Submissions

Author Guidelines

• Aims and Scope:

Entrepreneurship Journal for Finance and Business EJFB, is an international scientific journal that issued seasonally in both Arabic & English Languages as Open Access.

Source of Publishing: College of Business Economies, Al – Nahrain University in Republic of Iraq.

First date of issuing was in 2020.

The main objective is to be a source of scientific entrepreneurial articles and other searching works in and/ or outside Iraq; and to activate the intellectual environment of academic society.

• Types of papers:

EJFB interested in every manuscript that specialized in (Business Administration, Accounting, Statistics, Economy, Banking and Finance Sciences) or other related fields; while other specialists like (Literary, Agricultural, Law, Media) and others that not related are out of scope.

• Before Submission:

Includes certain instructions and rules to follow before submitting article or paper, to facilitate the process of publishing.

• Technical instructions; every paper have to be as:

First page includes:

          Title of the article in both Arabic & English Languages

          Author’s information

          Abstract

          Keywords

          Introduction

1. First page should contain Author’s information that stands under the Paper title

• Full Author’s name in both Arabic & English (same for other authors).
• Address (scientific institute or university and country) in both Arabic & English
• Date of Submission
• Emails for all authors

1. Abstract; includes both Arabic & English abstracts, directly after the author (s) name.

• Abstract should be more than (150/ word) less than (300/ word).
• For papers that written in Arabic, abstract should be written in both Arabic & English Languages; while, for papers that written in English, there is no need to write abstract or title in Arabic.
• Abstract should be clear and logic, including problem statement, methodology, results and conclusions are preferred as well.

1. Keyword; comes directly after abstract; it shouldn’t be less than (5/ words).
2. Introduction; should be written in a clear, logical language, including related literature reviews with such recommended results.
3. Microsoft word is required; A4 page, not more than (25/ paper), 12 Times New Roman is required, single- spaced 0.1 is required, while (2/cm) from both right & right sides; and (3/cm) from both up & down sides.
4. Main titles should be written in Bold 14/ Times New Roman, while subtitles should be written in Bold 12/ Times New Roman.
5. Methodology; should include the main problem, importance & objectives of article; conclusions and recommendations.
6. The main paragraph should start with new page; due to the security of authors information. Do not mention author’s name in any other pages rather than first one (as mentioned earlier).
7. Tables & figures should be clear, numbered in a right way, i.e., table no. (1) should be written in the middle of the page upper than the table and the source should be written on the right of the page lower than the table. While, the number of figures should be written in the middle of the page under the figure directly with its source or any comments if available.
8. References; within the body of the article; the sequence should as (last name of author, publishing year, publishing page), i.e., (Al Adeli, 2015, page 45) (Al Shathili, 2018, pages 67-68)- (Mohamed et al., 2019, page 56), it is not obligated to mention reference in the footer of the page. References should be mentioned at the end of the paper in a clear way, following APA style as in:

• Last name, (year), Title, publisher, pages; same as periodical journals.

i.e., Al Rashidi, Amer, (2019), Public Financial Principles, 3^rd edition, Baghdad, Al Utanabi Dar for publishing, 230 pages.  

1. Certain corrections could be taken by editorial board as necessary.
2. Any paper will be excluded if do not follow above mentioned instructions.

• Specific instructions and scientific ethic: according to journal policy, (Publishing copy wrights’ agreement) should be signed by author (s); assured that it is original and do not publish before either partly or totally even do not publish electronically, or in conference or other workshops.
• Submission:

according to journal policy processes, every article or research will be sent to http://nejfb.edu.iq to control the Plagiarism through adopting software (Turnitin) program which shouldn’t be more than 20%, every control will be send to the author (s) directly since it is reported. Then, any manuscript will be sent directly to specialist after signing the copy wright’s agreement (mentioned earlier); and final stage, sending the acceptance letter to author (s) to make feedback if any and return back within limited duration.

• After acceptance:

In case the manuscript is accepted, payment should be done as:

• 125000 ID for authors inside Iraq and 25000 ID for Plagiarism.
• Free of charge for those authors outside Iraq, after making any necessary corrections.

