Author Guidelines
Instructions for Authors
Note 1: This Journal uses: APA7 style and referencing, UK English.
Note 2: All submissions are completed on the Journal Website: https://journals.flvc.org/leading-and-managing
Title Page
Upload title page as a separate documented from the manuscript.
The title should be concise and informative.
Author information
The name(s) of the author(s)
The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author
If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)
Word Length
Abstract: 150-200word – this is entered on a separate page
Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
Paper: 6,000 – 7,000 words
The word count includes: body text, tables, graphs, references, appendices, and any supplemental materials.
Manuscripts exceeding the upper word limit will be returned to authors.
Peer Review
The papers are double-anonymize reviewed in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties. To maintain this standard, please ensure you include a separate title page in your main manuscript document and ensure any identifying information is masked.
All manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors and only those papers that meet the editorial standards of the journal, and fit within its aims and scope, will be sent for external review.
Commentary Guidelines
A Commentary is a short (2,000 words) Opinion-Ed piece which one might find on the Opinion page of The Guardian or the New York Times. It is not just a short journal article because it has no abstract, key words, or the usual traditional benchmarks for a research article which discusses methods, data analysis or findings. And the references are limited to two or embedded in the Commentary.
Commentaries are expected to be highly readable, factual expositions of an informed, highly developed perspective presented in a concise, straight forward manner.
Commentaries are not peer reviewed nor are they reviews of the literature. Rather they are selected by the Editors as a perspective worth consideration in a larger context surrounding an important issue, event or topic. They are welcome to be submitted at any time.
Research Ethics
Authors are required to declare that Ethical Committee approval was sought where necessary.
Authorship
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. It is the responsibility of the corresponding (submitting) author to ensure all co-authors are added and ordered correctly during the online manuscript submission process. Please include authors emails, institution and ORCID identifier.
Any contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the acknowledgment section.
Corresponding authors are required to declare any potential or perceived conflicts of interest in relation to the research during the submission process.
Funding
During the submission process, the Journal requires all authors to acknowledge any funding associated with their submission, including the funder details and grant/award number.
Preparing Manuscript.
This Journal uses APA7 formatting and referencing.
Text: new times roman, 12pts and double line spacing.
File formats - .DOC or .DOCX
Include all tables and figures in the paper.
Image format: TIFF or JPEG are preferred for pictures (containing no graphs or text). EPS is preferred for graphs and line art. No colour images.
AI
The use of AI must be declared. Follow APA guidelines in referencing specific sections of the paper that have used AI.
Acknowledgements
An Acknowledgment section may be included to acknowledge, for example, people who have assisted with aspects of the work (but who do not qualify as authors), disclaimers, collaborations, etc.
Statements and Declarations
Under the heading "Statements and Declarations" for inclusion in the published paper. Declarations include Funding, Competing interests, Ethics approval, Consent, Data, Materials and/or Code availability and Authors’ contribution statements. Please use the title page for providing the statements.
Please note that submissions that do not include relevant declarations will be returned as incomplete.
