Originality of Articles
Author (s) are required to follow the guidelines during the online submission to ensure that the submitted manuscripts are not returned without effecting the corrections. It is also a requirement that authors will agree to the Declaration before submission, confirming that the following were strictly adhered to:
- That the research work submitted to this journal has not been submitted elsewhere for publication or is not being considered for publication or has not been published elsewhere in any form.
- That the research work is an original work of the author(s) and that any part of the work lifted from other works were properly and adequately acknowledged.
- All authors to the papers must have their emails, phone numbers, full addresses included at the relevant section of the paper. A confirmation of submission email will be sent to each author. Where any particular author(s) claims that he or she is not aware of the submission including his or her name, such submission will be rejected.
- The editors can request for the data used for the estimation and analysis of any paper.
- The authors are obligated to make such data available without hesitation. This is to validate the authenticity and the reliability of any paper published in this journal.
Structure of Manuscript
Submitted manuscripts must be 1.5 line spacing, front size 12, Times New Roman (with normal margin). All papers should be submitted in the following document formats; doc, .docx, rft. Research papers should not be longer than 15 to 17 pages (including title page, abstract, references, tables, figures). Authors whose articles exceed the required number of pages will be required to revise their papers before review or pay extra charges.
The title page should contain very informative and the title not more than 15 words using Times New Roman and front size 12 (CAPITAL LETTERS AND BOLD). List of the contributing authors with their names (first names and surname to be provided in full) and full addresses of institutions including emails and phone numbers. The name of the corresponding author should be indicated with asterisk as a standard practice even though the online submission has provision to indicate the corresponding author and the full correspondence address.
Before online submission, authors are advised to submit the following items:
- The main text which should contain the following section; (1) Introduction including the research problem and research objectives (2) Literature Review-the literature should be thematised and discussed and not blow by blow (3) Methodology (including the theoretical framework) and Data (4) Result and Discussion of Findings (5) Conclusions and
- Supplementary material not for review: This will contain the title of the article, authors’ names, institutional addresses, and emails.
- Abstract: the abstract should not be more than 200 words. Up to 8 key words can be provided and authors should avoid using phrases as key words in their works. Also up to 2 or more Subject area codes (Journal of Economic literature Classifications) for the article should be provided by the authors.
- Articles can be submitted online or as attachment to the journal email [email protected] or [email protected]
Referencing Format
- References should be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical orders as standard practice.
- All published citations inside the work must be included in the list of references. Please note that incomplete references will unnecessarily delay process of your submitted paper.
- APA 7th / MLA 7th edition is the referencing format adopted by this journal and authors should use the appropriate styles for referencing journal articles.
Review Process
- Two peer reviewers will review each article and send comments as well as their verdicts to the chief editor. The papers will be blind-copied to the reviewers as a standard practice to ensure objectivity. Members of the editorial board will consider for publication those articles that were recommended after minor corrections have been effected.
- Reviewers could independently also give a unanimous verdict not to accept a paper. In this case no further revisions will be required form the authors. A letter of rejection will be communicated without delay so that authors of such papers could look for alternative publication sources.
- Where the verdict is to accept after major corrections, such articles will pass through another round of peer review and publication may be so delayed. Therefore, authors are requested to properly focus and edit their papers before submitting, in addition to other important requirements as mentioned in the previous sections of this guide.
Editorials
Authors are required to edit their works grammatically before submitting to the journal. Authors should also avoid the use of unnecessarily long and clumsy sentences. Also, authors are free to choose between UK and US English and not a mixture of both. However, the journal favours the use of UK spellings.
Publication Fee
There will be an assessment fee of five thousand (N5, 000) naira per paper and a plagiarism fee of Five Thousand Naira. Whereas authors of accepted paper will be required to pay a publication fee of Fifteen (N15, 000) naira. Authors are expected to pay the ten thousand Naira immediately after submission.
The lead author will get a complementary copy while co-authors will pay four thousand naira (#5,000.00) per copy, excluding postage. Foreign authors are expected to pay One hundred dollars ($100) or its equivalent.
When you make your payment, kindly scan the teller and submit to: [email protected]
Kindly indicate your name and the title of your paper on the email.
All payments should be made into:
Account Name: College of Arts and Social Sciences IUO
Account Number: 1014365435 (Current Account)
Bank Name: Zenith Bank Plc.
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