Guidelines for Authors

The International Journal of Advances in Design and Innovation encourages theoretical and empirical research papers, articles, cases of relevance to both academicians and practitioners. In addition, the journal invites manuscripts, covering application of theory to real life management activities, where the findings would be of interest to researchers, executives, academicians and management students. Papers based on theoretical/empirical research and experience should satisfy good quality research and must reflect the practical applicability/policy implications of the research.

Please adhere to the following instructions while submitting research paper/ article/Case studies to International Journal of Advances in Design and Innovation

Manuscript must be in (Doc, Docx and PDF) format. All submitted manuscript undergoes Peer Review Process to analyse their appropriateness for publication to fulfil the objective of publication. Manuscript must follow . After review, decision will be sent to the concern author accordingly.

Basic Guideline

o An author can submit their manuscript via email at ijadi@rishihood.edu.in
o Manuscript must be in prescribed format Manuscript Format
o Manuscript must have less than 10% Plagiarism, for more information please refer Plagiarism Policy.
o An author will get decision on their manuscript after review process.
o If any revision is required in manuscript, an author will get back their manuscript along with detailed report and review comments. Author need to submit revised manuscript as per review comments.
o Manuscript can be accepted, if an author follows above guidelines.
o After Acceptance, an author needs to submit filled Copyright Form with final manuscript.
o If an author follows above guidelines, final manuscript will be published.
o Published manuscript will not be removed from journal website site.

Plagiarism Policy

International Journal of Advances in Design and Innovation will not consider any kind of plagiarism in the publication. Plagiarism is an offensive act which is punishable also. At any stage if we find plagiarism in the manuscript, we immediately inform the author and asked for further revision if required otherwise the submitted manuscript is rejected accordingly.

  • How to handle plagiarism:
    • The submitted manuscript undergoes the plagiarism check through the software, if the plagiarism is above 10%, the decision of revision sent to author immediately.
    • If plagiarism is less than 10%, the manuscript assigned with paper id and forward to reviewer for further process.
    • Before final publication, we again check the plagiarism to maintain the standard and quality of manuscript. If we find plagiarism again at this stage, again asked for further revision and send back to author.

Manuscript Format

Submission of Papers

The following guidelines need to be taken into account
Manuscripts’ soft copy in ‘Word’ file should be submitted to the Editor-in- Chief at .

At the time of submission, a short Bio-sketch and passport size photo of all the concerned authors will be required.

Conditions of Submission:
Manuscripts are reviewed with the understanding that they:
• are original;
• are not under consideration by any other publisher;
• have not been previously published in whole or in part;
• have not been previously accepted for publication;
• have not been previously reviewed by International Journal of Advances in Design and Innovation
• Will not be submitted elsewhere until a decision is reached regarding their publication in International Journal of Advances in Design and Innovation

Any prior publication of the data featured in the manuscript should be explicitly acknowledged when submitting. (Any forthcoming or ‘in press’ articles which use the data should be forwarded to the editor.)
Please state whether you wish your submission to be reviewed as a regular article or as a research note. Any manuscript submitted as a research note should also include the phrase submitted as a research note’ on the bottom of the page containing the abstract.

In order to facilitate processing of submissions, please make sure that your submission contains only the absolute minimum necessary footnotes or endnotes.

Length
The full-length contribution for Regular articles should be no longer than 20 pages and ‘research notes’ no longer than 05 pages (or 4500-5000 Words). Constructs and variables should be identified in words, not abbreviations. Any hypotheses should be explicitly identified as such. All manuscripts should be double-spaced. Margins should be one inch (2.5 cm) at the top, bottom and sides of the page. Font size should be Times New roman 12 point or larger.

Title page
The title page should list author names and contact details, the title of the article and suggestions for a short running title of no more than 40 characters (including spaces). Titles should be short, and abstracts should be informative for non-specialists.

