JOURNEY OF TRADE SCIENCE Address: Room 202, building T, University of Commerce 79 Ho Tung Mau, Mai Dich, Cau Giay, Hanoi Phone: (84-4) 3764.3219 ext 2102 Email: tckhtm@vcu.edu.vn Website: www.tckhtm.vcu.edu.vn

1. The process of formation and development The Journal of Commercial Science was established under the Decision No. 6592/QD-BGD&ĐT-TCCB dated December 27, 2002 of the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Culture and Information, granting the License to operate the press No. 566/ GP-BVHTT dated December 24, 2002 with the following principles and purposes: - Publish and introduce scientific research works on commerce serving the training, research and teaching of the University. - Information and introduction of scientific research results on domestic and foreign trade. - To inform and propagate guidelines and policies of the Party and State of Vietnam in the field of education, training and economic development. When newly established, the Journal editorial office was staffed with 4 full-time staff including:

- Assoc.Prof.Dr. Pham Vu Luan - Editor-in-Chief

- Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Bach Khoa - Deputy Editor-in-Chief

- Assoc.Prof.Dr. Tran Hung - Editorial Secretary

- Assoc.Prof.Dr. Tran The Dung - Head of the Executive Board

Issue 4 issues of Journal/year. Since 2007 the editorial office has 6 full-time staff including:

- NGND. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Bach Khoa – Editor-in-Chief

- Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Doan Thi Lieu – Deputy Editor-in-Chief (retired in 2011)

- MSc. Hoang Thi Phi Yen – Editorial Secretary (transferred in 2012)

- NCS. Pham Minh Dat – Head of the Board of Directors

- Nguyen Thi Quynh Trang – Editor

- Bui Thi Thu – Editor

Publishing 6 issues/year since 2012. The editorial office has 5 full-time staff including:

- NGND. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Bach Khoa – Editor-in-Chief

- Assoc.Prof.Dr. Do Thi Ngoc – Deputy Editor-in-Chief (transferred in 2013)

- NCS. Pham Minh Dat – Editorial Secretary

- Nguyen Thi Quynh Trang – Head of the Executive Board

- Bui Thi Thu – Editor

Since 2013, The Trade Sciences Review has been published in English for 6 months/1 issue.

The focus of the work is to review, edit and publish scientific articles (Research Papers) in addition to devoting a certain amount of space to publishing practical reviews (Practical Reviews) in the fields of commerce. modernity (including trade in goods, services, investment activities and intellectual property) in Vietnam and the world. The quality of scientific articles has approached the international framework and level. Since 2012, the Journal has been ranked by the Vietnam Council for Professor Title as one of the top 5 economic scientific journals in the country in terms of quality in both content and form.

The Editorial Board of the Journal attracts leading scientists and teachers of the University and leading national and international prestigious professors, associate professors and PhDs.

Since 2013, the Journal has put summaries of articles (Abstracts) in English on the website of the University and the Journal.

In 2015, on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the establishment of the University and receiving the First-class Labor Medal, the Commercial Science Journal was assigned by the University's Rector to be the focal point for editing "The collection of scientific works published in the period 2010 - 2015". This work has been completed and uploaded online at www.vcu.edu.vn, which collects published scientific works of the University's teachers and scientists in the period 2010-2015. .

This is a valuable work not only for the authors, but importantly, it is a very useful reference database for researchers, graduate students, graduate students and students in the field. conducting scientific researches, master's theses and doctoral theses, and is also a testament to the quality accreditation of the University of Commerce in the past period.

2. List of staff of the Editorial Office of the Journal of Commercial Science

No. Full name Academic title, title Position Notes

1 Dinh Van Son - Editor-in-Chief

2 Pham Minh Dat

3 Nguyen Thi Quynh Trang - Head of the Board of Directors

4 Bui Thi Thu - Editor

3. Mission function

According to the Regulation on organization and operation of the Journal of Commerce Science issued together with the Decision No. 119/QD-TM-TCHC dated May 13, 2003 of the Rector of the University of Commerce, the Journal has the duties and the following powers:

- Publish and introduce scientific research works on commerce serving the training, research and teaching of the University.

- Propagate the guidelines and policies of the Party and State of Vietnam in the field of education, training and economic development and introduce research results (theoretical and applied) on domestic and foreign trade.

