Applied Finance Letters Announcements

A4 Portrait, Margins 1.9 cm Left and Right; 2.5 cm Top and Bottom

Line and Paragraph Spacing: 1.0 with Add Space After Paragraph.

Alignment: Justified

Please include all tables and figures at the desired position within the document and not at the end of the document. These may be shifted slightly if necessary to ensure good document flow. Alternatively, you may provide an MS Excel workbook with all tables.

• Headings Century Gothic 12pt Bold
• Sub-headings Century Gothic 11pt Bold
• Body Text Century Gothic 10pt

Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line. Sections in bold, subsection Italic.

Example:

2.   Literature Review
2.1 Background

Equation Font: Times New Roman 10pt

Equation Numbers should be provided and right aligned, in italics.

Reference Equations as Equation (XXX), etc.

Concise and informative.

Please ensure that article submitted for copyediting is not a blind version. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.

Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that phone numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address. Contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.

If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.

A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.

Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.

Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Such abbreviations that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as in the footnote. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.

Use footnotes instead of endnotes. Number them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript.

Example:

[1] Body Text Century Gothic 10pt Body Text Century Gothic 10pt Body Text Century Gothic 10pt Body Text Century Gothic 10pt Body Text Century Gothic 10pt

Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance, proofreading the article, etc.).

Please include all tables at the desired position within the document and not at the end of the document. These may be shifted slightly if necessary to ensure good document flow. Alternatively, you may provide an MS Excel workbook with all tables.

Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place notes to tables below the table body in 8pt Italic font. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. Please bear in mind that we do not publish landscape tables.

Please include all tables at the desired position within the document and not at the end of the document. These may be shifted slightly if necessary to ensure good document flow. Alternatively, you may provide an MS Excel workbook with all tables.

Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place notes to tables below the table body in 8pt Italic font. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. Please bear in mind that we do not publish landscape tables.

APA 7th

*Citation "in text" - Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa).