PUBLISHING GUIDELINES

Copyright Policy : Author (s) should affirm that the material has not published previously. It has not been submitted to another journal, and it is not under consideration by any other journal. Global Learners Academy of Development will be the holder of copyright of published articles and we prefer authors to assign copyright to Global Learners Academy of Development.

Publication Decisions  : The editor is responsible for deciding which of the papers submitted to the journal should be published. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision. An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate. Plagiarism is considered to be bad practice and unethical. All types of plagiarism like Verbatim Copying, Paraphrasing and Self Plagiarism should be avoided. The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Publication Ethics : The journal’s aim is to augment the knowledge base in collaboration with scholars, academicians, professionals and practitioners by allowing free access to valuable information around the world. The publication in a refereed academic journal follows standard publication ethics to ensure the validity and integrity of scientific findings. It is therefore of great importance that all parties (the editor, the author, the peer-reviewers and the publishers) involved in publication process conduct themselves in accordance with the highest possible level of publication ethical standards from submission to publication of an article.

Editors Duties

Publication Decision – The editor is responsible and has complete authority on deciding which of the papers submitted to the journal should be accepted for publication. Editor may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. Editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision. Neither the Chief Editor nor the board members have the authority to influence the reviewers who are conducting the review of the articles submitted for peer review.

Fair Play – The editor evaluate manuscripts submitted to 270 DEGREE based on their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors

Confidentiality – The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to 270 DEGREE to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

The editor/editorial staff should preserve anonymity of reviewers and must not disclose the details of the reviewers to a third party without the consent of the reviewers.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest – Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used by editor/editorial staff that has a view of the manuscript in handling process in his or her own research without the written consent from the author(s).

Response to error(s) in research work – The editor should respond immediately in case author(s) contact editorial office related to error(s) of significant nature in his/her own published work and thus appropriate measures should be taken that also include written formal retraction or correction of published manuscript.

 

Author’s Duties

Submission declaration, originality, and authorship – In a cover letter addressing the journal editor, author(s) should declare that work submitted to the journal is original, not under consideration for publication by another journal, and that all listed authors approve its submission to 270 DEGREE. All authors should be aware of the importance of submitting work that is based on their own research and expressed in their own words. It is 270 DEGREE policy to welcome submissions for consideration, which are original, and not under consideration for publication by another journal at the same time.

Unless a legitimate explanation is received for the large amount of text overlapping between the author(s) submitted paper and other work(s), the submitted paper will not be considered for publication.

Previously published work of others must be acknowledged. Authors should cite previous published works that have been significant in determining the nature of the submitted work.

An attempt to manipulate and increases the number of citations of a particular authors’ work. That also include particular journal represents an unethical act and thus unwelcome.

A manuscript that has been previously published or concurrently under review by another journal will not be considered for publication in 270 DEGREE. If a manuscript is qualified for publication after a peer review, it will not be published elsewhere with the same contents.

Only those who have involved and contributed significantly in form of formation, design, execution, or interpretation in a research paper should be listed as authors. The corresponding author should guarantee that no uninvolved person should appear as an author of the manuscript. Where others, who have involved in certain significant parts of the research paper they should be acknowledged or listed as authors/co-authors.

Contents accuracy and data retention

The submission of manuscript further implies that all authors must attest to the fact that authors listed on the title page have read the manuscript, attest to the validity and legitimacy of the data and its interpretation, and agree to its submission to 270 DEGREE for publication.

The underlying data used in the research article should be reported accurately with sufficient details and sources to allow others who wish to replicate work of similar kind. Further, falsified or intentionally imprecise statements represent unethical act and thus unwelcome.

The editor/ editorial staff/ reviewer reserve the right to ask author(s) to provide the data, which has been used in a submitted manuscript. If feasible, the author should maintain such data given its post publication usage likelihood.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors of the submitted work should include a statement in a cover letter disclosing any kind of conflict(s) of interest. In addition, listed author(s) should clearly indicate all sources that have supported the submitted work.

Error(s) in research work

In case, author(s) finds out error(s) of significant nature in his/her own published work, it is author(s) responsibility to inform editor/editorial staff/publisher immediately and cooperate earnestly with editor/editorial staff /publisher to retract or correct the paper in form of an erratum.

 

Guidelines to Authors

Manuscripts must be sent as an email attachment to gladnetacademy@gmail.com, or glad@gladnetwork.in, editor@gladnetwork.in. The acknowledgement of manuscript submission will be sent to author(s) within 48 hours. All manuscripts submitted for publication will follow these guidelines.

* All the manuscripts must be in MS Word (Doc/Docx) format.

* The first page should contain title of the study, name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, telephone number and email address. Mailing address of the primary and secondary author should be mentioned.

* Do not write authors name elsewhere in the manuscript as the paper will be sent for blind review.

* The title of the paper should be precise, concise and in bold.

* The second page should contain title and abstract of maximum 250 words followed by five (5) keywords. The abstract should concisely convey the significance of the study.

* Rest of the paper should contain introduction to the topic, review of literature, methodology, results and discussion, conclusion, recommendations, acknowledgement (if any) and references.

* The article/research paper should be written in English in simple, concise, and correct language.

* The manuscript must be in Times New Roman with no hyperlinks. Article should not exceed 25 pages. Format consistency is expected in writing the research articles from the author(s).

* The tables should be in MS word and preferably placed where interpretation of table is carried out. The table should not be enclosed on separate sheet.

* The Figure(s) should be clear enough to read and interpret.

* All mathematical equations should be typed as text. For this purpose equations editor is preferred. Equation in the form of image is not acceptable.

* References at the end should appear alphabetically. Please follow latest edition of APA referencing style for every type of reference.

 

 

EDITORIAL BOARD

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Dr M.Vijayakumar, Faculty, School of Management, SRM University, Vadapalani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu , India.

EDITORS

Dr. Aiste Vitkune, Associate Professor, Vilnius University, Kaunas, Faculty, Lithuania.

Dr.P.A.Mary Auxilia,  Faculty, Loyola Institute of Business Administration, India.

International Advisors on Board

Dr. N.Panchanatham.N, Professor in Lien,Annamalai University, Tamilnadu, India. 

Prof.Datuk Dr.John Antony Xavier, Vice Chancellor, Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology University, University of Malaysia.

Dev Anandh.N, Director-Operations, Haworth India Ltd, Tamilnadu, India.

Dr. Jayaranjani Sutha, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Eastern University, Sri Lanka. 

Dr. Asha Deepak Bhatia, Director Research, Universal Business School, Mumbai, India. 

Dr. R Leema Rose, Coordinator & Faculty, Department of Commerce (Honours), Loyola College, Chennai, India.