Guide for authors

THE NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF APPLIED BUSINESS RESEARCH

Presentation and Formatting

 

Format of submissions

Submissions should be typewritten in British English, double-line spaced, and submitted in MS Word format. Submissions should be between 6000 and 8000 words in length, inclusive of words in tables but excluding references. The word count should be included in the article file after the keywords section.

All text should be at font size 12, including all labels, footnotes and references.

  • Prepare your manuscript using only Times New Roman in Microsoft For body text, use font size 12 only (tables and references may be single-spaced).
  • Double-space manuscripts throughout, with wide margins of at least 2.5cm, on pages of A4 size. Number all pages consecutively on the bottom middle of the page.

Format of headings

Show headings in text as follows:

HEADING 1 (all upper case, bold, font size 12)

Heading 2 (initial upper case, italics, font size 12)

Heading 3 (initial upper case, font size 12)

Double anonymised peer review

This journal follows a double anonymised review process which means author identities are concealed from reviewers and vice versa. To facilitate the double anonymised review process, we ask that you provide your title page (including author details) and anonymised manuscript (excluding author details) separately in your submission. You will be required to submit a minimum of two documents, containing the following elements.

Files to include

File one: The Title Page should include:

  • Article title
  • The full list of authors including names and affiliations of each
    • The listed affiliation should be the institution where the research was conducted. If an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research, the new affiliation can be included in a note at the end of the manuscript – please indicate this on the title page.
    • All persons eligible for authorship must be included at the time of submission.
    • ORCID numbers (if applicable) to each author. ORCID IDs cannot be added to manuscripts after acceptance/publication.
  • Contact information for the corresponding author: name, institutional address, phone, email
  • Acknowledgments section
  • Declaration of conflicting interest
  • Funding statement
  • Ethical approval and informed consent statements
  • Confirmation that the content of the manuscript has neither been published previously nor is under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  • Data availability statement
  • Any other identifying information related to the authors and/or their institutions, funders, approval committees, etc, that might compromise anonymity.

File two: The Manuscript (without authors details)

Do not identify author(s) on this document.

The first page should be a title page that includes:

  • the title of the paper;
  • the abstract (not more than 250 words) - the abstract states the major points made and the principal conclusions reached; and
  • up to seven keywords;
  • the manuscript in full, including all other pages, contains the main sections of the paper, g., Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Findings/results (if applicable), Discussion, Conclusion including theoretical contribution, managerial implication and recommendations to policy and decision-makers, Limitation, Recommendations, and References.

Consideration when preparing the manuscript

  • Prepare the paper in a report format (not essay format), divided into sections such as Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, etc.
  • Write the article in simple, concise and correct Where Māori words are included, these must be spelled correctly with macrons where applicable.
  • Consider creating a title and an abstract that are direct and 'reader-friendly'.
  • Tables and figures should be numbered with Arabic format and placed in the text where they are interpreted;
  • Figures/tables can be uploaded as a separate document or can be added to the main article file after the text and references, indicating in the text when it is relevant “Insert Figure/Table (1) here. Please make sure that this file does not contain any information identifying the author(s);
  • Tables and figures should be clear enough to read and interpret, and should have meaningful headings/titles – titles are below the figures, and for tables, titles are above them. Tables and figures sources should be indicated below them (when applicable).
  • All mathematical equations should be typed as The equation in the form of the image is not acceptable.
  • A list of non-standard abbreviations must be provided (if applicable).
  • Do not use abbreviations in the abstract or headers. Do not abbreviate a term unless it is repeatedly used and the abbreviation is helpful to If you use an abbreviation in the text, spell out the term in full when it is mentioned first, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses; use the abbreviation thereafter.
  • APA 7th referencing system should be followed for in-text citations and the reference list at the end of the paper.
  • A paper accepted subject to revision, with reviewers’/editorial comments, will be sent to the corresponding author, and it is the authors’ responsibility to revise their paper in response to this feedback, making sure to address all the points made by the reviewers. The authors will fully proofread their final paper and ensure it follows the NZJABR authors’ guidelines.
  • Use the inclusive singular “they” (rather than “he/she” or any other variation) for a hypothetical person/consumer. Helpful resources on inclusive language are available from the American Psychological Association and the Conscious Style Guide, among many others.
  • If any content is AI-generated, it must be clearly identified in the main document (e.g., in the “Methods” section) and noted in the “Acknowledgments” section of the title page.
  • Reporting results: adhering to and following the recommendations in the literature to the best practices of reporting results (see McShane et al. 2024), NZJABR is encouraging researchers to move beyond the statistically significant/nonsignificant dichotomy. Therefore, empirical papers are required to report exact p-values throughout the manuscript (rather than thresholds such as p< .05). Further, you should no longer add asterisks to tables (e.g., * p < .05, ** p < .01). Third, you should include standard errors of the parameter estimates in the tables. Finally, you need to report the effect size of the relevant findings. For more information, see Journal of Marketing’s Policy for Reporting Results.

