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Author Guidelines
How to submit your paper online:
To download, instructions to authors for submitting your article:
To download, documentation to be completed and submitted in Step 4 of the submission process: |
Enquiries: Potential contributors are invited, before formal submission, to enquire whether or not a particular article would be of interest, or to obtain advice about the way in which a manuscript should be prepared for submission.
Operations coordinator contact: Title Operations Coordinator, email: submissions@sajs.co.za
Editor-in-chief contact: Prof Michael Cherry, email: mic@sun.ac.za
Format of compulsory cover page: Provide a short title of 50 characters or less and indicate briefly the significance of the work being reported. State the full name(s) and title(s) of the author(s) with the position, affiliation and contact details (postal address, email, telephone and cell number) of each author. Please identify the author to whom all correspondence should be addressed.
For manuscripts with multiple authors, proof of approval to submit the manuscript to the journal, signed by all authors, should be attached and uploaded as a supplementary file – this document can be downloaded from the journal website. A student should normally be listed as the principal author on any multi-authored manuscripts derived from the student’s research, dissertation or thesis.
Include a paragraph briefly summarising the nature of the contribution made by each of the authors listed, along the lines of the following: Author contributions: J.K. was the project leader, L.M.N. and A.B. were responsible for experimental and project design. L.M.N. performed most of the experiments. P.R. made conceptual contributions and S.T., U.V. and C.D. performed some of the experiments. S.M. and V.C. prepared the samples and calculations were performed by C.S., J.K. and U.V. wrote the manuscript.
Authors are encouraged to provide the names and full contact details (including email) of two or three potential referees to evaluate the work (referees should not be people with whom the researcher has recently collaborated or published). Lastly, a list containing the number of pages of the manuscript and the number of tables, figures and/or other supplementary material should accompany the submission.
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.
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). - The submission file is in Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., http://www.openjournals.net). - The text is 1.5-spaced; uses a 12-point font for Times New Roman; employs italics for emphasis, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables placement indicators are within the text at the appropriate points.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal. - If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Have you asked a colleague or language expert to proofread your final manuscript? - All supplementary files such as survey instruments or scanned photographs are separated from the main text and will be uploaded as supplementary files.
In the event that your article contains foreign fonts, please ensure that the article is written in UNI code. If this is not possible, please upload the font-types as supplementary material in Step 4 of the submission process. - I have read the Galley Change Fee Policy
Copyright Notice
Copyright on published articles is retained by the author(s). The exclusive responsibility in respect of the acknowledgment of author's rights and/or copyright rests with the responsible author(s). The Editor, publisher and title owner of this journal cannot accept responsibility for the infringement of authors’ rights or copyright. The author grants the title owner and publisher unlimited rights to publish the work in any format and/or medium, whether for gain or any other purpose.
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Author Fees
This journal charges the following author fees.
Galley Change Fees (GCF) per hour: 350.00 (ZAR)
Authors will be given the opportunity to revise and approve the text of the accepted manuscript in the final phase of copyediting. After author approval the manuscript will go to design layout. The author will be asked to proofread the final galleys before going to publishing. Proofreading is intended to correct typesetting mistakes and not to introduce new changes to the text; as such changes will require new layout of the pages. The publisher will charge GFC to the author, based on the cost incurred to make such changes.
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