- Disseminate and update knowledge in the field of science and practice on trade, tourism and services.

- Information exchange on theoretical and practical issues, forecast analysis and propose solutions on current issues of economic, trade and environmental development in Vietnam, the region and the world. .

- Responsible for coordinating with units in the school to organize activities to meet the requirements of information and propaganda work.

- Management of civil servants on the unit's payroll.

- Manage assets and finances of the Journal according to the regulations of the State and the University.

- Perform other duties assigned by the Principal.

According to the Regulation on organization and operation of the Journal of Commerce Science issued together with the Decision No. 119/QD-TM-TCHC dated May 13, 2003 of the Rector of the University of Commerce, the Journal has the duties and the following powers:

- Publish and introduce scientific research works on commerce serving the training, research and teaching of the University.

- Propagate the guidelines and policies of the Party and State of Vietnam in the field of education, training and economic development and introduce research results (theoretical and applied) on domestic and foreign trade.

- Disseminate and update knowledge in the field of science and practice on trade, tourism and services.

- Information exchange on theoretical and practical issues, forecast analysis and propose solutions on current issues of economic, trade and environmental development in Vietnam, the region and the world. .

- Responsible for coordinating with units in the school to organize activities to meet the requirements of information and propaganda work.

- Management of civil servants on the unit's payroll.

- Manage the Journal's assets and finances according to the current regulations of the State and the University.

- Perform other duties assigned by the Principal.

12 issues/year

Before reviewers accept or decline an invitation to review from JTS, consider the following questions:

- Does the article match your area of expertise? Only accept if you feel you can provide a high-quality review.

- Do you have a potential conflict of interest? Disclose this to the editor when you respond.

- Do you have time? Reviewing can be a lot of work – before you commit, make sure you can meet the deadline.

Respond to the invitation as soon as you can – delay in your decision slows down the review process, whether you agree to review or not. If you decline the invitation, provide suggestions for alternative reviewers.

Before starting to comment the quality of the article

If accepting , reviewers must treat the materials you receive as confidential documents. This means reviewers can’t share them with anyone without prior authorization from the editor. Since peer review is confidential, reviewers also must not share information about the review with anyone without permission from the Journal.

Reviewer’s review report

The review will help the editor decide whether or not to publish the article. Giving reviewer’s overall opinion and general observations of the article is essential.

The comments should be courteous and constructive, and should not include any personal remarks or personal details including reviewers’ name.

Checklist

Give your main impressions of the article, including whether it is novel and interesting, whether it has a sufficient impact and adds to the knowledge base.

Point out any journal-specific points – does it adhere to JTS’s standards?

Give specific comments and suggestions, including about layout and format and references.

Nếu người phản biện nghi ngờ đạo văn, gian lận hoặc phát hiện nào khác, hãy nêu nghi vấn đó cho Tạp chí, cung cấp càng nhiều chi tiết càng tốt. Vui lòng truy cập Mục Đạo đức xuất bản của Tạp chí để tham khảo thêm.

If reviewers suspect plagiarism, fraud or have other ethical concerns, raise her /his suspicions with the editor, providing as much detail as possible. Visit JTS’s ethics site for more information.

According to JTS’s ethic policy, reviewers must treat any manuscripts that they are asked to review as confidential documents. Since peer review is confidential, they must not share the review or information about the review with anyone without the agreement of the editors and authors involved. This applies both during and after the publication process.

Any suggestion that the author includes citations to reviewers’ (or their associates’) work must be for genuine scientific reasons and not with the intention of increasing reviewers’ citation counts or enhancing the visibility of reviewers’ work (or that of their associates).

Recommendation of reviewers

When reviewers make a recommendation, it is worth considering the categories the editor most likely uses for classifying the article:

1) Reject (explain reason in report)

2) Accept without revision

3) Revise – either major or minor (explain the revision that is required, and indicate to the editor whether or not reviewers would be happy to review the revised article)

The final decision

The editor ultimately decides whether to accept or reject the article. JTS plays no part in this decision. The editor will weigh all views and may call for a third opinion or ask the author for a revised paper before making a decision. The online editorial system provides reviewers with a notification of the final decision. If this is not applicable, you can contact the editor to find out whether the article was accepted or rejected.

