For Executive Editor

Guidelines for Executive Editor
Guidelines for Acceptance Criteria
Guidelines for Review Process
Sample Letters for Review Process
Sample Table of Contents for Journal Issue

Resources for Editors

IMPORTANT NOTE: Each issue of the Journal contains about 6-7 papers, depending on the size of papers. The page limit of each issue is 100 pages. The total word count should be around 40,000 (without tables and figures) A "special issue" should contain 6 papers and an editorial preface. The length of each paper should be up to 8000 words. If the papers are short, you could have 6 papers in the issue. You may estimate at 400 words per page for IEL's journals. The pre-production process for each Journal issue takes about 6 months. Please plan for your time table accordingly.

How to handle manuscript submission?
What are the Areas of the IJIEM?
What are the Areas of the IJIMA?

How to handle manuscript submission? (This is a suggestion only; you may create your own process.)

Receive Paper Submission
1. All submissions will be submitted by the authors via the Journal Management System (JMS). The author must select the submission option "Regular Issue" to direct the submission to you.
2. If the author did not submit all the files and quit the system, the JMS will send an Incomplete Submission Notice and ask the author to resubmit a complete package. Repeat from Step 2.
3. Once the author submitted all paper files via the JMS, the system automatically assigns a Paper ID to a folder (if not assigned earlier) and saves the files into this folder. The JMS will send you and the author a Submission Confirmation Notice.
4. Once you receive a Submission Confirmation Notice, wait for 24 hours to make sure the system had virus scanned the file folder before accessing the paper files. Please note that the system will only virus-scan all the file folders and delete the virus-infected files once a day at 06:00am Pacific Standard time (i.e., 21:00pm Hong Kong time).
5. You should read the cover letter and make sure it fits the subject coverage of the Journal. Select the JMS option to send an Unsuitable Submission Notice to the author whose paper obviously has poor quality or unsuitable theme. This step does not apply to invited papers (e.g., best papers from a conference or papers from invited scholars).
6. Review all the files to make sure that 1) the authors' names of the paper are not on the body of paper; 2) the cover letter contains 4 suggested reviewers, and 3) the title page contains full address information for every author.
7. If any item in Step 6 is incorrect, select the JMS option to send a Submission Correction Notice to ask the author to resubmit corrected files according to the submission requirements described on http://www.icebnet.org/author/. Then, repeat from Step 2.
8. If the submission is complete, select the JMS option to send the author a 1st-Round Submission Completion Notice.
9. Determine the appropriate Associate/Regional Editor who could process the paper reviews. Note that the Associate/Regional Editors only handle the review process and make the decision for a paper, while the Guest Editors are fully authorized and perform all the duties as an Executive/Managing Editor.
Review Paper
1. Assign an Associate/Regional Editor and select the JMS option to send him/her an Editor Request Notice telling him/her to visit the JMS and select the option to accept the assignment.
2. If an Associate/Regional Editor does not visit the JMS within 72 hours, the JMS will send one-time-only another Editor Request Notice to the Associate/Regional Editor.
3. If the Associate/Regional Editor does not visit the JMS after one week, the JMS will send the Associate/Regional Editor an Editor Undeliverable Notice telling that the paper will be re-assigned to another Associate/Regional Editor and that an Associate/Regional Editor who receives three Editor Undeliverable Notices in a year will be removed from the Editorial Board. A copy of this notice will be sent to you as well.
4. If the Associate/Regional Editor visit the JMS and selects the option to reject the assignment, or you have received an Editor Undeliverable Notice from the JMS, you must re-assign another Associate/Regional Editor to this paper via the JMS and repeat from Step 1 until the reviewer is committed.
5. Once the Associate/Regional Editor is committed, the JMS sends the author an Editor Assignment Notice telling that the review process is formally turned over to this editor. The assigned editor will be able to access the paper and complete the Editor's Remark online for each paper once he/she logs into the JMS.
6. If an Associate/Regional Editor cannot find appropriate reviewers, you should help him/her find the reviewers. Please match the reviewers' expertise with the theme of the paper when you assign the reviewers. Furthermore, if your reviewer database is limited as well, you could find the reviewers from membership directories of related organizations (e.g., MISRC-AIS Faculty Directory, INFORMS database). Alternately, you could find those who published related articles in other journals via http://scholar.google.com/ and solicit their help in reviewing the paper. (NOTE: Unless it is absolutely necessary, please do not use the editorial board members as reviews.) Periodically, you may want to solicit volunteers from related listservs.
7. If you need to process the reviews by yourself, please continue the steps in the Guidelines for Associate/Regional Editor.
Accept/Reject Papers

Once the Associate/Regional Editor accepted a paper (based on the criteria described at http://www.icebnet.org/review/), you will receive a decision letter from the JMS.
Every 3 weeks after sending the "ACCEPT" decision letter , the JMS will send the author a Final Submission Reminder until the author has uploaded the final submission package in ZIP or DOC file format via the JMS.

Prepare Complete Package for A Regular Issue

(Partially supported by the JMS.)

Create a Table of Contents and a Table of Author Information and e-mail them to the Editor-in-Chief (Click here for a sample Table of Contents). The Table of Author Information contains complete information about every ACCEPTED paper and the contact author (Click here for a sample Table of Author Information).
On the Journal's website, the contact author will be instructed to pack the formatted full paper and the scanned Copyright Form into a ZIP file and upload it on the JMS (see http://www.icebnet.org/author/). You don't need to handle hard copies at all. After you collected the papers, please make sure the format and print quality are acceptable.

E-mail Complete Package

(Not supported by the JMS.)

Compress into one large ZIP file the following soft copies and e-mail it to the Editor-in-Chief.
1. A Table of Contents,
2. A Table of Author Information,
3. Your OPTIONAL "Editorial Introduction," (Click here for a long sample or short sample format of editorial preface)
4. One set of electronic papers by the authors,
The publisher's production department will take over the process from now on regarding formatting, style sheet, editing, copyright form, and galley proof.

What are the Areas of the IJIEM?


Enterprise-related Management Business ethics Business excellence Business infrastructure management Capital markets and the virtual economy Customer relationship management Data quality improvement Decision support and group systems Enterprise process management Enterprise reorganisation Enterprise resource planning Enterprise strategies Entrepreneurship and creativity Globalisation issues Human resources management Innovation and product development Innovative financing Operations management Process reengineering and redesign Service/product quality management Strategic planning and control Total quality management	Internet-related Management Collaborative commerce Data mining and business intelligence E-business integration Internet and emerging technologies Internet economy Internet law and compliance Internet security and privacy issues Knowledge management Operations and strategy for E-commerce Optimisation models and the Web Structure and organisation of the E-enterprise Supply chain management and E-logistics Service operations on the Web

What are the Areas of the IJIMA?


Internet Marketing Agency relationship management B2B marketplace Channel management Collaborative marketing Consumer behaviour Creativity in Web marketing Customer relationship management Direct marketing Effectiveness in marketing E-service management Ethics in marketing Globalisation issues Human resources management Innovation and product development Internet branding Internet security and privacy issues Knowledge management Market intelligence analysis Marketing research Marketing strategies Migration from marketplace to marketspace Online community management Pricing strategies Product evaluation Promotion Public relation Sales management Service marketing on the Net Service quality Service/product quality management Trust on the Net	Internet Advertising Advertising on the Net Creativity in Web advertising Effectiveness in advertising Ethics in advertising Globalisation issues Internet branding Promotion