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Guidelines for Authors

Materials eligible for publication:
Scientific research papers, which are genuine and contribute to the theory or applications in the fields of Business and Economics.
Critiques or analyses of published papers or books in the fields of Business and Economics.
Documentary reports of scientific or professional conferences, symposiums, workshops, etc. in the fields of Business and Economics.
Terms of publication:
The paper must have a sound methodology and must be written in a fluent language.
The paper should not have been published or submitted for publication in another journal.
The researcher must implement all the remarks recommended by the referees, and must submit a report to the Board of Editors, containing all his / her responses to such remarks.
Refereeing:
All published papers in this journal are reviewed by professional referees in the specific fields of those papers.
The Editorial Board accepts the paper for publication depending on the recommendations of three referees.
If the author(s) is (are) from Qassim University, all three referees are chosen from outside the university.
Papers should not contain any direct or indirect identification of the author(s) in order to keep the reviewing process secret and unbiased.
Submission procedures:
The researcher submits his / her paper to the Journal Editor, along with a statement confirming that the paper was neither published nor submitted for publication in any other journal.
The submitted paper must be written in Microsoft Word format and be sent by e-mail to: QBJournal@gmail.com
The paper must include 4 - 6 keywords in English and in Arabic, plus an abstract in English and in Arabic, each of which should not exceed 200 words.
Along with the paper, the author submits a separate page containing (in English and Arabic) his / her name, academic title, affiliation, the complete address, the telephone number(s) as well as the title of the paper.
Tables and diagrams in the text should independently be numbered, and those in the appendix should have a separate numbering. In all cases, the table or diagram must have a title on top and a source at the bottom.
The used font size and type are 14 Traditional Arabic for Arabic writing and 12 Times New Roman for English. In all cases line spacing is Single.
The Editorial Board performs a preliminary screening to determine the eligibility of the submitted paper, and the author is informed about the results within 15 days.
The author of an eligible paper receives a form to be completed and signed, concerning the publication property rights of his / her paper.
The Journal bears all the costs of published papers, and does not pay rewards for such publications.
For each published paper, the author receives 2 copies of the Journal and 20 extracts of his/her paper.
Republishing the published papers should not be done without a written permission from the Journal Editor.
Opinions in the published papers express the views of their authors not the Journal's.

Footnotes and Reference List:

Footnotes:

Footnotes are given serial numbers, written as superscript without parentheses.
Footnotes are not used for reference citation, instead citation must be done in the text between parentheses (..) using the last name of the single author or both co-authors if they are two, and the year of publication. If there are more than two authors, citation is done by the last name of the first one followed by ",et al." and the year of publication. Examples of possible citation cases:

One or more authors for the same reference (Enders, 1995), (Riezman and Summers, 1998), (Berry, et al. 2002).
More than one reference for the same author (Smith, 1998, 2003).
More than one reference (Smith, 2003; Sears, 1999).
More than one reference for the same author and the same year, use a, b, … such as (Taylor, 2005a), (Taylor, 2005b).
If the name of the author was mentioned in the text, it need not be repeated in the parentheses, such as Goodwin (1998).

In case of quotation, the page number must be added, for example: (Teddlie, 1998: 78)
References should be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order without serial numbering. Each word in the book title, the journal name, and the research title must start with a capital letter, except for (a, an, the, in, of, to, between, against, and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet) as long as they do not come at the start of the sentence.
References should be written as follows: The last name of the main author, followed by his/her first and the middle names, the names of co-authors (if applicable) in the normal way (first name first), the year of publication between parentheses, the title of the cited research, the name of the journal in italic, the volume number (the issue number in parentheses) and finally the page number(s).
Page numbers of a paper should be written in full. For example, if the paper pages are from 419 to 435, they must be written as follow 419-435.
In listing books, the author name is listed as in journals, and then comes the book's title in italic bold font, the year of publication between parentheses, the edition number and the city and country of publication

Examples of listing references:

Olsen, Mancur, (1993). Dictatorship, Democracy and Economic Performance. American Political Science Review. 87(1), 22-34.
Blankenau, William F. and Simpson, Nicole B., (2004). Public Education Expenditures and Journal of Development Economics, 73(2), 242-257.

In case of more than one reference for the same author:

Addison, Tony, (2003). From Conflict to Recovery in Africa. Oxford University Press,
-------, (2006). Fiscal Policy for Development: Poverty, Reconstruction and Growth. Palgrave Macmillan, UK.

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