Author Guidelines
Contemporary Accounting Perspectives (CAP) welcomes original and unpublished scholarly contributions in accounting, auditing, finance, taxation, sustainability reporting, corporate governance, digital transformation, artificial intelligence applications in accounting and business, and related interdisciplinary fields.
Submitted manuscripts must demonstrate academic rigor, originality, methodological soundness, and relevance to contemporary issues in the field. CAP accepts theoretical, empirical, review-based, and interdisciplinary studies written in English.
All submissions undergo an initial editorial evaluation followed by a double-blind peer-review process. Manuscripts found outside the journal’s scope or not meeting academic, ethical, or formatting standards may be desk rejected before peer review.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted work is original, properly cited, and not simultaneously under consideration by another journal, publisher, or academic platform. Research involving human participants, institutional data, or sensitive data must comply with applicable ethical and institutional requirements.
Before submission, authors are required to review the journal policies carefully and prepare manuscripts according to the submission requirements and formatting guidelines of CAP.
Manuscript Preparation
Authors are required to prepare their manuscripts using the CAP Manuscript Template. Manuscripts should include a clear title, abstract, keywords, main text, tables and figures where applicable, references, and all required declarations.
Please download and use the CAP Manuscript Template.
Submission Language
Manuscripts submitted to CAP must be written in English. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the language, grammar, clarity, and academic style of the manuscript are suitable for scholarly publication.
Required Forms
Authors must complete and upload the following forms during submission:
Copyright and License Agreement Form
Referencing Style
All references and in-text citations must be prepared in accordance with the APA 7th edition referencing style. Authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of all references and citations.
For guidance, authors may consult the official APA Style Reference Examples.
Tables, Figures, and Visual Materials
Tables, figures, images, and other visual materials must be properly numbered, titled, labeled, and cited in the manuscript. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the use of copyrighted materials, figures, tables, images, datasets, or other third-party content where necessary.
Ethical Responsibilities
Authors must comply with international publication ethics standards and the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Manuscripts must not contain plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, image manipulation, misleading information, duplicate publication, redundant publication, or any other form of scientific or publication misconduct.
Where applicable, ethics committee approval, institutional permission, and participant consent must be obtained before conducting the research and must be declared during submission.
Conflict of Interest and Funding
Authors must declare any actual or potential conflicts of interest that may influence the research, analysis, interpretation, or publication process. All sources of financial support, institutional support, project funding, or sponsorship must also be disclosed where applicable.
Artificial Intelligence Disclosure
Authors must declare any use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the Ethics Declaration Form. AI tools must not be listed as authors. Full responsibility for the content, accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical compliance of the manuscript remains entirely with the author(s).
Peer Review Process
All submitted manuscripts are initially reviewed by the editorial team for scope, originality, format, and compliance with journal policies. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s requirements are subject to a double-blind peer-review process. The identities of both authors and reviewers are kept confidential during the review process.
Open Access and Copyright
CAP publishes articles under an open-access model. Authors retain the copyright of their work while granting the journal the right of first publication. Unless otherwise stated, accepted articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Submission File Format
The submission file must be uploaded in an editable format, preferably Microsoft Word. PDF files may be requested only for supplementary or final documentation where necessary.
Final Responsibility
By submitting a manuscript to CAP, authors confirm that they have read and accepted the journal’s author guidelines, submission requirements, publication ethics principles, peer-review procedures, open-access policy, copyright and licensing terms, and editorial policies.
