Aims & Scope
AFBR's goals are to publish scholarly contributions that will be effectively important and advance both academic's and practitioners' understanding within the spectrum of contemporary and emerging finance and banking issues. Moreover, AFBR encourages academics and researchers to submit manuscripts that will raise a new question or pose an old one in a pathbreaking way and research papers that test theories in specialized ways or document interesting phenomena that are likely to stimulate new research in the discipline of finance and banking. AFBR aims to take the leading role by not only covering the conceptual and empirical side of financial decision-making but also the influences of behavioural attributes of the decision-makers on the structure of the finance and banking system.
The AFBR aims to provide a platform for high-quality research related to finance and banking. The subject areas that are relevant to the journal scope include:
- Financial Innovations
- Financial Literacy
- International Finance
- Behavioural Corporate Finance
- Stock Market
- Risk Management
- Portfolio Analysis
- Corporate Finance
- Trading Strategies in Financial/Derivative Markets
- Anomalies in Financial Markets
- Mutual and Hedge Funds
- Financial Management
- Financial Decision Making
- Time Value of Money
- Pricing Financial Services
- Segmenting Financial Services Customers
- Wealth Management
- Regulations Affecting Financial Services Marketing
- Segmenting Financial Services Customers
- Risk Measurement and Asset Pricing
- Institutional Banking and Finance
- Islamic Banking
- Mobile and Online Banking
- Retail Banking
- Regulations of Financial Markets Banking
- Banking Industry Growth
- Bankruptcy and Banking
- Interest Rate Banking
- Foreign Exchange Rate Banking
- Lending Loans, Banking, etc.
Scopus: Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Subject Category – Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous); Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Subject Category – Finance; Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Subject Category – Economics and Econometrics; Social Sciences. Subject Category – Law; Social Sciences. Subject Category – Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC): Finance including Actuarial
Academic Journal Guide (ABS): Finance
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AFBR follows APA style.
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Author Guidelines
1. Authors must ensure that their papers are free of spelling and grammatical errors and typos.
2. Research papers should not exceed 6,000 words.
3. A separate title page of an article should contain the title of the paper, name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s).
4. The first page of an article should contain an abstract not exceeding 250 words and a maximum of eight keywords.
5. Equations in the text should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals within simple brackets and aligned against the right margin.
6. All appendices should be numbered consecutively using uppercase roman numerals and shown after the list of references.
7. References should be cited within the text as follows: According to Wickremasinghe (2005), foreign exchange market … These results are inconsistent with those of other studies (Perera, 1995; Silva, 2000)
8. List of references should show each citation in alphabetical order and follow the style of APA
9. Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. The corrected manuscripts should be submitted within 10 working days.
10. The Article Processing Charge (Formatting and Hosting) is 00 AUD.
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NOTE:
The publisher and journal have a policy of “Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism”. We check the plagiarism issue through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool (turnitin.com).
All submissions will be checked by Turnitin before being sent to reviewers.
Keep a Similarity Index <20% and single-source matches are not <2%.
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