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Author Guidelines

The African Journal of Political Science is an externally refereed journal published twice a year-June and December. Contributions, which may be submitted in English or French, should be not more than 8,000 words. The author's name, rank, institutional affiliation and address should be on the title page, separate from the manuscript, to ensure anonymity in the review process. Diagrams, graphs, etc., accompanying a manuscript should come camera- ready to avoid delays in production.

All contributions should be submitted on a diskette [51/4_ or 3.5_], preferably in Microsoft Word or WP 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 or 6.1, accompanied by a copy of the manuscript.

Presentation
Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced on A4 paper, single-sided and page numbered. Paragraphs should be indented by one cm unless after a heading when they should be full out to the left margin.

All headings should be left unnumbered and unlettered. Main heading-bold, lower case (with initial caps) full out. Sub-heading-bold, italic, lower case (with initial caps), set up as shown in the following examples:

Models of Policy Dialogue Sample

Corporatism-Sample of Size

Technocracy: Sample of Style

With gender, generally avoid "he" and "she" unless referring to a specific person or the sex of a person is relevant. Avoid "he/she".

Numbers-spell out numbers up to ten but use figures above except for:
A sequence of stated quantities, numbers, ages
Percentages
Measurements
Money
Decimals

Dates-February 1981 or 12 February 2001-NOT the 1st of February, 1981, February 1st 1981, or February 25, 1999. Use 1990s NOT 1990's.

Latin words and phrases, as well as those in languages other than English, to be in italics.

Ships-names in italics.

All references to books and articles should be identified in the text by the surname of the author, year of publication placed in parentheses, for example: (Mendy 1994: 95). If the

 

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.

  1. 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).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. 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.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

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African Journal of Political Science.   ISSN: 1027-0353