Guidelines for Authors

The Research Journal “JOURNAL OF BANKING BUSINESS & COMMERCE (JBBC)” seeks to publish articles that explore, identify, extend and unify Banking, Business & Commerece, Islamic Finance & Banking Research etc. “JBBC” welcomes all the research papers having strong potential and significance to Banking, Business & Commerece.

Manuscript Submission

The authors are requested to submit a well-researched and original paper with a length of 5000–7000 words, including references. The paper must contain an abstract of 250 words, including Keywords. The terminologies of Arabic & all other languages in articles are to be translated into the Roma Script as well.
The article's first page should contain the title of the research paper, the name of the author (s), designation, institution affiliation, and contact details.
All the articles must be composed in MS Word; however, the font will be Times New Roman.

General Requirements

An article should be typed on A4 size paper (21.0 x 29.7) with at least 3.5cm margins on all sides. The font size of title headings should be for Articles 16 Bold, headings 14 Bold & sub-headings 12 Bold-Italic, and the main body of text 12 Normal; however, the font size for references is 09.
Paper includes:
Title page,
Abstract,
Introduction,
Literature review,
The Research Journal “JBBC” prefers a critical and analytical academic approach by providing a literature review of the research.
Results and Conclusions,
The transliteration of all references to non-English terminology has to be done by the author according to the JBBC transliteration table. All articles' references should be inserted as Endnotes.
Article references should be APA 7th Edition in-text citations inserted as Endnotes. The details of the style can be observed on the Sample Student Paper (APA 7th edition).

Submit your manuscript online after you register and log in on OJS.
Please do not send your article via email. Only submitted articles will be processed.
The articles are blind peer-reviewed by experts before publication. However, the Editorial Board reserves the right to exclude the paper without showing cause. The decision of the Editorial Board will be exclusive to the publication of the article.
The research paper must comprise an original and unpublished work and must not be against the fundamentals and injunctions of the scope of "JBBC." It is expected that the research paper sent to “JBBC” is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The article submitted for publication must be free of plagiarism. The author has to submit the article along with a similarity index report, and he/she will be legally responsible for any objection and legal proceedings in this regard.
The Editorial Board does not necessarily agree with the author's views and cannot be held responsible for any statement, comment, or information.

Hafiz Muhammad Usman

Managing Editor “JBBC”
Cell: +92 336 865 5559 +92 344 444 0024
Email: editor@jbbc.com.pk

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