Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
• The author hereby assigns to the publisher, Organizational Design Community, the copyright in the submitted article, throughout the world, in any form, in any language, for the full term of copyright, effective upon acceptance for publication.
• The author warrants that the article is original, written by the stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.
• Authors retain the following rights: 1) all proprietary rights relating to the article, other than copyright, such as patent rights, 2) the right to use the substance of the article in future own works, including lectures and books, and 3) the right to reproduce the article for own purposes, provided the copies are not offered for sale. Any other use of the article requires permission from the publisher.
• If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the submitting author warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to accept these terms on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.
• Agree, if not not a member, to become member of the Organizational Design Community when the paper is published.