Journal of Business Finance & Accounting

Edited by:
P. F. Pope, A. W. Stark and M. Walker

Print ISSN: 0306-686X
Online ISSN: 1468-5957
Frequency: Ten times a year
Current Volume: 37 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 30/48 Business, Finance
Impact Factor: 0.737

TopAuthor Guidelines

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

All manuscripts should be submitted online at: http://services.bepress.com/jbfa

Papers will be considered on the understanding that they are original, unpublished works not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers that address issues consistent with the aims and scope of the Journal will be subject to anonymous peer review. Authors should draft their papers to avoid identifying themselves directly or indirectly.

Papers should be submitted electronically at the following URL: http://services.bepress.com/jbfa. Hard copy submissions are not accepted. Electronic submission requires (i) entry of author names, affiliations and e-mail addresses; (ii) the entry of text or the uploading of a file containing an Abstract not exceeding 100 words and up to ten key words identifying the topic area of the paper; (iii) the entry of text or the uploading of a file containing any acknowledgements footnote; and (iv) uploading of a file containing the text of the paper, bearing no author identification and with a title page containing the paper's Title and the Abstract. Acceptable file formats for submission are pdf and Microsoft Word.

A submission fee of 165 US dollars is required, to be paid by credit or debit card as part of the online-submission process. An electronic receipt will be e-mailed to the author(s) on completion of the electronic submission process.

Authors of accepted papers will be required upload the final version of their complete paper for copy editing and typesetting in either Microsoft Word or Tex format.

Information on the status of papers submitted online is available via the link to your online Bepress account provided to you on submission.

Copyright Transfer Agreement
Authors will be required to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the CTA is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form here. Please sign and return to the following address:

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STYLE REQUIREMENTS

Papers should be double-spaced and use 11pt or 12pt fonts. Authors should use footnotes and not endnotes. Any Appendices should be placed immediately after the main body of the text. Figures and tables should be included at the end of the paper after the main text and after any Appendices. They should be numbered in order of their appearance. They should contain sufficient explanation to allow them to be interpreted without reference to the main body of the text, including where relevant details of estimating equations on which empirical results in a table are based.

References in Articles

There are several software packages available to help authors manage and format the references and footnotes in their journal article. We recommend the use of a software tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.

EndNote reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp

Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp

Citations of papers should include the name(s) of author(s) and the year of publication, e.g. Ohlson (1995) or (Ohlson, 1995). References to papers with more than two authors should be in the form of the first author's name followed by 'et al.'-, e.g. Dechow et al. (1999) or (Dechow et al., 1999). For multiple citations of publications by the same author in the same year append a letter after the date to distinguish different citations. Full details of citations should be included in an alphabetically ordered list of References placed immediately after the text of the paper and before any figures and tables, using a style based on the following examples:

Ashton, D., T. Cooke and M. Tippett (2003), 'An Aggregation Theorem for the Valuation of Equity Under Linear Information Dynamics', Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Vol.30, Nos.3&4 (April/May), pp. 413-40.

Earl, J. and S. Estrin (1996), 'Employee Ownership in Transition', in R. Frydman, C. Gray and A. Rapaczynski (eds.), Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia (Central European University Press), pp. 1-61.

Helbok, M.G. (1997), 'A Survey of Profit Warnings', Working Paper (University of Manchester).

Kim, O. and R. Verrecchia (1997), 'Pre-announcement and Event-period Private Information', Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol.24, No.3 (December), pp.395-419.

------ ------ (2001), 'The Relation Among Disclosure Returns, and Trading Volume Information', Accounting Review, Vol.76, No.4 (October), pp.633-54.

Porter, B., J. Simon, and D. Hatherly (2003), Principles of External Auditing (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd).

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OnlineEarly

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting is covered by Blackwell Publishing's OnlineEarly Service. OnlineEarly articles are complete full-text articles published online in advance of their publication in a printed issue. Articles are therefore available as soon as they are ready, rather than having to wait for the next scheduled print issue. OnlineEarly articles are complete and final. They have been fully reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the author's final corrections have been incorporated. Because they are in final form, no changed can be made after online publication. The nature of OnlineEarly articles means that they do not yet have volume, issue or page numbers, so OnlineEarly articles cannot be cited in the traditional way. They are therefore given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the article to be cited and tracked before it is allocated to an issue. After print publication, the DOI remains valid and can continue to be used to cite and access the article.

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