• Editorial Policies:
• Open Access: EJFB is an Open Access Journal. All articles can be downloaded free of charge under the CC BY 4.0 International License. The journal does not charge any fees at submission, reviewing, and production stages.
• Peer-review process:
• For security reason, manuscript will be sent without names or title to specialists.
• Two foreigner specialists will be chosen for controlling this manuscript.
• Ethically, no third person will know any information concerning author (s) or title or even emails. Journal Management and Editorial Board will contact only author (s) or specialists directly.
• Journal’s team has to follow the decisions of specialists as (acceptance without feedback, acceptance after limited changes, acceptance after essential changes that conditioned by second review of the same specialists to control those changes; or reject this manuscript and apologize for publishing) with one month of receiving the manuscript.
• Copyright & licensing: The authors retain the copyright of their manuscripts by submitting the works to this journal, and all open access articles are distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0 International), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, and to alter, transform, or build upon the material, including for commercial use, provided the original author is properly cited. 
• Languages: Please write your text in good Arabic and English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their (Arabic/English) language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific (Arabic/English) may wish to use the (Arabic/English) Language Editing service available from certified publishers.
• Authorship criteria: Authors must make sure that all only contributors who have significantly contributed to the submission are listed as authors and, conversely, that all contributors who have significantly contributed to the submission are listed as authors. If persons other than authors were involved in important aspects of the research project and the preparation of the manuscript, their contribution should be acknowledged in a footnote or the Acknowledgments section. Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal editor. To request such a change, the editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Only in exceptional circumstances will the editor consider the addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. While the editor considers the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended. If the manuscript has already been published in an online issue, any requests approved by the editor will result in a corrigendum.
• Originality and acknowledgment of resources:
• Originality

1. Authors’ contribution statement
2. Conflict of interests’ statement
3. Data availability statement
4. Funding resources
5. Institutional ethical approvals and consents

• Acknowledgments
  1. Personal acknowledgements should precede those of institutions or agencies only (not referees).

2. The funding agency (if any) which supported the work, must be clearly mentioned.

• Data accessibility: Falsification is the practice of omitting or altering research materials, data, or processes so that the results of the research are no longer accurately reflected. Fabrication is the practice of inventing data or results and reporting them in the research. Both of these misconducts are fraudulent and seriously alter the integrity of research. Therefore, articles must be written based on original data and use of falsified or fabricated data is strongly prohibited. In confronting cases with fabricated or falsified data COPE’s flowcharts and guidelines are followed. Researchers who perform randomized or controlled clinical trials are advised to keep their original data at hand. The Journal keeps the right to ask for raw data even after publication.
• Confidentiality & privacy: authors’ names, emails and other information will not be used or shared for any other purposes, only for publishing purpose.
• Sex and gender in research: The journal provides equal opportunities for both sexes in terms of publication, evaluation and wages.
• Using Al in Writing: It includes a set of applications that researchers can employ to help them in research and academic writing, such as reference management applications such as Mendeley and Zotero, and artificial intelligence applications such as Chat GPT (with direct use so that the application is not for writing instead of the researcher, but rather helps in proofreading and copyediting , with the presentation that iThenticate has developed its own AI typing detection products (developed services will be launched soon), programming and data science applications/platforms such as Jupyter Notebook, Rstudio, Anaconda, Goofle Dataset Search, and text editing applications such as Latex or Overleaf platform.
• Studies on humans and animals: Studies that involve human beings or animals must adhere to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki
• Fundamental errors: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree to abide by the EJFB's editorial policies
• Complaints & appeals: for any further information, do not hesitate to contact us directly through E-mail ejfb@nahrainuniv.edu.iq & Mobile: +964 77 496 329 01.
• Archiving: The EJFB allows authors to deposit pre-print in an institutional repository and non-commercial subject-based repositories or to publish it on author’s personal website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.) and/or departmental website, at any time after acceptance for publication. Full bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) about the original publication must be provided and a link must be made to the article’s DOI. In addition to self-archiving policy of the EJFB, all the published content is archived in IASJ (the Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals, national digital archive)
• Correction & retraction: Legal limitations of the publisher, copyright holder or author(s), infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or any major misconduct require retraction of an article. Occasionally a retraction can be used to correct errors in submission or publication. The main reason for withdrawal or retraction is to correct the mistake while preserving the integrity of science; it is not to punish the author.

Standards for dealing with retractions have been developed by a number of library and scholarly bodies, and this practice has been adopted for article retraction by EJFB in the electronic version of the retraction note, a link is made to the original article. In the electronic version of the original article, a link is made to the retraction note where it is clearly stated that the article has been retracted. The original article is retained unchanged, save for a watermark on the PDF indicating on each page that it is “retracted.”

• Revenue and financial resources: Funding the journal is self-financing by collecting a fee for publishing the research.
• Advertisement: The journal receives advertisements from all institutions as a source of funding, provided that the magazine does not bear any responsibility for the content of the advertisement.