Guideline for Full and Working Paper Submision

Please refer to this page after your extended abstract has been accepted and you have made registration as a presenter.

Once your extended abstract undergoes peer review, we shall email you the outcome on the 9th March. In the acceptance email, you shall get a new set of log-in details to use on the www.rcmib.org website and to make payment. Once you receive the details and make payment, you can submit a full paper for conference awards and other publication opportunities. The last date for submitting the full paper is 20th March, 2021.

After the acceptance of extended abstracts, if you do not want to pursue conference awards or other publication opportunities, then you will need to submit a short abstract for the Conference Proceedings.

Details of Final Paper Submission

Competitive paper submissions should include the following:

1. The title of the paper.
2. The name, contact information, and affiliation of the author(s). For multi-author papers, please underline the presenter.
3. A 75-100 word short abstract (for publication in the conference program).
4. A 750-1000 word extended abstract that summarizes the motivation, conceptualization, methodology, and major findings (for evaluation by reviewers). Abstracts should include the number of studies completed, the study procedures, and summary statistics so that reviewers can judge the quality of the research. Incomplete or vague abstracts in which the quality cannot be ascertained will be rejected.
5. References (International Marketing Review style).
6. Figures & Tables. We highly encourage authors to use figures/graphs in addition to the abstract. Figures and tables will not count against the word count of the abstract.

Working Paper submissions should include the following:

1. The title of the paper
2. The name, contact information, and affiliation of the author(s). For multi-author papers, please underline the presenter.
3. A 75-100 word short abstract (for publication in the conference program)
4. The Competitive paper must summarize the motivation, conceptualization, methodology, and major findings (for evaluation by reviewers)
5. References (International Marketing Review style).
6. Figures & Tables. We highly encourage authors to use figures/graphs in addition to the abstract. Figures and tables will not count against the word count.

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES

Authors will retain the full copyright on their text. After the conclusion of the conference, the authors may choose to submit revised versions of their papers for publication in a Special Issue of the North South Business Review. If your paper is accepted through the double-blind, peer review process and presented at the conference; it will be published in the Conference Proceedings that has an ISSN. Since the authors will have their copyrights, they will be able to submit their paper for publication in any other journal of their choice, if they choose to do so.

Those intending to publish in the Special Issue of North South Business Review, manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages, double spaced, including appendices, tables (within the text), and references (MS Word, A4 paper, 2.5 cm or 1 inch margin on all sides, Times, 12 points).

Contact for Support

If you have any issues regarding registration, please contact our members of registration committee: