Author Guidelines
Submission Process
The is no submission fees , and All aspects of the peer-review process, (from author submission of a manuscript, through peer review and possible revision, to final decision), going through this up-to-the-date online system.
The manuscript submission is broken down into the following steps:
1- Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions.
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2- Log into the system with your password.
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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with Organizational Aesthetics guidelines.
Please see the "Submission Preparation Checklist" below.
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4- Enter the Authors information, the article Title and Abstract
To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, make sure that you have deleted the authors' names from the Abstract
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5- Uploading the Submission
To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, make sure that you have deleted the authors' names from the article
* On this page, click Browse (or Choose File) which opens a Choose File window for locating the file on the hard drive of your computer.
*Locate the file you wish to submit and highlight it.
* Click Open on the Choose File window, which places the name of the file on this page.
* Click Upload on this page, which uploads the file from the computer to the journal's web site and renames it following the journal's conventions.
*Once the submission is uploaded, click "Save and Continue" at the bottom of this page.
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6- You will receive a Confirmation of your submission
Submission Fee : There is no submission fee
Manuscript Status
You can check the status of your manuscript via the following steps:
* Log into the system with your password.
* Click on "Author"
* Click on the Title of your submitted paper
A summary page will display detailed tracking information about where your paper is in the peer review process.
Use the following guidelines to prepare manuscripts:
- Include an informative abstract of 200 words or fewer that describes the material presented in the paper. For examples, see abstracts of published work on the OA web page (http://www.organizationalaesthetics.org).
- Type all copy double-spaced in 12-point type (Verdana font). Use footnotes sparingly. Essential material should be incorporated in the text; material with weak relevance should be deleted. Organize the manuscript by using primary, secondary, and tertiary headings (see headings section below for format), rather than numbered headings.
- To preserve anonymity in the blind-review process, authors should avoid revealing their identity in text through obvious self-references to previous work or in footnotes. This is NOT to say that authors shouldn’t use the first person voice if appropriate. If authors cite their own published work or work in progress, however, these references must be included in the references with full bibliographic information. Authors should reference their own work as they would the work of any other scholar. Reviewers will ask what the contribution of a manuscript is above what has already been published and must have this information.
- Omit italics unless absolutely necessary. Use only abbreviations known to the general public and avoid unnecessary acronyms; spell out an abbreviated term when first used. Avoid parentheses in textual material. Use quotation marks only for direct quotations (they should be double quotation marks). Spell out numbers from one to nine and those that begin a sentence. Write out “percent” in text; use percentage sign in tables.
- Type tables or figures in the text. Present graphic material so that the meaning is immediately clear by including a title on every figure and table and labeling axes and diagrams.
- Use the active voice whenever possible, but use “we” only for multiple authors. Use the past tense for discussing earlier studies or presenting methods, samples, data, findings, results, and conclusions. Use the present tense for discussing tables or figures as they are presented in text.
- Define a term accurately when it is first used and use it consistently with that meaning throughout. Find the best way to express an idea once, rather than repeating the same idea in different words. Do not use a clause where a phrase will do or a phrase where a word will do. Avoid jargon; do not mistake it for technical terminology.
- Authors must avoid terms or usages that are or may be interpreted as denigrating to ethnic or other groups. Authors should be particularly careful in dealing with gender, where long-established customs (e.g., “usually if the employee is given an opportunity, he will make the right choice”) can imply the acceptance of inequality where none exists. Using plural pronouns (e.g., changing the “client . . . he” to “clients . . . they”) is preferred. If this is not possible, the phrase “he or she” can and should be used.
Headings
Main or first-level headings should be used to designate the major sections of the article; three or four main headings should be sufficient for most articles. Initial headings, such as Introduction, are unnecessary. Main headings should be typed flush with the left margin in sentence case. Example:
“My sister is a skein of red yarn”: the power of metaphor
Second-level headings should be typed flush with the left margin in italics, in sentence case. Example:
Comparing structures
Third-level or paragraph headings should be in bold and begin with a standard paragraph indention and be typed in capital and small letters, with only the initial word capitalized. Paragraph headings should be followed by a period; they should not be underlined. Example:
Happiness: living well. First, the Nicomachean Ethics is an exploration of what it means, and what it takes, to try to be “happy”. At first sight …
The text should follow on the same line.
