1. Article Types

Jurnal Sinar Manajemen accepts the following article types:

• Original Research Article, reporting original empirical or theoretical research.
• Review Article, providing a critical, systematic, or integrative synthesis of relevant literature.

2. Required Submission Files

3. Title Page Requirements

The Title Page must include:

• complete article title in sentence case;
• article type and manuscript language;
• short title of no more than 50 characters, including spaces;
• manuscript ID, when available;
• main text word count, excluding abstract, tables, figures, and references;
• number of tables and figures;
• full names of all authors in the correct publication order;
• complete institutional affiliations, including department or study programme, faculty or unit, institution, city, and country;
• ORCID and email address for each author;
• complete corresponding author information, including institutional address, official email, telephone number, and ORCID;
• author contributions using the CRediT taxonomy;
• ethics, consent, data availability, competing interests, funding, acknowledgements, and generative AI declarations; and
• confirmation that all authors approved the submission and authorised the corresponding author.

4. Anonymisation Requirements

Jurnal Sinar Manajemen applies double anonymous peer review. Authors must remove all information that may reveal their identity from the Anonymous Main Manuscript.

• Do not include author names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID identifiers, or biographies.
• Do not include acknowledgements or author contribution statements in the anonymous file.
• Do not identify an ethics committee, research centre, institution, or project when this would reveal the authors.
• Use neutral wording for self-citations and do not write statements such as “in our previous study”.
• Remove author names and other identifying information from the Microsoft Word file properties.

5. General Manuscript Preparation

• Submit the manuscript in Microsoft Word format using the official template.
• Do not remove, replace, or substantially alter the template structure and styles.
• Write the title in sentence case and make it specific, informative, and concise.
• Use clear academic language and maintain one consistent variety of English when the manuscript is written in English.
• Define abbreviations at first use and avoid unnecessary abbreviations.
• Use International System of Units where applicable.
• Report the manuscript word count in the Title Page and Anonymous Main Manuscript.
• Ensure that language, terminology, statistics, tables, figures, and references have been proofread before submission.

6. Abstract and Keywords

• Provide an English Abstract and an Indonesian Abstrak.
• Each abstract must contain 150 to 250 words.
• State the purpose or background, methods, principal results with relevant evidence, and main conclusion.
• Do not include references, tables, figures, or undefined abbreviations in the abstract.
• The English and Indonesian versions must contain equivalent information, terminology, numerical results, and conclusions.
• Provide three to five specific keywords in each language, separated by semicolons.

7. Structure of an Original Research Article

8. Structure of a Review Article

Review articles must present a clearly defined question or objective, a transparent search and selection method, a critical synthesis of the evidence, limitations of the review, and a conclusion supported by the reviewed evidence. Authors should use an appropriate reporting guideline when relevant.

A review article should not be a descriptive list of previous studies. It must provide critical analysis, integration of findings, identification of evidence gaps, and a clear contribution to management or business knowledge.

9. Tables and Figures

• Number tables and figures consecutively in the order they are cited.
• Refer to every table and figure in the manuscript text.
• Provide a concise and informative title for each table and figure.
• Tables must be editable and must not be submitted as screenshots.
• Figures must be clear, legible, editable where possible, and of sufficient resolution.
• Define abbreviations, symbols, units, and statistical tests in a note below the table or figure.
• Identify the original source and obtain permission when material is adapted or reproduced.
• Do not duplicate all values from a table or figure in the narrative text.

10. Ethics and Required Declarations

Authors must provide the following declarations. Complete identifying information should be placed in the Title Page during anonymous review.

• Ethics approval: identify the responsible body, approval number, and date, or explain why approval was not required.
• Informed consent: explain how consent was obtained when applicable.
• Consent for publication: state whether identifiable material is included and whether permission was obtained.
• Data availability: provide a repository and persistent identifier, access conditions, or a justified restriction.
• Competing interests: declare all relevant interests or state that none exist.
• Funding: identify funders and grant numbers or state that no specific funding was received.
• Author contributions: use the CRediT taxonomy and author initials.
• Acknowledgements: identify non-author contributions or support.
• Generative AI disclosure: identify the tool, version, and purpose, or state that no generative AI or AI-assisted technology was used.

11. Authorship and Contributor Roles

Every listed author must have made a substantial contribution, approved the submitted version, and accepted accountability for the work. Contributions must be reported using the CRediT taxonomy.

Applicable roles include conceptualisation, methodology, software, validation, formal analysis, investigation, resources, data curation, writing of the original draft, writing review and editing, visualisation, supervision, project administration, and funding acquisition.

12. References

• Use the APA 7th edition reference style consistently.
• Ensure every in-text citation appears in the reference list and every listed reference is cited in the manuscript.
• Prioritise relevant, primary, and current scholarly sources.
• Include a DOI as a resolvable URL whenever available, for example: https://doi.org/...
• Verify author names, publication year, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages, DOI, and URL before submission.