Authors: Journal of Commercial Education
Information for Authors
Manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Commercial Education are subject to peer review by three independent referees. The final decision is taken by the Editor-in-Chief in consultation with members of the Editorial Board.
Papers will only be considered if the content is substantially new and original material that has not been published elsewhere, and has not been submitted concurrently elsewhere, nor is likely to be published substantially in the same form elsewhere.
Copyright
Material published in the Journal of Commercial Education (JCE) is available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Authors, whose papers are published, retain copyright in their work and grant JCE right of first publication under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
This license allows journal readers to read, download, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, and can use the papers for any lawful not-for-profit purpose.
- Share: You can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- Attribution: You must give appropriate credit and provide a link to the license. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- NonCommercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes *.
- NoDerivatives: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
Any commercial use and redistribution of the papers are prohibited by default. However this may be considered only with authors’ and publisher’s written permission.
Peer Review Process
Peer review is fundamental in ensuring the integrity of the scientific publication process and can flag potential misconduct at an early stage.
Each paper submission is sent out for peer review to at least three independent reviewers, whose identities are not released, in a process named single-blind peer review. Papers may, however, be returned to authors without review if the Editors consider that they fall out of the scope of the Journal or fail to meet the basic criteria of scientific presentation, significance, or originality.
Reviewers shall conduct their evaluation in a timely and objective manner, avoiding any personal or unsupported criticisms. Reviewers agree not to disclose any information regarding the manuscript to any other party or to use any part of the content on their own behalf. To guarantee a completely rigorous and unbiased review process, reviewers should not have any conflicts of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders.
In case of unavailable reviewers from the Journal’s own pool of reviewers, the authors may be offered to propose suitable independent reviewers, who are not directly affiliated with their research unit and are not in any other form of conflict of interest with them. However, the Editorial Office reserves the right to ignore such proposals, if deemed inappropriate, and proceed with its own pool of reviewers.
The final decision concerning the manuscript is taken by the Editorial Office based on the reviewer reports and recommendations.
The possible decisions of the Editorial Office are: Accept, Minor revision, Major revision or Reject.
At least two strongly positive reviews are required for a submission to be accepted for publication. The usual review process could take up to four months, but this period may be longer depending on the specifics of the research presented and suitable reviewers’ availability in this period.
Editors and reviewers are required to keep confidential all details of the editorial and peer review process on submitted manuscripts. Reviewers will be removed from the Journal’s pool of reviewers if it is established that they conducted unethical practices against the authors and manuscripts to which they have been assigned, and have agreed, to review.
Publishing Ethics Policy
The present Publishing Ethics Policy concerns the standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing in the Journal of Commercial Education.
The document aims to provide a clear description and management of situations that may arise if these ethical standards have not been adhered to by the parties while promoting a shared understanding of the responsible publication practices in maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record.
Declaration of Originality and Authorship
Submitted manuscripts must be the original work of the authors.
A "Declaration of Originality and Authorship" must be submitted by the corresponding author, at the time of the initial manuscript submission. The declaration must be in a separate file. The declaration must state that:
- All authors who have made significant contributions to the work are included in the author list.
- The author order has been agreed upon by all authors.
- All authors are aware of the paper submission.
- The work submitted is original and the work of the authors.
- The work does not include copyright infringements or plagiarism.
- The work in the full text has not been previously published nor is under consideration elsewhere, in either English or other languages.
- State any relevant acknowledgements and/or conflicts of interest (if applicable, these must also appear in your manuscript in the Acknowledgements section).
- The declaration must be signed (digital signatures accepted) by the corresponding author.
Notes:
Partial reuse of other works is only possible:
a) in amount, justified for the purpose,
b) in the context of critical commentary and discussion of the work in question, and
c) provided the respective sources are duly quoted and cited.
Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence to produce content or for editing should be carefully considered given the above requirement that "Submitted manuscripts must be the original work of the authors" and the limitations of these tools, see Cossio 2025 and Hicks 2024. The editors would prefer authors to avoid using Generative Artificial Intelligence to produce content. Authors are responsible for what their submission contains. If Authors have used AI, they must disclose how and where it was used in the paper. This declaration should be included at the end of the paper and before the reference list.
Any changes to the author list after submission, such as a change in the order of the authors, or the deletion or addition of authors, must be approved by all authors from the original author list.
Post-publication issues
Processing Fee
A non-refundable processing fee of AUD 50 is payable on submission to:
Account name: Commercial Education Society of Australia
BSB for Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA): 062-005
Account: 0000-1925
Payment of the processing fee does not in any way guarantee publication.