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Author Guidelines

Submission Guidelines to Authors
i. All submission should be written in British English consistently. Authors are thus advised to edit their works prior to submissions to make the review process a smooth exercise.
ii. Authors should submit manuscripts in word format document and justified. All texts should be in Times New Roman font size 12 and in single-space throughout. Quotations exceeding 20 words should be indented consistently. Page numbers should be written in the centre of the footer.
iii. At the time of submission, the work should not be submitted for consideration elsewhere.
iv. Each author should submit two word-format documents. The first document should a one-page document with title of submission, name, institution affiliation, ORCID number, and active email address. The second document should have five mains elements: title, abstract, keywords, main essay and references.
v. Authors should use Chicago Style (16th edition) in organising their footnotes and references consistently.
vi. For book reviews, submissions should be between 900 and 1200 words. If necessary, book reviews may include a very limited number of footnotes. For essay reviews, the submissions should not be less than 3000 and not more than 4500 words long including footnotes. For papers coming from allied sciences of history, particularly African Archaeology, the submissions should not be less than 5000 words. 
vii. For conventional articles, the submission should be not less than 7000 words and not more than 9000 words with footnotes and references.
viii. Authors have to sort out copyright issues for all materials used in their works and that originally do not belong to them. Such materials include images, maps and other forms of illustrations.
ix. Submission may regrettably be returned back to authors if the above guidelines are not adhered to.

 

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 Microsoft Word 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. The journal insist on authors adhering to Chicago Style when preparing their submissions.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

Once published, the author handles the rights to the journal. The author will be asked to sign a form consenting transfer of rights to Zamani Journal.

 

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