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Author Guidelines

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Language: English
Text: one and a half spaced, uses a 12-point font, Times New Roman
Length of paper: 4000-6000 words in length
Page setup: Page size- A4; Margins- top-2.54 cm, bottom-2.54 cm, left-2.54 cm, and right-2.54 cm; manuscript should be paginated.

TITLE PAGE
The title should be concise and well informative and should not be exceeded 20 words. It should be in: Times New Roman; Size-16; Line Spacing- Double; upper case; boldface and Centred.

Underneath the title, please provide the name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s) and e-mail address (es). All this information should be in Times New Roman; Size-14; Line Spacing- single; upper case; boldface and Centered. Unless there is only a single author, an asterisk mark should be placed to indicate the corresponding author.

ABSTRACT
An abstract is a succinct summary of the manuscript (between 200-300 words). It should not be included in the main document of the manuscript and it must be able to stand alone. It should include the objectives of the research, methods employed, major findings, and conclusions in brief.

KEYWORDS
Underneath the abstract, you should provide 3-5 keywords. Keywords should be separated by semicolon (;). For example,
Keywords: work-family balance; work-family conflict; work-family facilitation; social support

MAIN TEXT
Main text includes the following: Aims/purpose (mandatory); theoretical underpinning (mandatory); Design/methodology/approach (mandatory); Findings (mandatory); Research limitations/implications (if applicable); Originality/value (mandatory). Nonetheless, it might vary in terms of the nature of research.

HEADINGS
Three-levels of headings is preferable and use Arabic numbering to number the headings.

Heading First-Level: Times New Roman; Size-12; Bold; for example,
1. Introduction

Heading Second-Level: Times New Roman; Size-12; Italic; for example,
1.1 significance of the study

Heading Third-Level: Times New Roman; Size-12; Normal; for example,
1.1.1 Research problem

TABLES
All tables should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numbering and named in boldface.
For example, Table No 1:.............

FIGURES
All tables should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numbering and named in boldface.
For example, Figure No 1:.............

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Acknowledgement can be made in the penultimate section (prior to references).

REFERENCES
You should include an alphabetically ordered list of the works you have cited in your article. References should follow hanging indentation format. The APA style of referencing should be followed for both citing references in-text and constructing full citations (reference list). For example

Carlson, D. S., Kacmar, K. M., & Williams, L. J. (2000). Construction and Initial Validation of a Multidimensional Measure of Work–Family Conflict. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 56, 249-276. doi:10.1006/jvbe.1999.1713
Sillick, T. J., & Schutte, N. S. (2006). Emotional intelligence and self-esteem mediate between perceived early parental love and adult happiness. E-Journal of Applied Psychology, 2(2), 38-48. Retrieved from http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/51365/20070816-0000/ojs.lib.swin.edu.au/index.php/ejap/article/view/71.html
Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin. B. J., & Anderson, R. E. (2010). Multivariate Data Analysis (7th ed.). England: Pearson Education Limited.
Bellavia, G., & Frone, M. (2005). Work-family conflict. In J. Barling, E. K. Kelloway, & M. R. Frone (Eds.), Handbook of Work Stress (pp.113-148). London: Sage.

For more details, please visit https://www.apastyle.org/

COPYRIGHT

Copyright on any research article is transferred in full to the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Jaffna.

From August 2018, all articles in the JBS are open access articles, published under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License which permits that articles may be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, linked to the full texts or used for any other lawful purpose which is noncommercial, as long as appropriate citation and/or acknowledgement is made.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, in part or in whole, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission has been obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.
3. All authors qualify as authors, as per the authorship guidelines, and have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper.
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. Every effort has been made to ensure that the submission is ready for peer review according to the journal's review policy (following the instructions to ensure blind peer review).
5. Tables are all cited in the main text and are included within the text document.

Copyright Notice

© Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Jaffna.

Copyright on any research article is transferred in full to the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Jaffna.

From August 2018, all articles in the JBS are open access articles, published under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License which permits that articles may be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, linked to the full texts or used for any other lawful purpose which is noncommercial, as long as appropriate citation and/or acknowledgement is made.

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