Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The manuscript is original and has not been previously published in substantially the same form.
• The manuscript is not currently under consideration by another journal.
• Any previous dissemination, including a preprint, conference abstract, working paper, thesis, or repository version, has been disclosed where applicable.
• All authors have approved the manuscript and agreed to its submission to JMET.
• The manuscript is clearly aligned with the JMET Aims and Scope, particularly in the fields of Management and Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, or Tourism and Hospitality.
• The manuscript provides a clear scholarly contribution and is not merely descriptive or outside the journal's core disciplines.
• The manuscript is written entirely in clear and professional academic English.
• The title, abstract, keywords, tables, figures, declarations, and references are presented in English where required.
• The manuscript has been carefully proofread for grammar, clarity, readability, and academic style.
• The manuscript is submitted in an editable Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx), unless otherwise specified by the journal.
• The manuscript follows the most recent JMET manuscript template.
• All required supplementary files have been uploaded.
• The main manuscript has been prepared for double-blind peer review.
• Author names, email addresses, affiliations, acknowledgments, and other unnecessary identifying information have been removed from the blinded manuscript.
• File properties or metadata that could unnecessarily reveal author identity have been removed where possible.
• A separate title page containing complete author information has been provided where required.
• The manuscript title is concise, informative, and accurately represents the study.
• The abstract clearly communicates the purpose, methodology, principal findings, conclusion, and contribution of the study.
• The abstract is consistent with the results reported in the manuscript.
• The manuscript provides appropriate keywords that support indexing and discoverability.
• The manuscript follows an appropriate scholarly structure for its article type.
• For empirical research, the manuscript normally includes Introduction, Literature Review/Theoretical Development where appropriate, Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and relevant declarations.
• The Introduction clearly identifies the research problem, research gap, objective, and scholarly contribution.
• The Discussion explains the theoretical and/or practical meaning of the findings rather than merely repeating the Results.
• The research design, population/sample, sampling procedure, data sources, instruments, data-collection process, and analytical methods are described sufficiently.
• Statistical, qualitative, mixed-methods, or other analytical procedures are appropriate to the research questions.
• Reliability, validity, trustworthiness, model assessment, or other relevant methodological-quality criteria are reported where applicable.
• The software and analytical tools used are identified where relevant.
• Ethical approval information is provided where required.
• The name of the ethics committee or institutional review body and approval number are reported where applicable.
• Informed consent has been obtained and reported where required.
• Consent for publication of identifiable personal information, images, quotations, or case material has been obtained where applicable.
• Participant confidentiality, privacy, and personal data have been appropriately protected.
• All listed authors meet appropriate authorship criteria and have made genuine scholarly contributions.
• Guest, gift, honorary, and ghost authorship are not present.
• Author contributions are disclosed where required, preferably using the CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy.
• All funding sources and grant numbers have been disclosed where applicable.
• If the research received no external funding, an appropriate statement has been provided.
• A Data Availability Statement has been included where applicable.
• Data-sharing restrictions arising from ethics, privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property, or legal requirements are clearly explained.
• Supporting data, code, or supplementary materials are available where appropriate and permitted.
• Any substantive use of Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies has been disclosed in accordance with the JMET Generative AI Policy.
• AI-generated or AI-assisted information, references, data, analyses, and other content have been independently verified by the authors.
• Generative AI has not been used to fabricate data, references, results, participants, or research evidence.
• Confidential, personal, or restricted research data have not been uploaded to external AI tools without appropriate authorization.
• The manuscript does not contain plagiarism, fabricated data, falsified results, inappropriate image manipulation, duplicate publication, or other forms of research misconduct.
• Any reuse of previously published material has been appropriately cited and complies with copyright requirements.
• The manuscript does not contain fabricated or unverifiable references.
• References comply with APA Style, 7th Edition, as required by JMET.
• Every reference cited in the text appears in the reference list.
• Every reference in the reference list is cited in the manuscript.
• References have been checked for accuracy.
• DOI links are included where available.
• References are selected on the basis of scholarly relevance and not for citation manipulation.
• The literature review includes appropriate recent and internationally relevant scholarly sources, while retaining seminal references where necessary.
• All tables and figures are numbered consecutively and cited in the text.
• Tables are editable and have not been submitted as screenshots from Excel, SPSS, SmartPLS, or similar software.
• Figures are clear, legible, and of sufficient quality for publication.
• Tables and figures accurately represent the underlying data.
• Appropriate sources and permissions are provided for third-party materials.
• Figures or images have not been manipulated in a scientifically misleading manner.
• The authors have the legal right to submit all material contained in the manuscript.
• Permission has been obtained for copyrighted third-party material where required.
• The authors understand that copyright remains with the author(s) and that accepted articles are published under the JMET CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
• The manuscript complies with the JMET Publication Ethics and Malpractice Policy.
• All relevant ethical, authorship, conflict-of-interest, data, and research-integrity information has been disclosed accurately.
• All OJS metadata are complete and accurate.
• Article title, abstract, keywords, author names, author order, affiliations, country, email addresses, and ORCID information match the manuscript.
• Funding information and other required metadata have been entered correctly.
• Author names have been entered consistently to support accurate DOI registration, indexing, and citation attribution.