Submissions
Online Submissions
Already have a Username/Password for African Journal of International Affairs and Development?
Go to Login
Need a Username/Password?
Go to Registration
Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions.
Author Guidelines
The African Journal of Interactional Affairs and Development is an interdisciplinary publication devoted to high quality commentaries, articles, research notes, and book reviews on the legal, political-diplomatic, economic, sociocultural, and military-security issues at the core of Africa's foreign relations and world affairs. It covers the environment, development issue, conflict, and cooperation among regional actors in a global context. Despite its African origin, AJIAD maintains a wide thematic variety and broad outlook in theory, methodology and area focus, Special attention is paid to significant developments in Asia which provide lessons for Africa as dynamic societies entering a phase in global development and technology.
In its aim to break down the barriers among the worlds of academia, journalism, government, and business AJIAD's advertisement section includes announcements of conferences, meetings, new books, journals, and programmes. Information on tourism, trade and business worldwide is also included (contact the Advert Manager for current advertisement rates and schedules).
Manuscripts not longer than 15 A4-sized pages, typed double-spaced, accompanied by an abstract (150-200 words) and a half-page resume (summarizing the author's training, affiliation, professional and publishing career, research interest etc., should submitted in duplicate with an IBM-compatible disc in Microsoft Word.
Published authors are entitled to two free copies of the issue in which heir article appears. They are expected to subscribe to the journal and also encourage their institutions to subscribe as well.
Articles appearing in AJIAD are available on microfilm and electronically on CD-ROM, etc, at University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, and indexed in International Political Science Abstracts; the Abstract Journal, African Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands; Index of African Social Periodicals, CODESRIA, Senegal; International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publication, United Kingdom and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).
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.
- 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 submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point 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.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Copyright Notice
Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the journal.
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.