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Author Guidelines

Language: English. Ensure a high accuracy of language.

Body:
Word count: Less than 8000 words excluding appendixes and references.
File type: MS-Word
Line spacing: 1.15
Page size: A4
Font type: Times New Roman
Font size: Size 11

Title Page:
The first page needs to be the title page which should include title of the study, author name/s with affiliations and contact details (telephone numbers and email address).

Abstract:
Areas to be covered: Purpose, Research Methods and Design, Findings, Conclusions, Implications (if any), Recommendations (if any), Significance of the Study. Word count of the abstract should be less than 300 words.

Keywords: Maximum of 5 keywords in alphabetical order.

Reference Style: APA reference style. Use APA reference style. For APA quick citation guide, see: http://guides.libraries.psu.edu/apaquickguide

Copyright:
Authors are required to transfer copyright to the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

Peer-Review Process:
idyodaya Journal of Management follows a Double Blind peer-review process. First, the Co-Editors do the ‘Desk Review’ and check whether the manuscript is aligned with the scope of the journal, structure of the manuscript, and the extent of the scholarship of the manuscript. Then, two reviewers are assigning in relation to the area of expertise and/or methodological expertise. To be a reviewer of VJM, the reviewer should have a doctoral qualification and considerable level of publication history. Upon the consent of the reviewer, the manuscript (which is anonymous) is sent to the reviewer with a review letter which includes the review guidelines and a review form. A maximum of two months will be provided to each reviewer with several reminders. Upon receipt of both reviewers’ review comments, if both reviewers accept the manuscript (with major/miner) revisions, the editors directly send them to the corresponding author for corrections. If one reviewer rejects while the other accepts, a fresh reviewer will be appointed for the final decision. It is obvious that the paper will be rejected if both reviewers recommend rejection. Depending upon the severity of the corrections to be done, a fair time is allowed for the corresponding author to resubmission after corrections. The co-editors check the corrections and defense by the authors for the items which were not corrected as suggested by the reviewers. Then each finalized paper will be sent to the editorial assistant of the journal for formatting and language proof reading.

Submit a Manuscript:
We believe in fast publication process of all the accepted research papers. VJM guarantees the publication of accepted paper in the immediate next journal. All submitted papers will be double blind peer reviewed in order to maintain the expected quality of the Journal. Duly completed electronic copy of your manuscript needs to be sent to vjm@sjp.ac.lk. Then you will be received a reference number for each manuscript submitted. Please indicate the reference number when you communicate with regards to a manuscript.

After your manuscript is blind reviewed, comments of reviewers and/or decision of the editorial board will be made available to the corresponding author. Once an article is accepted for publication in the Journal, the author should submit the final/amended version in MS-Word format to the same e-mail addresses: vjm@sjp.ac.lk. Once an article is submitted, the author/s cannot submit the same manuscript to another journal without getting the withdrawal permission from the chief editors of the Journal.

Manuscripts can be submitted throughout the year.

Last date of acceptance of manuscripts for the next issue: 31st December 2017

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, in part or in whole, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission has been obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.
3. All authors qualify as authors, as per the authorship guidelines, and have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper.
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. Every effort has been made to ensure that the submission is ready for peer review according to the journal's review policy (following the instructions to ensure blind peer review).
5. Tables are all cited in the main text and are included within the text document.
6. Figures are all cited in the main text and are uploaded as supplementary files. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred). The files are in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS (to maximise quality, the original source file is preferred).

Copyright Notice

Copyright on any research article published in the Vidyodaya Journal of Management (VJM) is retained by the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.

From August 2018, all articles in Vidyodaya Journal of Management are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original author and source are credited.

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