Author Guidelines

"ESAF - The Es Accounting and Finance" is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. In this overview, the author will find information regarding our guidelines and procedures for manuscript submission. We look forward to receiving the contribution of pa the author.

 

SUBMITTING THE MANUSCRIPT

  • Manuscripts must be submitted electronically via the  journal’s electronic platform.
  • Submissions to "ESAF - The Es Accounting and Finance" may not be simultaneously under consideration by another journal or part of a book currently in press.
  • All authors must fulfill our criteria for authorship. Please see our list of criteria.
  • Manuscripts must be thoroughly edited and proofread prior to submission.
  • Scientific articles published in this journal incur a fee. Please see information on Article Processing Charges (APC) here

Please note that the submitting author will be the principal contact for editorial correspondence throughout the peer review and proofreading processes, if applicable.

 

PLAGIARISM DETECTION

The "ESAF - The Es Accounting and Finance" does not publish the plagiarised papers. The editorial board takes a stand that plagiarism, namely downloading the other people`s ideas, words or other kinds of a creative contribution and their presenting as ourselves, represents a gross violation of both scientific and publishing ethics. Plagiarism can include the violation of the copyright too, which is punished by law.

All papers published in the ESAF - The Es Accounting and Finance are tested using Turnitin software.

The manuscript with clearly determined indications of plagiarism will automatically be rejected. In the case if plagiarism is discovered in already published paper, the paper will be repealed (withdrawn) according to the procedure described under the section The withdrawal policy.  

 

ARTICLE TYPES

ESAF - The Es Accounting and Finance accepts the following types of papers: Original articles and review articles.

Original articles and review articles are subject to double-blind peer review and therefore must be anonymized prior to submission. See our Peer Review Policy.

 

LANGUAGE

All articles should be written in English, either British or American as long as consistency is maintained. SI units should be used.

 

MANUSCRIPT LENGTH

Manuscripts for peer review (scholarly articles) should not exceed 60,000 characters (incl. spaces), including footnotes. Exceptions may be granted by the editors for manuscripts up to 80,000 characters.

 

TITLE, ABSTRACT AND KEYWORDS

Title: The title should be informative and accurate and at the same time trigger the interest of the reader (center, bold, 14 pt).

Abstract: Articles must include an abstract of up to 100 to 200 words. The abstract should stand alone, enabling a reader to decide whether or not to proceed to the full text of the article (10 pt).

Keywords: After the abstract, please provide 5-10 keywords. Avoid using the same words as in the title (10 pt).

 

QUOTATIONS

Please use double quotation marks. Quotations longer than 40 words should set as a separate, indented block paragraph, without quotation marks.

 

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Include full name(s), current professional affiliation(s), and an email address for correspondence. If there is more than one author, please indicate who the corresponding author is.

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section. Such contributors might include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chairperson who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.

 

FIGURES

Figures/graphics/images should be submitted in high resolution, at least 300 dpi.

The author is solely responsible for securing the necessary permissions to reproduce any figures/graphics/images that are not the author's own. Any costs in connection with rights clearance for such content shall be borne by the author.

Credit figures/graphics/images appropriately and as instructed by third-party rights holders in parentheses at the end of the figure caption, for example: (Reproduced with permission from xxx.)

 

REFERENCE SYSTEM

The main references are international journals and proceedings. All references should be to the most pertinent, up-to-date sources and the minimum of references are 25 entries (for original research paper) and 50 entries (for review/survey paper). References are written in IEEE style. For more complete guide can be accessed at (http://ipmuonline.com/guide/refstyle.pdf). Use of a tool such as EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero for reference management and formatting, and choose IEEE style. Please use a consistent format for references-see examples (8 pt):

Journal/Periodicals

Basic Format:

  1. K. Author, “Title of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Journal/Periodical, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx-xxx, Abbrev. Month, year, doi: xxx.

Examples:

  • M. Chiampi and L. L. Zilberti, “Induction of electric field in human bodies moving near MRI: An efficient BEM computational procedure,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 58, pp. 2787–2793, Oct. 2011, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2158315.
  • Fardel, M. Nagel, F. Nuesch, T. Lippert, and A. Wokaun, “Fabrication of organic light emitting diode pixels by laser-assisted forward transfer,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 91, no. 6, Aug. 2007, Art. no. 061103, doi: 10.1063/1.2759475.

Conference Proceedings

Basic Format:

  1. K. Author, “Title of paper,” in Abbreviated Name of Conf., (location of conference is optional), year, pp. xxx–xxx, doi: xxx.

Examples:

  • Veruggio, “The EURON roboethics roadmap,” in Proc. Humanoids ’06: 6th IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. Humanoid Robots, 2006, pp. 612–617, doi: 10.1109/ICHR.2006.321337.
  • Zhao, G. Sun, G. H. Loh, and Y. Xie, “Energy-efficient GPU design with reconfigurable in-package graphics memory,” in Proc. ACM/IEEE Int. Symp. Low Power Electron. Design (ISLPED), Jul. 2012, pp. 403–408, doi: 10.1145/2333660.2333752.

Book

Basic Format:

  1. K. Author, “Title of chapter in the book,” in Title of His Published Book, X. Editor, Ed., xth ed. City of Publisher, State (only U.S.), Country: Abbrev. of Publisher, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx.

Examples:

  • Taflove, Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method in Computational Electrodynamics II, vol. 3, 2nd ed. Norwood, MA, USA: Artech House, 1996.
  • L. Myer, “Parametric oscillators and nonlinear materials,” in Nonlinear Optics, vol. 4, P. G. Harper and B. S. Wherret, Eds., San Francisco, CA, USA: Academic, 1977, pp. 47–160.

Theses (B.S., M.S.) and Dissertations (Ph.D.)

Basic Format:

  1. K. Author, “Title of thesis,” M.S. thesis, Abbrev. Dept., Abbrev. Univ., City of Univ., Abbrev. State, year.
  2. K. Author, “Title of dissertation,” Ph.D. dissertation, Abbrev. Dept., Abbrev. Univ., City of Univ., Abbrev. State, year.

Examples:

  • O. Williams, “Narrow-band analyzer,” Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Elect. Eng., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA, 1993.
  • Kawasaki, “Parametric study of thermal and chemical nonequilibrium nozzle flow,” M.S. thesis, Dept. Electron. Eng., Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan, 1993.

*In the reference list, however, list all the authors for up to six authors. Use et al. only if: 1) The names are not given and 2) List of authors more than 6. Example: J. D. Bellamy et al., Computer Telephony Integration, New York: Wiley, 2010.