Manuscripts Development and Review Guidelines
Submissions would be published in the journal after being professionally judged and approved by the editorial board. To be published in the journal, all professors and researches should consider the following points in their Manuscripts development.
The submissions should be typed in Microsoft Word 2007 format; A4 papers; top, bottom, left and right margins 4, 6/5, 4/5 and 5 cm, respectively; Persian font B Nazanin should be used for the title; the authors of the paper in Bold style and centered alignment with font sizes 16 and 12 respectively; Persian font should be B Nazanin for the abstract, body, footnotes, references, keywords and figures notes with font sizes 11, 12, 11,11, 10 and 10 respectively; line spacing in paragraphs 1 cm and before each paragraph 0.3 cm; and alignment justified; English font should be Times New Roman with the font size for the title 14 Bold, abstract 12, formulas, footnotes and references 11, figures note 9, subject classification 8, figures titles and diagrams 8 Italic and Bold; 6 cm space before and after any figure and diagram, and alignment as centered; maximum 18 pages including sources and references; no page number. Typed manuscript should be sent through the system designed as bmr.alzahra.ac.ir . Pictures in the text, if any, should be in gray color and high quality.
2.1. The cover should include:
- Full title
- Author or authors (the author responsible for correspondence should be marked by *).
- Academic affiliation, the employment place, and full address of the author responsible for correspondence.
- No nickname should be used for authors.
2.2. The first page includes the title and abstract in Farsi. The abstract should be provided in four paragraphs including the subject and aim of the article, research method, research findings, conclusions (totally 165 words), key words (maximum 5 words), and the classification code of JEL. The coding is designed for subject classification in economic literature, which is described in detail.
2.3. The second page to the end includes the followings:
- The introduction includes some paragraphs explaining the topic question, theoretical principles, the aim and importance.
- Review of the literature; Research hypotheses.
- Research method in addition to data collection tools, analysis techniques, and hypotheses testing model, variables definition, statistical population, sample volume and sampling method.
- Research findings in addition to a comparison between them and the findings of researches mentioned in the review of literature, and an explanation of any conformity and non-conformity among them.
- Conclusion including a summary of the question and findings, overall conclusion, suggestions based on findings, and if required, a suggestion for future researches.
- Sources and references.
- English abstract.
- The author's last name and the publication date should be mentioned in Farsi. They are not required in English at footnotes. For more than one author, comma, and for more than one source, semicolon, should be used.
- Any sources referred to in the body of manuscript should be listed in detail in the sources and references section in comply with APA. No additional sources should be listed.
- Any explanation of terms and English form of words (except authors' name) should be presented in footnote. No English words or terms should be used in the body of manuscript except for formulas and equations.
To provide a sources and references list, APA sourcing should be used. At first, Persian list and then English list should be presented alphabetically and based on the last name of authors.
4.1. Books: last name, the author's full name. Publication year. Italic form of the book name, the translator's name, publication site, publisher's name.
4.2. Papers: last name, the author's full name. Publication date. The paper title. The publication name in Italic form, series number in Italic form, the beginning page number-the last page number of the paper.
4.3. Online papers: last name, the author's full name. Publication date. The paper title. The publication name in Italic form, series number in Italic form, the beginning page number-the last page number of the paper. From the Website address.
4.4. Reports and other sources: sufficient information
- The name of two or more authors in the sources list should be separated by semicolon.
- The sources list does not require to be numbered. If there is two or more paper title or book name from similar author(s), the publication date should also be considered in the ascending order, so that the older book or paper should be listed before the newer one. To prevent any confusion, there is no indentation before items of the list and if the item is longer than one line, the second and more lines start with special indentation of Hanging 0.5 cm.
Graphs’ and figures’ names should be written under and above them respectively. Graphs and figures should be placed into the text and after referring to them. They should be orderly numbered, for example figure 1 to …. Items written in figures should be in Farsi and “/” should be used, if required, instead of dot. In addition to writing variables name in Farsi, a column may be used to show English symbols of variables, as they are used in equations and models. The column title should have centered alignment. The first line of figures which include titles of columns should be in "gray 2" color. Figures and graphs should be referred to by their numbers. Formulas should also be numbered and presented in two column tables with no border.
English terms and some explanations should be presented in four column tables (including the number and the content of the footnote) with no border. Footnotes should be numbered in text style and using EndNote in Microsoft Word.