Submission Guidelines

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All contributions must be written in English.  Submissions may not have been published, nor currently under review, by another publication. Translations of work published in languages other than English will be considered. All submissions should be sent via email to omj@wnec.edu. Submit your manuscript as a Word attachment. In the body of your email message, please include

  • Name(s) and affiliations of all authors
  • Title of manuscript
  • Section to which the manuscript is being submitted
  • 100-150 word abstract
  • 3-5 keywords

Where revision of a manuscript has been requested by a section editor, author(s) should follow the above procedures and indicate the revised status of the manuscript.

Review Process

Papers submitted to Linking Theory & Practice, Teaching & Learning, or First Person are assigned to a section editor and a minimum of two outside reviewers for blind review. Based on the reviewers' recommendations, the section editor then decides whether the paper should be accepted as is, revised, or rejected.

Submissions to Emerging Scholarship are reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief and the section editors.  If the manuscript is accepted into the review process, two reviewer/mentors are assigned to assist author(s) in the development of the article.

Manuscript Length and Format

While an electronic journal circumvents some of the restrictions of print publication in terms of page limits and article length, authors are strongly encouraged to edit their work for excessive wordiness or length. Articles submitted for review should be typed in Courier, Times-Roman, or Ariel font faces in 12-point pitch, and the entire manuscript should be double-spaced. References should follow the guidelines shown below.  Headings, tables, and figures should follow APA guidelines (available at www.apastyle.org). Avoid the use of endnotes as much as possible and do not include footnotes, headers or footers.

Authors whose manuscript is accepted for publication will be provided with additional formatting requirements.

Examples of correct referencing are:

BOOK:
Elmes, M.B., Mills, A.J., Prasad, P. & Prasad, A. (1997). Managing the organizational melting pot: Dilemmas of workplace diversity. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

BOOK CHAPTER:
Mallon, M. (1998). From public sector workers to portfolio workers: Pioneers of new careers? In C. Mabey, D. Skinner, and T. Clark (Eds), Experiencing Human Resource Management, 169-186. London: Sage.

PRINT JOURNAL ARTICLE:
Calàs, M. & Smircich, L. (1991). Voicing seduction to silence leadership. Organization Studies, 12: 567-602.

ONLINE JOURNAL ARTICLE:
Gabriel, Y. (2003). Glass palaces and glass cages: Organizations in times of flexible work, fragmented consumption, and fragile selves. Ephemera, 3(3): 166-184. Retrieved April 30, 2004, from http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/3-3/3-3gabriel.pdf

PROCEEDINGS:
Peridis, T. & Dermer, J. (1994). Strategic alliances in co-operative organizations. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management, 131-134.

CONFERENCE PAPER:
Woodilla, J. & Forray, J. M. (2002). A question of justice: Narrating the political in organizational life. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Colloquium, European Group on Organization Studies (EGOS), Barcelona, Spain

WEB PAGE:
Organization Management Journal (2003) http://www.omj-online.org, visited 4 July 2003.