Journal of Research in Business

Journal of Research in Business (JRB) is a semi-annual journal of the Faculty of Business Administration, Marmara University. The editorial aim is to publish novel, theoretical and research-based studies to advance theoretical and empirical knowledge in the field of Business and Economics and provide benefit for executives and researchers. 

Journal of Research in Business (JRB) accepts Business and Economics manuscripts including but not limited to the following:

• Management
• Finance
• Marketing
• Human Resources Management
• Production Management
• Operation Management
• Accounting
• Management Information Systems

Papers in English, German and Turkish are accepted.

The Journal of Research in Business welcomes manuscripts in English, German and Turkish. All manuscripts should be submitted via the journal website, https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jrb. The authors of accepted manuscripts sign the Copyright Transfer Form and send it to the editorial board. The authors bear the responsibility for all statements made in their work submitted to the Journal for publication. The manuscripts for the journal should be prepared as follows:

1. Font Type 
All text should be written in Times New Romans font style in 12 font size and line spacing of 1.5. At the beginning of a paragraph, you should not use the tab key. 

2. Page Setup
The manuscripts should be in A4 paper standards: having 2.5 cm margins from right, left, bottom, and top. In addition, the number of pages should not exceed 40, including the abstract and references, and the page numbers must be at the bottom right side.

4. Title and Abstract
Depending on the manuscript language, the following table should be taken into consideration. In addition, the abstracts are limited to 250 words and should contain the purpose, the scope, the methodology used, and key results in brief. 3 to 5 keywords should be specified and given under the abstracts.

5. Body Text
The manuscripts should contain mainly title(s), abstract(s) and keywords body text with sections, references, and appendices. It should be noted that manuscripts written in Turkish should have an extended summary in English.

    Click here to download the manuscript template. 

6. Tables and Figures
All images, graphs, and figures are to be named as Figure and all tables as Table. Tables and figures should be numbered and have defining titles. The title of tables should be placed above the table while the title of figures should be placed beneath.
Examples: Table 1: Descriptive Statistics / Figure 1: Conceptual Model

Figures should be high quality, and the colours used in the figures should be black and white. In tables vertical lines should not be used. Horizontal lines should be used only to separate the subtitles within the table. The size of the tables and figures should not exceed the page size. Decimal numbers to be used in tables should be given as 2 digits after the comma. 

7. List of Appendices
Appendices should be given at the end of the manuscripts after the references.

8. Quotations and Citations
Authors should follow the 6th version of the APA (American Psychological Association) reference style for both in-text citation and references list. Citations must be indicated with the author's surname and publication year within the parenthesis. If more than one citation is made within the same parenthesis, separate them with (;).

    Authors must ensure that the names and the dates of the references are the same both in the text and the list of references.

    Examples for citing in the text are shown as follow:

Zimmerman (1983)
(Bloomfield & Anderson, 2010)
Chen et al. (2010: 122)
(Gneezy, Niederle, & Rustichini, 2003; Gneezy & Rustichini, 2004).
(Post et al., 2008)

9. References
The references should be included at the end of the text and should be named as a references under the format of the publication of the APA (American Psychological Association) style 6th Edition (https://apastyle.apa.org/). The utilised citations should be given in alphabetical order and 11 font size in the references section. The scientific studies belonging to the same author should be sorted from the oldest to the newest one. If the author’s name is not certain, the name of the scientific study should be written instead of the author name. The second and subsequent lines of the reference section should be set to start from 1 cm inside.

    The followings are examples for citing in the references:

Almeida, H., Campello, M., & Weisbach, M. S. (2004). The cash flow sensitivity of cash. Journal of Finance, 59(4), 1777–1804.

Bao, D., Chan, K. C., & Zhang, W. (2012). Asymmetric cash flow sensitivity of cash holdings. Journal of Corporate Finance, 18, 690–700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2012.05.003.

Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA guide to preparing manuscripts for journal publication. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Chen, D., Gan. C., Hu, B. (2013). An empirical study of mutual funds performance in China. Retrieved from http://ssrn.com/abstrat=2220323 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2220323.

Cleary, S. (1999). The relationship between firm investment and financial status. Journal of Finance, 54(2), 673–692.

Fazzari, S. M., Hubbard, R. G., Petersen, B. C., Blinder, A. S., & Poterba, J. M. (1988). Financing constraints and corporate investment. Bookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1988(1), 141–206.

Plath, S. (2000). The unabridged journals. K. V. Kukil (Ed.). New York, NY: Anchor.

