Information for Contributors

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21242
• Published date: 01 March 2018
• Date: 01 March 2018

Information for Contributors

Nonprofi t Management & Leadership (NML) welcomes queries or fi nished papers from

both scholars and practitioners. NML seeks to publish the fi eld’s best original research on

management, leadership, and governance of nonprofi t and other civil society organiza-

tions around the globe. Typical topics include management of human resources, resource

development and fi nancial management, strategy and management of change, and organi-

zational eff ectiveness. Topics must relate directly to management, leadership, or gover-

nance, and the implications for practice must be made clear in the article. Papers must

clearly contribute new knowledge to a current area of inquiry of interest to both scholars

and practitioners. Strive to write in a jargon-free, nontechnical style accessible to manag-

ers, trustees, and other leaders of nonprofi t and voluntary organizations as well as aca-

demic researchers and teachers from a variety of disciplines.

Papers undergo double-blind peer review, and NML will ultimately publish roughly one

in four papers submitted. Do not submit work that has been previously published in any

form or is under review with other journals. The text of submitted papers should be a

maximum of 10,000 words, including abstract, references, tables, illustrations, and appen-

dices. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically using Manuscript Central, the jour-

nal’s Web-based submission and review site:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nml

Send questions regarding submission guidelines and manuscript status to Managing Editor

Gail Papay at gail.papay@case.edu. Direct substantive questions to the editor, Mark

Hager at mark.hager@asu.edu.

Manuscript Preparation

Type all copy double-spaced—including a brief abstract, references, and extracts—leav-

ing margins at least one inch wide. The title page should include the title of the article, the

names and primary affi liations of the author(s), and any acknowledgments or notes about

funding or support sources. To facilitate the blind review process, make sure information

about authors appears only on the title page. Spell out e.g., i.e., et al.,... to their English

equivalents and avoid complex mathematical symbols when possible.

Citations and References. Do not use footnotes. For literature citations in text, supply au-

thor surname and date of publi cationand include the original page number for each direct

quotation and statistic. For example: Smith (2008) or Smith and Jones (2009, 74). Provide

a double-spaced alphabetized list of only those references cited in the text, using the fol-

lowing style:

Journal Article

Preston, J. B., and W. A. Brown. 2004. “Commitment and Performance of Nonprofit

Board Members.” Nonprofi t Management and Leadership 15 (2): 221–38.

Book

Chait, R. P., W. P. Ryan, and B. E. Taylor. 2005. Governance as Leadership: Reframing

the Work of Nonprofi t Boards. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Chapter in a Book

Ostrower, F., and M. M. Stone. 2006. “Governance: Research Trends, Gaps, and Future

Prospects.” In The Nonprofi t Sector: A Research Handbook, 2nd ed., edited by W. W. Pow-

ell and R. Steinberg, 242–55. New Haven: Yale University Press.