Author Guidelines
Manuscripts should be written for at least two of the following readerships of Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice: academic researchers; university educators and professional development trainers; research scientists; public and private sector research and laboratory managers; public policy developers and analysts; company directors, financial officers, marketing, human resources and operations managers.
Selection criteria
In addition to academic merit, novelty and integrity, criteria for selection are that articles are relevant, concise, practical, informative and useful to readers of the respective sections of Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice:
- Feature Articles
- East Asian Management Research in Industry, Innovation and Technology
- Technology Transfer Tactics
- Innovation Education
- Policy Debate;
- Innovation Theory
- Research Notes
- Literature Reviews
- Book Reviews Booklists
- Conference Reports & Calendar
- News & New Products
- Institutional Profiles
Author Guidelines
There are no page charges and no monetary payments for contributors. The Publisher provides one complimentary copy of the issue in which their article appears to the Author(s) when available.
Article submission
Articles within the aims and scope of the journal should be approximately 4000 to 6000 words in length, unless otherwise agreed with the Publisher. Materials should be prepared and submitted electronically according to the guidelines below. Please note that manuscripts that are inappropriately prepared tend to be less favourably reviewed, and may be returned to the author for revision prior to submission to the full review process. Authors are also advised to consult the Style Guide below and view the journal website www.innovation-enterprise.com for sample articles, summaries, key words, reference lists, tables and figures. The Style Guide is intended as a guide to contributors but the editorial team is most willing to provide additional assistance and encouragement. Please do not hesitate to make contact via editorial@innovation-enterprise.com.
Initial submission
The publishers, eContent Management Pty Ltd, uses a semi-automated manuscript tracking system to receive and review research articles, case studies and literature reviews. Manuscripts submitted for publication are subject to a double blind peer review process. To ensure prompt review of your manuscript, and to preserve anonymity in the review process, please observe the following steps:
- Save your manuscript as a Microsoft Word file. This document file should contain: Title of the manuscript; 100-150-word abstract/executive summary; 6 key words; article text; references; figures; and tables in that order, as one document.
- Please do not include any author or institution information, such as coding with initials etc, except where appropriate as a citation, in this manuscript attachment. It will be forwarded directly to reviewers and should not contain any identifying information.
- All other information should be included in the body text of the email as part of your covering letter, addressed to Professor Mark Dodgson - Editor-in-Chief. In addition to your cover letter, this email should contain: the manuscript title, key words; author/s full name/s and affiliation/s including location [in the order in which they are to appear], all author postal and email address details for our records; and acknowledgements. Please indicate the Corresponding Author/s for multiple author submissions.
- Check that you have listed all of the authors in the order they would appear on the title page, in the body text of your email. Please ensure that acknowledgements are included under Author information in the email and not in the manuscript attachment.
- To further preserve anonymity in your manuscript, under 'Properties' on your 'File' pull-down menu, please clear the 'Summary' tab. Then under 'Tools/Options/Security', tick 'Remove personal information from file properties on save'.
- The email should confirm that the article is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not been previously published.
- Email the information required above with your Word file manuscript attachment to editorial@innovation-enterprise.com. Do not attach any other documents to your email. An automated computer response will serve as acknowledgement of receipt.
These requirements also apply to authors submitting revised versions of manuscripts before they are accepted. It is important that authors re-submitting revised manuscripts indicate how they have addressed the referees' comments, in summary form, on a table accompanying the revised manuscript. The table will be sent with the revised manuscript back to both of the original reviewers before the manuscript proceeds.
When a manuscript is accepted, a complete version including authors, acknowledgements and 300 dpi photographs of all authors will be requested.
Please refer to 'Tables and figures' below for acceptable file and photo types for print publishing and 'Style Guide' below for references, citation and spelling conventions.
Final submission
The above email requirements also apply to authors submitting revised manuscripts. Peer review recommendations are to be addressed and incorporated by authors before submitting a revised version to editorial@innovation-enterprise.com. The Editor in Chief will then assess whether reviewers comments have been addressed before it acceptance.
