Guidelines for submitting articles
Ivey Business Journal Online welcomes articles on a variety of topics. These range from issues such as leadership, strategy, marketing to more recent areas of development and investigation such as corporate culture, sustainable business, social media, and entrepreneurship.
Audience:
Our primary target audience is senior managers and executives as well as academics. The value of the articles resides in the utility and practicality of the ideas discussed in them. While the articles should be analytical and substantive, readers should be able to quickly see the practical applications to their own organization or situation.
Tone, Style and Length:
Our editorial style is similar to the writing in popular management journals. The tone should be conversational rather than formal, sentences should be shorter rather than longer, and the tone should more often than not be active rather than passive. The editor(s) recognize that many authors are not professional writers; articles are consequently edited for style, clarity and occasionally, structure. In most cases, the editor returns a revised draft for the author’s comments. Articles are generally 2000-2500 words.
Process for Submission, Review and Publication:
Authors should contact editor at ibjonline@ivey.ca. to discuss potential topics. Article concepts that are agreed upon must be followed by a full abstract or outline. The first three paragraphs are key, and authors should adhere to the following guidelines for these paragraphs:
Paragraph 1: Topic introduction and overview, a broad/historical overview/situation analysis: e.g., Managing intellectual capital has emerged as one of the more important challenges for managers today…It has evolved from this..to more sophisticated discipline characterized by…
Paragraph 2: The author introduces his or her own take on the topic, saying what’s wrong or missing from the way managers/organizations approach the discipline or the way the topic is treated in management literature.
Paragraph 3: The author describes the theme and purpose of the article and previews the structure. E.g., this article is divided into three sections. In Section One I will…
We do not have “conclusions” in the formal sense; authors should summarize their discussion in the last one or two paragraphs.
Other guidelines
We do not accept footnotes. Books or magazine articles should be referenced in the text, in brackets, with the author’s name, title, and publisher; magazine articles should have the specific issue date.
Heads and sub-heads are acceptable, though these may be changed.
Authors should provide a one-sentence bio line, unaccompanied by any academic or professional designations. Authors who have written a relatively recent book should include its title, publisher and publication date.
Articles that are submitted to IBJ become the property of Ivey Publishing for reprint and distribution.
While we welcome charts, diagrams and tables, they should contain information that illustrates or expands on – but does not replicate – information that is in the text.
For more information, please contact
Stephen Bernhut
Editor, Ivey Business Journal
ibjonline@ivey.ca
Or
Maura Pare
Director of Communications
Richard Ivey School of Business
519-661-4222
