For Authors
Submit ManuscriptClick here for the template (MS Word format).
All submitted papers will be double-blind reviewed. Please do NOT include any author names and affiliations in the submitted manuscript file. Author information will be added once the paper is accepted for publication. Accepted papers in the proper format will be published in the Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Management (JSCOM). The JSCOM is sponsored by the CSU-POM organization (http://www.csupom.com) and listed in Cabell’s Directory of Refereed Journal Publications (ISSN: 2167-7115). The instructions below are specifically directed at authors that wish to submit a manuscript to JSCOM.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via Scholastica as a MS Word Document. By completing the submission, you automatically agree to the statement that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which JSCOM incurs, and their papers will not be published.
Manuscript preparation
• Maximum size of the paper is 40 pages on letter size (8.5”x11”) paper.
• Use MS Word, Times New Roman font, size 12, double spacing except for references at the end of the paper, which should be single space.
• The text alignment should be justified with top and bottom margins equal to 1 inch, and right and left margins equal to 1 inch.
• The title of your paper and abstract should be formatted as described in the paper template below.
• The size of the abstract should be no more than 150 words.
• Provide no more than five keywords right after the abstract.
• All tables, figures, or charts need to be inserted in the body of the manuscript within the margins with heading/titles in centered capitalized bold letters.
• Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
• No footnotes in the paper.
• Format your references according to the examples in the template.
Author names and contact information are provided during the submission process (not in the manuscript). The person who submits the paper via Scholastica is the corresponding author and an active email address is needed. It may take the Scholastica system several minutes to process manuscript - please be patient during the submission process.
To submit your manuscript to a special issue, please include the name of the special issue, e.g., “Special Issue on Innovative Teaching in Operations and Supply Chain Management”, as a subtitle.