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Author Guidelines

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Initial submission: Your paper your way

In order to facilitate the submission process, the authors are initially expected to adjust their manuscripts to basic requirements that are presented in the submission checklist below. When the text has been accepted for publication, the authors must adhere to all guidelines which are discussed in the "after acceptance" section. At both stages (initial submission, manuscript acceptance), the text may be returned to the authors if it does not meet the guidelines required at that stage.

All submitted articles are subject to anti-plagiarism control.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from the copyright holder to reproduce any data, tables, schemes and figures for which copyright exists.
 
Submission of a paper to the EBR implies that:
• it has not been published previously;
• it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere;
• after acceptance, the paper will not be published elsewhere in the same form without the written permission of the EBR editor.

The EBR also considers articles based on studies published in conference proceedings or as working papers, provided they have been substantially revised, expanded and rewritten. The EBR requires the original paper to be supplied by the author along with the expanded article for the purpose of comparison. Moreover, an article submitted for publication in the EBR must have the following statement in a footnote: 'This article is a revised and expanded version of the paper entitled [title] accessible at [link or some other reference to the paper]'. Such information should be also specified in the "Notes for the Editor" field when the manuscript is submitted. If applicable, authors should provide standard written copyright permissions.

 

After acceptance: technical guidelines

Requirements at the production stage:

1. All articles (except those from Canada and the USA) must be written in British English.

2. Manuscripts are to be edited in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or as an RTF document file using the Calibri 12-point font in A4 paper format, one and half spaced and be aligned. Pages should be numbered. Maximum size of the paper should be up to 8,000 words (including figures and tables, references, footnotes). At the same time, brief articles (around 3,000 words) presenting insightful studies in a concise way are also welcomed.

3. Articles may be supplemented with annexes containing relevant additional content that supports or expands the main text but is not essential for understanding the key findings of the paper. This applies in particular to papers that contain empirical or experimental work (data, surveys, etc.). Such annexes may be published alongside the main text, provided their inclusion does not exceed the 8,000-word limit. If this limit is exceeded, the annexes can be made available on the article’s website as downloadable Supplementary Materials. In this case, the primary responsibility for ensuring the editorial and linguistic quality of these Materials rests with the authors.

4. If data or code enabling the replication of the study has been deposited in an open repository, the authors should inform readers how to access it in a brief, separate section placed between the Conclusions and References. The title of that section should be ‘Open Science Practices’.

5. Before the References section (after the Open Science Practices section), authors are obliged to include a section titled "Declaration of Generative AI Use”. The expected content of this section is outlined below in the description of the AI declaration.

6. The title should be as short as possible. Abbreviations should not be used in the title. It is important that the topic mentioned in the title is adequately covered in the paper itself.

7. Addresses and affiliations should contain the department, name of the institution, full postal address of the institution and e-mail address for each author and their ORCID iDs (verification of the ORCID number is mandatory). This applies to the lead author and all co-authors. Please click on the link in the return email and authorise with your orcid id.

8. An abstract should have no fewer than 100 words and no more than 150. It should summarize the contents of the paper (aims, methods, results, and conclusions).

9. Papers should have keywords and the Journal of Economic Literature classification codes (JEL Codes). Keywords should consist of no more than ten words or short phrases. They need to correspond to the JEL codes areas.

10. Acknowledgements and references to grants, affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses, etc. should appear as a separate footnote to the author’s name a, b, etc. and should not be included in the main list of footnotes. It should be also specified who is the contact author by adding the statement “Contact author” at the end of that person’s footnote.

11. The article should be divided into sections and also into subsections, if necessary. Sections are numbered, except for Introduction and Conclusions. Sections are divided into paragraphs. Each paragraph should have at least three complete sentences.

12. The Introduction should state the aim of the article, its literature background, research methods, main results and, what is of particular importance, the contribution of the study to international literature. The final paragraph should present the contents of the article.

13. The aims declared and presented in the Introduction and developed in the subsequent sections of the article should be reflected and addressed in Conclusions.

14. All Tables and Figures should be numbered and shown consecutively in the paper, according to their numeration. They should be referred to before they appear in the manuscript. Data in Tables and Figures should be interpreted in the main text with reference to the numbers of the Tables and Figures. All Tables and Figures should be understandable on their own as far as is possible – the readers should not have to check the main text to comprehend information presented in Tables and Figures. The sources of all data used in Tables and Figures must always be written. All diagrams including schemes and maps should be referred to as Figures.

15. Tables or Figures should not be the last element of a section. Every section should end with a paragraph of text.

16. If any Tables or Figures are in colour, they will only appear in colour in the online version of the journal. In the printed version they will be in black and white. However, if colour is essential to the figure, a good quality colour image should be submitted. Tables and Figures should be free of any unnecessary decorative elements.

