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Author Guidelines

Frontiers in Business and AI welcomes original, methodologically sound and ethically conducted research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, business, management and related disciplines.

Before submitting a manuscript, authors must review the journal’s aims and scope, peer-review policy, ethical guidelines, open-access policy, copyright terms and applicable Article Processing Charges.

1. Types of Manuscripts

The journal considers the following types of submissions:

  • Original Research Articles

  • Review Articles

  • Systematic Reviews

  • Methodological Articles

  • Case Studies

  • Conceptual Articles

  • Perspectives

  • Short Communications

  • Invited Editorials

  • Special Issue Articles

The manuscript type must be selected correctly during submission. The editors may recommend a different article type where appropriate.

2. Originality

Submitted manuscripts must be original and must not have been formally published elsewhere or be under consideration by another journal.

Authors must disclose any preprint, conference paper, report, thesis, working paper or related manuscript that overlaps substantially with the submission.

Posting a manuscript on a recognised preprint server does not normally prevent consideration, but the preprint must be disclosed during submission.

3. Language

Manuscripts must be submitted in clear academic English.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that the language is sufficiently clear for editors and reviewers to evaluate the research. The journal may request language revision where the quality of English affects the clarity or interpretation of the manuscript.

Language editing does not guarantee acceptance.

4. Double-Anonymous Peer Review

Frontiers in Business and AI uses double-anonymous peer review.

Authors must upload:

  1. An anonymised manuscript containing no author names, affiliations, email addresses, acknowledgements or other information that directly identifies the authors.

  2. A separate title page containing complete author and submission information.

Authors should also remove identifying information from:

  • File names.

  • Document properties.

  • Running headers and footers.

  • Author biographies.

  • Acknowledgements.

  • Self-citations that reveal authorship unnecessarily.

  • Ethics or funding statements where institutional details would reveal identity.

Information temporarily removed for anonymous review must be restored after acceptance.

5. Title Page

The separate title page should include:

  • Full manuscript title.

  • Short running title, where applicable.

  • Full name of every author.

  • Institutional affiliation of every author.

  • Department, institution, city and country or region.

  • Email address of the corresponding author.

  • ORCID identifier of each author, where available.

  • Author contribution statement.

  • Funding statement.

  • Conflict of Interest Statement.

  • Acknowledgements.

  • Ethics approval and consent information, where applicable.

  • Data Availability Statement.

  • Generative AI disclosure, where applicable.

6. Anonymised Manuscript

The anonymised manuscript should normally contain:

  • Manuscript title.

  • Abstract.

  • Keywords.

  • Main text.

  • References.

  • Tables.

  • Figure captions.

  • Ethics statement written without identifying the authors.

  • Data Availability Statement written without identifying the authors.

  • Supplementary-material description, where applicable.

The manuscript should use a clear heading structure and continuous page numbering.

7. Title, Abstract and Keywords

The title should be concise, accurate and informative. It should reflect the main subject and contribution of the research.

The abstract should be able to stand independently and should briefly describe:

  • The research background or problem.

  • The objective or research question.

  • The methods.

  • The main findings.

  • The principal conclusion and contribution.

Authors should provide three to eight relevant keywords that are not merely repetitions of words already appearing in the title.

8. Manuscript Structure

Original Research Articles should normally contain:

  • Introduction.

  • Literature Review or Theoretical Background.

  • Materials and Methods.

  • Results.

  • Discussion.

  • Conclusions.

  • Limitations and Future Research, where appropriate.

  • References.

Alternative structures may be used where appropriate to the discipline or methodology.

Review articles and systematic reviews must describe their search, selection, evaluation and synthesis methods sufficiently clearly. Authors of systematic reviews are encouraged to follow an appropriate reporting guideline.

9. Tables and Figures

Every table and figure must:

  • Be numbered consecutively.

  • Be cited in the main text.

  • Have a clear and informative caption.

  • Identify the source of any third-party material.

  • Be legible at publication size.

  • Avoid unnecessary duplication of information in the text.

Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce third-party tables, figures, images or other copyrighted material.

Images must not be manipulated in a way that changes their scholarly meaning.

10. References

References must be complete, accurate and relevant.

Authors are responsible for verifying every reference against the original source. Fabricated, non-existent, irrelevant or misleading references are prohibited.

References should be prepared consistently using the citation style specified in the journal’s current article template.

Authors must not add citations solely to increase citation counts or satisfy inappropriate requests from reviewers, editors or other persons.

11. Authorship and Contributions

Every listed author must have made a substantial scholarly contribution, participated in drafting or critically revising the manuscript, approved the final version and agreed to be accountable for the integrity of the work.