References
Entries in the list of references should be alphabetized by the last name of the author (first author if more than one) or editor, or by the corporate author or periodical name if there is no indication of individual authors or editors. Several references by an identical author (or group of authors) are ordered by year of publication, with the earliest listed first. Multiple references to works by one author or group of authors with the same year of publication should be differentiated with the addition of small letters (a, b, etc.) after the year. Authors’ names are repeated for each entry.
Citations to references should be designated throughout the text by enclosing the authors’ names and the year of the reference in parentheses. Use alphabetical order and an ampersand in citations. Page numbers must be included in a citation to provide the exact source of a direct quotation. Page numbers follow the date of publication given in parentheses and are separated from it by a colon.
Book entries in the list of references follow this form: Authors’ or Editors’ Last Names, Initials. Year. Title of book. City Where Published, State or Country (only if necessary to identify the city): Name of Publisher. Examples:
Darsø, L. 2004. Artful creation: Learning-tales of arts-in-business. Frederiksberg, DK: Samfundslitteratur.
Taylor, S. S. 2012. Leadership craft, leadership art. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Periodical entries follow this form: Authors’ Last Names, Initials. Year. Title of article or paper. Name of Periodical, volume number (issue number): page numbers separated by the en dash –. Examples:
Adler, N. J. 2006. The arts & leadership: Now that we can do anything, what will we do? Academy of Management Learning & Education, 5(4), 486–499.
Taylor, S. S. & Ladkin, D. 2009. Understanding arts-based methods in managerial development. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 8(1), 55–69.
If a periodical article has no author, the name of the periodical should be treated like a corporate author, both in the citation and in the references.
Chapters in books follow this form: Authors’ Last Names, Initials. Year. Title of chapter (in lower-case letters except for the first word and first word after a colon). In Editors’ Initials and Last Names (Eds.), Title of book: page numbers. City Where Published, State or Country (only if necessary to identify the city): Name of Publisher. Examples:
Eisner, E. 2008. Art and knowledge. in J.G. Knowles and A. L. Cole.(Eds.) Handbook of the arts in Qualitative Research. Perspectives, Methodoloigies, Examples and Issues. 3–12. London: Sage.
Heron, J. and Reason, P. 2001. The practice of co-operative inquiry: Research ”with” rather than ”on” people. In P. Reason and H. Bradbury (Eds.). Handbook of action research: Participative inquiry and practice. 179–188. London: Sage.
Unpublished papers, dissertations, and presented papers should be listed in the references using the following formats:
Beerel, A., Taylor S. S., & Elmes, M. 2005. Why do good people do bad things? Aesthetics, narcissism, and moral corruption. Working paper No. 05–17, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
Elmes, M. B. & Taylor, S. S. 2004. Call me, we’ll do lunch: Form and content in everyday resistance and provocation in organizations. A paper presented at the Art of Management and Organization Conference, Paris, France.
Taylor, S. S. 2000. The aesthetics of leadership storytelling. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Boston College: Boston, MA.
Materials accessed on the web should be listed in the references in the following formats, as appropriate:
Ferro-Thomsen, M. 2005. Organisational art. A study of art at work in organisations. 2nd ed. University of Copenhagen, DK. Retrieved September 12 2011 at http://www.ferro.dk/academic/ORGANISATIONAL%20ART%20%20A%20STUDY%20OF%20ART%20AT%20WORK%20IN%20ORGANISATIONS%20-%20MARTIN%20FERRO-THOMSEN%202005%20%202.%20ed.pdf
Ptqk, Maria 2008. Be creative, underclass! Mitos, paradojas y estrategias de la economía del talento [Myths, paradoxes and strategies of the talent economy] Retrieved May 14 2011 from http://www.ypsite.net/recursos/biblioteca/documentos/be_creative_underclass_maria_ptqk.pdf
