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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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

a) Focus and Scope

Topics and themes appropriate for African Journal of Management Research will come from and cut across organisational/institutional sectors (public, private, non-for-profit) and address matters of theory, research and practice from a variety of management and organisational disciplines:

• Finance
• Operations
• Human Resource
• Organisational Behaviour
• Marketing Services
• Public Administration
• Health Services Management, etc.

b) Submissions

The Journal’s circulation is worldwide. It pursues a policy of double-blind peer-review. Papers are likely to vary in length from 5000-7500 words. Papers outside this range may only be considered under special circumstances.

Papers are invited from the general academic, research and practitioner community in Africa and around the world; the journal will occasionally issue calls for papers along particular thematic lines or request peer commentaries on topical issues.

Authors must submit an electronic copy of their manuscript (in MS Word) to the Editor via email. They should follow this email submission with 1 hard copy to the editor’s postal address.

Notes to Contributors
Authors are to note that should the Editor deem it necessary, the Journal may call for data files/analyses and/or research instruments for separate or simultaneous review. It is a condition of acceptance for review, that the paper is not under consideration elsewhere and that the data are not being repeated from a previous work (except that clear and demonstrable alternate issues, concepts or extensions are being developed, in which case due reference and notification must be made to the said previous work). The Journal has an Internet Editor. The following are the key submission requirements:

• There must be an Abstract of up to 250 words. Manuscripts must be prepared with MS Word and in Times New Roman font size 12. 1 inch margins must be maintained all round, fully justified and in double line spacing. The Abstract and References must be in single line spacing and font size 10. 
• Title Page (title, author’s name/s, institutional affiliation, full contact details – phone, fax, email and post) must be prepared separate from the body of the paper. Titles must be as concise as possible and not more than 15 words. Authors must avoid any reference to themselves no matter how tangential in the body of the text.
• Avoid the use of foot or end notes.
• Tables, Figures and Diagrams must be camera ready and sharp, set within the text; numbered, titled at the top without spacing from table, figure or diagram, all in font size 10. Voluminous descriptive data tables are not encouraged, except that they have direct bearing on the discourse and need to be referred to. Parsimony in use of tables and figures is preferred. All articles should include in the methodology, clear statement of where and when data were collected. The use of student populations where the matter at hand does not relate to student issues is not encouraged.
• Formulae must be presented using appropriate font and symbols, and set to centre, font size 10.
• It is the responsibility of authors to secure the necessary copyright permissions if reproducing illustrations and diagrams or using extensive ditto quotes reaching to 100 words or more at any one quote.
• Authors should ensure they articulate the nature of their paper’s contribution to theory, method, policy or practice.

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the following format:

• Title of the paper should be in Title Case, Bold and centred
• No paragraph numbering,
• Follow APA referencing style in the body of the text and in the reference listing.
• Examples of referencing in body of text:

o In sentence: Aryeetey (2001);
o End sentence: (Hinson, Domfeh and Ayee, 1999);
o If a work has more than 2 authors, cite all in the first instance and use ‘et al’ subsequently.

Reference list should use the following style:

Journal Articles:

• Puplampu, B. (2004). Meaning of work. Journal of Behaviour, 2(3), 111-120.

• Puplampu, B. & Kwame, K. (2004). Meaning of work. Journal of Behaviour, 2(3), 111-120.

Book:

• Puplampu, B. (2004). Meaning of work. Ghana: University of Ghana Press.

Book Chapter:

• Puplampu, B. (2004). Regional Agreements as Clubs: The Ghanaian Case. In K. Kwame & J. Aboagye, (Eds.), The political economy of regionalization (pp. 107-133). Ghana: University of Ghana Press

Book Editor:

• Puplampu, B. (Ed.). (2006). Handbook of management of education. Ghana: Just Books Publishing.

Newspaper article (in print):

• Puplampu, B. (2009, March 31). Time for students to arise and shine. The Daily News, p.5, Accra, Ghana.

Newspaper article (electronic):

• Puplampu, B. (2009, March 31). Time for students to arise and shine. The Daily News, p. 5. Retrieved from http://archives.smh.com.au/index.php

Article on website:

• Puplampu, B. (2006, March 20). What drives China’s growing role in Africa? Africa Review. Retrieved on December 12, 2014 from

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2007/wp02711.pdf


Headings
All headings must be follow the APA heading style format.

 

Plagiarism Policy
AJMR's policy is zero tolerance for plagiarism.

 

How to submit

Papers should be submitted online at:

https://journals.ug.edu.gh/index.php/ajmr/information/authors


Or  to both addresses below:
aaboagye@ug.edu.gh
ajmr@ug.edu.gh

c) Copyright statement
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the University of Ghana Business School.

• African Journal of Management Research requires that authors note that copyright is vested in the Journal.
• It is the responsibility of authors to secure the necessary copyright permissions if reproducing illustrations and diagrams or using extensive ditto quotes reaching to 100 words or more at any one quote.

Privacy Statement

Publication Ethics And Publication Malpractice Statement

African Journal of Management Research is committed to publishing quality papers hence strongly recommends that all stakeholders adhere to the following ethical standards based on the Committee on Publication Ethics’ (COPE) Core Practices available at www.publicationethics.org.

Duties of the Editor

1)    Publication Decisions
The Editor, in consultation with the editorial team is responsible for deciding which submitted articles should be published based on the reviewer comments received for each paper.

2)    Fairness

All submitted articles will be assessed and articles found to be compliant with editorial policy and submission requirements will be put through the review process, without regard to the race, gender, sexual orientation or institutional affiliation of the author(s).

3)    Confidentiality
The Editor and supporting staff will handle information on a submitted manuscript with confidentiality.

4)     Disclosures of Conflicts of Interest
The Editor and the Editorial Board will avoid all forms of situations presenting a potential conflict of interest.

 

Duties of Reviewers


1)    Promptness
Peer reviewers are expected to submit their reports per the stipulated time but can request for extension of time when necessary. Peer reviewers are at liberty to decline a review request.

2)    Confidentiality
All manuscripts received for review will be treated as confidential.

3)    Professionalism
Reviewers are expected to apply the strictest codes of scientific professionalism to the process and are not expected to use or quote from any manuscripts they review.

4)    Conflict of interest
Reviewers should notify the Editor whenever there is the potential conflict of interest.

 

Duties of Authors


1)     Originality and Plagiarism
Authors must ensure that the papers presented are their original works and must appropriately cite all referenced materials. Articles found to have plagiarized material will be rejected and if plagiarism is found after an article is published, the editor will publish a retraction of that paper in the subsequent issue.

2)    Acknowledgment of Sources
Authors must properly acknowledge works or publications that have been influential in determining the research.

3)    Authorship of the Article
The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate coauthors are included on the paper, and that all coauthors have approved the final version of the article and agreed to its submission for publication.

3)    Simultaneous publication
Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time to be considered for publication. If an author is of the view that there are undue delays, the Editor must be notified of the intention to withdraw and the author must receive a response from the Editor before submitting it elsewhere for publication.

4)     Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, the author is obliged to promptly notify the Editor and fully cooperate with the Editor to correct the paper or retract it.

5)     Disclosure
All sources of financial support for the research should be disclosed.

 

Open Access Statement


AJMR is a free open access journal licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Under this license, you are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
    The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
  • No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.