Guest, gift, honorary and ghost authorship are prohibited.

The journal encourages authors to describe individual contributions using the CRediT contributor roles.

Contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged with their permission.

12. Funding

All financial and material support must be disclosed.

Where funding was received, authors should identify:

  • The funder.

  • The grant or award number, where applicable.

  • The author who received the funding.

  • The role of the funder in the research and publication process.

If no external funding was received, authors should state:

“This research received no external funding.”

13. Competing Interests

Every manuscript must include a Conflict of Interest Statement.

If no competing interests exist, authors should state:

“The authors declare that they have no competing interests.”

Relevant financial and non-financial relationships must be disclosed. Authors must update their disclosure if circumstances change during review or production.

14. Research Ethics

Research involving human participants, identifiable human information or human biological materials must have appropriate ethical approval unless a properly authorised body has granted an exemption.

The manuscript must identify:

  • The approving ethics committee or institutional review board.

  • The approval number, where available.

  • How informed consent was obtained.

  • The basis for any waiver of approval or consent.

Research involving animals must comply with applicable institutional and national animal-welfare standards.

The journal may request supporting ethics documents.

15. Data and Reproducibility

Authors should make the data, code, protocols and other materials needed to verify the findings available in a trusted repository whenever ethically and legally possible.

Every research manuscript must include a Data Availability Statement.

Where data cannot be shared publicly, the statement must explain the relevant privacy, consent, confidentiality, security, commercial or legal restrictions and describe any controlled-access procedure.

Editors may request raw data or supporting records during review or after publication.

16. Generative Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors.

Authors remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, references, permissions and integrity of all submitted content.

Use of generative AI beyond routine spelling, grammar, formatting or language improvement must be disclosed. The disclosure should identify the tool, purpose and manner of use.

Generative AI must not be cited as a factual or scholarly authority. Authors must verify all AI-generated statements, calculations and references.

17. Supplementary Materials

Supplementary files should contain material that supports the article but is not essential to understanding the main text.

Each supplementary file must have:

  • A clear file name.

  • A descriptive title.

  • A short explanation of its content.

  • Appropriate copyright and permission information.

  • No confidential or personally identifiable information unless publication is ethically and legally authorised.

18. Article Processing Charges

An Article Processing Charge is payable only after a manuscript has completed peer review and has been formally accepted for publication.

Payment does not guarantee acceptance and does not influence peer review or editorial decisions.

Authors must review the current APC amount, currency, waiver conditions and payment terms before submission.

19. Copyright and Open Access

Authors retain copyright in their published articles.

Unless otherwise stated, articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

By agreeing to publication, authors grant Global Frontiers Press Limited a non-exclusive right of first publication and the right to identify itself as the original publisher.

20. Submission

Authors must register with the journal or log in to an existing account before submitting.

The corresponding author is responsible for:

  • Completing all submission fields accurately.

  • Uploading the correct files.

  • Entering every contributor.

  • Obtaining approval from all authors.

  • Responding to editorial communications.

  • Informing co-authors of decisions and required actions.

Questions about submission should be sent to journals@gf-press.com.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • This submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
  • All tables and figures have been numbered and labeled.
  • Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.

Articles

This section publishes scholarly articles within the aims and scope of Frontiers in Business and AI. Submissions must comply with the Author Guidelines and the journal’s editorial and ethical policies. Manuscripts that pass the initial editorial assessment undergo double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent external reviewers, in accordance with the Review Policies.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright in articles published by Frontiers in Business and AI.

By submitting a manuscript and agreeing to its publication, the authors grant Global Frontiers Press Limited a non-exclusive right of first publication and the right to publish, distribute, preserve and identify the work as originally published in Frontiers in Business and AI.

Unless otherwise stated for clearly identified third-party material, published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0):

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Under this licence, users may copy, share, distribute, adapt and reproduce the article in any medium or format, including for commercial purposes, provided that:

  • Appropriate credit is given to the author or authors.

  • Frontiers in Business and AI is identified as the original journal of publication.

  • A link to the CC BY 4.0 licence is provided.

  • Any changes are clearly indicated.

  • No endorsement by the authors or publisher is implied.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to include third-party material that is not covered by the article’s Creative Commons licence.

The standard copyright notice for published articles is:

“© [Year of Publication] The Author(s). Published by Global Frontiers Press Limited. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).”

By completing the submission, the corresponding author confirms that:

  • All authors have approved the manuscript.

  • All authors agree to this Copyright Notice.

  • The manuscript does not knowingly infringe any copyright, privacy, confidentiality or other third-party right.

  • Necessary permissions have been obtained.

  • The authors have authority to grant the rights described above.

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