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Information For Authors

Interested in submitting your work to IJAMBI?

Authors are encouraged to review the About the Journal page for journal-specific aims, scope, and section policies, along with these detailed Author Guidelines, before preparing a submission.

Femington articles are indexed and made discoverable through widely used academic search platforms such as Google Scholar. Articles are indexed and made discoverable through widely used academic search platforms such as Google Scholar. Authors must register with the journal prior to submission or, if already registered, log in and proceed through the standard five-step online submission process.

Preparation of Your Manuscript

Authors must ensure that manuscripts meet the following requirements prior to submission:

  • Full names, institutional affiliations (including country), and contact details of all contributing authors must be provided

  • One author must be designated as the corresponding author

  • Manuscripts must include:

    • An abstract of no more than 300 words

    • Up to eight keywords

  • Submissions must be spell-checked and grammar-checked before submission

  • All references cited in the text must appear in the reference list, and vice versa

  • Bibliographic information (reference lists) must be presented.

  • Authors must obtain appropriate permissions for all third-party images, figures, or tables.

  • The language used in the title, abstract, and manuscript body must be clear and comprehensible to a global academic audience.

  • Manuscripts must align with the scope of the journal to which they are submitted.

Manuscript Template

Authors are strongly encouraged to use the official Femington/IJAMBI Manuscript Template. Use of the template ensures consistency in formatting for complex data tables and technical frameworks, facilitating an efficient peer-review process.

Content Expectations

Manuscripts, particularly empirical studies and business intelligence applications, should clearly address:

  1. Principal Findings: A concise statement of how the research advances management or intelligence practices.

  2. Methodological Rigor: Detailed explanation of data sources, algorithmic models, or qualitative management frameworks used.

  3. Strategic Implications: The impact of the findings on organizational practice, policy, or corporate strategy.

  4. Future Directions: A discussion of unanswered questions regarding adaptive systems and emerging business technologies.

Fee Structure & Open Access

IJAMBI operates under an inclusive Open Access model:

  • Flexible Article Processing Charges (APCs): Apply to accepted manuscripts to ensure the sustainability of high-quality publishing.

  • Global Accessibility: No subscription or access fees for readers for open-access journals; all articles are available online.

  • Author Rights: Authors retain copyright and grant Femington a license to be the original publisher.

Code of Ethical Conduct

Authors must adhere to the principles of intellectual honesty and responsible scholarship.

  • Principles: Honesty, Methodological Soundness, Transparency (disclosure of data sources), and Accountability.

  • Data Ethics: In the context of Business Intelligence, authors must ensure that data used for research (especially proprietary or consumer data) was obtained and used ethically.

  • Plagiarism: All submissions are screened using plagiarism detection tools. IJAMBI identifies and prevents citation manipulation and data fabrication.

Criteria for Authorship

Authorship is reserved for individuals who made substantial intellectual contributions, such as:

  • Conceptualization and study design.

  • Data acquisition, involving intellectual judgment.

  • Development of management frameworks or BI algorithms.

  • Drafting or critically revising the manuscript for strategic depth.

Essential Submission Checks

Before uploading to the OJS platform, verify that:

  1. The manuscript is the final version and is not under review elsewhere.

  2. Non-standard abbreviations (e.g., specific industry acronyms) are defined on first use.

  3. The abstract contains no citations or abbreviations.

  4. All supplementary files (e.g., datasets, code, or extended case study notes) are included.

Plagiarism and Research Misconduct Policy

Femington takes research integrity seriously.

  • All submissions are screened using plagiarism detection tools

  • The publisher actively identifies and prevents:

    • Plagiarism

    • Citation manipulation

    • Data fabrication or falsification

If misconduct is identified at any stage, the manuscript may be rejected, corrected, or retracted, and further investigation may be undertaken in line with publishing ethics standards.

Acknowledgements and Funding

Contributions that do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged. All sources of funding and the role of funding bodies must be clearly disclosed.

Declaration of Interest

All authors must disclose any financial or personal relationships that could be perceived as influencing their work.

Research Data

Femington encourages authors to share data, code, and supporting materials where appropriate, to promote transparency and reproducibility.

Ethics Approval and Consent

Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants or animals must include:

  • A statement of ethics approval

  • The name of the approving ethics committee

  • Reference numbers where applicable

Essential Submission Checks

Before submission, authors must ensure that:

  • The manuscript is the final version

  • The work is not under review or published elsewhere

  • Permissions have been obtained for reused material

  • The manuscript is submitted in the required file format

  • No abbreviations or citations appear in the abstract

  • Non-standard abbreviations are defined on first use

  • All supplementary files are included

Following review, authors may be requested to provide editable files, higher-resolution figures, or revisions to align with the journal style.