Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies

Manuscripts: Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to: The Editor, Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies at journaleditor@emergingmarketsforum.org or Emerging Markets Forum, Watergate Office Building, Suite 201, 2600 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington DC 20037, USA.

Guidelines specified in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) should be followed, and submissions should be made electronically in Microsoft Word format. Each submission should consist of a title page and a main document file.

• Contributors must provide their affiliation, complete postal and e-mail addresses and telephone numbers with their papers.
   
• It is the author’s responsibility to disclose any potential conflict of interest regarding the manuscript.
   
• Articles should be no more than 13,000 words. Shorter articles are encouraged, especially in the conceptual and descriptive categories. The main document file should be about 8 to 15 double-spaced pages in length including tables, figures, notes, and references.
   
• Articles must have an abstract of 150–200 words.
   
• All figures, i.e., diagrams, images, photographs and tables should be placed at the end of the file and numbered in the order they appear in text. Table and figure locations should be indicated in text by callouts (e.g., ‘[insert Table 1 here]’) inserted after the respective paragraphs.
   
• Present each table and figure in a separate file. Name the files by the number of the table or figure. Tables should be submitted in MS Excel or MS Word. Figures can be submitted as TIFF/JPEG files. Do not provide an excessive formatting for tables and figures. Each table or figure should have a heading, an explanatory caption if necessary and a source or reference in a separate Word file.
   
• Notes should be numbered serially. They should be presented at the end of the article. Notes must contain more than a mere reference.
   
• Limit the levels of heading within an article to two, or at most three. Avoid lengthy headings and do not number them.
   
• American spellings throughout (‘labor’ not ‘labour’, ‘center’ not ‘centre’); universal ‘s’ in '-ize’ and ‘-ization’ words.
   
• Double quotes throughout; single quotes used within double quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed.
   
• Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text and indented with one space with a line space above and below.
   
• Use ‘nineteenth century’, ‘1980s’. Spell out numbers from one to nine, 10 and above to remain in ?gures. However, for exact measurements use only figures (3 km, 9 percent not %).
   
• Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimised, but used consistently. Avoid excessive use of italics for emphasis, but use it for book titles, journal names, as well as foreign words.
   
• References: An alphabetical reference list of all books, articles, essays and theses referred to in the text should be provided. References for tables and figures should accompany the table or figure. If more than one publication by the same author is listed, the items should be given in chronological order. References should be embedded in text in the author-date method of citation. For example: ‘(Sarkar, 1987, p. 145), (Smith et al., 1992, 235–239).

The detailed style of referencing is as follows:

Journal article
Smith, J.R. (2001). Reference style guidelines. Journal of Guidelines, 4, 2–7.

Book
Smith, J.R. (2001). Reference style guidelines. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Article in an edited book
Smith, J.R. (2001). Do not capitalize prepositions. In R. Brown (Ed.), Reference style guidelines (pp. 55–62). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Edited book
Smith, J.R. (Ed.). (2001). Reference style guidelines. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dissertation (unpublished)
Smith, J.R. (2001). Reference style guidelines. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.

Paper presented at a symposium or annual meeting
Smith, J.R. (2001, January). A citation for every reference, and a reference for every citation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Reference Guidelines Association, St. Louis, MO.

Online reference
Smith, J.R. (2001, January). Quotes of 45 or more words will be block quotes. Reference style guidelines. Retrieved Month, Date, Year, from http:/www.sagepub.com

Note: Please do not place a period at the end of an online reference.

Permissions and Releases
Material taken directly from a copyrighted source should be clearly identified, and the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce it must be submitted in a separate file.

Note: Obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted material is the author’s responsibility, as is payment of any fees the copyright holder may request. Further information and a template Permission Request Letter is available on SAGE’s Journal Author Gateway (http:/www.sagepub.com/authors/journal/permissions.sp).

Identifiable audio and visual recordings and images of people should be accompanied by a signed release granting permission for their likeness to be reproduced in an article. (In children’s cases, the release form must be signed by a parent or guardian.) Authors can download the Audio-Visual Likeness Release Form at http:/www.sagepub.com/upm-data/27488_Audio_Video_Visual_Likeness_Release_SAGE.pdf

Publication ethics

SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway