Authors are required to strictly adhere to the ICMR (the author(s) may add an appendix if necessary). Manuscripts must be double-spaced on 8.27” x 11.69” paper. Body text should be written in Times New Roman, font size 12. Manuscript length should be reasonable for the contribution offered.

Submission Requirements

• Cover page showing title, each author’s name, affiliation, complete address, telephone and fax number, and the category of the article.
• Abstract of up to 150 words.
• Keywords, approximately five to seven words.

The manuscript length must range between 7,000 to 10,000 words, excluding tables, figures, references, and appendices. Authors are strongly encouraged to use reference management tools (such as Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote, and others) to ensure the accuracy of citations, grammar, and overall language quality in their submissions.

Manuscripts are reviewed by the editor, members of the ICMR Editorial Review Board, and occasional reviewers. The author’s name and affiliation are removed before reviewing in order to ensure objectivity. Please do not identify the author(s) in the body of the paper either directly or by citation.

Section

Manuscripts should be divided into five sections: Introduction, Literature Review, Research Method(s), Result(s) and Discussion(s), and Conclusion. Each section title should be written in Times New Roman, bold, font size 14. Sub-sections should be written in Times New Roman, bold-italic, font size 12.

Citation

References should be cited in the text using parentheses that include the author’s surname and publication year, without a comma between them, in accordance with the APA style guidelines. Page numbers may be added when necessary.

Reference

The article should contain a reference list sorted alphabetically by the author's surname or the institution's name. Only sources cited in the text should be included.

• Journal article, one author, accessed online
  Merton, R. C. (1973). An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model. Econometrica, 41(5), 867–887. doi:10.2307/1913811
• Journal article, two authors, accessed online
  Roll, R., & Ross, S. (1980). An empirical investigation of the arbitrage pricing theory. The Journal of Finance, 35(5), 1073–1103. doi:10.2307/232708
• Journal article, three or more authors, accessed online
  Chen, N., Roll, R., & Ross, S. (1986). Economic forces and the stock market. Journal of Business, 59(3), 383–403. doi:10.1086/296344
• Journal article from a subscription database (no DOI)
  Kumar, B., Singh, P., & Pandey, A. (2009). The dynamic relationship between price and trading volume: Evidence from Indian stock market. Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1527562
• Books, in print
  Fabozzi, F. J., & Modigliani, F. (1996). Capital markets: institutions and instrument (2nd ed.). New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
• Article in a Book Edited by another Author
  Hammond, K. R., & Adelman, L. (1986). Science, values, and human judgment. In H. R. Arkes & K. R. Hammond (Eds.), Judgement and decision making: An interdisciplinary reader (pp. 127–143). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Research Reports and Working Papers
  Mohammed, R. A. (2009). Analysis of Islamic Stock Indices (Unpublished magister dissertation). University of Waterloo, Canada.
  
  

For more information about APA style, please visit:

• www.apastyle.org
• Cornell APA Guide
• Purdue OWL APA Guide