Information for Contributors

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21240
• Date: 01 December 2017
• Published date: 01 December 2017

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 manage-

ment, leadership, and governance of nonprofi t and other civil society organizations around

the globe. Typical topics include management of human resources, resource development and

fi nancial management, strategy and management of change, and organizational eff ectiveness.

Topics must relate directly to management, leadership, or governance, 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 managers, trustees, and other leaders of nonprofi t

and voluntary organizations as well as academic 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.  e text of submitted papers should be a maximum of

10,000 words, including abstract, references, tables, illustrations, and appendices. Manu-

scripts should be submitted electronically using Manuscript Central, the journal’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—leaving

margins at least one inch wide.  e 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 author

surname and date of publi cation and include the original page number for each direct quota-

tion and statistic. For example: Smith (2008) or Smith and Jones (2009, 74). Provide a dou-

ble-spaced alphabetized list of only those references cited in the text, using the following style:

Journal Article

Preston, J. B., and W. A. Brown. 2004. “Commitment and Performance of Nonprofi t 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  e Nonprofi t Sector: A Research Handbook, 2nd ed., edited by W. W. Powell and

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

Refer to current issues of NML for additional guidance.