Abstract
Authors are asked to supply an abstract of no more than 150 words. Abstracts shall be continuous text without any paragraphs. No reference will be included. Font size should be Times New roman12 point or larger.
Please be sure that the abstract page does not contain any information identifying the author(s). Also, please take care to create a title and an abstract that are direct and ‘reader-friendly’.

Keywords
Include up to five to six keywords that describe your paper for indexing and for web searches in your manuscript. Font size should be Times New roman12 point or larger.

Text
The text of the paper should follow immediately by the Abstract in double spacing and printed in Times New roman12 point or larger. The introduction should state clearly the objective of the paper as well as the motivation and context of the research. The literature review should be limited to the articles, books and other items that have a direct bearing on the topic being addressed. Theoretical papers may devote a full section to the motivation and potential usefulness of the proposed theoretical framework. Empirical papers that do not develop new theories or hypotheses should be kept short. The empirical section should give details of the methodology used only if it is new.

Details of the empirical section tests if any should not be included in the paper itself and should be provided in the appendix. The conclusion should summarize key findings and state their importance to the field.

Endnotes and footnotes should be kept to an absolute minimum. Substantive comments should be integrated within the text rather than placed in a note. Endnotes, references, appendices, tables and figures should be placed at the end of the manuscript and must be identified in the text by consecutive numbers placed as superscript.

References

References to published works must be cited in text according to the author/date system and listed alphabetically as a separate appendix titled ‘References’ at the end of the manuscript.

The following are examples of proper form:

• Journal Articles
Berry L (1995), “Relationship marketing of services, growing interest, Emerging Perspective “Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, Vol.23 (fall), pp236-245
Only include an issue number in brackets after the volume number if every issue of the referenced periodical begins with a page numbered 1.

• Books
Arora, Ashish, Andrew Fosfuri and Alfonso Gambardella, (2001), Markets for Technology: The economics of innovation and corporate strategy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
(Use city where published, with abbreviation for state or province (North America) or full name of country, only if needed to identify a small city or eliminate ambiguity).

• For edited books:
Malhotra N.K., (2004), “Marketing Research: an Applied Orientation” 4th (Ed.), New Delhi Press PHI, pp.111-126

• Unpublished Papers, Dissertations and Papers presented at meetings

Surname, First name, year, Title of paper. Working paper no. 54, Name of University, Town, State. Surname, First name, year, Title of paper. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Name of university, City. Surname, First name, year, Title of paper. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Name of Academy, Month, and City.

• Online Documents

Surname, first name, “Full title of document”; full title of the work it is part of; the ftp, http or other address; date document was posted or accessed. (Accessed date)

Figures and Tables

Figures and tables should follow the references and should be numbered consequently. The figures or table numbers and description should appear left justified in 12-point New Roman, bold face at the top of the illustrations, symbols or parts of a figure should be produced graphically.

Copyright Form

To enable the Publisher to protect the copyright of the journal, authors must assign copyright in their manuscripts to International Journal of Advances in Design and Innovation the publisher.

Authors must confirm on submission that the article is original, is not under consideration by another journal, has not previously been published elsewhere and that its content has not been anticipated by previous publication. Copyright for published papers will be vested in the publisher i.e. International Journal of Advances in Design and Innovation and authors must sign the ‘transfer of copyright’ agreement before the article can be published. Authors are responsible to obtain permission from the publisher to reproduce any content of their contribution.

In the electronic files please be sure to:
• Clear the file of all possible viruses
• Erase everything from the files except the manuscript text, tables and figures
• Remove all information that could identify the author(s) of the paper (including acknowledgements and contact information); be sure to remove all identifying information from the ‘File, Properties, Summary’ menu.

Accuracy for all material supplied on the disk and manuscript is the responsibility of the author. The manuscript text must be spell checked and any technical material must be absolutely clear. These requirements apply to all stages of production.

APPENDICES

Appendices, if used, should follow the references. The word “Appendix” should be at the top of each Appendix as a first level heading. If there is more than one Appendix, number each consecutively.

The manuscript should be sent to:
Email: ijadi@rishihood.edu.in
Website: https://ijadi.rishihood.edu.in/

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