MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION / SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

FBR is open to many different formats and styles of presentation, as long as the article is focused on issues at the interface of family and business systems.

Please follow the guidance below when preparing your manuscript for submission:

1. Articles accepted, published, or submitted for publication consideration elsewhere, cannot be submitted to FBR for publication consideration.
2. Authors should notify any prior online or in-print distribution of their articles upon submission, including any distribution as a conference paper or working paper.
3. Manuscripts should not be more than 40 typed double spaced pages, all inclusive, using 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch (2.5 cms) margins.
4. All documents submitted should be Microsoft Word files. Please remember to number the pages and use APA guidelines.
5. Two documents are to be submitted:

CONTACT INFORMATION DOCUMENT that includes the following:

1. Title of the article
2. Names and primary affiliations of the author(s)
3. Authors' telephone numbers and e-mail addresses
4. An abstract of no more than 100 words
5. A maximum of 5 key words indicating content of the article

MAIN DOCUMENT that includes the following:

1. Title of the article
2. An abstract of no more than 100 words
3. A maximum of 5 key words indicating content of the article
4. Article - Text, References, Figures, Tables, Appendices (max. 40 double spaced pages all inclusive).
5. All Figures and Tables should be placed at the end of the document, one per page, numbered consecutively (one series for tables, one for figures). The position of each table should be indicated in the text (e.g., “Insert Table 2 about here”)

PLEASE NOTE: To facilitate the anonymize review process, please ensure that information about authors does not appear in the MAIN DOCUMENT.

6. For publication consideration in FBR, please submit manuscripts to the editor electronically online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fbr.

PERMISSIONS:

Authors are responsible for obtaining necessary written permission from publisher or copyright holder for reproduction of figures and tables and for extensive text quotations. If an article contains material reproduced from other sources, the necessary written permission must accompany the manuscript.

 

CITATIONS AND REFERENCES:

Citations in the text are by author(s) name/s followed by year in parenthesis. The reference list should be typed alphabetically using the following style:

 

Journal Article

Barnes, L.B. (1988). Incongruent hierarchies: Daughters and younger sons as company CEOs, Family Business Review, 1(1): 9-21.

 

Book

Gersick, K.E., Davis, J.A., McCollom-Hampton, M., & Lansberg, I. (1997). Generation to Generation: Life cycles of the family business. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

 

Chapter in an edited book
 

Memili, E., Eddleston, K.A., Zellweger, T.M., Kellermanns, F.W., & Barnett, T. (2010). The importance of looking toward the future and building on the past: entrepreneurial risk taking and image in family firms. In A.Stewart, G.T.Lumpkin, & J.A.Katz (Eds.), Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth: Entrepreneurship and Family Business (Volume 12, pp. 3-29). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.

PUBLICATION DECISION:

Selection of articles for publication is made by the Editor who relies primarily on the recommendations of the Associate Editors, members of the Editorial Review Board and other qualified reviewers using a double ‘anonymize’ review process. Reviewers’ comments are made available to the authors. The recommendation letter of the editor responsible for each manuscript and all reviews received are made available to the reviewers.

 

DESK REJECTION:

 

Submissions considered inappropriate for the journal’s mission or insufficiently developed will be returned to the authors without going through the formal review process. All decisions are final.

To increase their chances of going through the review process and publication, authors are strongly recommended to seek peer review prior to submitting their manuscripts to FBR. The editorial by Justin Craig on ‘Desk Rejection’ (FBR 2010, December issue, 23(4): 306-309) shares in some detail the process used by FBR for desk rejections and strategies authors can use to avoid it.

 

COPYRIGHT FORM:

Before publication, we require the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. Sage’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive license agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants Sage the sole and exclusive right and license to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than Sage. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway.

 

COPY EDITING:

 

FBR editors are responsible for reviewing the copyediting for each issue and will only contact authors if clarification is needed. Copyedited manuscripts will not be returned to authors.
 

POLICY ON PUBLISHING OF ARTICLE/S BY FBR'S EDITORS DURING THEIR TERM AS EDITOR:

Since 2009, the following policy has been in place:

* The Editor-in-Chief will not publish any article during his/her term. Exceptions are editorials, annual reviews, and introduction to special issues co-edited by this individual.

* All other members of the editorial team may submit their articles for publication consideration in FBR during their term as associate / assistant editors. The submitted papers will be subjected to the usual anonymize peer review process and outcome determined by the reviewers / action editors reactions.

For additional information on submissions to FBR, please email the FBR team at fbr@sagepub.com

ORCID:

As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.

The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.

If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.

Sage Choice

If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to nonsubscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in Sage Choice, subject to payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let Sage know directly if you are choosing Sage Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit Sage Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at Sage, including self author archiving deposits (green open access) visit Sage Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.