Business and Professional Ethics Journal
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submissions must be made in electronic form to the editorial office at bpej@depaul.edu.
Authors must submit their manuscripts in Word 2007 format as an email attachment to this address. A complete submission includes a cover letter and appropriately formatted original manuscript.
COVER LETTER
The cover email letter should include:
Author(s) names and institutional affiliations
Contact information for one author, including at least email address and telephone number
Confirmation that the manuscript is not currently under consideration by any other publication
MANUSCRIPTS
General Requirements
Manuscripts shall be original, unpublished works and may not be under consideration at another publication.
Since a blind review process is used, no authors’ name should appear anywhere on the manuscript. In addition, because we share files electronically, it is the authors’ responsibility to strip the file of any other identifying notations, including references in the document’s properties, title, or first-person language in text of references.
Though the BPEJ enthusiastically encourages submissions across disciplines, submitted manuscripts must be in a condition ready for publication according to The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Given the variety of disciplines from which our submissions may originate, the BPEJ accepts contributions using either the Chicago Manual “author-date” or “notes-bibliography” formats. A helpful resource on The Chicago Manual of Style is available here.
If using the author-date system of citation for references in the text, footnotes also may be used for substantive information inappropriate for inclusion in the body of an article. However, authors are encouraged to incorporate information in the text where possible.
Please do not submit manuscripts with coding from bibliographic software like EndNote and Reference Manager.
Because BPEJ is a cross-disciplinary journal, articles that adopt a style that is accessible to colleagues from other disciplines, while retaining their academic sophistication, are particularly appreciated. With this in mind, authors should provide: (a) indicative titling/subtitling; (b) descriptive abstracts, (c) exceptional clarity through structure, format, and the use of subheads.
Format
Each submitted manuscript should include a brief abstract (150 words or less).
Manuscripts should be double-spaced with 1" margins on all sides using 12 pt. Times New Roman or similar font.
All pages should be numbered.
Authors should indent new paragraphs rather than include an extra line between them, and should differentiate major and minor headings.
Authors should avoid the use of first person where possible, though some use (such as “we contend”) is understandable
Please use italics or quotes for emphasis very sparingly.
Numbers less than 100 should be spelled out, unless they are a percentage (e.g. 5 percent)
All tables, figures or other graphics should appear at the end of the article and be included in the same file. If this is not possible then we need the original file used to produce the figure or graph.
It is the authors’ responsibility to obtain any necessary permission for use of copyrighted material contained within the article.
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