Referencing guidelines

References begin on their own page and are listed in alphabetical order by the first author’s last name. Only references cited within the text are included. NZJBAR follows American Psychological Association (7th ed.). For more information on references and reference examples, see the Concise Guide to APA Style (7th ed.). Also, see the Reference Examples pages on the APA Style website.

In-text citation guideline

Author (page number in case of direct quote or book/chapter)

Smith (2020) found that "the mice disappeared within minutes" (p. 29).

The author stated "the mice disappeared within minutes" (Smith, 2020, p. 29).

Authors

Jones and Smith (2020) found that "the mice disappeared within minutes" (p. 29).

The authors stated "the mice disappeared within minutes" (Jones & Smith, 2020, p. 29).

For 3 or more authors, use the first author and "et al." for all in-text citations

Green et al.'s (2019) findings indicated that the intervention was not based on evidence from clinical trials.

It appears the intervention was not based on evidence from clinical trials (Green et al., 2019).

If you cite more than one work in the same set of brackets in text, your citations will go in the same order in which they will appear in your reference list (i.e. alphabetical order, then oldest to newest for works by the same author) and be separated by a semi-colon. E.g.:

  • (Corbin, 2015; James & Waterson, 2017; Smith et al., 2016).
  • (Corbin, 2015; 2018)
  • (Queensland Health, 2017a; 2017b)
  • Use only the surnames of your authors in text (e.g., Smith & Brown, 2014) - however, if you have two authors with the same surname who have published in the same year, then you will need to use their initials to distinguish between the two of them (e.g., K. Smith, 2014; N. Smith, 2014). Otherwise, do not use initials in text.

Quotation

Short (fewer than 40 words): Use double quotation marks and include page numbers for short quotations of fewer than 40 words, e.g., “Since we received accreditation, we’ve been approached by some very prestigious business schools from the northern hemisphere and other organisations and they recognise the fact that [we’ve] joined the EQUIS group” (O’Keefe, 2005, p. 44).

Long (40 or more words): A quotation of 40 or more words should be formatted as a freestanding, indented block of text without quotation marks and with the final full stop before the page number within the bracket.

Weston (1948) argues that:

One of the most important phases of our special guests was to get information that would throw light on the degeneration of the facial pattern that occurs so often in our modern civilization. This has its expression in the narrowing and lengthening of the face and the development of crooked teeth. (p. 174)

Quotation without page numbers: Quotations from a webpage without page numbers should have the paragraph number (para.) instead.

“Prevalence rates of antenatal major and minor depression have been estimated in community- based studies to range from 7% to 15% of all pregnancies” (Grote et al., 2009, para. 2).

Reference list

References begin on their own page and are listed in alphabetical order by the first author’s last name. Also, see the Reference Examples pages on the APA Style website. Please include references’ DOIs when applicable.

