Journal of Management Information Systems is a top-ranked refereed quarterly journal intended to provide an integrated view of the entire field of MIS. It serves the needs of researchers as well as practitioners and executives managing the information resource.

The journal accepts empirical and interpretive submissions that make a significant novel contribution to the field of management information systems. Such contributions may present:

·     analyses of informational policy making in the organizational, national, or international setting;

·     investigations of social and economic issues of organizational computing.

Manuscripts should be submitted to

Dr. Vladimir Zwass
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Management Information Systems
19 Warewoods Road
Saddle River, NJ 07458
USA

Four copies of manuscripts should be submitted. The text should be double-spaced, on one side of good quality paper, allowing ample margins.

All illustrations, tables, etc., should be placed on separate sheets, included with each copy. Their approximate placement should be indicated in the text.

The covering letter should provide full affiliation, the mail and E-mail addresses, and telephone number(s) of the corresponding author. Brief biographical statements of all authors should be included.

The title page should include the paper title and the names and affiliations of all the authors. Authors’ names should not appear in the pages following the title page.

Every manuscript should contain an abstract (up to 150 words), and a set of key words and phrases to serve as indicators of the paper’s content.

A footnote on the first page should acknowledge any funding sources.

If the paper relies on the use of questionnaires or similar research instruments that are not included in the text, four copies of the instruments should be submitted.

All resubmissions should include four copies of the revised paper. Authors are encouraged to enclose a note explaining the revisions.

The final submission of an accepted paper should include two copies of the manuscript and a diskette with the complete text, including the biographical statements. (See separate instructions regarding preparation of your diskette after acceptance.)

The reference list should be provided at the end of the paper. The references should be arranged alphabetically according to the name of the first author or editor, and numbered. Citations in the text, referring to this list, should be made as numbers in square brackets, e.g., [9].

References should be provided as follows.

These should take the form: author(s), title, journal (italicized or underlined), volume and issue numbers, date, inclusive pages. For all authors, last names are given first; likewise for editors, with the names followed by "(ed.)". The name of the last author ends with a period. More than two authors (but not editors) are separated by semicolons. The title has only the first word and proper names (or their derivatives) in upper case, and it ends with the period. The date is given in parentheses.

Example:

17. Davenport, T.H., and Beers, M.C. Managing information about processes.
Journal of Management Information Systems, 12, 1 (Summer 1995), 57-80.

Author(s) are specified in the same style as for periodicals. In the title, all principal words are capitalized and the title is italicized or underlined. The title ends with a period and is followed by city, ":", publisher, year.

Example:

References to book chapters take this form: authors, title, "In," names of the editors, "(ed./eds.)", title of the book (all principal words capitalized and the entire title italicized or underlined), city, ":", publisher, year, "pp." inclusive pages. Note the need to include page numbers.

Publications in conference proceedings should be referred to in a similar fashion, with the full name of the conference italicized. Page numbers and publication details are necessary.

In preparing an accepted manuscript for publication, figures should be submitted as original drawings, complete, and ready for photo-reproduction. Tables submitted as cleanly printed copy may also be reproduced photographically. All lettering and figure elements should be large enough to readable when the figure has been reduced to fit the journal page. All figures and tables must be specifically referred to in the text. All figures and tables should have brief, descriptive captions. (See separate guidelines on preparation of electronic files.)

Authors will receive page proofs of their papers, which should be returned to the publisher within three working days. Each author will receive a free copy of the issue in which his or her paper appears. Additional copies of the journal and/or reprints may be ordered at the time the proofs are returned.

JOURNAL ARTICLE INTERNET-POSTING POLICY

The abstract of an Author's article, with standard bibliographic information about the place and date of publication, may be posted anywhere at any time. Posting of the Author's own pre-published version of the article on a secure, restricted-access network within the Author’s employing institution is also permitted at any time, as long as the standard bibliographic information is provided. After an embargo period of 18 months from the date of publication, Authors may, at their own discretion, post their pre-published text on their own website or open-access institutional website. In all cases, full bibliographic information for the final, published version with a link to the Publisher's website, www.mesharpe.com/journals.asp, must be included with a note that the posted version is not the final, published version.