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Author Guidelines

ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGE:

Publication charges: Tanzanian authors (80 000 Tanzanian Shillings), International authors will pay the USD equivalent of 80 000 Tanzanian Shillings). 

General guidelines for authors:

  1. Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word format, Times New Roman, 12 font for text, 10 font for automatically generated footnotes, single line spacing, with 1.5 page margins.
  2. Manuscripts should be accompanied with an abstract of about 250 words, and 6 keywords.
  3. Inclusive of footnotes, the word count for articles is a minimum of 7000 words and a maximum of 14 000 words.
  4. The author’s name, designation, affiliation, contact number and email should be provided on the cover page of the manuscript, for correspondence and future references.
  5. Page numbers should be inserted at the bottom (middle) of pages.
  6. The house style for references and citations is OSCOLA (Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities).
  7. Submissions to the journal must be original, and not already published or under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  8. All manuscripts will be subjected to a plagiarism check, and double-blind peer review.
  9. The final decision on the publication of an article will be made by the Editorial Board.
  10. The submission of manuscripts is accepted on a rolling basis. Manuscripts which are submitted too late for a current issue will be assigned to the next issue of the journal.

     

    PEER REVIEW PROCEDURE

    East African Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization uses the double-blind peer review with the procedures described below:            

    1. A minimum of two peer reviewers is assigned a manuscript.
    2. Peer review is conducted by members of the boards, committees of the journal and other law experts who are approached for this purpose.
    3. Peer reviewers must hold at least, a PhD in law, and have published articles in peer reviewed journals.
    4. The names and identifications of authors are removed, and manuscripts are forwarded to reviewers, who are expected to submit their reports within one month of forwarding the manuscripts to them.
    5. Peer review forms are forwarded along with the manuscripts.
    6. Peer reviewers are required to complete the forms with their review remarks, and also make review comments on the body of the manuscript itself.
    7. Peer reviewers are not required to sign their review reports.
    8. A week before the deadline for the return of review reports elapses, a reminder -email is sent to the reviewers.
    9. The identity of peer reviewers is not disclosed to authors.
    10. Peer reviewers shall provide a brief description of the manuscript, the main strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript, contribution to knowledge, whether the content of the manuscript addresses the title/topic of the manuscript, depth of discussion, suggestions for improving the manuscript, and so on (these requirements are broadly contained in the peer review forms).
    11. The review report shall be returned with the verdict: Accept as it is, Accept subject to minor changes, Accept subject to major revisions. Revise and resubmit.

     

     

Submission Preparation Checklist

Authors should check their manuscripts and ensure that they comply with all preparation requirements before submitting them. Manuscripts that do not adhere to the guidelines will not be considered for review.

  1. The submission is original, not previously published and is not under consideration for publication in another journal (or an explanation is offered for this).
  2. All materials used by authors have been duly acknowledged and referenced in footnotes.
  3. If the author’s material is substantially derived from his thesis or dissertation, the author should provide a note clearly stating this fact.
  4. The manuscript is formatted as a Microsoft Word document.
  5. If illustrations, figures, or tables are used in the manuscript, they should be placed within the text at the relevant places, rather than at the end of the article.
  6. Other guidelines have been duly complied with.
  7. All details about authorship should be placed on the first page of the manuscript. The body of the manuscript should not contain author-identifying pieces of information.

Copyright Notice

All articles published in East African Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization are open-access articles, published and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits reproduction, distribution, and commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited, and authors and publishers are properly identified.

The submission of a manuscript to East African Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization is an acceptance by authors of the terms of the license as outlined in this section, and authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the East African Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization published version of the work (for example, post it, including any earlier versions of the manuscript, to an institutional or other repository, or to publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its first publication in East African Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization.