General Guidelines
• All submission should be onA4 (8.5 by 11 inch) size paper using UK English spelling, Times New Roman 12 point font, double line spacing and minimum of one inch margins on all sides.
• All pages of the manuscript should be numbered.
• Full articles should not ordinarily exceed 6,000 words including tables, figures, references and appendices.
• All material, including headings, should be typed flush left.
• Following convention can be used for organizing the manuscript : Title page, First page, Main text, References and Appendices.

• Along with the title all the manuscripts must include an abstract of not more than 200 words and three to four key words on the first page of the manuscript.
• The abstract should summarize the whole work and not conclusions alone and should appear between the title of the manuscript and the key words.
• To permit objective reviews by the referees, the first page and the main body of the text should not reveal directly or indirectly the author(s) name (s) and affiliation(s).

Arrange the main text under headings (such as Introduction, Methodology, Results/ Findings, Analysis, Summary/ Conclusions) and subheadings.

• The priorities of headings and sub-headings should be clearly indicated.
• Major headings should be flush left and numbered using Arabic numerals followed by a period (e.g. 1. Introduction 2. Review of Literature 3. Methodology)
• Subheadings should also be flush left and numbered in the following style: 2.1 Data 2.2 Period of Analysis
• Third level of sub headings can be numbered as 1.1.1, 1.1.2 and so on.

• Wherever the Greek letters or other special fonts are used please ensure that they are clear on the manuscript.
• In the main text, keep mathematical analysis to the minimum. More detailed mathematical analysis and statistical data should be placed in appendices.

• All tables and figures should be titled and numbered with Arabic numerals consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text.
• The tables and figures should appear within the text itself as close as possible to their first citation in the text.
• Skip two lines before and after the presentation of the tables and figures.
• Tables with lines separating columns and rows are acceptable.

• Avoid footnotes and endnotes.
• When essential, they should be numbered consecutively.
• Footnotes can be typed at the foot of the appropriate page and end notes can be placed at the end of the article before the references.

• References within the Main Text: Books and journal articles should be cited in the main text by the author's surname/ last name and year of publication. For example May and Phillips (1992) or (May and Phillips 1992). Where there are between three to five authors, all authors should be mentioned in the first citation in the text; subsequent references to the same source should cite the first author only followed by et al. Where there more than five authors, cite only the first author followed by et al. in all instances. Citation of different publications by the same author (s) to be listed as Sharma (1993a), Sharma (1993 b); alphabets a, b, c, etc. are normally in the order of citation in the text.



• References at the End of the Article: All the references cited in the main text should be listed alphabetically at the end of the manuscript under the heading References and should provide the readers with enough information to locate the article concerned using the following sequencing convention: Last name of the author, Initials. (year), Title of the article, Title of journal/ or book, Name of the editor (s) (if any), Volume number, Town of publication: Publisher, Page numbers.

1. Articles appeared in Journals
   Amihud, Y. and Mendelson, H. (1986), Asset Pricing and Bid Ask Spread, Journal of Financial Economics, 17, 223-49.



2. Articles appeared in Edited Books
   Lipsey, R.E. (1999), The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in International Capital Flows, International Capital Flows, (ed.) M. Feedstein, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 307-331.



3. Books
   Martin, J. (1992), Cultures in Organizations, New York: Oxford University Press.



4. Edited Books
   Feedstein, M. (Ed.) (1999), International Capital Flows, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


5. Web/ Online References
   Raffals, R. (2006), What is Coaching? [online] http://www.awakenthemagic.com/coach/whatis.html 8 March, 2006.