A double-blind peer review process

The Journal of Trade Science has adopted a double-blind peer review process based on the standard of international science journal.

After articles are accepted in the process of reviewing, the paper is automatically given a code number and classified by the research topic according to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) before being transferred to the reviewers (the reviewers could select some important criteria including: appropriate specialization and level of criticism in the research topic). During the review process, the reviewer may not know any information of the authors and vice versa.

The reviewing process consists of three basic stages: (1) Stage 1 - Preliminary estimate; (2) Stage 2 - Peer reviewing; and (3) Stage 3 – Approval. All stages in the review process of Journal would be displayed on the online posting system so that the author can keep track of the process of the article.

The review and publication process of the Journal could be described as follows:

Approval of the manuscript (Executive Board)

* Stage 1 – Preliminary estimate

After the author logins on the online system by the personal account and sends the manuscript successfully, the online recipient system would automatically confirm its arrival by email to inform the status of the manuscript

Simultaneously, the article would be processed through 2 stages: (1) Plagiarism checking and similarity checking (Turnitin); and (2) Checking the satisfaction of the article's form to the Regulation on the structure and form of scientific articles submitted to The Journal of Trade Science. Preliminary results could be:

C Preliminary Acceptance: If The paper meets sufficient criteria, the author would receive a response letter to inform transferring the review process of the Journal.

C Preliminary Rejection: If the article falls short of criteria, the author would receive a response letter to inform the next stages of the article: (1) the rejection of receiving the manuscript or (2) Revise and resubmission

The Journal of Trade Science would process and inform its author(s) of results of this preliminary estimate within 7 working days after receiving the paper.

* Stage 2 - Review

After the first stage, Editorial Board would select and send to the reviewers: Reviewer 1 and Reviewer 2. Reviewers would work seriously to give comments for the manuscript based on the detail criteria. The overall content of review process would focus on 5 contents as follows:

1. The significance of the thesis and New contributions of the thesis

2. Rationale for the study

3. Research model and/ or content of research topic used by author(s),

4. Research methodology

5. Scientific criticism and reliability of research results.

6. Implications/solutions to the research problem

7. Logical content, style and format of scientific articles

The conclusion of the review period could be :

(1) Rejection (The reasons explained on the report)

(2) Publication acceptance

(3) Revisions required (explaining the content to be edited, Spontaneously, note for Editorial Board whether the reviewer needs to review the revised article)

The author receives the comment of the reviewers so the author should revise carefully and promptly so that the reviewers consider.

The time for reviewers to read and send the comments: From 1 to 14 days, from the date of …… The Journal sends each reviewers (On the special circumstances, the Journal can request the reviewer to provide comments and read during faster and slower period)

The author revise and send the manuscript again: From 1 to 7 days, from the date of….The Journal sends comments for the authors ( On the special circumstances, the Journal can request the reviewer to provide comments and read during faster and slower period).

The period to finish the review process: From 1 to 3 months, from the date of….The Journal informs to receive in the review process ( The period can last up to 1 month in case the reviewer/author's request for an extension of time is accepted by the Editor-in-Chief)

* Stage 3 – Approvals

The Editor-in-Chief is the last person to make the final decision (the paper accepted or rejected for publication) when:

(1) The reviewer agrees: The author(s) will be notified of this decision If the editorial leaders agree with reviewers and the paper is included in the waiting list. Otherwise, another referee will be asked to settle the disagreement.

(2) The reviewer disagrees: This circumstances will be implemented as the second stage. The period of the approval would last from 1 to 9 months after the article is sent to review to have a final decision and inform the results to the author (s).

Publishing Policy

The paper, after its being accepted for publication, is sent to copyeditors who may make adjustments to its style, presentation, and formatting. Author(s) can be required to help with this process and is properly notified of any major changes.

- Step 1 – Copyediting: Necessary changes or adjustments are made to the format, style, language, and presentation according to the title of the Journal.

- Step 2 – Manuscript presentation: Copyeditors adjust format and layout of the paper in its electronic version, and also check for any possible mistakes and plagiarism before saving it in relevant folders for future consultation. The technician designs and presents the article according to the standard format of the Journal and then prints out.

