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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.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Download the template here.

Guidelines for manuscripts submission

• 1. The article submitted to VM journal will be assessed primarily on its scientific merit;

• 2. For writing and presenting the text, suitability standards to the American Psychological Association (APA) or IEEE Style are required and References: as of January 2012, according to the Standards of the IEEE Citation Style as PDF template paper guideline above available to download. Reference list in alphabetical order, at the end of the manuscript, including only those references mentioned in the text, Examples for American Psychological Association (APA):

Andersen, E. S., Birchall, D., Jessen, S. A., & Money, A. H. (2006). Exploring project success. Baltic Journal of Management, 1(2): 127-147.

Griffin, A.; Hauser, J. R. (1996) Integrating R&D and marketing: a review and analysis of the literature. Journal of Product Innovation Management. Vol. 13, p. 191-215.

Kahn, K. B.; Barczak, G.; Moss, R. (2006) Perspective: establishing an NPD best practices framework. The Journal of product innovation management, v. 23, p. 106-116.


NOTICE: The source must be written in Times New Roman font size 12 in 1.5 space. The page layout should be A4 (29.7 x 21 cm), with margins: top (3 cm), left (3 cm) and bottom (2 cm) and right (2 cm);

• 3. The article must have a minimum 15 and maximum 25 pages including: title, summary, keywords, abstract, keywords, introduction, methodology, analysis and discussion of results, conclusions and references;

• 4. Charts, tables, graphs and illustrations (black and white or color) should be included in the main document, in the sequence in which they appear in the text and written in size 10, a maximum of three (3) (which can be chart or table or graph or illustration);

• 5. The summary and keywords of the article in the original language of the study and in English shall not exceed 250 words;

• 6. It is allowed five authors maximum for each article;

• 7. The article must be a unique version, not considered breaking originality to include part or preliminary version presented in the scientific congress in the fields related;

• 8. The article cannot be submitted for simultaneous assessment in another journal;

• 9. The Editor may accept or reject the manuscript submitted for publication, according to the editorial policy;

• 10. The editor may or may not accept an article after it has been evaluated by the double-blind system (Double Blind Review), which guarantees anonymity and confidentiality of both the author or authors as examiners;

• 11. The editor may suggest changes to the article for both matter content and in relation to the suitability of the text to the standards of writing and presentation.

• 12. The article must be written correctly in grammatical terms. The examiners shall not make corrections;

• 13. The accepted article for publication will be subject to final editing and proofreading and grammar;

• 14. The author(s) will have the article submission system automatically refused if they do not accept the exclusivity clauses, originality and copyright adopted by the OJS system;

• 15. The OJS system notes the date and the steps of the assessment process and article publishing, and the author(s) can track the status of the article, automatically through the system;

• 16. The editor and/or any individual or institution related to their collective entities are not responsible for the opinions, ideas, concepts and positions expressed in the texts, because they are the sole responsibility of its author(s);

• 17. Evaluations are made on standardized evaluation forms, with space for proper comments, which are referred to the author(s) in case of conditional acceptance or rejection;

• 18. Articles should be submitted only online through this journal website.

 

Article structure suggested

Subdivision - numbered sections
Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.

Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

Results
Results should be clear and concise.

Discussion
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.

 

Articles

Section default policy

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

• 1. The author(s) authorize the publication of the article in the journal.

• 2. The author(s) ensure that the contribution is original and unpublished and is not being evaluated in other journals (s). Except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint

• 3. The journal is not responsible for the opinions, ideas and concepts expressed in the texts because they are the sole responsibility of the author(s).

• 4. The publishers reserve the right to make adjustments and textual adaptations to the norms of APA.

• 5. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work 5 years after publication simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

• 6. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

• 7. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access) at http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

 

A paywall for authors

Publishing in peer-reviewed journals remains of paramount importance for researchers. For us, this means providing publication choices for authors, including Open Access options, to achieve the widest dissemination of research.

Open access
This journal publishes all research in all free-access terms by readers. considering:

• Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse.
• An Open Access publication fee is payable by authors or their research funder.

All articles published as Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. Permitted reuse is defined by your choice of one of the following Creative Commons user licenses (https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/):

  • Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY): lets others distribute and copy the article, to create extracts, abstracts, and other revised versions, adaptations or derivative works of or from an article (such as a translation), to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), to text or data mine the article, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the author(s), do not represent the author as endorsing their adaptation of the article, and do not modify the article in such a way as to damage the author's honor or reputation.
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To provide Open Access paper on this journal repository has a publication fee that needs to be met by the authors or their research funders for each article published Open Access terms. Your publication agreement will have no effect on the peer review process or acceptance of submitted articles. The publication fee is only charged after paper acceptance. The fee amount is US$ 80, for a lifelong period.

Only after the editor-in-chief notify the author about the paper reviewers' acceptance does the author(s) have to consider or not to proceed with the payment fee for paper publication.

 

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