Family Business Review

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION / SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

FBR is open to many different formats and styles of presentation, as long as the article is focused on issues at the interface of family and business systems.

Please follow the guidance below when preparing your manuscript for submission:

1. Articles accepted, published, or submitted for publication consideration elsewhere, cannot be submitted to FBR for publication consideration.
2. Authors should notify any prior online or in-print distribution of their articles upon submission, including any distribution as a conference paper or working paper.
3. Manuscripts should not be more than 40 typed double spaced pages, all inclusive, using 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch (2.5 cms) margins.
4. All documents submitted should be Microsoft Word files. Please remember to number the pages and use APA guidelines.
5. Two documents are to be submitted:

CONTACT INFORMATION DOCUMENT that includes the following:

1. Title of the article
2. Names and primary affiliations of the author(s)
3. Authors' telephone numbers and e-mail addresses
4. An abstract of no more than 100 words
5. A maximum of 5 key words indicating content of the article

MAIN DOCUMENT that includes the following:

1. Title of the article
2. An abstract of no more than 100 words
3. A maximum of 5 key words indicating content of the article
4. Article - Text, References, Figures, Tables, Appendices (max. 40 double spaced pages all inclusive).
5. All Figures and Tables should be placed at the end of the document, one per page, numbered consecutively (one series for tables, one for figures). The position of each table should be indicated in the text (e.g., “Insert Table 2 about here”)

PLEASE NOTE: To facilitate the blind review process, please ensure that information about authors does not appear in the MAIN DOCUMENT.

6. For publication consideration in FBR, please submit manuscripts to the editor electronically online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fbr.

PERMISSIONS:

Authors are responsible for obtaining necessary written permission from publisher or copyright holder for reproduction of figures and tables and for extensive text quotations. If an article contains material reproduced from other sources, the necessary written permission must accompany the manuscript.

CITATIONS AND REFERENCES:

Citations in the text are by author(s) name/s followed by year in parenthesis. The reference list should be typed alphabetically using the following style:

Journal Article

Barnes, L.B. (1988). Incongruent hierarchies: Daughters and younger sons as company CEOs, Family Business Review, 1(1): 9-21.

Book

Gersick, K.E., Davis, J.A., McCollom-Hampton, M., & Lansberg, I. (1997). Generation to Generation: Life cycles of the family business. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Chapter in an edited book

Memili, E., Eddleston, K.A., Zellweger, T.M., Kellermanns, F.W., & Barnett, T. (2010). The importance of looking toward the future and building on the past: entrepreneurial risk taking and image in family firms. In A.Stewart, G.T.Lumpkin, & J.A.Katz (Eds.), Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth: Entrepreneurship and Family Business (Volume 12, pp. 3-29). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.

PUBLICATION DECISION:

Selection of articles for publication is made by the Editor who relies primarily on the recommendations of the Associate Editors, members of the Editorial Review Board and other qualified reviewers using a double ‘blind’ review process. Reviewers’ comments are made available to the authors. The recommendation letter of the editor responsible for each manuscript and all reviews received are made available to the reviewers.

DESK REJECTION:

Submissions considered inappropriate for the journal’s mission or insufficiently developed will be returned to the authors without going through the formal review process. All decisions are final.

To increase their chances of going through the review process and publication, authors are strongly recommended to seek peer review prior to submitting their manuscripts to FBR. The editorial by Justin Craig on ‘Desk Rejection’ (FBR 2010, December issue, 23(4): 306-309) shares in some detail the process used by FBR for desk rejections and strategies authors can use to avoid it.

COPYRIGHT FORM:

Authors of accepted manuscripts will be sent an email prompting them to log in to Manuscript Central and sign a copyright form granting the publisher the right to copyedit, publish, and copyright the material.

COPY EDITING:

FBR editors are responsible for reviewing the copyediting for each issue and will only contact authors if clarification is needed. Copyedited manuscripts will not be returned to authors.

POLICY ON PUBLISHING OF ARTICLE/S BY FBR'S EDITORS DURING THEIR TERM AS EDITOR:

Since 2009, the following policy has been in place:

* The Editor-in-Chief will not publish any article during his/her term. Exceptions are editorials, annual reviews, and introduction to special issues co-edited by this individual.

* All other members of the editorial team may submit their articles for publication consideration in FBR during their term as associate / assistant editors. The submitted papers will be subjected to the usual blind peer review process and outcome determined by the reviewers / action editors reactions.

For additional information on submissions to FBR, please email the FBR team at fbr@sagepub.com