Submissions

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.

Manuscripts should be scientifically sound, Original, Bonafide, Significant, Contemporary in nature, and Consistent with the 'Publication Ethics' and ‘vision and mission’ of the JCT.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The Article Text must be in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word file format.
The Article Text must not include Author's name and identity. It may affect the integrity of Review Process.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text should be double-spaced on A4 size layout with 1 inch margin; uses a 12-point calibiri font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. Read layout settings clearly.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. In APA style, adhere to Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC).

Author Guidelines

Before submitting your manuscript, we recommend to download and careful reading of Author Guidelines. It will help you in future too. Please click here to access Author Guidelines.

Research Paper

This section contains Research papers based upon some primary or secondary data analysis. The submissions must have hypothesis, objectives and methodology.

Book Review

This section contains a book Review with book image. You have to submit a genuine landscape of the book with all the reasons why this book is good for reading and why not.

Biography

This section contains a biography of a legend as innovator, entrepreneur, business leader or businessman.

Copyright Notice

Copy Right and Originality Statement

Copy Right Policy

Overview

The entire contents of the Journal of Commerce and Trade are protected under Indian and International copyrights. The 'journal' however, grants to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access, copy,use, distribute, perform and display the work publicaly for any reasonable non-commercial purpose , subject to proper attribution of authorship and 'ownership' of all rights. No person (including author/s) is authorised to reprofuce or recycle or restructure the pubhlished papers.
The Journal articles are licensed with 'Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License' to protect and facilitate authors and readers.
Author/s (corresponding author/s and other associated author/s) who submit papers, articles, biographies and book reviews to 'Journal of Commerce and Trade' are assumed that they have understood clearly, agreed vountarily and accpted knowingly the 'Copy Right Policy'of 'Journal of Commerce and Trade' as stated below:
In submitting the manuscript to the journal, the authors certify that:

I / We hereby, transfer any and all rights in and to the paper including without limitation all copyrights to the Journal of Commerce and Trade.
I/We hereby, grant Journal of Commerce and trade the unlimited, worldwide, irrevocable right to use information as part of the advertisement, distribution and sale of products incorporating the Work or Papers.
I/We release Journal of Commerce and Trade from any claim based on right of privacy or publicity.
I / We hereby, confirm that:
a) the paper is not defamatory,
b) the paper does not infringes the copyright of any third party,
c) it does not arise from any negligent or willful mis-statements,
d) it is a bonafide work and not taken from anywhere.
e) it is under the stipulated limit of plagiarism set by the Journal.
I/We have studied the all Para 1 to 4 and gone through Statement of Publication Ethics, Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy available at website carefully and understood clearly and confirm that all above statements are true and correct.

Copy Right Agreement

Authors who publish with Journal of Commerce and Trade has to agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY.
Authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or edit it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Originality Statement

All the authors have to abide by the originality statement as below:
I/We (corresponding author/s and other associated author/s) solemnly declare, agree and accept that:

The paper describes original work carried out by me/us. Paper gives proper acknowledgment to all contributors other than the authors named above.
The work described in the paper is original and no part of it has been copied or taken from other sources without necessary permissions.
Present Manuscript/ paper has not been published anywhere in any form of publication (in any language) and not presently under consideration for publication anywhere in form of publication.
The data upon which the manuscript is based for examination by the Editor or their assignees, if requested.
The published/ unpublished works of other authors have been properly cited and referenced.

The jurisdiction for any disputes or legal proceedings is Meerut, UP, India.

Queries
In case of any query, message or email to editor.
Updated: 25 July, 2022

Privacy Statement

On This Page:
How We Collect Your Information
Use of Cookies
Personal or Institutional Information
Google User ID
Orcid User ID
Use of Whatsapp API to Contact Us
Notifications
Use of Google Analytics
How We Use Your Information Delivery of Information
Follow-up
Announcements
Sharing With Affiliates or Licensors
Compliance With Law
How Long We Keep Your Information
Security Measures Taken by Us
Updating User Information
Safekeeping Data By the User
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Right of Withdrawl

Overview
This privacy statement is specific to this website ("Website") and overrides any other privacy policies appearing elsewhere on Journal of Commerce and Trade website. Journal of Commerce and Trade ("JCT", "we", "us" or "our") is committed to protect your privacy online. This privacy policy explains how we will protect your information. By using the Website, you are accepting the practices described in this statement. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact by emailing us at editorjct@gmail.com.

How We Collect Your Information

Use of Cookies
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Personal or Institutional Information
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Google User ID
We use the Google User ID feature to associate the visit of an author for submission so that his/her efforts may be reduced by registering himself/herself on our website from different devices with a Google user ID. This data is used in accordance with Google’s policies, and we do not transmit personally identifiable information to Google.

