Pratibimba solicits original articles, research papers, cases and book reviews on all areas of management studies with special emphasis on contemporary issues from academicians, practitioners, and researchers. The contributors are requested to strictly adhere to the guidelines provided in the following:

• Authors must ensure that their papers are free of spelling and grammatical errors and typos.
• Research papers and research notes should not exceed 8,000 and 2,500 words, respectively.
• The first page of an article should contain the title of the paper, name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s) and an abstract not exceeding 150 words. A footnote on the same page should give address, telephone and fax numbers and email address of the corresponding author.
• The first page should also contain five key words and at least one classification code according to the Classification System for Journal Articles as used by the Journal of Economic Literature.
• Footnotes should be used sparingly and numbered consecutively using Arabic subscript numerals and double spaced. No tables or equations should be embedded within footnotes.
• Acknowledgements and information on grants received can be given in a first footnote, which should not be included in the consecutive numbering of footnotes.
• Equations in the text should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals within simple brackets and aligned against the right margin.
• All appendices should be numbered consecutively using upper case roman numerals and shown before the list of references.
• When formulae displayed have been derived by the author, the full derivations should be given on separate sheets (not to be published) for the information of the referees.
• We follow APA (American Psychological Association) referencing style. For examples of reference list formatting, please visit https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples. References should be cited within the text as follows: According to Wickremasinghe (2005), foreign exchange market. These results are inconsistent with those of other studies (Gupta, 1995; Sharma, 2000)

List of references should show each citation in alphabetical order as follows:

Journal articles

Chang, A., Fund, A.P., (2001), "Trade size, order imbalance, and volatility volume relation", Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 57 Issue 2, pp.247273.

Books

Lyons, R., (2005), IPO valuation mechanism. MIT Press, Cambridge, 2nd edition, ISBN: 81-315-0374-7.

Works in edited collections

Gadhart, C., Ito, T., Payne, X., (1996), one day in June 1993: a study of the working of the Reuters 2000-2 electronic foreign exchange trading system. In: Frankel, J., Galli, G., Giovannini, A. (Eds.), The Microstructure of Foreign Exchange Markets. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. If a reference has more than three authors, only the first name and et al. should appear in the citation. In the list of References, however, all of the names must be shown. Only references cited in the text should appear in the list of References.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• Accepted level of plagiarism is less than 10% from single source.
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced, Time New Roman, uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• All authors will receive a soft copy of the journal if accepted for publications. Currently no hard copy versions are provided.

PRATIBIMBA invites the submission of book reviews on scholarly topics of relevance to managers management educators and research scholars.

• Word limit: The reviews can range from 1000-2000 words depending upon the topic and the importance of the book.
• Format: Reviewer should title their review. In addition, each review should cite the title, author, place of publication and publisher, year, number of pages, and price, including both the cloth and soft cover prices if a paperback is available, of each book in the review. For example: Financial Management. By David Harry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, 283 pages, $4.95 (cloth), $10.95 (paper).
• Reviewers should also include a short biography that will appear on the Contributors page of the journal. For example: Eric Schoc teaches American literature at Hampshire College of Management and writes on class issues in American culture.
• Reviews should be written by only a single reviewer. The reviewer must indicate clearly the name of the reviewer along with the contact details and institutional affiliations.
• Reviewers have the responsibility to summarize authors arguments fairly and accurately. Reviewer should engage with the issues, problems, and themes articulated in the book and make a rigorous attempt to identify and assess the main set of arguments that have been put forth by the author. It should, in other words, be a strong engagement with the conceptual structure of the book and bring out its strengths and weaknesses. The structure of the review should avoid a mere chapter by chapter summary.
• While reviewers have the right to make normative judgments about books under review, personal attacks, ridicule, and distortion are not acceptable. The primary purpose of the book review section, in our view, is to foster a respectful and rigorous scholarly dialogue, rather than to deliver personal judgments or disagreements.
• Equations in the text should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals within simple brackets and aligned against the right margin.
• It would be useful if the reviewer could also include comments on the stylistic aspects of the book.
• When formulae displayed have been derived by the author, the full derivations should be given on separate sheets (not to be published) for the information of the referees.
• Reviews submitted for publication should be based on books published recently (preferably in the same or previous year).

Chief Editor
Dr. K. K. Beuria Professor (General Management and HRM) Institute of Management & Information Science, Bhubaneswar
Executive Editor
Dr. Badal Bihari Rath Asso. Professor, Institute of Management & Information Science (IMIS), Bhubaneswar
Editorial Advisory Board
Prof. P. D. Thomas Former Director, XLRI, Jamshedpur	Dr. Tapan K. Panda Director, NMIMS Deemed to be University (Hyderabad Campus)
Prof. Usha Kamilla Director, Institute of Management & Information Science, Bhubaneswar	Prof. Surya Dev Professor, Institute of Management and Information Science (IMIS), Bhubaneswar
Prof. Asit Mohapatra Former Professor, IIM-Ranchi
Editorial Review Board
Prof. Mukund R. Dixit Former Professor, IIM- Ahmedabad and Editor, Vikalpa	Prof. K K Panda Former Professor-cum-Registrar, Delhi University, Delhi
Prof. C. Panduranga Bhatta IIM, Kolkata	Prof. B.K Mohanty IIM, Lucknow
Prof. J. Mohapatra Former Professor, Sambalpur University, Odisha	Prof. S. Moharana Former Professor, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
Prof. Tanmoy De SIBM University, Hyderabad	Prof. Subhankar Nayak School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
Prof. Sanjay Kumar Jena Case Writer, IIM-Ahmedabad	Prof. Swarup Chandra Sahoo Former Professor, Utkal University Bhubaneswar, Odisha

	Indian	Foreign
Institutional	Rs.600/-	Current Exchange Rate
Individuals	Rs.500/-	Current Exchange Rate
Students	Rs.300/-	Current Exchange Rate

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Pratibimba- The Journal of Institute of Management and Information Science started its journey in the year 2001 with focus on promoting knowledge and in-depth research among academic communities around the world. It is peer reviewed, quantitative focused and Pro-Quest indexed Journal. Publication is free of cost and conceptual paper, empirical paper, case study or book review are published. It is biennial with editions published in January and July every year. Manuscripts are accepted for review across the year.
Pratibimba solicits original articles, research papers, cases and book reviews on all areas of management studies with special emphasis on contemporary issues from academicians, practitioners, and researchers. The contributors are requested to strictly adhere to the guidelines provided on the journal website https://imis.ac.in/pratibimba-the-journal-of-imis.php.
Authors can submit the soft copy of unpublished research work/manuscript anytime after preparing the same as per journal guidelines to our email address [email protected]..
We value your contribution and look forward to your positive response & contribution to the journal.

The Executive Editor

Dr. Badal Bihari Rath

Institute of Management & Information Science

Campus: Swagat Vihar, Bankuala, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, Pin - 751002
Ph: +91-8118095580 / 81 / 7042629717
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