Formatting and Template
Academic Paper Sessions
2025 Guidelines for Authors (Formatting and Template), last edited on February 21, 2025 (APMAA (Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Association) 2025 Annual Conference (s-ueno.sakura.ne.jp)
General Guidelines
All submitted manuscripts should report original, unpublished research results.
The official language of APMAA 2025 is English in both writing and presentation. If English is not your mother tongue (first language), check your draft using a professional editor and/or with a spelling- and grammar-matching application such as Grammarly before submitting your manuscript. You can download a free version of this application on a webpage and install it on your PC. If your document is hard to read, we will decline it before sending it to our reviewer (Desk Reject).
Manuscripts should follow the structure of a traditional research paper, i.e., you will need to adjust your document to the academic format (If not, Desk Reject).An empirical research paper's typical organization is Title, Abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and References.
Use Times New Roman font with font size 12, page size A4, and single-spaced
Abstract should be 200-300 words and placed preceding the text. The text should be over 5,000 but usually not exceed 10,000 words (If not, Desk Reject). Show five keywords below the abstract.
The cover page should contain the title of the paper, the author's name (first name, initial(s), and family name), position, and affiliation (capitalize the first character of each Word). Also, it contains email addresses. Please indicate the corresponding author and add his/her phone number.
To promote anonymous review, authors should not identify themselves directly or indirectly in their writing.
A Single author should not use the pronoun "we." Referencing should follow the APA style (APA Style; https://apastyle.apa.org/).
Each author registering for the conference is limited to two (2) full-length paper submissions (including co-author papers) for the Academic Paper Sessions.
Authors who received a "Minor Revision" or "Major Revision" notification are expected to resubmit their revised (final) manuscripts before a specified date (the temporal deadline is August 20) to get an "Accept" notification by September 1. Our review team engages in review on a first-come-first-served basis.
All authors of accepted manuscripts must complete and submit their camera-ready papers for inclusion in the "Proceedings" and abstracts for the "Book of Abstracts" before the due date (Sep.15, 2024). Authors can choose a "full-length paper" or "executive summary" submission for the conference proceedings, although we recommend submitting a full-length paper. Executive summaries are more extended than abstracts, running 3–7 pages (around 1500-2,000 words). They summarize the research output's purpose, methods, results, and conclusions so that someone who reads only the summary can understand the research.
To attend and present their papers, the presenter (the first author) must register (pay the participation fee) for the Conference before September 16, 2025.