- Step 3 – Proof reading: The paper is printed for proof reading by copyeditors and secretary before being sent to the layout technician. This copy is called the first-round proof. It is then reviewed carefully by copyeditors and secretary. All necessary information about the paper should be in place now, such as article history, abstract and keywords in English. After the review, the first-round proof is sent back to layout technician.

- Step 4 – Review of the second-round proof: layout technician makes corrections as instructed and produces the second-round proof. Copyeditors compare such with the first proof to detect possible mistakes. The proof is checked again by the secretary before it is returned to the layout technician.

- Step 5 – Decision on table of contents of the new journal issue: After all articles are well reviewed and arranged, the secretary draft the table of contents and all articles included in the issue are printed and paginated (this copy is called third-round proof) before being submitted to editorial leaders and secretary for approval. Last rearrangement and adjustments are made if need be before relevant documents are sent to the printing house.

- Step 6 – Final check: After the executive board agrees, The third-round proof would send to the layout technician to then turn it into pdf format and have it sent to the printing house house along with the cover design approved by the Journal. At the same time, final proof in .doc/docx is sent to JTS administrator for saving.

Duration for copyeditors to complete steps from 2 to 5 is at most two working days each. Duration for layout techinician to carry out steps from 4 to 7 is at most one working day each. Duration for the Stage 4 (preparations for publishing) varies from 10 to 15 working days, starting from reception of the accepted articles.

The publication of an article in Journal of Trade Science is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method.

It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society of society-owned or sponsored journals.

Duties of Editor

Publication Decisions: The editor of the journal is solely and independently responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to JTS should be published, often working in conjunction with the relevant society. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always underwrite such decisions. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding issues such as libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers (or society officers) in making these decisions.

Peer review: The editor shall ensure that the peer review process is fair, unbiased, and timely. Research articles must typically be reviewed by at least two external and independent reviewers, and where necessary the editor should seek additional opinions. The editor shall select reviewers who have suitable expertise in the relevant field and shall follow best practice in avoiding the selection of fraudulent peer reviewers. The editor shall review all disclosures of potential conflicts of interest and suggestions for self-citation made by reviewers in order to determine whether there is any potential for bias.

Fair play: The editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. The editorial policies of JTS should encourage transparency and complete, honest reporting, and the editor should ensure that peer reviewers and authors have a clear understanding of what is expected of them. The editor shall use the JTS’s standard electronic submission system for all journal communications. The editor shall establish, along with the publisher, a transparent mechanism for appeal against editorial decisions.

Confidentiality: The editor must protect the confidentiality of all material submitted to the journal and all communications with reviewers, unless otherwise agreed with the relevant authors and reviewers. In exceptional circumstances and in consultation with the publisher, the editor may share limited information with editors of other journals where deemed necessary to investigate suspected research misconduct. Unless JTS is operating an open peer-review system and/or reviewers have agreed to disclose their names, the editor must protect reviewers’ identities. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Declaration of Competing Interests: Any potential editorial conflicts of interest should be declared to JTS in writing prior to the appointment of the editor, and then updated if and when new conflicts arise. JTS may publish such declarations in the journal. The editor must not be involved in decisions about papers which s/he has written him/herself or have been written by family members or colleagues or which relate to products or services in which the editor has an interest. Further, any such submission must be subject to all of JTS’s usual procedures, peer review must be handled independently of the relevant author/editor and their research groups, and there must be a clear statement to this effect on any such paper that is published.

Vigilance over the Published Record: The editor should work to safeguard the integrity of the published record by reviewing and assessing reported or suspected misconduct (research, publication, reviewer and editorial), in conjunction with the publisher (or society). Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration to the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies. The editor shall further make appropriate use of the publisher’s systems for the detection of misconduct, such as plagiarism. An editor presented with convincing evidence of misconduct should coordinate with the publisher (and/or society) to arrange the prompt publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other correction to the record, as may be relevant

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method. In addition to the specific ethics-related duties described below, reviewers are asked generally to treat authors and their work as they would like to be treated themselves and to observe good reviewing etiquette. Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and decline to participate in the review process.

