Paper Title: Times New Roman, 14, Bold. Use Title Case (Each Word Starts with a Capital Letter Excepting Prepositions)

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Abstract. These instructions give you guidelines for preparing papers for the International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories (IJEPT). Use this document as a template if you are using Microsoft Word. Otherwise, use this document as an instruction set. Do not cite references in the abstract. Leave two blank lines (Times New Roman 12) after the authors list. The abstract is written with Times New Roman 10 font and contains a summary of the paper using between 150 and 300 words. 

Key words: Between 3-5 key words or phrases in alphabetical order, separated by commas.  Leave one blank line before key words.
JEL classification: Key words should be followed by JEL classification (no more than 3 categories) available at http://www.aeaweb.org/jel/jel_class_system.php

1 Introduction

Leave 2 blank lines (Times New Roman, 12) before Introduction. 
An article should normally have between 6 and 12 pages (at least half of the last page should be covered by text) but longer manuscripts are welcome in the case of high interest subjects. Authors can submit their manuscripts using any version of English, but should use UK spelling and punctuation. 

The authors are fully responsible for the entire content of the submitted papers.

For the paper main content use Times New Roman, 12, regular font style. Type area on a page is standard A4 (8.27'' x 11.69''). Margins for this type area: top 1'', bottom 1"; left 0.65", right 0.65".
All text should be fully justified and single spaced.
Levels of subheads should be easily distinguishable from each other with the use of numbers. There should be one line spaces before each subhead and one line space after each subhead.
First line of all paragraphs should not be indented and there should not be line gaps between consecutive paragraphs.

In the paper content use italics for emphasis and do not use underline.

Are accepted no more than three levels of headings (1 / 1.1 / 1.1.1). All three levels of headings are typed in all bold on a separate line. All headings should be in lower case excepting the first letter of the first word (except where demanded by grammar).
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1.1 Titles format

Paper Title: centered, Times New Roman, 14, Bold. Use Title Case (Each Word Starts with a Capital Letter Excepting Prepositions)
Author(s): centered, Capitalize Each Word case, 12 point type (Times Roman)
Affiliation(s): centered, Capitalize Each Word case, 12 point type (Times Roman)
Head: Bold sentence case. 12 point type (Times Roman)
Sub Head (if applicable Bold sentence case, 12 point type (Times Roman)
	
Leave 1 line space between title and author names/affiliation.
Leave 2 line (12 point type, Times Roman) spaces between author/affiliation and start of abstract head
Leave 1 line (12 point type, Times Roman) space between Abstract and Key words.
Leave 2 line (12 point type, Times Roman) spaces between JEL classifications and Introduction.
Leave 1 line (12 point type, Times Roman) space before and after each section of the paper.

Paper Title, Author Names/Affiliations, Abstract and Key words should be in single column format followed by the rest of the paper in Double column format.

1.1.1 Main content

Text type should be 12 point Times Roman. All text should be fully justified and single spaced. Text should be single spaced. 
First line of all paragraphs should not be indented and there should not be one line gap between consecutive paragraphs.

2 Figures (images) and tables

Figures and tables may appear printed directly in the text. Figures and tables should appear near the citation in the text. Figures and tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.

Large figures and tables may span both columns.

Captions for figures:
Text type should be 10 point Times New Roman italic (eg; Figure 1. Caption). A caption should be provided for each figure. The caption should be typed into the manuscript, directly beneath the figure.
Captions are to be listed in numerical order, labeled as “Figure 1”, “Figure 2”, etc.
Between figures caption and following paragraphs you must leave one line space (12 point type, Times New Roman).

Captions for tables:
Text type should be 10 point Times New Roman italic (eg; Table 1. Caption). A caption should be provided for each table. The caption should be typed into the manuscript, directly above the table.
Captions are to be listed in numerical order, labeled as “Table 1”, “Table 2”, etc.
Between paragraphs and tables caption you must leave one line space (12 point type, Times Roman).

Please verify that the figures and tables you mention in the text actually exist. Please do not include captions as part of the figures. Do not put captions in “text boxes” linked to the figures. Do not put borders around the outside of your figures.

Figures and tables should be followed by an indication of their Source written 10 point Times New Roman italic,  (Source: Reference style) excepting authors own research results.

Figures and tables should be referred in the main text using “figure 1,” or “table 1”.

3 Equations

If at all necessary in the text, equations should be numbered consecutively with bracketed Arabic numerals in the right hand margin. Careful attention must be paid to sub- and superscript symbols, and upper and lower case letters.
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined before the equation appears or immediately following. Italicize symbols used in paragraphs. Refer to “(1),” not “Eq. (1)” or “equation (1),” except at the beginning of a sentence: “Equation (1) is ... .”

Measurements
Measurements must all be given in the S I metric system. In exceptional cases, other measurements may be allowed in brackets.

4 Reviewing process

All papers will be subjected to peer review and are expected to meet standards of academic excellence. A blind review process will be used, employing 2 scientific reviewers. Author(s) will be notified about the outcome via email, using the declared address. 
An author may not publish more than two papers per year in The International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories (IJEPT). The bibliography and references must comply with the stated requirements. These are the eligibility criteria for the assessment process.

5 Conclusions

Each paper must be ac-companied by a signed and dated statement of the author(s), stating that the paper is an original work and neither the paper nor significant parts of it have been published or are under re-viewing process for publication in another journal. The statement must be sent in original form or scanned in color and attached to the email. The statement also grants all copyrights for the paper to The International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories (IJEPT).  

Acknowledgment (if it is the case)

Use the singular heading even if you have many acknowledgments. 
The acknowledgments header is not numbered.
The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

References

References text type should be 10 point (Times New Roman) at the end of the paper.
References are listed in alphabetical order (cited by author name and year).
In the reference section, leave 6 pt. spacing after each paragraph.

The International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories (IJEPT) uses the 'Harvard' system in which authors' names (no initials) and dates (and specific pages, only in the case of quotations) are given in the main body of the text, e.g. (Porter, 1990). For references with 2 authors the style is (Brenner and Gildner, 2006). For references with 3 or more authors the style is  (Ketels et al, 2006)

Explanatory endnotes, as opposed to purely bibliographic ones, are accepted but should be kept to a minimum. The endnotes are placed at the end of the papers right before references.

Journal names and book titles should be italicized.

References should be set out as follows:

Papers: 
Bendapudi, N. and Berry, L.L. (1997), Customer’s motivation for maintaining relationships with service providers, Journal of Retailing, 73(1): 15-38.

Books: 
Buttle, F. (2004), Customer Relationship Management. Concepts and Tools, London, Butterworth Heinemann.

Book chapters:
Mettam, G. R., & Adams, L. B. (1994). How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In B. S. Jones, & R. Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the electronic age (pp. 281–304). New York: E-Publishing Inc.

Online documents:
Research and marketing. (2009), The global economic crisis: the impact on consumer attitudes & behaviour in the United States,
www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?cat_id=0&report id= 1057010&q=The Global Economic Crisis: The Impact On Consumer Attitudes & Behaviours in the United States&p=l, Accessed 16 May 2011.

Other publications: When there is doubt (e.g. theses, occasional papers etc.) include all bibliographic details.

Titles of periodicals should always be spelled out in full. The name of the publisher and the place of publication should always be given when books are referred to.

Permissions

If previously published material of substantial extent is included in a manuscript, the author is obliged to obtain written permission from the copyright holder.

Author description

At the end of the paper each author should include a short description that could contain (but not limited to) affiliation, education, research field(s). The authors’ description is mandatory for the papers selected for publishing.