  • Journal Article

Edwards, A. A., Steacy, L. M., Siegelman, N., Rigobon, V. M., Kearns, D. M., Rueckl, J. G., & Compton, D. L. (2022). Unpacking the unique relationship between set for variability and word reading development: Examining word- and child-level predictors of performance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 114(6), 1242–1256. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000696

  • Online Magazine Article

Thomson, J. (2022, September 8). Massive, strange white structures appear on Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-mounds-great-salt-lake-utah-explained-mirabilite-1741151

  • Print Magazine Article

Nicholl, K. (2020, May). A royal spark. Vanity Fair, 62(5), 56–65, 100.

  • Online Newspaper Article

Bernstein, J. (2024, June 3). The man who couldn’t stop going to college. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/magazine/benjamin-bolger-college-harvard-yale.html

  • Print Newspaper Article

Reynolds, G. (2019, April 9). Different strokes for athletic hearts. The New York Times, D4.

  • Blog Post

Rutledge, P. (2024, April 23). Are tweens too young for digital literacy? Dr. Pam: Living With Media. https://www.pamelarutledge.com/are-tweens-too-young-for-digital-literacy/

  • Authored Book

Kaufman, K. A., Glass, C. R., & Pineau, T. R. (2018). Mindful sport performance enhancement: Mental training for athletes and coaches. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000048-000

  • Edited Book Chapter

Zeleke, W. A., Hughes, T. L., & Drozda, N. (2020). Home–school collaboration to promote mind–body health. In C. Maykel & M. A. Bray (Eds.), Promoting mind–body health in schools: Interventions for mental health professionals (pp. 11–26). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000157-002

  • Online Dictionary Entry

American Psychological Association. (2018). Internet addiction. In APA dictionary of psychology. https://dictionary.apa.org/internet-addiction

  • Report by a Group Author

World Health Organization. (2014). Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/113048/WHO_NMH_NHD_14.1_eng.pdf?ua=1

  • Report by Individual Authors

Winthrop, R., Ziegler, L., Handa, R., & Fakoya, F. (2019). How playful learning can help leapfrog progress in education. Center for Universal Education at Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/how_playful_learning_can_help_leapfrog_progress_in_education.pdf

  • Press Release

American Psychological Association. (2024, April 11). People who use willpower alone to achieve goals, resist temptation, deemed more trustworthy [Press release]. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2024/04/people-who-use-willpower

  • Conference Session

Davidson, R. J. (2019, August 8–11). Well-being is a skill [Conference session]. APA 2019 Convention, Chicago, IL, United States. https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/a5ea5d51/files/uploaded/APA2019_Program_190708.pdf

  • Dissertation From a Database

Horvath-Plyman, M. (2018). Social media and the college student journey: An examination of how social media use impacts social capital and affects college choice, access, and transition (Publication No.10937367) [Doctoral dissertation, New York University]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

  • Preprint Article

Latimier, A., Peyre, H., & Ramus, F. (2020). A meta-analytic review of the benefit of spacing out retrieval practice episodes on retention. PsyArXiv. https://psyarxiv.com/kzy7u/

  • Data Set

O’Donohue, W. (2017). Content analysis of undergraduate psychology textbooks (ICPSR 21600; Version V1) [Data set]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36966.v1

  • Webinar

Lee, C., McAdoo, T., & Denneny, S. (2023). APA Style seventh edition refresher for instructors [Webinar]. American Psychological Association. https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/tutorials-webinars

  • Infographic

American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Data sharing [Infographic]. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/data-sharing-infographic.pdf

Footnotes

Keep footnotes to a minimum and number them consecutively throughout the text with superscript Arabic numerals. They should not include displayed formulae or tables. Place footnotes at the bottom of the page to which they refer.

Appendices

Place appendices at the end of the manuscript after tables. Refer to them in the text and number them using Roman numerals. If written by a person other than the authors of the main text, enter the author’s name below the title.

Accuracy of reproduction

All reasonable efforts are made to ensure accurate reproduction of text, photographs and illustrations. The journal does not accept responsibility for mistakes or academic/research misconduct, be they editorial or typographical, nor for consequences resulting from them. The journal reserves the right to edit, abridge or omit material submitted for publication.