Author Guideline

JOURNAL SUBMISSION CHECKLIST

Ensure that you use this guide for final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for the review process. This check list provides more details related your paper submission. A sample paper is also provided for reference: SAMPLE PAPER 

  1. Important considerations before submission:
  • It is vital that one author has been assigned as the corresponding author and correct contact details (email address and full postal address) need to be provided. 
  • Manuscript need to be professionally proof-read. More specifically, manuscript need to 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'. 
  • All references cited in the text are mentioned in the Reference List, and vice versa. 
  1. Copyright

 Authors will be asked to complete a “Copyright Transfer Form” upon acceptance of an article. The corresponding author will receive an email from the journal publisher confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a “copyright Transfer Form”. It is corresponding authors responsibility to correctly complete the form and get signatures from all the authors listed on the manuscript. 

  1. Submission 

Our online submission system is easy to use as it efficiently guides you stepwise through the process of entering your article details and as well as uploading relevant files. Once files are submitted, the online system converts your article into a single “PDF” and “HTML” versions which are used for peer-review process. Ensure that you submit a “Word” version of the manuscript. 

Confirm that the manuscript has been created by the author(s) and not an AI tool/Large Language Model (LLM). if an AI tool / LLM has been used to develop or generate any portion of the manuscript then this must be clearly flagged in the Methods and Acknowledgements.

  1. Double-blind Review

All papers will undergo a double-blind review process. In order words, author details are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. Thus, we request corresponding author to include the following separately while submitting your paper: 

  • Title page: this should include the paper title, authors full name(s), affiliations, and complete address for the corresponding author (including an email address). 
  • Blinded Manuscript: this includes main body of the paper (including the references, figures, tables and any acknowledgments). Be mindful of not including author details, such as author names or affiliations. 

JKEKI has a network of well-established and experienced researchers who act as reviewers. 

  1. Editing and General points
  • Use “Times New Roman” font type throughout the paper. 
  • Use font size 12 for main body and font size 10 for footnotes, tables/figure notes, and for results reported in the table. 
  • Use double-line spacing for main body and reference list. Use single line spacing for footnotes and table/figure notes. 
  1. Paper Structure 
  2. Section subdivision 

The paper requires clear division and numbered sections. 

  • Sections need to be numbered as follows: I, II, III, …  
  • Sub-sections need to be numbered as follows: A (then A.I. A.II, A.III, …) B, C, etc.  
  • Abstract is not included in section numbering. 
  • Provide appropriate heading for all sections and sub-sections (each heading should appear on separate line). 
  1. Introduction 
  2. Literature Review (not necessary that all papers will have a separate section on this but if you do then …)
  3. Data and Econometric Model
  4. Results
  5. Conclusion
  6. Reference Style

            1) References to publication in the body of the article should be as follows: “Sharma (2019)  examines the …” and “Our empirical approach is consistent with past studies (e.g., Sharma et al., 2000).

            2) The list of references should appear at the end of the main text (after conclusion section, but before tables and figures). 

             3) References need to be double-spaced and listed in alphabetical order by authors surname (last) name.

             4) Reference should appear as follows: “Sharma, S. S., (2016). Can consumer price index predict gold price returns? Economic modelling, 55, 269-278.”