables or
figures. Do not abbreviate. Look at figures in published
MOR articles for format ideas.
8. Data entries in tables should be restricted to two
decimal places.
9. In tables, footnote symbols †, ‡, § and ¶ should be used
(in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for
P-values.
Citations
Citations must be used to identify and credit the
appropriate source(s) when you refer to or borrow ideas,
paraphrase text, or quote verbatim in your manuscript.
Verbatim quotations are text taken directly, word-for-word
from another written work. They are generally a few words or
more but also include original one or two word phrases
coined by an author that have not yet integrated into common
speech. Again, whether you are directly quoting,
summarizing, or simply referring to another author’s ideas,
it is imperative that you cite.
1. In the text, where the author’s name appears, the date
should follow in parentheses, e.g., Mintzberg (1985). If the
author’s name is not present in the text, insert it with the
date in parentheses, e.g., (Mintzberg, 1985).
2. Multiple references should be listed alphabetically in
parentheses, separated by semicolons, e.g., (Jackson, 1996;
Watson, 1986).
3. Page numbers to indicate a passage of special relevance
or to give the source of a quotation or paraphrase should
appear in parentheses, e.g., (Willmott, 1992: 12).
4. If there is more than one reference to the same author in
the same year, postscript the date of each reference with a,
b, c, etc., e.g., (Sparrow, 1998a; 1998b).
5. For references with two authors, give both names every
time you cite it, e.g., (Meyer & Lu, 2004).
6. References with three to six authors should be listed in
full in the first appearance of the citation in the text,
e.g., (Weber, Ames, & Blais, 2005). Use the last name of the
first author and “et al.” in all its subsequent appearances
in the text, e.g., (Weber et al., 2005).
7. For seven or more authors, use “et al.” even for the
first citation. (Note, the matching reference should give
all the authors.)
Notes
This section is for any acknowledgements and additional
notes. In general, MOR discourages the use of notes.
If used, they should be placed as a list at the end of the
paper and numbered in the list and referred to in the text
with consecutive, superscript Arabic numerals. Try to put
essential information in the body of the paper and use notes
judiciously. Please see articles in past issues of MOR
for examples of notes. When using notes, please type the
notes as a continuation of the main body text and avoid
using Word’s endnote or footnote reference tools.
References
Cite the names of all authors. Do not use ibid or
op cit. References should be listed alphabetically by
author and be placed at the end of the manuscript, before
the tables, figures, and appendices. Reference to
unpublished data and personal communications should not
appear in the list but should be cited in the text only
(e.g., Smith, 2000, unpublished data). All citations
mentioned in the text, tables or figures must be listed in
the reference list. Authors are responsible for the accuracy
of the references.
1. Journal references should be listed as follows:
Meyer, M.W., & Lu, X. 2005.
Managing indefinite boundaries: The strategy and structure
of a Chinese business firm. Management and
Organization Review, 1(1): 57–86.
Nonaka, I. 1991. The knowledge-creating company.
Harvard Business Review, 69(6): 96-104.
Please always include an issue number in parentheses after
the volume number to help facilitate other researchers
seeking to find your references.
2. Book
references should be listed as follows:
Law, J. 1994. Organizing
modernity. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Shapira, Z. (Ed.) 1997. Organizational decision making.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Chapter references should appear as follows:
Zhou, X. 1997. Organizational
decision making as rule following. In Z. Shapira (Ed.),
Organizational decision making: 257–281.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Unpublished papers or conference presentations should
appear as follows:
Chen, M.H. 1998.
Organizational citizenship behavior in the service industry.
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong.
Wallace, J.H. 2004.
Creativity in high technology firms. Paper presented
at the inaugural conference of the International Association
for Chinese Management Research, Beijing, June 2004.
5. If an article has no author, the periodical or producing
body is referenced:
Business Week.
1998. The best B-schools. October 19: 86-94.
6. Articles used from online sources should appear as
follows:
Hofstede, G. 2003. Geert Hofstede
Cultural Dimensions Hofstede Scores: China.
[Cited 10 Mar 2006] Available
from URL http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_china.shmtl.
Appendices
Present long but essential methodological details, such as
explanations of the calculation of measures or items of new
measures not already in the text, in an appendix or
appendices. Presentation should be concise, but avoid table
formats and reproductions of surveys. Multiple appendices
are labeled numerically as follows: Appendix I, Appendix II,
etc. and referred to in the text.
Technical Note
Many authors use the tracking facility of the reviewing tool
in working on successive versions of their manuscripts. Word
can detect corrections to previous versions of the
manuscript by clicking on a “Showing Markup” option when the
Reviewing tool bar is activated. To prevent this and to
ensure blind reviews, before submitting your manuscript you
should (i) click on “Final”, (ii) select the entire
document, and then (iii) save that version as a new file
under a new name. That will be a “clean” version, free of
the history of previous versions and corrections. This is
the version that you should submit to MOR.
The Properties Summary of a document often automatically
populates with an author’s name and company. Please go to
File>Properties>Summary to delete this information, then
save prior to submitting.
Author Biography
If your article is accepted for publication, you will be
asked to submit a biography of no more than 75 words for
each author. The biography should indicate email address,
where the highest degree was earned, present affiliation and
position, and current research interests. This should be the
last page of the final version of your manuscript.
Chinese Abstract
You will be asked to provide a Chinese version of the
abstract, including the keywords and the Chinese names if
such is available or appropriate, if your article is
accepted for publication. This should be prepared in a
separate file with the manuscript number as the file name,
e.g., MOR08-001-Chinese-abstract.doc.
Copyright
Should your article be accepted, you will be required to
complete an Exclusive License Form (ELF), signed by the main
author. Publication will not be possible without the receipt
of this form. Authors can download the form from
www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/mor_elf.pdf. The completed
and signed form should be faxed or mailed to the address
indicated on the bottom of the last page of the ELF.
Proofs
Notification of the URL from where to download a Portable
Document Format (PDF) typeset page proof, associated forms
and further instructions will be sent by email to the
corresponding author. The purpose of the PDF proof is a
final check of the layout, and of tables and figures.
Alterations other than the essential correction of
errors are unacceptable at the PDF proof stage. The proof
should be checked, and approval to publish the article
should be emailed to the Publisher by the date indicated,
otherwise, it may be signed off on by the Editor or held
over to the next issue.
Questions
Please contact the MOR office at
iacmr.mor@asu.edu or
anne.tsui@asu.edu or phone
480-965-4530 if you have any questions about the Style Guide
or about preparing the manuscript.
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