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Submissions to The Business Journal of Hispanic Research are evaluated via double-blind peer review. Submissions should include a cover page indicating the title of the paper, all listed author(s) names and titles, professional affiliations, complete addresses, professional email addresses, and telephone numbers. Other than the cover page, do not include any information identifying the authors in the text of the article or in the reference section.
Format & Style
- Submitted manuscripts must be written in American English using U.S. standard punctuation and spelling.
- Manuscripts should adhere to the style guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA). Please see the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for more information.
- Include APA formatted in-text citations and a reference list of all sources cited within the article.
- All figures, tables, and formulae must be submitted in camera-ready form.
- If photographs are included, a signed release form must be included for each individual pictured. Authors must include captions and acknowledgements for each picture.
- Photo files should be sent in high resolution format (JPEG or TIF).
- Charts/graphs should be numbered consecutively and placed at the end of the article. If the charts/graphs need to be inserted in the manuscript, the author must indicate where to insert them within the manuscript text.
- Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc) format. PDF format is not acceptable.
- Manuscripts should be double spaced, written in 12 point font, with 1 inch margins.
- Manuscripts should not exceed 30 pages.
- Manuscripts must be free of grammar, punctuation, and typographical errors.
Order of Manuscript Content
- Cover page including author(s) full contact information.
- Title of manuscript with long abstract (150 words) and short abstract (2-3 sentences)
- Note (if applicable)
- Manuscript text
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Charts/Graphs
Submission
Only original papers not under consideration elsewhere will be considered or accepted. Copyright of published papers will be vested in The Business Journal of Hispanic Research.
Please submit manuscripts via email to Maru Tapia, Managing Editor, at mtapia@nshmba.org, or electronically at www.nshmba.org/BJHR
Revised and Final Versions of Manuscripts
If you are submitting a revised manuscript, please include your responses, point-by-point, to the reviewers comments as part of the cover letter file. When submitting a revised manuscript with figures, include all figures, even if they have not changed since the previous version. For both revised and final versions of manuscripts, please observe the same formatting instructions outlined above.
If a manuscript is accepted for publication, the author(s) may be asked to make further revisions. The Business Journal of Hispanic Research reserves to modify the format of the accepted manuscripts to conform to publication design and printing needs.
When submitting the final version of a manuscript for publication, please include a 100 word bio for each author. The names, titles, and affiliations in the bios must match the author list on the cover page of the manuscript.
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