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EJDI Submission Guideline

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About the Journal                        

Focus and Scope

The Economic Journal of Development Issues (EJDI) is a bi-annual publication of the Department of Economics, Patan Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Lalitpur, Nepal. The journal welcomes empirical research, review articles, theoretical papers on the various aspects of economic studies particularly emphasizing the issues of developing countries. EJDI welcomes contributions from national and international scholars concerned with economies of developing countries and development affairs.

Articles are subject to (double) blind peer review by at least two domain expert academic referees. If space permits, EJDI also welcomes comments or notes on articles published by EJDI. The use of data, their interpretations and opinions expressed in the articles is the sole responsibility of authors guided by well-established academic and ethical norms and rigor. Though scrutinized by editorial teams and expert reviewers during the editorial processes, it does not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher and editors or editorial board.

Publication Frequency

The journal is published bi-annually. The Editorial Board issues open call for paper bi-annually in its official website: https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/EJDI

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. EJDI can be accessed online in NepJOL, a database of journals published in Nepal. 

Publisher

Department of Economics, Patan Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Peer Review Process of EJDI

The Editorial Board makes an initial appraisal of each manuscript. If the topic and treatment seem potentially appropriate for the journal, and the quality of the manuscript is deemed sufficient, it is forwarded for the peer review process. In accordance with the comments from the reviewers, the editorial board decides for acceptance, revision, or rejection of the manuscript. All responses will be corresponded through email.

EJDI has a “double-blind” review process; reviewers get article without author information and review comments are also forwarded to authors without disclosing reviewers’ identity. Associate editor or handling editor is the point of contact to both reviewers and authors. The Executive editor/Editor In-Chief makes the decision after getting feedback from reviewers and the handling editor.

EJDI tries its best to minimize editorial and review duration without compromising the rigor. The duration of editorial and review process depends on availability and responsiveness of reviewers, revision time taken by authors. Nevertheless, we try our best to maintain submission to final editorial decision time within three months - delays in obtaining reviews and author’s revision may prolong this process. EJDI strives to improve the quality, relevance, and impact of the contributions through an inclusive and caring peer-review process.

 

Author Guidelines

Manuscript Submission

  • All article submitted for publication in EJDI must be original, unpublished work and not submitted for publication elsewhere.
  • All submissions, including book reviews, must have a title, be printed on one side of the paper and be double line spaced.
  • Manuscripts should be written in Times New Roman with font size 12 and be double spaced, with references and notes included.
  • Manuscripts should be prepared on a platform compatible with a common word processing application. The submission should be in a portable document format (pdf) and MS Word format.
  •  Only essential pictures (graph, drawing and so on) and tables will be included in the manuscript with proper explanation and referenced in the main text. Any other relevant (supplementary) information may be put in the appendix(cies).
  • Picture(s) used in the manuscript should be original and can be sent on a separate file with a clear caption below it/them.
  • Tables too can be sent on a separate file with a caption above the table/s.
  • Page margins of the manuscripts should be 1 inch on all sides.
  • Referencing should follow the APA Referencing style 7th edition throughout the document. The author(s) can use reference management addons or application, such as Mendeley, Zotero or MS reference manager, to manage citations and references easily.
  • Manuscript should be formatted as follows:

Abstract, Keywords, JEL Code

    • 1. Introduction
      • 1.1.  Second level subtitles
      • 1.2. Second Level subtitles
        • 1.2.1 Third level subtitles
        • 1.2.2. Third level subtitles
        • Should avoid fourth level subtitles (if needed use bullet)
    • 2. Literature Review
    • 3. Methods and Data
    • 4. Results
    • 5. Discussion
    • 6. Conclusion
    • 7. (optional) Policy implication (and way forward)
    • 8. Acknowledgements (if any)
    • 9. Conflict of interest
    • 10. Author’s contribution
    • 8. References (Avoid referencing news article / op-ed article/ minimize self-citation and self-reference) 
    • Avoid citations and referencing articles published in predatory journals.
  • The manuscript for the journal should be submitted to the following Email address: info@pmcecodtu.edu.np

Manuscript Style

  • Each submission should include a short author’s bio, including the name, and address (both postal and e-mail) of the institution s/he belongs to and her/his designation.
  • Normally, articles should not exceed 6,000 words excluding references.
  • The abstract of the article should be within 200 words. Abstract should reflect the objective, methods, main findings and policy inference of the study.
  • Include up to five key words that describe your paper for indexing purpose.
  • Include the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes to classify the fields of your work in economics.
  • Include acknowledgement section by acknowledging funding/supporting agency/contributors to the research work, if any.
  • Footnote should not be used except for further clarification and explanation.
  • Include author contribution, who did what.

Reference Style

In-text citations and listing of the cited works in the references at the end of the paper should be entirely in line with APA Style (7th edition, 2020)

Further Information

  • The online version of the Journal is available under Nepal Journal online Depository (Nepjol).
  • The contributors get two copies of the printed journal.
  • EJDI adopts Creative Commons Attribution non-commercial 4.0 International Copyright policy (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Dispute Resolution and publication ethics: EJDI adopts ethical policy including publication, dispute resolution following the Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE guidelines (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines)