Submissions

Author Guidelines

Manuscript (prepared in Microsoft word) must be submitted to the Editor in Chief by the online submission portal. Any quarry regarding the preparation and submission of the manuscript to the journal should be addressed via the contact us form or through e-mail. English is the official language of the journal but articles written in Amharic by Ethiopian language and literature department staff would also be entertained. Original Research Articles not previously published and not being considered for publication elsewhere only should be submitted. Corresponding authors must declare that the manuscript is submitted on behalf of all authors. Copyright belongs to the publisher upon acceptance of the manuscript. The rejected manuscript will not be returned to the authors. Submission of a manuscript signifies acceptance of the journal's guidelines for authors.

Manuscript Preparation

The Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science (EJBSS) uses APA Publication Manual Six Edition as its formatting and style guide with slight modifications. Accordingly,  papers written in English and Amharic languages should be prepared in A4 (8.27" X 11.69") page size with a single column, using standard times new roman fonts with the size of 12, with double-spacing, and margins of at least 1" (2.5cm) all around. Original research articles and review articles should not occupy more than 15 manuscript pages while brief reports, book reviews, and short communications should not occupy more than 6 manuscript pages. All pages are numbered starting from the title page. Times New Roman font must be used and remain uniform throughout the text. The authors must strictly adhere to the proper format of the Journal which is APA Manual Sixth Edition for all sections of the manuscript.

A research manuscript planned to be published in EJBSS should include the following parts in order: Title, Byline (Author(s) names and affiliations), Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements (if any), and References.

1. Title

The title should be concise, and precise and describe the contents of the paper. A short-running title of fewer than 150 characters or not more than twelve words will be accepted.

2. Byline: Author (s) names and affiliations

The given name(s) and family name(s) (first, middle and last names) of each author should be indicated and correctly spelled. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done which is usually an institution) below the names. The names of the authors should appear in the order of their contributions, centered between the side margins. For names with suffixes (e.g., Dr., Ph.D., Jr., and III), separate the suffix from the rest of the name with a space instead of a comma. The institutional affiliation should be centered under the author's name, on the next line.

Byline variation Examples

One author, no affiliation                                    Mary S. Haggerty

                                                                           Rochester, New York

Two authors (with suffixes), one affiliation      John O. Foster II and Roy R. Davis Jr.

                                                                         Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey

Three authors, one affiliation                    Juanita Fuentes, Paul Dykes, and Susan

                                                               The Watanabe University of Colorado at Boulder

Two authors, two affiliations                   David Wolf

                                                            University of California, Berkeley

                                                                 Amanda Blue

                                                             Brandon University

Three authors, two affiliations    Mariah Meade and Sylvia Earleywine

                                                           Georgetown University

                                                               Jeffrey Coffee

                                                            Dartmouth College

EJBSS Transcription/Transliteration System

A. Languages based on the Ethiopic script ("Fidel")

The Ethiopian Journal of Business and Social Science (EJBSS) uses Encyclopedia Aethiopica’s (EAE’s) transcription system for Ethiopic script following the tradition which exists in Ethiopian studies. The basic correspondences used in the EAE system are presented in the following table

B. Cushitic, Omotic, Nilo-Saharan languages that do not use the ‘Fidel’ script

The general rule is the one sound-one sign principle. For this reason, vocabulary that does not come from the Ethio-Semitic language family should nonetheless be rendered in correspondence herewith. The cases when a sound of some Cushitic, Omotic, or Nilo-Saharan language has no correspondence in Ethio-Semitic languages the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbol representing the sound should be used. For the languages that have accepted the Latin-based orthography for use in education, books, newspapers, and official documents (E.g. Somali, Oromo, Sidama, Gamotso, etc) the Latin-based orthography’s spelling should be provided in brackets.