17. Equations should be numbered consecutively throughout the text using the Arabic numbers written in parentheses, e.g.: (1), (2), (3) …

18. Footnotes should be avoided. However, if used, they need to be short and numbered consecutively throughout the text in Arabic numerals. Footnotes should be set in Calibri 10-point font.

19. Cross-references should refer to particular section numbers: e.g.: see Section 1.4.

20. Quoted texts of more than 40 words should be separated from the main body by a four-spaced indentation of the margin as a block.

21. The Economics and Business Review uses the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th edition reference system for citations in the text with a detailed alphabetical list at the end of the article. Full references should include all authors’ names and initials, date of publication, title of article, title of publication (in italics), volume and issue number (of a journal), publisher and form (books, conference proceedings), page numbers and DOI number. All works cited in the text and only those must be included in the References section at the end of the article.

Submission Preparation Checklist

In line with the 'Your Paper, Your Way' policy, all submissions must initially meet the following simplified requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published nor is it under consideration for publication elsewhere (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submitted manuscript must be anonymous (in particular, it must not be possible to learn the authors’ identities based on the list of references or the file properties). Additionally, a title page (as a separate file) must be submitted. This should specify the affiliation, email address and ORCID iD of each author (verification of the ORCID number is mandatory!). Acknowledgements and references to research grants should be added to the title page.
  • The manuscript is prepared in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • The length of the manuscript should not exceed 8,000 words (including figures and tables, references, footnotes).
  • The manuscript includes an abstract that has no fewer than 100 words and no more than 150. It summarizes the contents of the paper (aims, methods, results, and conclusions).
  • The manuscript is divided into clearly distinctive sections that include Introduction and Conclusions. The Introduction states the aim of the study, research methods, main results and, particularly, the contribution of the study to the international literature. Its final paragraph should present the contents of the article.
  • All Tables and Figures should be numbered and presented consecutively in the paper according to their numeration. All Tables and Figures should be understandable on their own as far as is possible – the readers should not have to check the main text to comprehend information presented in Tables and Figures. The sources of all data used in Tables and Figures are specified.
  • The authors should use one style of references to the literature consistently throughout the text.
  • Please add an AI declaration (as a separate section in the manuscript) specifying whether and how you used generative AI during the preparation of the manuscript.
  • Make sure you have filled our survey form.

Copyright Notice

Declarations

Copyright and license declaration

We hereby declare that the submitted paper is original, written by stated author(s), contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author(s) and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author(s).

If the submission contains figures or other illustrations for which the copyright is held by the third party, we have approached the third party and obtained the necessary copyright. The journal publisher is not liable for any infringement of the copyright in that respect and sole liability lies with the author(s).

In the case of photographs of individuals facilitating their identification, we understand that it is necessary to enclose a written consent of these persons to have them published.

We hereby declare that the manuscript has never been published before (in part or as a whole), nor nor has it been submitted for consideration elsewhere (except for summaries of not more than 400 words). Parallel submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

All coauthors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication.

All authors agree to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en on the submitted paper.

 

Conflict of interests declaration

We hereby declare that we are not financially bound to or dependent on, any organisation or any party having a direct financial contribution to the object of the study or materials tested in a given study (e.g. by employment, consultancy, holding of shares, fees), except for those mentioned in the attachment. We understand that every subsidy for studies or the project has to be listed in a footnote of the first page of the paper.

 

AI declaration

When submitting a manuscript to the journal, authors must declare if they have used generative AI in any part of the study, apart from its use for minor suggestions meant only to detect errors in the text or improve the readability of the manuscript (e.g., basic proofreading tools). Before the References section (after the Open Science Practices section), authors are obliged to include a section titled "Declaration of Generative AI Use", which must state one of the following:

- The authors have not used any generative AI in the preparation of this work.

- The authors have used generative AI in the preparation of this work, specifically [name the generative AI tool(s) used]. Generative AI was used for: [list all applicable purposes: data collection, data analysis, prior literature synthesis, image generation, writing parts of the manuscript, etc.]. The authors have carefully reviewed the AI-generated content and take full responsibility for the manuscript

Other declarations

We hereby certify that we have read, we are well acquainted with and fully accept the information clauses regarding the protection of personal data included in the regulations of the Economics and Business Review https://journals.ue.poznan.pl/ebr/about/privacy and we hereby give our consent to the processing of our personal data.

We have acquired ours ORCID numbers, which we are ready to verify when prompted by email (this requirement concerns coauthors of the submitted articles as well).

We hereby declare that we have become acquainted with the regulations concerning the procedure of sending in manuscripts for publication in the “Economics and Business Review and we are aware that we are obliged to follow it.

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