Confidentiality: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Reviewers must not share the review or information about the paper with anyone or contact the authors directly without permission from the editor. Some editors encourage discussion with colleagues or co-reviewing exercises, but reviewers should first discuss this with the editor in order to ensure that confidentiality is observed and that participants receive suitable credit. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage

Alertness to Ethical Issues: A reviewer should be alert to potential ethical issues in the paper and should bring these to the attention of the editor, including any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which the reviewer has personal knowledge. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation

Standards of Objectivity & Competing Interests: Reviews should be conducted objectively. Reviewers should be aware of any personal bias they may have and take this into account when reviewing a paper. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments. Reviewers should consult the Editor before agreeing to review a paper where they have potential conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers. If a reviewer suggests that an author includes citations to the reviewer’s (or their associates’) work, this must be for genuine scientific reasons and not with the intention of increasing the reviewer’s citation count or enhancing the visibility of their work (or that of their associates).

Duties of Authors

Reporting Standards: Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Review and professional publication articles should also be accurate and objective, and editorial ‘opinion’ works should be clearly identified as such.

Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the research data supporting their paper for editorial review and/or to comply with the open data requirements of JTS. Authors should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable number of years after publication.

Originality and Acknowledgement of Sources: The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted and permission has been obtained where necessary. Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have influenced the reported work and that give the work appropriate context within the larger scholarly record. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Plagiarism takes many forms, from ‘passing off’ another’s paper as the author’s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical behavior and is unacceptable.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication: An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal of primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical behavior and is unacceptable. In general, an author should not submit for consideration in another journal a paper that has been published previously, except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint. Publication of some kinds of articles (e.g. clinical guidelines, translations) in more than one journal is sometimes justifiable, provided certain conditions are met. The authors and editors of JTS concerned must agree to the secondary publication, which must reflect the same data and interpretation of the primary document. The primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication.

Confidentiality: Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.

Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made substantial contributions should be listed as co-authors. When there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the paper (e.g. language editing or medical writing), they should be recognized in the acknowledgements section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication. Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Only in exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider (at their discretion) the addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been submitted and the author must clearly flag any such request to the Editor. All authors must agree with any such addition, removal or rearrangement. Authors take collective responsibility for the work. Each individual author is accountable for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. Individual journals may have particular definitions of authorship, and authors should ensure that they comply with the policies of JTS

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects: If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript. If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) have approved them. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed. For human subjects, the author should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans. Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained where an author wishes to include case details or other personal information or images of patients and any other individuals in an JTS publication. Written consents must be retained by the author and copies of the consents or evidence that such consents have been obtained must be provided to JTS on request.

Declaration of Competing Interests: World association of medical editors define conflict of interest as “a divergence between an individual’s private interests (competing interests) and his or her responsibilities to scientific and publishing activities, such that a reasonable observer might wonder if the individual’s behavior or judgment was motivated by considerations of his or her competing interests”. All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could be viewed as inappropriately influencing (bias) their work. All sources of financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article should be disclosed, as should the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement, then this should be stated. Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest possible stage.

Notification of Fundamental Errors: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper if deemed necessary by the editor. If the editor or the publisher learn from a third party that a published work contains an error, it is the obligation of the author to cooperate with the editor, including providing evidence to the editor where requested.

Image Integrity: It is not acceptable to enhance, obscure, move, remove, or introduce a specific feature within an image. Adjustments of brightness, contrast, or color balance are acceptable if and as long as they do not obscure or eliminate any information present in the original. Manipulating images for improved clarity is accepted, but manipulation for other purposes could be seen as scientific ethical abuse and will be dealt with accordingly. Authors should comply with any specific policy for graphical images applied by the relevant journal, e.g. providing the original images as supplementary material with the article, or depositing these in a suitable repository

Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements.

1. Before you submit your paper

JTS considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that:

The manuscript is your own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work.

The manuscript has been submitted only to JTS ; the manuscript has not been submitted to more than one journal for simultaneous consideration.

The manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libelous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.

The author should carry out a final check of your submission before the author send it to JTS for review.

JTS operates a double-blind review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor-in-Chief’s decision is final.

JTS is free assess journal for all published papers.

2. General guidelines

Manuscripts are accepted in Vietnamese. Any consistent spelling and punctuation styles may be used. Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Long quotations of 40 words or more should be indented without quotation marks.

The submission should be single line spacing, with ample margins, and include a title page with the title of the contribution, name(s) of the author(s) and office(s) (as appropriate) and contact. The full postal address of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence and offprints should also be included. All pages should be numbered and a total word count supplied.

Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords by English; JEL codes; main text; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); image (s) (as a list).Table and image should be numbered and arranged an exact place.

There are no strict formatting requirements for main text, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements in main text needed to convey your manuscript including:

¨ Citation resources and introduction for subjects

¨ Research method and model

¨ Research results (Reality of research problems)

¨ Discussion/ general review and reasons

¨ Recommendations/ Perspectives, solutions

¨ Conclusion for new contributions and research directions.

Papers should be submitted in a form suitable for sending anonymously to re-reviewers (as be required). A reminder that papers should have a minimum of 8 – 14 pages, exclusive of References, Endnotes, Figures and Tables, etc.

For theoretical report, if the author wants to public the paper as a type of reviewing theory, the author should submit the abstract of the paper firstly to tckhtm@tmu.edu.vn for a preliminary assessment. The paper is considered only upon JTS invitation.

Abstracts of 150-250 words are required for all manuscripts submitted.

Each manuscript should have no more than 6 keywords and JEL codes (Journal of Economic Literature) classification codes included.

Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.

All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the first page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.

All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.

Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement on the title page of the manuscript, in a separate paragraph, as follows: For single agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number, time]”; For multiple agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency 1] under Grant [number, time]; [Funding Agency 2] under Grant [numbe, time]; and [Funding Agency 3] under Grant [number, time]."

For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms must not be used.

When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.

3. More specific guidelines

Font: Times New Roman, 12 points. Use margins of at least 2.0 cm, A4.

Number and Date: Arabic numerals should be used for all other numbers (e.g., 14). Dates should be written as follows: April 14, 2010

Title: Use bold for your article title, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.

Authors’ names: Give the names of all contributing authors on the title page exactly as the author(s) wish them to appear in the published article.

Affiliations: List the affiliation of each author

Email: Give the official email of author (s)

Correspondence details: Please provide an institutional email address for the corresponding author. Full postal details are also needed by the publisher, but will not necessarily be published.

Anonymity for peer review: Ensure your identity and that of your co-authors is not revealed in the text of your article or in your manuscript files when submitting the manuscript for review.

Abstract: Indicate the abstract paragraph with a heading and Italicize the text.

Keywords: Please provide maximum six keywords to help readers find your article ( encouraging for the usage of the short key word and not extension of 6 keywords)

Headings: Please indicate the level of the section headings in your article:

+ First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.

+ Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.

+ Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.

+ Fourth-level headings should also be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph. The text follows immediately after a full stop (full point) or other punctuation mark.

Tables and figures: Indicate in the text where the tables and figures should appear, for example by inserting [Table 1 near here]. The actual tables and figures should be supplied either at the end of the text or in a separate file as requested by the Editor. Ensure you have permission to use any figures you are reproducing from another source.

Figure captions: Ensure that each illustration has a caption. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations use.

Name of Tables and Figures: name of tables on above tables and references under tables, name of figures, images under the figures or images.

References

JTS uses the American Psychological Associations reference style. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the pagination must be present. Use of DOI is highly encouraged.

Data references: This journal encourages you to cite underlying or relevant datasets in your manuscript by citing them in your text and including a data reference in your Reference List. Data references should include the following elements: author name(s), dataset title, data repository, version (if available), year, and global persistent identifier. Add [dataset] immediately before the reference so we can properly identify it as a data reference. The [dataset] identifier will not appear in your published article.

JTS welcomes all most popular reference management software products such as Mendeley and Zotero, but we prefer EndNote. Using the word processor plug-ins from these products, authors only need to select the appropriate APA style when preparing their article, after which citations and bibliographies will be automatically formatted in the journal's style.

Language: Vietnamese

Supplementary material: If your article includes any Videos and/or other Supplementary material, this should be included in your initial submission for peer review purposes.

Footnotes: footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article. Many word processors build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Should this not be the case, indicate the position of footnotes in the text and present the footnotes themselves separately at the end of the article.