Orcid User ID
We use the Orcid User ID feature also to associate the visit of an author for submission so that his/her efforts may be reduced by registering himself/herself on our website from different devices with a Orcid user ID. This data is used in accordance with Orcid’s policies, and we do not transmit personally identifiable information to Orcid. When an author provides his/her Orcid Id, his/her id is stored with us but we cannot scroll or change his/her personal data at the Orcid website. Integrating orcid ids in the research papers increase the worth of papers instead.

Use of Whatsapp API to Contact Us
We use Whatsapp for quick communication. Whatsapp media is one side on our website. It is you who can first make a message to us. This system on our website do not store any phone no or communicates back until you initiate.

Notifications
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Use of Google Analytics
Based on our legitimate interest in analyzing, optimizing and making necessary updations in our website or web operations, we are using Google Analytics, a web analytics service by Google LLC (“Google“). Google is using cookies. Google has been certified under the Privacy Shield Frameworks. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online efforts, to compile reports about our website and internet usage. For this, pseudonymous user profiles of the users can be created from the processed data. We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization. The IP addresses transmitted by the user’s browser will not be merged with other Google data. Users can prevent the storage of the cookies through a respective setting in their browser software. An opt out cookie will be set that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website: Disable Google Analytics

How We Use Your Information

The information received through JCT website will be utilized within JCT for publication, indexation, metadata generation, and citation of author/s articles. The information will be utilized as:

Delivery of Information
JCT will use your residential or institutional addresses, email addresses or mobile phone numbers to deliver you the content in print or in electronic form.

Follow-up
JCT needs users’ (visitor, inquisitor, subscriber or author) information for support services, including dealing with returns, rescheduling, cancellations, billing and payment issues, or other matters. JCT may also collect user information for routine follow-ups in order to provide you better navigation and visibility of papers published.

Announcements
JCT website might use personal or institutional information for periodic announcements to visitors, inquisitors, subscribers or authors. These can include notifications, updates regarding the JCT website, call for papers, citations, article read and download statistics and so forth.

Sharing With Affiliates or Licensors
As a general policy, we use personal and institutional information and other data for internal purposes only. We do not sell or rent information about you. We will not disclose personal information and institutional and other data to third parties without your consent, except as explained in this Privacy Policy. We share your information within JCT with our affiliates, licensors and suppliers, which assist us in making the website available to you (e.g., our hosting supplier). We may share your name, affiliate and your research paper and the contents within it or metadata for citation purposes, archiving purposes and indexing purposes only to various repositories. This disseminates your writings world over and do not violate any copyright and Intellectual Property Rights.

Compliance With Laws
JCT cooperates with government and law enforcement officials to enforce and comply with the law. We may therefore disclose personal and institutional information, usage data, meta data, and any other information about you, if we deem that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request; (b) enforce the Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of JCT, its users or the public, as required or permitted by law.

How Long We Keep Your Information

We have to retain your information for a long time. Because in absence of the information, we have collected any time from you may destroy your paper’s visibility and its metadata provided to various indexing and other academic sites by us.

Security Measures Taken by Us

We use the SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in connection with the highest respective level of encryption supported by your browser. Normally this will be 256 Bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256 Bit encryption, we will use the 128 Bit v3 technology. Whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted fashion, you will recognize by the display of the key or lock icon in the status bar of your browser. We furthermore utilize suitable technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or the unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures will be constantly improved following the most recent technological developments. However, the policy should also emphasize that it's impossible for the JCT to completely guarantee that user data will be immune from malicious attack or compromise; as such, the users should understand that their transmission of personal data is always at their own risk.

Updating User Information
The user should be permitted to correct, update, or change their personal information, or adjust or cease the frequency with which they receive JCT communications. The user should also have the ability to disable their account, in accordance with the Terms of Use. In any case, if you choose to deactivate your account you can contact us through email. Once your account is deactivated, it may not be reinstated.

Safekeeping Data By the User
Finally, this privacy policy reminds all users (visitors, inquisitors, subscriber and authors) to carefully protect the personal and institutional information that they submit on our website — including their passwords, usernames, location, images, and articles — so that third parties can't manipulate their accounts or assume their identities. In case you find that your data is leaked or disclosed, please inform us immediately. If you communicate with other authors or see their work or other information, do not disclose any sensitive information in the public domain.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

JCT might make changes to its privacy policy from time-to-time and that it should periodically revisit the policy for any updates. JCT makes every effort to quick notify its users of any policy changes. In any case, users who continue to interact with the site following a revision of the company's privacy policy will automatically be subject to the new terms.

Right of Withdrawal

Provided that your personal data are processed based on legitimate interest, you have the right of withdrawal against the processing of your personal data according to Right to Privacy under Article 21 of Indian Constitution, 1949.