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Author Guidelines

Guidelines for submitting Articles to African Multidisciplinary Journal of Research

  1. Scholarly articles from business, social sciences, ICT, health sciences, and theology are welcome.

 

  1. Articles should not have been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

 

  1. An article should be between 5500 to 7500 words with an abstract of at most 300 words. It should be typed in Times New Roman front size 12, double spaced in the following structure; abstract, introduction, main body with sub-divisions and a conclusion.

 

  1. Citation of sources must employ the APA with full bibliographical details at the end of each article.

 

  1. For purpose of blind review, articles should come with a separate sheet indicating the title of the paper and then the following information about the author;
    1. Full name and title
    2. Name of the university or institution
    3. Current position/occupation
    4. An electronic mailing address.

 

  1. Articles are submitted for review and the comments of the reviewers are sent back to the authors for correction and improvement, where necessary before the articles are published.

 

  1. Articles must be submitted at least four months before the date of publication.

 

  1. Articles are to be submitted as e-mail attachment to spuresearch@spu.ac.ke

 

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 OpenOffice, 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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