Publication fees are common in many, but not all, academic journals. To find out what they are search out the web sites of your preferred journals on the internet. Almost of these sites will have a section entitled 'Information for Contributors' or 'Information for Authors'. This will tell you not only what fees might be incurred, but also the 'House Style' of the journal, which will give you information on how to lay out tables, references, spelling conventions etc.

sweetchick - 1)Your supervisor will not co-author a paper if he/she was not involved in the research and in writing the paper, 2)It is very unusal to pay journals to publish a paper (unless there is loads of graphics),3) Getting supervisors/lecturers to review your work may pick up typos and given some overall feedback but it will make little difference to the publishing process. The journal will be looking for methodological. theoretical and emprical grounding, originality, contribution to current knowledge and suitability to that particular journal at this point in time.

Even well published academics may have trouble publishing at times. A journal may have a theme running or have published something similar recently - so a rejection is not necessarily a rejection of your work. You need to research your target journal because if, as you say, your supervisor does not have an interest in your area then he/she may not be familar with the journal

Dear Bob, there is just one me and am proud of myself. needless to say, i help others in this forum & therefore i've got no reason not to be proud of who I am, by trying to be like others.

Thanks FindaPhD team. I have just found some useful information on publishing fees and format of the article on the websites of the journals.

Dear camper, one of the feedbacks i got was lack that my article did not make any ground breaking contribution. how is one to demonstrate this if there are no recent developments in the area? am thinking of changing my overall approach to the subject and adopting a new approach but still with nothing new, just a new way of looking at the issue in question. any suggestions?

Just read the entire thread.. I too feel that Ann was only trying to be helpful (like she always is!) and there was no reason to insult her in the way you did sweetchic. If I were you I would be grateful for any advice Ann gives as she is a credit to this forum, otherwise people may see you as being a little immature...

Are you sure there are no developments? If so you could try writing an article that outlines the gaps in research and suggests a new way forward e.g new theoretical appraoch. You may have a better chance of publishing with some original empirical data. Is there nothing you could draw on from your recent masters thesis - this could be a better option.

Dear Annoyed, i do not preoccupy myself with what people think of me; and i'd urge you to do the same. this particular thread is not about Ann, it's about REVIEWING ARTICLES.

Dear Camper, I am looking into possible gaps in the area am writing on in my new version of the article. I had not thought of getting original empirical data. i will definitely look into that possibility. thanks a lot.

Dear Camper, are you doing anything to do with corporate governance in your management course? do you know any recent texts that deal with the effectiveness of the different models of management?

sorry sweetchick - it is Alex that is studying business and management so he may be able to help. I study social science but not law/business.


Sorry I can't help but that sort of thing is a mystery to me!

These may be worth a look if you don't already know about them

http://www.corpgov.net/index.htm

http://www.ecgi.org/

Unfortunately, corporate governance is not my area. Try this site http://www.encycogov.com/ My advice would be to go to online article databases. Try this free one http://www.ssrn.com/ If you are still a student you should have access to databases through your library and can try to search the following ones if you have access to them: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journals/busmanacc http://search.epnet.com/
I am sure there are tons of articles, so you will have narrow down your search as you go. Good luck.

thanks guys.

Sweetchic said "i cannot risk underestimating what you are capable of."

Ann is clearly capable of great things, far greater than your seriously misaligned attitude and overinflated ego will ever allow you to.