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Author Guidelines
AIMS AND SCOPE
African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science is established mainly to provide a forum for librarians, archivists, documentalists, information scientists and other information related professionals in Africa to report their research findings but with emphasis on African setting. The Journal is refereed by distinguished scholars. Emphasis is on empirical research; however, manuscripts of high quality on theoretical aspects of the three information related disciplines will be considered for publication.
MISSION
To provide on a regular and sustainable basis an excellent scholarly journal for reporting empirical research findings in the information profession in Africa.
VISION
To be the main resource base for library, archives and information science research in Africa.
NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS
Contributors are to submit the manuscript by e-mail file attachment using MS word and a hard copy, typed double space on A4 paper. Ample margins should be provided. The title, author’s name, position and place of work should appear on the first page. Subsequent pages, not more than 15, should include an informative abstract of not more than 100 words. A manuscript will be considered only if it has not been published elsewhere.
References and notes should be indicated in the text by names of authors and date of publication in brackets. The list of references should be listed in an alphabetical order at the end of the text.
References to journal articles should be in the following order:
Author(s), date, title, journal’s name, volume number, issue number and pagination, inclusive e.g.:
Mazikana, P.C. (1987) Archives and Oral History: Overwhelming Lack of Resources. Information Development, 3 (1) 13-10.
References to books should be in the following order: Author(s), date, title, place of publication, publisher, pagination, e. g.
Aboyade, B.O. (1989) The Provision of Information for Rural Development. Ibadan: Fountain Publications, 104 p.
References to contributors in collected works should be in the following order; authors(s), date, title of contribution, name of the editor, title of the collected works, place of publication, publisher and pagination, inclusive e.g.:
Neill, J.R. and Kotei, S.I.A. (1981) Towards a National Information System for Botswana. In: Inganji, Francis (ed.) Use of information and Documentation for Planning and Decision Making. Gaborone: NIR, pp. 36 – 53.
No charge is made for publication. Fifteen copies of reprints of each major article will be supplied to the principal author.
Manuscripts and other editorial materials should be directed to the Editor in Chief, Professor L.O. Aina, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of Botswana (e-mail:ainalo@mopipi.ub.bw) or any member of the editorial board nearest to you.
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.
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