Research data: JTS encourages and enables you to share data that supports your research publication where appropriate, and enables you to interlink the data with your published articles. Research data refers to the results of observations or experimentation that validate research findings. To facilitate reproducibility and data reuse, this journal also encourages you to share your software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods and other useful materials related to the project.

Double-blind review: JTS uses double-blind review, which means the identities of the authors are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. To facilitate this, please include the following separately.

Title page (with author details): This should include the title, authors' names, affiliations, acknowledgements and any Declaration of Interest statement, and a complete address for the corresponding author including an e-mail address. Included information about funding resources or references from doctoral thesis or other researches…

Blinded manuscript (no author details): The main body of the paper (including the references, figures, tables and any acknowledgements) should not include any identifying information, such as the authors' names or affiliations. The acknowledgements would be arranged under the end of papers when the papers are accepted.

Submission: The online submission system guides authors stepwise through the process of entering your article details and uploading your files. The system converts your article files to a single PDF file used in the peer-review process. Editable files (Word) are required to typeset your article for final publication. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, is sent by e-mail.

Revised submissions: Regardless of the file format of the original submission, at revision authors must provide JTS with an editable file of the entire article. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. To avoid unnecessary errors, authors are strongly advised to use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check' functions of authors’word processor.

4. Before submitting

The author should ensure that the following items presented:

One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:

+ E-mail address

+ Full postal address

All necessary files have been uploaded: (as least two separated files)

File of authors’ information

+ Include Title of study

+ All information of authors ( No 1,2,3..) including: name, affiliation, email, phone number, address. After submitting the papers, authors can not be allowed to change the information on the papers.

+ Abstract (Vietnamese and English)

+ Keyword (Vietnamese and English) and JEL code

Manuscript file (DO NOT PUT any information of author in this file

+ Including the name of the study

+ Abstract

+ JEL Keyword and JEL codes

+ All figures (include relevant captions)

+ All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)

+ Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided
+ Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicable)

+ Supplemental files (where applicable)

File of letters for the Editor (if available)

File of figures or tables (if separated)

Further considerations

+ Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'

+ All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa

+ Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)

+ A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare

+ Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements

5. Other guidelines

Declaration of interest

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disclose any interests in two places: 1) A summary declaration of interest statement in the title page file (if double-blind) or the manuscript file (if single-blind). If there are no interests to declare then please state this: 'Declarations of interest: none'. This summary statement will be ultimately published if the article is accepted. 2) Detailed disclosures as part of submission process, which forms part of the journal's official records. It is important for potential interests to be declared in both places and that the information matches

Submission declaration and verification

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint) that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service

Colleagues (Co-author)

Each author is required to list colleagues (co-author) having contributions to the article: all authors must have materially participated in the research and/or article preparation, so roles for all authors should be described. The statement that all authors have approved the final article should be true and included in the disclosure

Changes to authorship

Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement.

In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed.

Only in exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider the addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. While the Editor considers the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended. If the manuscript has already been published in an online issue, any requests approved by the Editor will result in a corrigendum.

Article transfer service

JTS has two versions including English and Vietnamese issue that are part of our Article Transfer Policy. This means that if the Editor feels your article is more suitable in one of our other versions, then you may be asked to consider transferring the article to one of two. If you agree, your article will be transferred automatically on your behalf with the need of language translation from you without any reformat. Please note that your article will be reviewed again.

Copyright

Upon submission of an article, authors are accepted that the copyright of your article is belonged to JTS.

Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Writing permission of JTS is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. JTS has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases.

Author rights

As an author you (or your employer or institution) have certain rights to reuse your work.

Role of the funding source

You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the r

Review for the Journal when the papers are accepted for publication: the Journal would apply the policy for each author as having the public papers and have to agree to review at least 1 other article when the author receives the review invitation of the Journal. Authors are pleased to understand that the independent double- blind peer review is a free operation to contribute academic knowledge for the Journal and community. The Editor would consider carefully in the research areas and the articles should be reviewed to have the high-quality comment for the appropriate content. We would reduce the conflicts of the authors and the reviewers on any perspectives, and ensure the double-blind peer review ( Both authors and reviewers do not any information each other). The require is aimed to ensure the review process continuously, objectively, fairly, and fairly with all authors who submit articles to the Journal.