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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.

  • All submissions must meet the following requirements.

    • This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
    • This submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
    • All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
    • All tables and figures have been numbered and labeled.
    • Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.

Sections

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  2. Guidlines to the Publishers/Contributors

    Notes To Contributors

    Preliminary Recommendations

    To ensure that the editorial process works as well as possible, the editors of the journal

    draw its authors’ attention to the need to follow the recommendations set out below as closely as possible.

     Structure of the Text

    The length:

    - article should be between 7000 to 8000 words.

    – book reviews should be between 1000 to 2000words.

    -article should contain the following:

    Surname (in capital letters) and first name (in lower case), the author will indicate:

    – their institutional affiliation; their complete contact details (email address and postal address).

     

    Abstract: the length of which must not exceed 200 words– four to eight keywords

     

    Introduction: the length of which must not exceed 300 words

     

    Literature Review: the length of which must not exceed 2000 words (provide a synthesis of the existing literature on your topic and provide knowledge gap to be addressed

     

    Methods: the length of which must not exceed 1500 words (describe what was done to answer the research question, describe how it was done, justify the design used, and explain how the results were analyzed)

    Results: the length of which must not exceed 2000 words (report the findings of your study based upon the information gathered and methodology applied)

    Discussion: the length of which must not exceed 1500 words (the section describes, analyzes, and interprets the findings in the context of research questions)

     

    Conclusion: the length of which must not exceed 500 words (reiterate why your study is important rather than a summary of your study)

    -References. Not more than 35 references

     

     Referencing

    .-All the cited references should be included in a at the end of the article. The text itself should contain only short-form references, Example: (Pluchon 1991: 689–710).

    References should be ordered by author surname in alphabetical order. References by the same

    author should be ordered chronologically. In the case of multiple references by the same author in

    the same year, the references should be distinguished as follows: 2001, 2001b.

    Each reference must include the following:

    – JOURNAL ARTICLE:

    SURNAME first name, year. ‘Article title’, Journal Title, volume/issue no., page range. Online edition: page URL [last accessed, date].

    – MULTI-AUTHOR WORK:

    SURNAME first name, year. ‘Article title’, in editor name, Title, place of publication, publisher, page range.

    Example: HEUMAN Gad J., 1998. ‘Freed Persons’, in Seymour Drescher & Stanley J. Engerman, A Historical Guide to World Slavery, New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 212–221.

    – SINGLE-AUTHOR WORK:

    SURNAME first name, year. Title, place of publication, publisher.

    Example: HONYCHURCH Lennox, 2014. Negre Mawon: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica, Roseau, Island Heritage Initiatives.

    – THESIS OR UNIVERSITY DISSERTATION:

    SURNAME first name, year. Title of dissertation or thesis, PhD thesis (or master’s dissertation), university, city.

     

    Authorization requests to reproduce and feature resources

    The author must take the necessary steps to obtain the right to reproduce and feature, in physical

    and digital form, the iconographic and/or multimedia resources that are to be reproduced in their

    article, or must have taken care to collect copyright-free material (that is either in the public

    domain or subject to a Creative Commons licence).

    Do not provide photos taken from the internet, which are often in very low definition and subject to copyright.

    Authors must take care to obtain the explicit, written consent of people shown in photos, appearing in videos and audible in audio extracts.

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