Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Prepare your manuscript for Business, Management and Economics Engineering.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-08-03
Article types
Review
Letter
Readiness requirements
Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.
Abstract length
- Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
- Each article must comprise: – An abstract of approximately 200 words: this should summarise the article, not simply introduce the topic.
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- Title page should include a title of the paper, authors names, institutional affiliations, addresses, e-mails, ORCID, identification of the corresponding author, abstract and key words of the paper.
Keywords
- Provide 6-10 keywords chosen by the author.
Reference style
- Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
- Each article must comprise: – The main body of text should not exceed 5000–7000 words and should comprise: References.
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- They should then be referenced in the article (see an example ‘Data sets in repositories’ in References).
Figure and table rules
- Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
- Tables: should be created in Word or Excel and should be designed so that they easily fit a regular journal page.
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- Each table must have an informative caption to describe the table.
- Figures: may be supplied within the text file at submission, but on article acceptance they must be supplied as separate files.
- Each figure must have an informative caption to describe the figure.
- You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption.
- If the paper contains anything that has already been published (e.g. figures) then this must be declared and authors are responsible for obtaining relevant permissions to republish.
Funding statement
- Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
- Each article must comprise: – The main body of text should not exceed 5000–7000 words and should comprise: Acknowledgements, funding, declarations of conflict of interest, authors' contribution, etc.
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- Acknowledgements, Funding, Disclosure statement, and Contribution should be provided only in a title page (excluded from Anonymized Document file) in order to ensure author anonymity.
- Funding Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as Funding in a separate paragraph as follows: For single agency grants: This work was supported by the under Grant [number xxxx].
Competing interests
- Add or confirm the author-written Conflict of interest statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
- Conflict of Interest: all authors must declare if they have any conflict of interest that may have biased either their research or the article submitted.
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- Conflict of Interest Authors must also provide a disclosure statement within the article which will acknowledge any financial, professional, personal interest or benefit they have arising from the direct applications of their research.
Ethics statement
- Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Blinded manuscript
- Include or confirm the blinded manuscript required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Author contributions
- Add or confirm the author-written Author contributions statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
- Author Contributions and Acknowledgments Each person who made an intellectual contribution to the research, and the evaluation/analysis and to the writing of the article (see the ICMJE definition of authorship) should be named as an author.
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- This licence allows readers to disseminate and reuse the paper, but always requires them to grant the authors and the first publication full credit.
Supplementary files
- Letter: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
- Review: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
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- Embed or attach the author-supplied supplementary material so Articlo can extract and label it for the package.
- Supplemental information should be provided with the submission.
- Please note that authors take fully responsibility for the content of any supplemental information, and a disclaimer on the supplemental information must clearly state that they have not been formally reviewed.
Title page and author information
- Provide the author, affiliation, and correspondence details for the separate title page; Articlo creates the editable companion file.
- The linked Word template for Title Page > and Word template for Anonymized Document > should be used for the preparation of the manuscript for this journal.
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- Authors should provide the following information: – Affiliation (where the author was positioned when the research was undertaken – if authors change affiliation before publishing this should be given as a footnote).
- Authors should provide the following information: – ORCiD, this is not mandatory, but highly recommended for the benefit of authors: unique author identifier that ensures that all your works are correctly attributed to you – see https://orcid.org.
Article structure and word limits
- Each article must comprise: – An informative title: ensure that it clearly explains what the article is about (not exceed 20 words).
- Each article must comprise: – Between 6–10 key words.
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- Each article must comprise: – The main body of text should not exceed 5000–7000 words and should comprise: Methodology and/or theoretical framework.
- Manuscripts should be submitted as two separate files in Word format (see in Template of a manuscript).
- This ensures that they receive the maximum dissemination because there are no barriers to access.
- All submissions must be original papers, and not be under consideration by a journal elsewhere.
- Template of a manuscript The paper should be submitted in two different word documents.
- When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
- Equations Formulas, equations and their components presented in the text must be written in Equation Editor.
- You must ensure that anyone named in the acknowledgments agrees to being named.
- Please use the transliterated (not translated) version of the names and sources in non-Romanian alphabet.
- It will not be formally reviewed but will be considered to determine whether it is required by the article.
- Several grant funders now require this, and we believe that it benefits research by enabling other researchers to reuse and reinterpret data for the benefit of all.
- Sexist or racist terms must not be used.
- Authors must adhere to SI units.
- Submission All submissions should be made online at the Business, Management and Economics Engineering site https://journals.vilniustech.lt/index.php/BMEE by using "Make a Submission" button.
- Authors should provide the following information: – Full name.
- Authors should provide the following information: – Address.
- Authors should provide the following information: – Email address.
- New users will need to create an account.
Submission forms and permissions
- Evidence of permission granted must be available if requested – see in Reproduction of copyright material.
- Reproduction of copyright material If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission.
Article type and manuscript length
- The size of basic symbols in equations should correspond to the letter size of the main text – 10 pt; indexes should be in 7 pt, sub-indexes – 6 pt.
- Each table should be numbered sequentially throughout the article and mentioned in the main text.
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- Each figure should be numbered sequentially throughout the article and mentioned in the main text.
- Anonymized document should include a title, abstract, keywords, the main body text where personal data excluded in order to ensure author anonymity (it should be provided in Title Page file) and references.
Manuscript structure
- Each article must comprise: – The main body of text should not exceed 5000–7000 words and should comprise: Results of the research.
- Each article must comprise: – The main body of text should not exceed 5000–7000 words and should comprise: Discussion and interpretation of results obtained.
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- Each article must comprise: – The main body of text should not exceed 5000–7000 words and should comprise: Conclusions.
- Each article must comprise: – The main body of text should not exceed 5000–7000 words and should comprise: An introduction to the topic, describing the research question being addressed.
Language and text style
- They may have footnotes if explanations of abbreviations, etc., are required.
- Misleading or misreporting of findings: authors are required to ensure that they do not selectively, or incorrectly, report their findings, or use language to mislead the readers.
Authorship and originality
- People who contributed to the work (but do not fulfil the authorship criteria) should be listed in the Acknowledgments, along with their contributions.
- Authorship: all people who comply with the definition of authors (above) should be named as authors on the article, and, similarly, nobody who does not comply should be included as an author.
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- Authors may not be added or deleted after submission without full explanation and written consent of all authors.
What your package checks
Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 7,000 words
Keywords: 6-10 keywords
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Funding, Conflict of interest, Acknowledgements, Author contributions
Source transparency
This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.
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