Manuscript Guidelines

General Guidelines for the Submission of Abstracts:
  • Deadline for the submission of full-length paper is 30th September 2011.
  • Submission of manuscript (i.e. full-length paper) by the corresponding author(s) should only be done through ICEE-2012 website (). Papers sent through e-mail or via any other mode will not be accepted.
  • Every contributor will receive an acknowledgement of their submission.
  • The word length of the manuscript/paper should be in the range of 3000 to 7000 words (inclusive of tables and graphs).
  • Authors of the paper will be notified the acceptance/revision of the papers on 1st November 2011 in the light of reviewers' comments.
  • The authors should submit the revised papers on or before 15th November 2011.
  • All the received full-length papers will be reviewed by minimum of three reviewers and the process will be of double blind fold type.
  • Referees' decision will be final regarding acceptance / rejection of the paper
  • High quality papers (10-15) in the light of reviewers' comments will become the part of proposed International Research Journal (having ISSN) which is to be launched by SIIB from January 2012; while the remaining papers will become the part of ICEE-2012 Proceedings having ISBN.
  • Please follow the below mentioned guidelines strictly to complete your final paper/manuscript

Instructions

Font Arial
Font size 10 point
Paper A4 size (Width 8.27” Height 11.69”)
Margins Left: 1.5”       Right: 1”         Top: 1”          Bottom: 1”
Paragraphs No paragraph should be indented. Leave one line space between each paragraph.
Line spacing 1.5 space in the entire body of the paper
Page numbers Except first page, all the other pages should be numbered serially.
Title of paper
The title of the paper should be in ‘Sentence case’, font size 14 point, bold and centered at the top of the first page.
Authors and affiliations
Authors and affiliations should be followed after the title of paper. The author(s) name should be of font size 11 point and bold. Corresponding author should be marked with asterisk (*).Affiliation(s) of the author(s) along with their full address(es) of organization(s) followed with phone, fax and email should be of font size 10 point, centeredand single lined-spaced.

If there are two or more authors for the same paper but are from different organizations then in this case the authors name and address should be superscripted by numerically 1, 2, etc.
Abstract and keywords
Begin the paper with an abstract of approximately 300 words. The text of the abstract should be in italic font. The abstract should be followed by 3-5 keywords arranged in alphabetical order. Each keyword should be separated by a semi-colon.
Headings
First-level headings should be left aligned, bold-faced and in “Capital Letters”. The font size should be 11 point.

Second-level headings should be left aligned, bold-faced and in “Sentence case”. The fond size should be 11 point.

Third-level headings should be left aligned, bold-faced and in“Italics”. The font size should be 11 pt. font
Body
The body of the paper should follow the abstract. The body of the text should be divided into headings like Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement (if any) and References or any other suitable headings as per the content blend.

The body should be 1.5 lines spacedandjustified. Ensure to use a first level heading of some type after the abstract and before the first paragraph of the body of the paper to clearly separate the two.
Equations
All equations should appear on the separate lines, left aligned and numbered consecutively. Numbers of the equations should be mentioned in the parentheses and be right aligned.
Appendices, if any
Appendices should immediately follow the body of the paper and precede the references.
References
References in the text matter should be quoted as per the following:
In one author: (Granato 1995)
If two authors: (Brown and Warner 1985)
If three or more authors: (Moeller et al 2005)
If two or more references are to be quoted for a certain concept or text line:
(Brown and Warner 1985; Granato 1995; Moeller et al 2005)

Details of the references quoted in the text should appear at the end of the paperin alphabetical order and be written according to the following model.References should be single lined spaced with font size 9 point.

Brown SJ and Warner JB (1985) Using daily stock returns: the case of event studies. Journal of Financial Economics 14(1):3-31.

Granato M (1995) Evaluation of potential use of water hyacinths in treatment of cyanide-containing effluents. In: Biohydrometallurgical Processing (Edited by Jerez CA, Vargas T, Toledo H and Wiertz JV) Volume II, pp. 211-217, University of Chile, Chile.

Moeller SB, Schlingemann FP and Stulz RM (2005) Wealth destruction on a massive scale? A study of acquiring-firm returns in the recent merger wave. Journal of Finance 60(2): 757-782.

Weston J, Juan S and Brian J (2001) Takeovers, Restructuring and Corporate Governance, 3rdEdn,Pearson Publications, New Delhi.
Foot notes
Footnotes should not be used anywhere in the text. You may use endnotes instead and place them after references.
Exhibits and Figures
Exhibits and tables must be typed using MS Word table format. Insert the tables and figures as close as possible to the citations within the context. Headings should be aligned left, bold-faced and in sentence case above the exhibit. Size of the headings for each exhibit should be 11 point font.
Additional information
It is responsibility of the author(s) to check grammar, spellings, punctuation marks, etc. thoroughly before submission of the paper.