Submissions

Author Guidelines

The Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management welcomes submissions from graduate students enrolled in one or more of the following academic units: 

• College of Digital Transformation (Faculty of Computer Science) 
• Department of Accountancy (Faculty of Management) 
• Department of Economics (Faculty of Science) 
• Department of Finance (Faculty of Management) 
• Department of Leadership and Organizations (Faculty of Management) 
• Department of Management Science and Information Systems (Faculty of Management) 
• Department of Marketing (Faculty of Management) 
• Department of Political Science (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) 
• Department of Public and International Affairs (Faculty of Management) 
• Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and International Business (Faculty of Management) 
• Interdisciplinary PhD Program (Faculty of Graduate Studies) 
• Marine Affairs Program (Faculty of Science) 
• School for Resource and Environmental Studies (Faculty of Science) 
• School of Health Administration (Faculty of Health) 
• School of Planning (Faculty of Architecture and Planning) 

Graduate students are encouraged to submit high quality research, reports, and projects written as part of their coursework or thesis. We invite submissions related to the following topics: 

• Environmental management, marine management, and natural resource management 
• Library science, information science, archival science, and information management 
• Public administration, public policy, health administration, and international affairs 
• Business administration, marketing, accountancy, and finance 
• Leadership, entrepreneurship, management science, and strategic management 
• Land use planning, urban planning, spatial planning, and regional planning 
• Any other relevant topic 

The DJIM welcomes submissions in the following formats: 

• Research articles: Research using primary or secondary sources, including: 
  • Original research (quantitative or qualitative) 
  • Critical scholarship, position papers, case studies 
• Reviews: Literature reviews, book reviews, syntheses, meta-analyses 
• Commentaries: Opinion pieces, essays, guest editorials, and letters 

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the journal, there is no prescribed word count for submissions. However, all submissions must be under 8,000 words (including references). If you are unsure if your work is a good fit for the DJIM and would like to discuss further, please get in touch at djim@dal.ca. 
 

Submitting a manuscript

Before submitting a manuscript, please make sure that the following requirements are met:

• The submission is original, unpublished in another journal, and is not currently being considered for publication by another journal.
• The submission is single-spaced or double-spaced, uses 11- or 12-point font size, and is in .docx file format.
• All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate locations, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7^th edition).
• Spelling must be consistent with the Canadian Oxford English Dictionary.
• The submission includes no additional title pages, table of contents, headers or footers.

Please send submissions by email to djim@dal.ca. Please do not share your submission using a shared OneDrive link. Instead, please attach the .docx file to the submission email.

Information to include in submission

• Contact information: Please list the full name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliation(s) and email address(es). In the case of multiple authors, please indicate who will be the corresponding author for questions or comments.
• Title: Please include the full title of the submission.
• Abstract: All papers submitted must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 250 words.
• Keywords: Please provide 3-5 keywords outlining the themes/topics covered by the submission.
• Ethical standards statement: When reporting on research involving humans (such as interviews), researchers should follow the TCPS CORE 2 guidelines. Proof of research approval (whether at the departmental level or the institutional level) must be attached in the submission email.
• Conflict of interest statement: Authors are expected to disclose any commercial associations that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. All funding sources supporting the work should be acknowledged in the author note on the title page. All affiliations with in any organization or entity with a direct financial interest in the subject matter or materials of the research discussed (e.g., employment, consultancies, stock ownership or other equity interest, patent-licensing arrangements) must be declared. This information will be held in confidence by the editor-in-chief during the review process.

Disclaimer
Statements and/or opinions expressed explicitly or implicitly in publications are those of the author and do not reflect the views of the DJIM or Dalhousie University. The journal reserves the right to refuse to publish or print any submissions that, in its opinion, may cast disrepute on any practice, product or individual. Any errors or omissions will be corrected in a subsequent issue of the journal, by notice to the editor-in-chief on terms and conditions determined by the journal.