Submissions

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

TEMPLATE FOR MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

This template is designed to assist Author in preparing the manuscript; it is an exact representation of the format expected by the editor (downloadable at Template and Author Guidelines). To use this template, please just Save As this MS Word file to your document, then copy and paste your document here. All papers submitted to the journal should be written in the English language.  

Business Law Journal (BLJ) is a peer-reviewed journal published by UIR Press three times a year in March, July, and November. The aim of this journal is to provide a venue for academicians, researchers, and practitioners for publishing original research articles or review articles. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. BLJ is available in print and online versions. 

Guideline for Online Submission

The author should first register as Author and/or be offered as Reviewer through the following address: https://journal.uir.ac.id/index.php/businesslaw Author should fulfill the form as detail as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, the Author clicks on the “Register” button to proceed with the registration. Therefore, the Author is brought to an online author submission interface where Author should click on “New Submission”. In the Start, a New Submission section, click on “’ Click Here’: to go to step one of the five-step submission process”. The following are five steps in the online submission process:

1. Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of the journal, i.e., Original Research Articles or Review Article. Thus, the author must check-mark on the submission checklists.
2. Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file to be submitted, then click the Upload button. 
3. Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detailed authors metadata should be entered including the marked corresponding author. After that, the manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and pasting it in the textbox including keywords.
4. Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary files should be uploaded including Covering/Submission Letter, and Signed Copyright Transfer Agreement Form. Therefore, click on the Browse button, choose the files, and then click on the Upload button.
5. Step 5 – Confirming the Submission: The author should finally check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to BLJ journal, click the Finish Submission button after the documents are true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site. 

After this submission, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes the status of the manuscript review and editorial process.

PAPER FORMAT

The sequence of manuscripts following:

1. Title; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction; Method (for Original Research Articles); Analysis and Discussion; Conclusion; and References.
2. The word limit for the submission is 4000-8000 words.

References

Check each reference against the original source (author's name, volume, issue, year, DOI Number). Please use Reference Manager Applications like EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, etc in the American Psychological Association 7th edition.

BOOK REVIEW GUIDELINES

Business Law Journal (BLJ) does not require any rigid format for conducting a book review. Reviewers should feel at liberty to approach the review in their own style with the broader aim of contextualizing the work in the literature or policy developments at the time of publication. We welcome reviews about academic books, monographs or edited volumes, policy publications, or reviews on past works that are relevant for re-engaging in theory, policy, and practice related to contemporary issues in legal scholarship. 

The remainder of this document sets out some guidelines for potential book reviewers to follow in conducting a review. Word count: We prefer formats between 1000-1500 words. The review should also seek out to cover the questions listed below:

• How is the author’s background and work situated in the broader field of study?
• What is the central argument of the book and how is the work timely in its theoretical or empirical engagement? Does it deliver and does it leave anything out?
• What were the methodology and factual basis of the study? Were there factual errors and oversights or faulty assumptions? We are especially interested in a close review of the sources, extent, and depth of the research.
• Who is the audience of the book?
• How is the structure, prose, length, and other aspects of the book’s accessibility and readability? Is it enjoyable?
• Are there unique features to the book in terms of illustrations, indexing, bibliographic or other aspects?
• Does the title capture the book’s major argument?

If you would like to follow a general outline, we propose approaching the review under the following headings / sub-sections:

• Introduction: a brief description of the subject, aim, and scope. Make sure to outline the central thesis of the book and the key arguments
• Situate within the broader literature both theoretically and empirically. Has this book filled a key gap and how?
• Review the components of the arguments and review the strengths and weaknesses of each of the arguments. Are there key features of the book that were particularly memorable?
• What new questions does the book raise?

Guideline for Online Submission

The author should first register as Author and/or be offered as Reviewer through the following address: 

https://journal.uir.ac.id/index.php/businesslaw 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). It is up to the editorial board to decide upon acceptance.
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word file format.
3. The submission article has been in accordance with BLJ's Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
4. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission was obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.
5. The author declares the absence of any conflict of interest in this work.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. The journal holds the copyright for each article published with work licensed simultaneously under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the authorship and early publication of the work in this journal. 
2. Authors must agree to the copyright transfer agreement by checking the Copyright Notice column at the initial stage when submitting the article.

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