GUEST EDITOR'S GUIDELINES

All correspondence, paper submissions, and paper reviews should be conducted electronically. Please note that each research section—main and graduate—consists of two (refereed and non-refereed or invited) parts.

1. A “Call for Contributions” will be developed by the Guest Editor and widely distributed via the Internet and professional organizations newsletters such as NCA, ICA, BEA, IAMCR, AEJMC, etc. (please see the Announcements section of GMJ),
    
2. All papers MUST follow the APA style manual and must include: (a) Author’s address and contact information, (b) a brief abstract—less than 200 words, (c) five to ten keywords which reflect the contents of the paper, and (d) a brief biography of the author—less than 50 words.
    
3. All authors must follow the GMJ “Submission Guidelines.” See the main page of GMJ for details.
    
4. Papers that do not adhere to the GMJ guidelines and standards will not be considered for review and inclusion in the journal. The Guest Editors may, however, choose to request compliance from the contributors.
    
5. Papers relevant to the theme of GMJ will go through a “blind review” process. Each paper should be emailed to 3 reviewers selected from the GMJ Advisory Board members. Guest Editors may also invite/recruit their qualified colleagues directly,
    
6. The cover page of each article and the author's name must be excluded before emailing it the interested reviewers,
    
7. For the sake of consistency and fairness, the GMJ “Paper Review Form” will be emailed, by the Guest Editor, to each reviewer for completion.  Each guest editor should include his/her name, email, and fax number at the top of the review form.
    
8. The Guest Editor collects reviewer’s feedback and determines whether or not a given article should be included in “refereed” section of GMJ. If not, the Guest Editor may choose to include meritorious papers--that have not been approved by reviewers--in the “Invited Papers” section of GMJ. However, such a decision should be communicated to the author/s.
    
9. The Guest Editors are encouraged to invite scholars and experts to contribute articles related to the theme of a given issue. These articles will not go through the “blind review” process.
    
10. The Guest Editor develops a “Table of Contents” for his/her section (Main Research and Graduate Research sections).
     
11. The Guest Editor will write his/her “Guest Editor’s Notes” in which he/she will summarize the contents of the issue and make reference to each of the papers as they are listed in the “Table of Contents.”
     
12. The Guest Editor emails (a) a table of contents, (b) Guest Editor’s Notes, and (c) the refereed and non-refereed papers for each section to the Managing Editor of GMJ, Yahya Kamalipour at yrkamali@purdue.edu.

TimeLine

For Spring Issues:

1. The Call For Papers should be ready by mid-May and posted/distributed globally;

2. The deadline for submitting papers should be mid-September;

3. The review process should be completed by mid-December;

4. The completed/revised papers for the main sections, including non-refereed papers and the "Editors' Notes", should be emailed to the GMJ Managing Editor by mid-February;

5. The papers will be formatted and the new spring issue uploaded on the web by mid-March.

For Fall Issues:

1. The Call For Papers should be ready by mid-September and posted/distributed globally;

2. The deadline for submitting papers should be mid-February;

3. The review process should be completed by mid-May;

4. The completed/revised papers for the main sections, including non-refereed papers and the "Editors' Notes", should be emailed to the GMJ Managing Editor by mid-June;

5. The papers will be formatted and the new spring issue uploaded on the web by mid-August.

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