Author Guidelines
The Nigerian National Human Rights Commission Journal welcomes cutting-edge articles that address novel, contemporary, practical, and policy-oriented human rights issues from scholars and practitioners. Submissions are received and reviewed on a rolling basis. Contributors should conform to the following guidelines:
- Manuscripts should average between 7,000 and 9,000 words in length, including footnotes. Manuscripts longer than 9,000 words will not be considered.
- All manuscripts should be sent with an abstract of not more than 150 words (forming part of the total word length).
- The Journal also welcomes ‘Case Law Reviews’ relating to human rights (not exceeding 2500 words) and ‘Book Reviews’ (not exceeding 1,500 words).
- Authors are responsible for the originality, validity, and integrity of the content of their manuscript. The Journal checks all submissions for plagiarism and substantive AI-generated contents before review. Submissions that violate academic integrity and transparency will be rejected outright.
- Manuscripts submitted to the Journal must not have been submitted or published elsewhere.
- Each submission should be in Microsoft Word format, Times New Roman 12 font size, 1.5line spacing.
- The Journal uses only footnotes in 9 font size, numbered consecutively and corresponding with ‘markers’ in the text.
- The Journal uses ‘UK English.’
- The Journal uses only the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) reference style. Authors should ensure strict compliance. Manuscripts that do not conform to the style guidelines will be rejected out of hand. The OSCOLA Quick Reference Guide may be downloaded at:
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/migrated/oscola_4th_edn_hart_2012quickreferenceguide.pdf. - Author or authors (in the case of co-authorship) should indicate on the title page (as a foot note) their name(s), degree, institutional affiliation, email address, mobile number, and ORCID identifier (where available).
- Only manuscripts that have met the above guidelines will be sent out for blind peer-review.
- The Journal will ensure timely reviews and notifications.
- Authors undertake in advance to revise their manuscripts if so required after peer-review.
- The Journal does not charge processing fees of any kind.
Contact Information
All manuscripts should be submitted electronically to:
The Editor-in-Chief, NNHRCJ info@nhrc.gov.ng, hri@nhrc.gov.ng,
or nhrcanigeria@gmail.com
For further enquiries, please contact: +234 816 253 5799
