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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.
  • There are two versions of your article for the "double-blind" peer review and we can tell by the different file names which version is anonymous.
  • The complete version of your article is "Microsoft Word" or "PDF/A" and follows the style guidelines of our journal.
  • The quotations follow the logic of the AKWI templates and point to permanent URLs wherever this possible.
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  • You have downloaded and completed the consent form in order to submit it (or a scan of it) together with your article.
  • You created an abstract of your article as unformatted text file.

Author Guidelines

Formatting instructions can be downloaded  here in PDF. Download templates for common text processors as a ZIP-File.

Download and complete this Consent Form. You will have to submit it (or a scan of it) with your article.

For the double-blind peer review you have to submit an anonymised version of your article. It will be replaced by the full version (with authors' names) for publication.

We appreciate it very much that you plan to submit an article. If this is your first contribution, check out the Instructions for Authors.

Fundamentals

Subjects which are substantial for Business Information Technology

Practice

Contributions to this section are of particularly high practical relevance. They are often research results that have arisen in the context of cooperation with industry partners and businesses.

Trends

Articles on current trends are published in this section. The editors value actuality and thus accept that contirbutions to this section may contain fewer cross-references than in other categories.

Book Reviews

Reviews of books and e-books

Theses

Summaries of outstanding theses from the field of business informatics can be included here.

Basically 2 pages with names of the institution, the author and the supervisor.

Special Automobiles

Once a year, several articles from the automotive sector appear in this section.

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