Information for Authors

1. Submission of Manuscripts
The International Journal of Innovative Management, Information & Production(abbreviated as IJIMIP) is welcoming contributions related with the journal's scope. In general, decisions will be made after peer-review, within 3-4 months of receipt. Accepted articles will generally be published within 12 months thereafter.
Manuscripts (in a single PDF or WORD) should be submitted to the IJIMIP Editorial Office by email:ijimip@ismeip.org, or to the Editor-in-Chief.

2. Form of Manuscripts
Manuscripts including figures, tables and others should be typewritten in English on one side only with wide margins on high quality paper using single spacing throughout. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered.

3. Organization of the paper
HEADING: The title of the paper should be concise and informative. Successive lines should give the author’s name, academic or professional affiliation, and address. ABSTRACT: The abstract should not exceed 200 words and should be intelligible to general readers without recourse to the main text.
MAIN PART: Papers should, in general, begin with an introduction which adequately covers the literature and scope of the paper. Each section in the paper should be numbered. Each article should have, in general, a conclusion or discussion section.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This section includes acknowledgements of help from associates permission to publish, and financial support.
REFERENCE: References should be listed at the end of the main text. Each citation in the References should be written in the order of appearance in the text. The normal form of listed references is author's initials, surname; year; article title; journal name; volume number; issue number; page numbers.
APPENDIX: Any appendices should follow the Reference section.

4. Illustrations
Proper figure preparation is essential for optimum reproduction of line drawing and photograph. Figures and Tables should be placed as part of the text and should be numbered.

5. Citations
All in-text citations (references) should be listed by enclosing the publication year, etc., in brackets after the author’s name. For example: Watada(2009), Bloom and Zeng (2010), Wu et al. (2010), etc.

6. Copyright
Manuscript submitted to this journal signifies that it has not been published previously, has not been copyrighted, is not been submitted elsewhere and the author(s) agrees that the copyright for article will be transferred to the publisher upon acceptance of the article.