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International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management. 2017 Impact Factor: 4.215 * 5-year Impact Factor (2017): 4.181* Author Guidelines.

Quick index. Manuscript requirements. Submit to the journal. Submissions to International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijpdlm. If you are unable to find the information you need in the author guidelines or our author resources ( http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/index.htm ) section, please email manuscriptcentral@emeraldinsight.com for assistance. Please quote the journal name, your contact details and the information your require. Instructions on how to register and submit your article are provided below. Please direct any queries concerning your submission to ijpdlm@cba.ua.edu. When submitting to a special issue, please follow the instructions provided in the call for papers. Registering on ScholarOne Manuscripts. If you have not yet registered on ScholarOne Manuscripts, please follow the instructions below: Please log on to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijpdlm Click on Create Account Follow the on-screen instructions, filling in the requested details before proceeding Your username will be your email address and you have to input a password of at least 8 characters in length and containing two or more numbers Click Finish and your account has been created. Submitting an article to International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management on ScholarOne Manuscripts. Please log on to International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijpdlm with your username and password. This will take you through to the Welcome page (To consult the Author Guidelines for this journal, click on the Home Page link in the Resources column) Click on the Author Centre button Click on the submit a manuscript link which will take you through to the Manuscript Submission page Complete all fields and browse to upload your article When all required sections are completed, preview your .pdf proof Submit your manuscript. Review process. Each paper is reviewed by the editor and, if it is judged suitable for this publication, it is then sent to at least two independent referees for double blind peer review. Keyword Guidelines. Please make every effort to carefully select the most effective key words for your research. Once published, the relative impact of manuscripts is largely contingent on their subsequent identification by peer researchers based on key word searches in electronic databases like Google Scholar. Thus, key words such as 'logistics", "supply chain management" or "performance" are far too generic to bring your research study to the fore. Key words are becoming an increasingly important issue in academic research and we appreciate your diligence in choosing the most appropriate ones. Articles submitted to the journal should not have been published before in their current or substantially similar form, or be under consideration for publication with another journal. Please see Emerald's originality guidelines for details. Use this in conjunction with the points below about references, before submission i.e. always attribute clearly using either indented text or quote marks as well as making use of the preferred Harvard style of formatting. Authors submitting articles for publication warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and will indemnify the publisher against any breach of such warranty. For ease of dissemination and to ensure proper policing of use, papers and contributions become the legal copyright of the publisher unless otherwise agreed. The editor may make use of iThenticate software for checking the originality of submissions received. Please see our press release for further details. Third party copyright permissions. Prior to article submission, authors should clear permission to use any content that has not been created by them. Failure to do so may lead to lengthy delays in publication. Emerald is unable to publish any article which has permissions pending. The rights Emerald requires are: Non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the article or book chapter. Print and electronic rights. Worldwide English language rights. To use the material for the life of the work (i.e. there should be no time restrictions on the re-use of material e.g. a one-year licence). When reproducing tables, figures or excerpts (of more than 250 words) from another source, it is expected that: Authors obtain the necessary written permission in advance from any third party owners of copyright for the use in print and electronic formats of any of their text, illustrations, graphics, or other material, in their manuscript. Permission must also be cleared for any minor adaptations of any work not created by them. If an author adapts significantly any material, the author must inform the copyright holder of the original work. Authors obtain any proof of consent statements Authors must always acknowledge the source in figure captions and refer to the source in the reference list. Authors should not assume that any content which is freely available on the web is free to use. Authors should check the website for details of the copyright holder to seek permission for re-use. Emerald is a member of the STM Association and participates in the reciprocal free exchange of material with other STM members. This may mean that in some cases, authors do not need to clear permission for re-use of content. If so, please highlight this upon submission. For more information and additional help, please follow the Permissions for your Manuscript guide. Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Emerald supports the development of, and practical application of consistent ethical standards throughout the scholarly publishing community. All Emerald’s journals and editors are members of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which provides advice on all aspects of publication ethics. Emerald follows the Committee’s flowcharts in cases of research and publication misconduct, enabling journals to adhere to the highest ethical standards in publishing. For more information on Emerald’s publication ethics policy, please click here. Copyright forms. Where possible, Emerald seeks to obtain copyright for the material it publishes, without authors giving up their scholarly rights to reuse the work. Assigning copyright to Emerald allows us to: Act on your behalf in instances such as copyright infringement or unauthorised copying Protect your moral rights in cases of plagiarism or unauthorised derivative works Offer a premium service for permission requests Invest in new platforms and services for the journals or book series you have published in Disseminate your work as widely as possible, ensuring your work receives the citations it deserves Recoup copyright fees from reproduction rights organisations to reinvest in new initiatives and author/user services, such as the Research Fund Awards and the Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. If an article is accepted for publication in an Emerald journal authors will be asked to submit a copyright form through ScholarOne. All authors are sent an email with links to their copyright forms which they must check for accuracy and submit electronically. If authors can not assign copyright to Emerald, they should discuss this with the journal Content Editor. Each journal has an Editorial Team page which will list the Content Editor for that journal. Editorial Services. Emerald is pleased to partner with Peerwith to provide editorial support for authors wishing to submit papers to Emerald journals. Peerwith is a platform for author services, connecting academics seeking support for their work with the relevant expert who can help out with language editing and translation, visuals, consulting, or anything else academics need to get their research submission-ready. Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. Emerald is a signatory of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, a framework that supports the reproducibility of research through the adoption of transparent research practices. Emerald encourages authors to cite and fully reference all data, program code and other methods in their article. References for data sets and program codes should include a persistent identifier, such as a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Persistent identifiers ensure future access to unique published digital objects, such as a text or data sets. Persistent identifiers are assigned to data sets by digital archives, such as institutional repositories and partners in the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS). When citing data we advise authors to follow appropriate international and national procedures with respect to data protection, rights to privacy and other ethical considerations. For further guidance please refer to our publication ethics guidelines. For an example on how to cite data sets, please refer to the References section below. Final submission. The author must ensure that the manuscript is complete, grammatically correct and without spelling or typographical errors. Before submitting, authors should check their submission completeness using the available Article Submission Checklist.

Proofs will be emailed prior to publication. Open access submissions and information. Emerald currently offers two routes for Open Access in all journal publications, Green Open Access (Green OA) and Gold Open Access (Gold OA). Authors who are mandated to make the branded Publisher PDF (also known as the "Version of Record") freely available immediately upon publication can select the Gold OA route during the submission process. More information on all Open Access options can be found here. For more information on HEFCE, visit our author rights page. Manuscript requirements. Please prepare your manuscript before submission, using the following guidelines: Authors must supply a structured abstract in their submission, set out under 4-7 sub-headings (see our "How to. write an abstract" guide for practical help and guidance): Purpose (mandatory) Design/methodology/approach (mandatory) Findings (mandatory) Research limitations/implications (if applicable) Practical implications (if applicable) Social implications (if applicable) Originality/value (mandatory) Maximum is 250 words in total (including keywords and article classification, see below). Authors should avoid the use of personal pronouns within the structured abstract and body of the paper (e.g. "this paper investigates. " is correct, "I investigate. " is incorrect). Authors should provide appropriate and short keywords in the ScholarOne submission that encapsulate the principal topics of the paper (see the How to. ensure your article is highly downloaded guide for practical help and guidance on choosing search-engine friendly keywords). The maximum number of keywords is 12. Whilst Emerald will endeavour to use submitted keywords in the published version, all keywords are subject to approval by Emerald’s in house editorial team and may be replaced by a matching term to ensure consistency. Authors must categorize their paper as part of the ScholarOne submission process. The category which most closely describes their paper should be selected from the list below. Research paper. This category covers papers which report on any type of research undertaken by the author(s). The research may involve the construction or testing of a model or framework, action research, testing of data, market research or surveys, empirical, scientific or clinical research. Literature review. It is expected that all types of paper cite any relevant literature so this category should only be used if the main purpose of the paper is to annotate and/or critique the literature in a particular subject area. It may be a selective bibliography providing advice on information sources or it may be comprehensive in that the paper's aim is to cover the main contributors to the development of a topic and explore their different views. Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the distinction between the hierarchy of headings. The preferred format is for first level headings to be presented in bold format and subsequent sub-headings to be presented in medium italics. All Figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, web pages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be submitted in electronic form. All Figures should be of high quality, legible and numbered consecutively with arabic numerals. Graphics may be supplied in colour to facilitate their appearance on the online database. Figures created in MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Illustrator should be supplied in their native formats. Electronic figures created in other applications should be copied from the origination software and pasted into a blank MS Word document or saved and imported into an MS Word document or alternatively create a .pdf file from the origination software. Figures which cannot be supplied as above are acceptable in the standard image formats which are: .pdf, .ai, and .eps. If you are unable to supply graphics in these formats then please ensure they are .tif, .jpeg, or .bmp at a resolution of at least 300dpi and at least 10cm wide. To prepare web pages/screenshots simultaneously press the "Alt" and "Print screen" keys on the keyboard, open a blank Microsoft Word document and simultaneously press "Ctrl" and "V" to paste the image. (Capture all the contents/windows on the computer screen to paste into MS Word, by simultaneously pressing "Ctrl" and "Print screen".) Photographic images should be submitted electronically and of high quality. They should be saved as .tif or .jpeg files at a resolution of at least 300dpi and at least 10cm wide. Digital camera settings should be set at the highest resolution/quality possible. Tables should be typed and included in a separate file to the main body of the article. The position of each table should be clearly labelled in the body text of article with corresponding labels being clearly shown in the separate file. Ensure that any superscripts or asterisks are shown next to the relevant items and have corresponding explanations displayed as footnotes to the table, figure or plate. References to other publications must be in Harvard style and carefully checked for completeness, accuracy and consistency. This is very important in an electronic environment because it enables your readers to exploit the Reference Linking facility on the database and link back to the works you have cited through CrossRef. You should cite publications in the text: (Adams, 2006) using the first named author's name or (Adams and Brown, 2006) citing both names of two, or (Adams et al. , 2006), when there are three or more authors. At the end of the paper a reference list in alphabetical order should be supplied: Surname, Initials (year), Title of Book , Publisher, Place of publication. e.g. Harrow, R. (2005), No Place to Hide , Simon & Schuster, New York, NY. Surname, Initials (year), "Chapter title", Editor's Surname, Initials, Title of Book , Publisher, Place of publication, pages. e.g. Calabrese, F.A. (2005), "The early pathways: theory to practice – a continuum", in Stankosky, M. (Ed.), Creating the Discipline of Knowledge Management , Elsevier, New York, NY, pp. 15-20. Surname, Initials (year), "Title of article", Journal Name , volume issue, pages. e.g. Capizzi, M.T. and Ferguson, R. (2005), "Loyalty trends for the twenty-first century", Journal of Consumer Marketing , Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 72-80. Surname, Initials (year of publication), "Title of paper", in Surname, Initials (Ed.), Title of published proceeding which may include place and date(s) held , Publisher, Place of publication, Page numbers. e.g. Jakkilinki, R., Georgievski, M. and Sharda, N. (2007), "Connecting destinations with an ontology-based e-tourism planner", in Information and communication technologies in tourism 2007 proceedings of the international conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007 , Springer-Verlag, Vienna, pp. 12-32. Surname, Initials (year), "Title of paper", paper presented at Name of Conference, date of conference, place of conference, available at: URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date). e.g. Aumueller, D. (2005), "Semantic authoring and retrieval within a wiki", paper presented at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 29 May-1 June, Heraklion, Crete, available at: http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/aumueller05wiksar.pdf (accessed 20 February 2007). Surname, Initials (year), "Title of article", working paper [number if available], Institution or organization, Place of organization, date. e.g. Moizer, P. (2003), "How published academic research can inform policy decisions: the case of mandatory rotation of audit appointments", working paper, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, 28 March. Title of Encyclopedia (year) "Title of entry", volume, edition, Title of Encyclopedia, Publisher, Place of publication, pages. e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica (1926) "Psychology of culture contact", Vol. 1, 13th ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, London and New York, NY, pp. 765-71. (For authored entries please refer to book chapter guidelines above) Surname, Initials (year), "Article title", Newspaper , date, pages. e.g. Smith, A. (2008), "Money for old rope", Daily News , 21 January, pp. 1, 3-4. Newspaper (year), "Article title", date, pages. e.g. Daily News (2008), "Small change", 2 February, p. 7. Surname, Initials, (year), "Title of document", Unpublished Manuscript, collection name, inventory record, name of archive, location of archive. e.g. Litman, S. (1902), "Mechanism & Technique of Commerce", Unpublished Manuscript, Simon Litman Papers, Record series 9/5/29 Box 3, University of Illinois Archives, Urbana-Champaign, IL. If available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as a date that the resource was accessed. e.g. Castle, B. (2005), "Introduction to web services for remote portlets", available at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-wsrp/ (accessed 12 November 2007). Standalone URLs, i.e. without an author or date, should be included either within parentheses within the main text, or preferably set as a note (roman numeral within square brackets within text followed by the full URL address at the end of the paper). Surname, Initials (year), Title of Data Set , Name of data repository, available at: Persistent URL.