A) Books

A-1) Edition Included

A-2) Part of Edited or Translated Work

A-3) Book Chapter

A-4) e-Book

A-5) Book with no author

B) Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers

B-1) Journal Articles

B-2) Journal Articles Online

B-3) Printed Magazine Article

B-4) Online Magazine Article

B-5) Newspaper Article

C) Conference Proceedings and Papers

C-1) Conference paper published in book form

C-2) Paper Presentation

D) Dissertation and theses

E) Websites

F) Reports

Publication Ethics

The Journal of Research in Business (JRB) is committed to maintaining the highest level of publication ethics. The journal follows the principles of Core Practices prepared in accordance with the guidelines and policies developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for the journal. In cases of misconduct or violation of publication ethics, the journal will take the publication ethics flowcharts developed by COPE (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts) as a reference.

Content published in this journal is peer-reviewed (Double Blind).

The authors must claim that all submissions must be original, unpublished (including as full text in conference proceedings), and not under the review of any other publication synchronously.

Sources used in the study should be cited and reported in the list of references properly. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two referees under a double-blind peer-review process. Plagiarism, falsification, and research/data fabrication, duplication, salami slicing, breaching of copyrights, prevailing conflict of interest are unethical behaviors. All manuscripts not in accordance with the accepted ethical standards will be removed from the publication.

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Research Ethics

Journal of Business Research adheres to the highest standards in research ethics and follows the principles of international research ethics as defined below. The authors are responsible for the compliance of the manuscripts with the ethical rules.
Principles of integrity, quality and transparency should be sustained in designing the research, reviewing the design, and conducting the research.

• The research team and participants should be fully informed about the aim, methods, possible uses and requirements of the research and risks of participation in research.
• The confidentiality of the information provided by the research participants and the confidentiality of the respondents should be ensured. The research should be designed to protect the autonomy and dignity of the participants.
• Research participants should participate in the research voluntarily, not under any coercion.
• Any possible harm to participants must be avoided. The research should be planned in such a way that the participants are not at risk.
• The independence of research must be clear, and any conflict of interest or must be disclosed.
• In experimental studies with human subjects, written informed consent of the participants who decide to participate in the research must be obtained. In the case of children and those under wardship or with confirmed insanity, a legal custodian’s assent must be obtained.
• If the study is to be carried out in any institution or organization, approval must be obtained from this institution or organization.
• In studies with human subjects, it must be noted in the method’s section of the manuscript that the informed consent of the participants and ethics committee approval from the institution where the study has been conducted has been obtained.

Author Responsibilities

It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that the article is in accordance with scientific and ethical standards and rules. And authors must ensure that the submitted work is original. They must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere or is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere, in any language. Applicable copyright laws and conventions must be followed. Copyright material (e.g. tables, figures or extensive quotations) must be reproduced only with appropriate permission and acknowledgment. Any work or words of other authors, contributors, or sources must be appropriately credited and referenced.

All the authors of a submitted manuscript must have a direct scientific and academic contribution to the manuscript. The author(s) of the original research articles is defined as a person who is significantly involved in “conceptualization and design of the study”, “collecting the data”, “analyzing the data”, “writing the manuscript”, “reviewing the manuscript with a critical perspective” and “planning/conducting the study of the manuscript and/or revising it”. Fundraising, data collection or supervision of the research group are not sufficient roles to be accepted as an author. The author(s) must meet all these criteria described above. The order of names in the author list of an article must be a co-decision and it must be indicated in the Copyright Agreement Form. The individuals who do not meet the authorship criteria but contributed to the study must take place in the acknowledgment section. Individuals providing technical support, assisting writing, providing general support, providing material or financial support are examples to be indicated in the acknowledgment section.

All authors must disclose all issues concerning financial relationships, conflicts of interest, and competing interests that may potentially influence the results of the research or scientific judgment. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published paper, it is the author’s obligation to promptly cooperate with the Editor to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

Authors can post the final, peer-reviewed manuscript version (postprint) to any repository or website.



Editor Responsibilities

Editor-in-Chief evaluates manuscripts for their scientific content without regard to ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, religious belief or political philosophy of the authors. He/she provides a fair double-blind peer review of the submitted articles for publication and ensures that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept confidential before publishing.

Editor-in-Chief does not allow any conflicts of interest between the authors, editors and reviewers. Only he has the full authority to assign a reviewer and is responsible for the final decision for publication of the manuscripts in the Journal.

Editorial board members never encourage authors to cite papers previously published by them, or the journal.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Reviewers must have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders. Their judgments must be objective.

Reviewers must ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept confidential and must report to the editor if they are aware of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author’s side. A reviewer who feels unqualified to review the topic of a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Journal of Research in Business does not charge any fee from the authors during or after the application.