When a manuscript is accepted, a final and complete version, including all author names, attributions, acknowledgements and 300 dpi photographs of all authors, will be required in electronic and hard copy. Please email the final manuscript and photographs as attachments with a cover note addressed to The Editor-in-Chief at editorial@innovation-enterprise.com. For verification, please post one exact replica hard copy at the same time to:
The Publisher
Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice
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Academic and Professional Book publishers should send Books to:
Acting Book Reviews Editor
Dr Jason Potts
School of Economics
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Australia
tel: +61 (0)7 3365 6592
fax: +61 (0)7 3365 7299
Full text of all books reviews will appear on the journal website www.innovation-enterprise.com immediately on receipt from the reviewer and in hard copy as space permits.
Conference organizers should send conference announcements, conference reports and participants lists to:
Conference Editor
Dr Sally Davenport
conferences@innovation-enterprise.com
Conference announcements, weblinks and reports will appear on the journal website www.innovation-enterprise.com immediately on receipt and in hardcopy as space permits. In return the Publisher will request reciprocal linking of www.innovation-enterprise.com from the Conference website.
Materials or queries on all other sections may be sent directly to the Publisher: editorial@innovation-enterprise.com.
| Style Guide |
Feature Article
In general, the length of Feature Articles should be between 4000-6000 words excluding References, double-spaced, with numbered pages. An informative Abstract should contain approximately 100 words and be followed by at least six Key Words.
Heading Levels should be concise and clearly identify sections of the article, with the levels clearly differentiated. Footnotes should be used sparingly, and not be used for citing references.
Ethical clearance must be shown for research papers, and the ethical processes followed should be indicated in the body of the manuscript.
Papers presented at conferences need to be accompanied by full details (conference title, date and venue).
Figures and/or Tables with suitable titles should be added after References. Please indicate where in the body of the text each should be inserted, eg [Insert Table 1 here]. Diagrams should be supplied as computer-generated or bromide of the same, or as high quality line illustrations drawn in black and white with excellent definition.
Opinions, Exemplars, Responses and Rejoinders
The general presentation should follow the submission guidelines established for Feature Articles, except that abstracts are not required.
Opinions should be approximately 250-500 words, written by an author who feels strongly about a current issue in innovation management, policy or practice.
Exemplars are to be approximately 500-1000 words, describing an incident where the author made a difference to a corporation or institution. It is to be written in narrative style, and may have no references. It is important that authors are careful about confidentiality and company/institution anonymity; this may be achieved by changing some details in the Exemplar.
Responses are to be approximately 500 words, written in response to an article in any issue of Innovation: management, policy & practice. A 500-word Rejoinder will be offered to the original author.
Artwork Presentation
Tables and Figures
Tables, figures and appendixes should be supplied at the end of the main text, with their desired locations cross-referenced within the text, eg:
Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively in separate sequences, use Arabic numerals (eg 1, 2, 3), and have self-explanatory captions. The maximum final size of published figures and tables will be 200mm x 145mm, landscape or portrait. All line diagrams and photographs are 'Figures'. Electronic TIFF or EPS files are preferred using high resolution (300 dpi and above). GIFF and JPEG files at lower resolution (below 150 dpi) are NOT suitable for print publishing.
Artwork must be suitable for immediate BLACK and WHITE reproduction (do not use similar colours), because it will not be redrawn.
Fonts:
Artwork labels (such as axes labels or legends, etc) are to use minimal
capitalisation, and appear using only bold, roman or italic Helvetica, Arial or
Times New Roman fonts, otherwise distortion occurs.
Photographs
Photographs (supplied as an email attachment) should be clear, with good contrast, and be cropped to approximately 40mm x 50mm in dimension. Electronic black and white (greyscale) TIFFs of high resolution (300 dpi minimum) are preferred, around 300 KB in size. Low resolution (ie under 150 dpi) JPEG or GIF images are NOT suitable for printing. Do NOT repeat-save JPEGs, because the JPEG automatically compresses with each save, thereby losing detail each time.
| Referencing Standards |
eContent Management Pty Ltd uses an adaptation of the Harvard system of referencing as follows. 'American' or 'English' spellings are acceptable, provided they are used consistently. Translation of articles from other languages into English is encouraged and must be provided by professional translators. The Editors reserve the right to make editorial and literary corrections.
The accuracy and format of references and citations is the authors' responsibility (see also 'Copyright' below). Authors are required to submit work with complete, up-to-date citations.
A list headed References and comprising full details of all sources, in alphabetical order, is to be provided at the end of the article (before Figures and Tables).
