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Instructions for Contributors

The Structure of IJORTISS

IJORTISS will include:

• Guest Editorials. IJORTISS will invite prominent people involved in developing research, practice, and/or policy to write editorials.
• Full-length articles (15-20 pages) examining current trends in social sciences research, focused on quantitative or qualitative research, trends, and approaches in economics, management, political economy and business informatics interface for practitioners, scholars and policymakers. The interdisciplinary approach to a selected research object is of premium interest for the Editorial Board as well as the target audience of the e-Journal.
• Research notes (7-12 pages) comprising of work in progress reports on a particular field in social sciences, mainly introducing primary data of empirical research.

Manuscript Submission

1. Please submit manuscripts by e-mail to:

Dainora Grundey (Editor-in-Chief), dainora.grundey@vukhf.lt

In case, the authors want to submit a hard copy of the paper with CD (not obligatory), please send to the IJORTISS Editorial Office:

Assoc. prof. dr. Dainora Grundey (Editor-in-Chief)
International Scientific Journal IJORTISS
Kaunas Faculty of Humanities
Vilnius University
Muitines g. 8,
Kaunas, LT 44280
Lithuania

2. There is no submission fee. A submission is accepted for review with the understanding that it contains original unpublished work and that it is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Author(s) will be notified via email upon receipt of manuscripts. The journal does not accept responsibility for damage or loss of papers submitted. All editorial decisions will be made by editors and sent out through the editorial office via emails.

3. Manuscripts should be written in English, well crafted, single-spaced with 2.5 cm margins, 12 pt Times New Roman. All pages must be consecutively numbered. Titles and subtitles (used only if necessary) should be brief. Avoid footnotes, endnotes, and appendices.

4.	The first page should incorporate the following information:
4.1	the title,
4.2	the name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s), postal and e-mail address as well as fax and telephone numbers of the corresponding author,
4.3	an overview of professional career and scientific achievements of each author - at least 50-100 words,
4.4	an abstract of no more than 150 words,
4.5	five keywords
4.6	4.6 JEL classification for the keywords (Journal of Economic Literature, www.aeaweb.org/journal/jel_class_system.html) (e.g., D64, D62, and C72).
4.7	Acknowledgements and information on grants received can also be provided within this footnote. Use Times New Roman 10pt for text-font.

5. Figures should be drawn with tools from WinWord or other tools and inserted as pictures in the text; the publisher will not redraw them. Lettering and symbols should be of 10pt Times New Roman. Figures and Tables should appear in text in the destined place. Legends and sources for figures and tables should appear below the destined tabled or figure. The titles and legends on tables and figures must be sufficiently descriptive so that they are understandable without reference to the text. The dimensions of figure axes and the body of tables must be clearly labelled in English. The author should make clear references for figures and tables in the text, e.g. (Table 1), (Figure 3). All unessential figures and tables should be eliminated from the manuscript.

6. Displayed formulae should be numbered consecutively against the right-hand margin of the page throughout the manuscript as in (1), (2), etc. In cases where the derivation of formulae has been abbreviated, the full mathematical workings necessary for justifying each step of the argument should be presented on separate pages (not to be published) for reviewers' reference.

7. References to publications should be in the author-date format as follows:

• Doe (2001, p. 10) reported that …
• This problem has been studied previously (Smith et al., 1958, pp. 20-25; Smith, 1960).
• Two or more works by the same author in the same year should be distinguished by letters after the date, e.g. Jennings (1978a) and Jennings (1978b).
• Ensure that there is a strict one-to-one correspondence between the names and years in the text and those included in the reference list.
• The references list should follow immediately after the main text, listed in alphabetical order by author's last name. Note that journal and book titles, italicized, should not be abbreviated.

Sample references are as follows:

• For books: surname, initials. (year). Title, place of publication, publisher. E.g. Ballou, R.H. (1992), Business Logistics Management. 3^rd Edition. Eaglewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall International Editions.
• For journals: surname, initials. (year). "Title", journal, volume, number, pages. E.g. Fox, S. (1994), "Empowerment as a Catalyst for Change: an Example from the Food Industry", Supply Chain Management, Vol. 2, No 3, pp. 29-33.
• For Internet sources:
  • Small Business Marketing Strategies: Marketing Research, http://www.marketingprinciples.com (referred on 30/09/2002).
  • Martin C.L. (1998). Relationship Marketing: a High-Involvement Product Attribute Approach, Journal of Product and Brand Management, Vol. 7, No 1, pp. 6-26, http://www.apmforum.com/emerald/marketing-research-asia.htm (referred on 03/10/2002).

8. Data used in the empirical analysis should be precisely documented and be readily available to any researcher for purposes of replication. In the case of publicly available data sets, identification of variables used and any selection criteria for inclusion in the sample will suffice. Authors reporting experimental results should include an experimental method section. The complete data set from the experiment, as well as sufficient details of the computational methods to permit replication, should be available upon request.

9. Use a single (not a double) space after a full stop, and after commas, colons, semicolons, etc. Do not put a space in front of a question mark. Be consistent in your use of British English spelling (e.g., use 'analyse' as against 'analyze').

10. Any manuscript that does not conform to the above instructions may be returned for necessary revision before publication. Manuscripts obviously and seriously failing to either meet the guidelines listed here, or to comply with the aims and scope of this journal, will be rejected without review. No paper will be rejected solely on the grounds of being too technical or too applied. High priority will be assigned to concise and lucid expositions. As an international journal targeting general readership, we ask authors to take care to motivate their work and to communicate in clarity.