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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.

  • Before you submit

    Submission checklist Retail Management Review


    Go through the 27 items below before sending your manuscript. If any item cannot be ticked, fix the file before submitting.


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    Type of contribution and fit

    Define the manuscript’s genre before formatting it.

    • The work addresses retail management and falls within RMR’s focus and scope.
    • I chose the section that best describes the work: Technical article (applied research), Technological article (solution & innovation) or Experience report (professional practice).
    • The length is within the section limit: 6,000–8,000 (technical), 5,000–7,000 (technological) or 3,500–6,000 (experience report) words, excluding title, abstract, references, tables and figures.
    • The text is original, has not been published and is not under review in another journal.
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    File and template

    Use the official template and check the file before uploading.

    • I used the official RMR template.
    • File in Microsoft Word (.doc / .docx), up to 2 MB.
    • A4 page, 2.5 cm margins on all sides.
    • Times New Roman 12 pt in the body and 10 pt in notes, tables and captions.
    • 1.5 line spacing and 1.25 cm first-line indent.
    • Up to three heading levels, following the APA system.
    • Tables and figures are in the body of the text, numbered, with a title (tables above; figures below) and the source identified.
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    Opening elements

    Required for all types of contribution.

    • Title of up to 15 words, informative, in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
    • Structured abstract of 150–250 words in the three languages, stating the problem, intervention, results and contribution.
    • Keywords: 3 to 5 terms separated by semicolons, in the three languages.
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    Manuscript structure

    The sequence maps onto the four moves of the CIMO protocol.

    • The text follows the order: Introduction, Theoretical framework, Method of the technical production, Project context, Intervention and mechanisms, Results and analysis, Final remarks and References.
    • The Context describes the organization and the problem situation.
    • The Intervention and Mechanisms describe the solution concretely: what it is, how it works and why it solves the problem.
    • The Outcomes are objective rather than generic, and compared with the theoretical framework.
    • The method is anchored in a recognized approach (action research, Design Science Research or applied case study), where applicable.
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    Citations and references (APA 7th edition)

    Reference errors and broken DOIs delay typesetting.

    • Citations in the author-date system; direct quotations with page numbers; “et al.” from the first mention for three or more authors.
    • Every work cited appears in the reference list, in alphabetical order, with hanging indent.
    • Active DOI whenever one exists, validated in bulk with Crossref’s Simple Text Query tool.
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    Blind review and registration

    Identification goes only in the metadata and on the title page.

    • I removed names, acknowledgments and revealing self-citations from the main file.
    • The file is anonymous, with no author identification in the document properties.
    • Authorship details are provided on a separate title page.
    • All authors are in the OJS registration with ORCID, affiliation, city, state and country.
    • The text is in Portuguese, English or Spanish, with prior language revision declared.

    All checked? Submit the manuscript through the platform and enter the authorship details in the OJS registration. If in doubt, consult the Author Guidelines.

Scientific papers

Section policyDouble-blind review

Scientific Articles

Original work that advances theoretical and empirical knowledge on retail and retail management.

Purpose of the section
 

This section receives original scientific articles that seek to describe, explain or predict phenomena in retail and its business environment. They may take an economic or behavioral approach, provided they present a rigorous analysis of relevant theory and the existing literature and highlight their contribution to the field of management.

Accepted types of work
 
Empirical or experimental study

Research using modern sampling procedures and statistical analysis, or an experimental design, with strong theoretical and empirical contributions.

Theoretical or conceptual article

Work that tests, broadens or builds strong theoretical frameworks, with relevance to business management theory and practice.

Literature review

Systematic, integrative or bibliometric review, or meta-analysis, with explicit method (databases, search strategy, inclusion and exclusion criteria), critical synthesis, identification of gaps and a research agenda.

Applied research (technical article)

An empirical study that addresses a retail management problem, with explicit method and verifiable results.

Not for this section: technological articles (solution and innovation) and experience reports (professional practice) must be submitted to their own sections. Work already published or under review elsewhere is not accepted.

