Publication Guidelines:

  1. After submitting the manuscript, until the editorial decision is communicated or if the manuscript is accepted for publication, without prior approval from the editor, authors cannot publish the manuscript in other publication.
  2. Manuscripts may be submitted as soft copy (MS Word) through email ([email protected]) as an attachment to the Editor, International Journal of Financial and Business Studies, School of Financial Studies, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, Nigeria. li>
  3. Maximum length of the manuscript should be between 3000-5000words.
  4. Main attachment should contain full text content including title of the manuscript (limited to 10 words) at the top, an abstract of 120- 200 words and maximum of 6 Keywords and contact information for each author including email addresses.
  5. Author’s names should not appear on anywhere on the body of the manuscript to facilitate the referred and blind review process.
  6. The text should be double spaced and should be typed in Times New Roman style with a font size of 12 pts and 1 inch margin all around. Use standard indentation for paragraphs.
  7. Follow British spellings rather than American spellings (‘labour’ not ‘labor’, ‘centre’ not ‘center’)
  8. Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page on which they are cited/ referenced.
  9. Tables and Figures should be numbered in Roman Numerals and can appear either in the body of the manuscript or at the end of the manuscript. Sources of data used in both tables and figures should be duly acknowledged as a footnote to the same. In case some abbreviations and acronyms are used in the tables and figures, these should be duly described in the main body text of the manuscript where they have been cited/ referenced/interpreted and well as in the footnotes of the table/ figure.
  10. Tables and figures appearing at the end of the manuscript should be duly referenced in the main body text where these have been interpreted.
  11. All Figures (charts, diagrams and line drawings) and Plates (photographic images) should be of clear quality, in black and white. For figures which cannot be supplied in MS Word, acceptable standard image formats are: .pdf, .ai, .wmf and .eps. If you are unable to supply graphics in these formats then please ensure they are .tif, .jpeg (.jpg), or .bmp at a resolution of at least 300dpi and at least 10cm wide.
  12. Research Methodology used in the manuscript should be explained in detail and all equations should be consecutively numbered using Arabic numerals in parentheses.
  13. Equation editor should be used to type the mathematical equation used in the study.
  14. Sources of data used in the study should be duly acknowledged and the procedures used to convert raw data into usable data should be explained in detail.
  15. References: The American Psychological Association (APA, 6th edition) style will be adopted for purposes of referencing. At the end of the manuscript, all references cited in the body text should be complete in all respects and arranged in alphabetical order. Authors should carefully check the list of references for completeness, accuracy and consistency.

All submitted manuscripts must be original work that is not under submission at another journal or under consideration for publication in any other form. Submit to: [email protected]

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