Author Guidelines
How to submit your article
Authors may submit manuscripts and all associated files via the electronic submission system
mentioned below the editorial office (revue.africaine.ram@gmail.com), and track the progress
of their manuscript along review-peers process.
Authors will receive notifications by e-mail at all stages of the evaluation process of their articles.
Articles submitted must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.
The articles will be reviewed by three reviewers in a double blind review. Authors will be generally informed of acceptance, rejection, or the need for revision. For proofreading, PDF files will be sent to the corresponding author only and must be returned to the publisher within 7 days of receipt. The corresponding author will receive a PDF “reprint” of the final article.
Ethics and Conduct
All articles submitted to the journal must be original articles and never have been published.
The African Journal of Management holds respecting ethical codes and standards of research and scientific publication. We invite authors to ensure the scientific integrity of their work and ensure compliance with the rules before bidding their manuscripts.
By publishing an article in The African Journal of Management, the (s) author (s) undertake not to resort to unethical practices.
Evaluation Policy
The submitted article must be made completely anonymous by the authors. The authors’ names should be removed from the cover page and all internal references in the article to identify the perpetrators should be temporarily removed.
Articles should be sent anonymously to the African Journal of Management. Each article is evaluated in double blind by two competent members of the reading committee. The results of the evaluation of the article allow the editorial board for the final decision which will be transmitted to the author.
Formatting instructions
Paper presentation: the method I.M.R.A.D
The article should be organized as follows:
The first page should contain the full title, the English title of documents written in French, the authors’ names (no initials), addresses, emails and full address of their institutions.
The second page contains the summary (no more than 250 words) and six useful keywords for indexing.
Documents written in French should include a summary in English (250 words).
The document should preferably contain the following parts: (I.M.R.A.D)
- Introduction: The introduction aims to arouse reader interest by formulating the issues.
- Methodology: the methodology section is intended to introduce the discussion of the results by informing the reader about the validity of the responses of the study
- Results: This section begins with a description of the study population and then continues
through the neutral presentation, uncommented, the results themselves. - Discussion and conclusion: This part’s role is to provide a scientific interpretation of results and their discussion based on the literature review.
The titles of the main sections should be written in capital letters (font Times New Roman, 10 points, bold) with the numbering 1. The titles of sections are presented in lowercase letters (except the first letter capitalized) with Times New Roman font 10 points (3 points space before and after each paragraph), in bold and numbered (1.1). Subsequently, the titles are presented in numbered sequentially (1.1.1).
Figures, tables
Figures, tables, captioned illustrations and images are put in the text, numbered in order of their appearance in the text with the reminder of the source. The reference to the figures, tables, illustrations should be mentioned in brackets (for example [see Table 1]).
Page Endnotes should be numbered serially and presented at the end of the article. The notes
are to be used solely to provide additional information.
It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their articles are written in internationally acceptable English.
References
References to books, journal articles, articles in collections and conference or workshop proceedings, and technical reports should be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order. All references should be carefully checked for completeness, accuracy and consistency.
Ring P. S., Van de Ven A. H., “Structuring Cooperative Relationship between organizations”,
Strategic Management Journal, vol. 13, 1992.
Examples of references
[For an article in a journal]
Ring P. S., Van de Ven A. H., “Structuring Cooperative Relationship between organizations”, Strategic Management Journal, vol. 13, 1992.
Colasse, B., Standish, P. (1998). De la réforme 1996-1998 du dispositif français de normalisation comptable. Comptabilité - Contrôle - Audit 4 (2): 5-27.
Bouden, I. (2010) L’identification des incorporels acquis lors de regroupements d’entreprises, Revue française de gestion, 36 (207), pp. 111-123
[Book] FRANKEL, E. G., 1987, The World Shipping Industry (London, U.K.: Croom Helm).
Book
Strategor, Politique générale de l’entreprise, 5ème édition, Dunod, 2009.
Charreaux, G., Pitol-Belin, J. P. (1990). Le conseil d’administration. Paris: Vuibert.
Chapter in a book
Busse von Colbe, W. (2004). New accounting for goodwill: Application of American criteria from a German perspective. In The economics and politics of accounting (Eds, Leuz, C., Pfaff, D., Hopwood, A. G.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 201-218
Thesis
Lambert, C. (2005). La fonction contrôle de gestion : contribution à l’analyse de la place des services fonctionnels dans l’organisation. Doctorat en sciences de gestion, Paris: Université
Paris Dauphine.
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it currently under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in the “Comments” to the “Editor” section).
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the “Author Guidelines”, found under “About the Journal”
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