Submission requirements
 
  • Length: 6,000 to 8,000 words, excluding title, abstract, references, tables and figures.
  • Opening elements: title of up to 15 words, structured abstract of 150 to 250 words and 3 to 5 keywords, in the three languages (Portuguese, English and Spanish).
  • Method: described in enough detail for the study to be replicated; empirical work must justify its sample and analysis procedures, and literature reviews must describe the search and selection protocol.
  • File: Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx) of up to 2 MB, in the official RMR template, anonymous, with citations and references in APA 7th edition.
  • Registration: all authors with ORCID, affiliation, city, state and country in OJS.
Evaluation
 
  • Desk review by the editors, without author identification: scope, methodological adequacy and compliance with the guidelines (response within 30 days).
  • Double-blind peer review by at least two external and independent reviewers.
  • Similarity check (Crossref Similarity Check): at most 15% overall (20% for literature reviews) and less than 3% from any single source.
Ethics and transparency
 
  • Declaration of conflicts of interest, author contributions (CRediT) and funding sources.
  • Declaration of AI tool use, where applicable, and of data availability; personal data of consumers must comply with the LGPD.
  • Publication in diamond open access, with no author fees, under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Please also consult RMR’s Author Guidelines, APA 7 Guide and Submission Checklist before submitting.

Technological Articles

Section policyDouble-blind review

Technological Articles and Experience Reports

Applied work with a professional emphasis on solving real retail management problems, with methodological rigor.

Purpose of the section
 

This section receives technical production work aimed at solving a practical problem or seizing an improvement opportunity in a real professional context, without giving up scientific rigor. The value of the work lies in the solution and its transferability to other organizations, not only in the knowledge generated about it.

Accepted types of work
 
Technological article

Development and validation of a product, system, algorithm or process applied to retail, with an evaluation of results. It accepts participatory or action-based approaches and the ex post facto systematization of solutions already implemented. Statistical significance is not required. E.g., dynamic pricing, a replenishment process, a store performance dashboard.

Experience report

An analytical description of a real intervention, project or process in a retail organization, led by the author, linking practice, theory and lessons learned. The theoretical framework is brief and serves to compare what theory predicted with what actually happened.

Not for this section: scientific articles (empirical, theoretical and applied studies) and literature reviews must be submitted to the Scientific Articles section. Work already published or under review elsewhere is not accepted.

Submission requirements
 
  • Length: technological article, 5,000 to 7,000 words; experience report, 3,500 to 6,000 words, excluding title, abstract, references, tables and figures.
  • Structure (CIMO protocol): Introduction; Theoretical framework; Method of the technical production; Project context; Intervention and mechanisms; Results and analysis; Final remarks; References. Context, Intervention, Mechanisms and Outcomes must be clear.
  • Presentation of the solution: describe the product or intervention concretely — what it is, how it works and why it solves the problem. This is the most closely assessed part and the one that fails most often.
  • Method: anchored, where applicable, in action research, Design Science Research or applied case study. Results must be objective rather than generic, including the situational factors that affected them.
  • Opening elements: title of up to 15 words, structured abstract of 150 to 250 words and 3 to 5 keywords, in the three languages (Portuguese, English and Spanish).
  • File: Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx) of up to 2 MB, in the official RMR template, anonymous, with citations and references in APA 7th edition; authors with ORCID and full affiliation in OJS.
Evaluation
 
  • Desk review by the editors, without author identification: scope, clarity of the problem, concrete presentation of the solution and CIMO structure (response within 30 days).
  • Double-blind peer review by at least two external and independent reviewers, who may include professionals with recognized expertise in the topic.
  • Criteria: managerial relevance, rigor of the method, quality of the solution and results, and transferability of the intervention.
  • Similarity check (Crossref Similarity Check): at most 15% overall and less than 3% from any single source.
Ethics and transparency
 
  • Organization’s authorization: declare that the organization involved authorized the disclosure of the data and information presented, safeguarding anything confidential or strategic. Personal data of consumers must comply with the LGPD.
  • Conflicts of interest: declare ties to the organization, to suppliers of the solution and to sponsors, especially when the author took part in the intervention.
  • Declaration of author contributions (CRediT), of AI tool use, where applicable, and of data availability.
  • Publication in diamond open access, with no author fees, under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Please also consult RMR’s Author Guidelines, APA 7 Guide and Submission Checklist before submitting.

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