Citations Within Text
The style for in-text citations is shown below. Before submission, it is essential that you check that all in-text citations appear under References, and vice-versa. Please ensure consistency of referencing style throughout the manuscript.
Citations within the text require only author/s surname/s and date/s given in brackets - (Parbury & Ruffin 1997).
Where there are three authors, for the first citation, use all surnames and the date - (Clarke, Stone & Jones 1995) - and thereafter, for that citation, use - (Clarke et al. 1995).
Where there are four or more authors, use the following throughout the text - (Clark et al. 1997). [Note that all author names should be included in the Reference List.]
If author name/s appear/s as part of the flow of the text, the year appears in parentheses after the name, with a specific page reference appearing after a colon - Smith (1999: 145).
Multiple references are separated by a semi-colon - (Jones & Smith 1995; Brown 2005; Smith & Clarke 1999).
Second and third level citations - (Freeman & Perez 1988, cited in Dosi, Freeman, Nelson, Silverberg & Soete 1988: 38-66). [See also Freeman & Perez reference]
Reference List
Books, book chapters, edited books:
Each reference must include author/s names and initials, year of publication, book title, publisher and place of publication and, if appropriate, page numbers -
Bijker WE and Law JA (eds) (1992) Shaping Technology/Building Society, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Boer BA (2001) The Art of Strategic Planning for Information Technology (2nd edn), John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Freeman CC and Perez C (1988) Structural crisis of adjustment, business cycles and investment behaviour, in Dosi G, Freeman C, Nelson R, Silverberg G and Soete L (eds) Technical Change and Economic Theory, pp.38-66, Pinter, London.
Hofstede G (2001) Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations (2nd edn), pp.497-520. Sage Publications, London.
Girshick S, Shah R and Waage S (2003) Information Technology and Sustainability: Enabling the Future. The Natural Step, San Francisco CA.
Morse J (2002) Principles of Mixed- and Multi-Method Research Design, Ch 7, in Tashakkori A and Teddlie C (eds) Handbook of Mixed Methods, Sage, London.
Journals and periodicals:
Each Journal reference must include author surname/s and initials or Organisation Name, year of publication, full title of article, full name of journal, volume and (optional) issue numbers, and page range (in full) of the article. If the same author/s has published more than once in the same year, the articles are differentiated by marking the years with ‘a', ‘b'.
European Community (EC) (2002) Consolidated version of the treaty establishing the European Community. Official Journal of the European Communities C325: 42.
Griffiths A (2004) Corporate sustainability and innovation, Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice 6(2): vi-xiv.
Raven R and Verbong G (2004) Ruling out innovations - technological regimes, rules and failures: The cases of heat pump power generation and bio-gas production in The Netherlands, Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice 6(2): 178-98.
Reports, Theses, Symposia and Conference papers (published and unpublished):
Haigh N (2003) Linkages between e-government and sustainability outcomes: An exploratory study. Master of Technology Management, Research Project. The University of Queensland Business School, Brisbane.
Hekkert MP and van den Hoed R (2003) ‘Competing technologies and the struggle towards a new dominant design: the emergence of the hybrid vehicle at the expense of the fuel cell vehicle?' Paper presented at 11th International Conference - The Greening of Industry Network, Innovating for Sustainability, 12-15 October, San Francisco.
Smith K (2002) Environmental innovation in a systems framework. Blueprint 1st workshop, 23-24 January, Environmental Innovation Systems, Brussels.
World Bank (2002e) Reaching the rural poor: a renewed strategy for rural development: Volume 1. Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank, Washington DC.
Internet citations:
Digital Europe (2003) Virtual dematerialisation: ebusiness and factor X: Final Report, March 2003. Wuppertal Institute, accessed at 222.digital-eu.org in March 2003.
International Association of Science Parks International Board (IASP) (2002) accessed at http://www.iaspworld.org/information/definitions.php on 3 October 2004.
Yang JC (2000) Environmental impact of e-commerce and other sustainability implications of the information economy, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Center for Applied Policy Research, accessed at http://www.cap.uni-muenchen.de/fgz/papers/index.htm on 7 March 2004.
Thank You
Your attention to the conventions described in this guide will be greatly appreciated, will increase the likelihood that your submission will be favorably reviewed, and will make the work of everyone involved - you, your reviewers, your editors and your readers - easier.
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