Congratulations on your paper’s acceptance for publication in
Marketing Education Review! Please prepare your
manuscript according to the following directions provided by the
publisher—M. E. Sharpe. If you have any questions regarding preparation
of your files, please contact Debra Soled, the Production Manager for
Journals and Electronic Publishing, at
journals@mesharpe.com.
Upon completion of your manuscript’s preparation for publication,
please send electronically:
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The manuscript;
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The names and complete contact information (address, phone, fax,
email) of each of the authors; and
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A signed
Consent to Publish/Transfer of
Copyright Agreement Form
(the consent form needs to be signed by only one of the authors and
can be sent electronically or faxed ) to:
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Please send
all materials to
mer@business.colostate.edu.
Form of Manuscripts
All text files should be in an IBM-compatible, editable format, using a
word processing program such as .doc or .docx. (Tex, LaTex, and PDF are
not editable formats--if you submit your paper in these formats your
manuscript will be returned). The software and formats used for the
text and graphics files that comprise your manuscript should be
identified in the email message accompanying the files.
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All figures,
tables, or other artwork should be separated from the main text of
the manuscript and placed at the end of the manuscript. PLEASE DO
NOT embed tables and charts or other artwork in the main text of the
manuscript.
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The use of footnotes should be avoided. However, if
footnotes are used, PLEASE DO NOT use the automatic footnoting
feature in your word processor. Notes should be indicated by a
superscript number in the text, and the note text should be placed
as regular running text at the end of the manuscript or in a
separate file.
Main Text
Other than indications of the level of headings, you should use as
little formatting as possible; the more formatting you put in your
manuscript, the more the publisher has to strip out.
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Font for the entire manuscript should be 12 point Times Roman or the
equivalent.
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Please use only one space after punctuation.
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First-level headings
are to be centered using Upper and Lower Case and should be
indicated with boldface type;
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Second-level headings
are to be flush left using Upper and Lower Case with
boldface and italic; and
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Third-level headings
are to be flush left using Upper and Lower Case with
italic.
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If you wish to indicate a numbered or bulleted list, please enter
the number or symbol, followed by a tab, rather than using the
generated list feature in your word processor.
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If you refer to email addresses or web sites, please disable the
linking feature.
Tables and Figures
Figures should be submitted as original
drawings, complete, and ready for photo-reproduction. If you submit your
art as hard copy only, please do not submit them on glossy paper, as we
cannot scan from glossy paper. Tables submitted as cleanly printed copy
may also be reproduced photographically. All lettering and figure
elements should be large enough to be readable when the figure has been
reduced to fit the journal page. All figures and tables must be
specifically referred to in the text. All figures and tables should have
brief, descriptive captions.
Tables must be submitted in an editable form, not as a graphic. If you
are using tabs to separate columns, then use one tab only for each
column. DO NOT USE SPACES TO SEPARATE COLUMNS. If you are
using a table editor, such as the one available in Word, then use only
one numerical or text expression per cell. Do not use hard returns
within a cell to separate lines of text. Do not use the columns feature
to denote table columns. Tables may also be submitted in a spreadsheet,
such as in Excel.
FIGURES AND TABLES MUST BE IN BLACK AND WHITE, NOT COLOR.
Figures should be submitted in their original format, not pasted into a
text document. That is: if the figure is a graph, created in Excel, then
submit the graph along with its associated spreadsheet as an Excel file
(*.xls). If the figure is a photograph, screenshot, or a scan, then
submit the *.tif, *.eps, *.jpg, or *.gif (preferred for-mats, in
declining order of preference) file itself.
If the figure is created in Illustrator or Freehand, save it either as
*.ai or *.fh file or as *.tif or *.eps; if drawn in another program,
then the file should be saved and sent to us in that program—CorelDraw,
Pagemaker, etc. Art created in Word or WordPerfect is less desirable,
since it does not produce good results when transferred to our
composition software. Windows metafiles (WMF) are acceptable. We can
also accept graphs etc. created in Powerpoint, as long as you submit the
original *.ppt file.
In all cases the file extension must indicate the format or program used
to create the file.
Equations
If you are using mathematical expressions or greek characters, please
key-board them using normal text whenever possible. If you require
characters or complex expressions that cannot be rendered using the
normal type set, then you may input them using an equation generator,
such as Equation Editor or Mathtype. Do not render mathematical
equations as graphics. If you do, they will not typeset properly and we
will not be able to edit them if there are any errors that need
correcting.
Once again, if you have any questions regarding preparation of your
files, please contact Debra Soled, the Production Manager for
Journals and Electronic Publishing, at
journals@mesharpe.com.
