Submissions

Author Guidelines

Style guidelines for your article

Please anonymise your article before submitting it as follows:
FILE > Options > Personalise your copy of Microsoft Office. Change your details to Anonymous or Author. You may need to copy and paste your article onto a new blank page that has been anonymised.

Word limit: 8000 words, including references (indicate it at the end of the article); includes abstract of no more than 200 words.

Spelling and punctuation
1. Please use British spelling throughout, for example ‘colour’ rather than ‘color’. The -ise/-isa convention should also be followed (instead of -ize/iza).
2. Please use single quotation marks, except where 'a quotation is "within" a quotation'. Longer quotations (longer than 40 words) should simply be indented without quotation marks.
3. Acronyms should be spelt out in full at first use, with the acronym in brackets, and the acronym alone may be used thereafter. In references, list under acronym with full name in brackets thereafter.

Format: Kindly use Microsoft Word, Times New Roman, 11 point font, and double spacing.

Headings and Sub headings  
MAIN HEADINGS should be bolded in upper case; 
Second-level headings should have sentence case only and underlined; and 
Third-level headings only sentence case (and not underlined).

Headings and sub headings should not be numbered or bulleted.

Citations and references (Quick Guide to Harvard referencing for JOVACET)
For the sake of consistency, please use the following Harvard style guide for references and citations (please take note of the punctuation):

BOOKS
Created by? Author (& s) 
Year: Year
What is it called? Title
How to find it: Place (not country): Publisher
Example: Smith, SS & Blackwell, W. 2022. Poverty below the breadline. Stellenbosch: SunMedia

CHAPTER IN A BOOK
Created by? Author (& s)
Year: Year
What is it called? Title
How to find it: Place (not country): In Author (& s) (Eds). Title of book, Place, publisher and page ref.
Example: McMillan, JW. 2017. Beyond poverty: an analysis. In Smith, SS & Blackwell, W (Eds). Poverty below the breadline. Stellenbosch: SunMedia, 24–32.

JOURNAL ARTICLES
Created by? Author (& s)
Year: Year
What is it called? Title
How to find it: Name of journal, title case, Vol. (issue):page ref.
Example: Smith, SS & Blackwell, W. 2022. Poverty below the breadline: Coming to grips. Journal for Economic Development, 3(7):112–121.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Created by? Author (& s)
Year: Year
What is it called? 
Title (unpublished)
Title (published)
How to find it: Title, Name of conference, place: institution: page ref.
OR Title, Name of conference, day, place
Examples: Smith, SS. 2022. Poverty below the breadline. Conference Proceedings: Economic development for sustainable living. Johannesburg: University of Johannesburg: 57–65.
OR Conference proceedings at the second African Regional Conference on Economic development for sustainable living. 10 June, Johannesburg.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Created by? Author 
Year: Year
What is it called? Title
How to find it: Title. Doctoral thesis/Master’s dissertation. Place: Institution.
Example: Smith, SS. 2022. Poverty below the breadline. Doctoral thesis/Master’s dissertation. Stellenbosch: University of Stellenbosch

WEBSITES
Created by? Author (& s) 
Year: Year
What is it called? Title
How to find it: Available: full URL [Accessed: Full date].
Example: Smith, SS. 2022. Poverty below the breadline. Available: https://www.economicsdirect.com/economy [Accessed: 15 August, 2017].

PDFs
Created by? Author (& s) 
Year: Year
What is it called? Title (PDF).
How to find it: Available: full URL [Accessed: Full date].
Example: Smith, SS. 2022. Poverty below the breadline (PDF). Available: https://www.economicsdirect.com/economy [Accessed: 15 August, 2017].

DOI
Created by? Author (& s) 
Year: Year
What is it called? Title 
How to find it: https://doi.org/number
Example: Smith, SS & Blackwell, W. 2022. Poverty below the breadline: Coming to grips. https://doi.org/10.13121,etc.

Citations
All authors mentioned in the reference list must be cited chronologically (the earlier year comes first and the latest, last) in the article and every author cited in the article must be listed alphabetically in the reference list. For example: (Bell, 2009; De Lange & Finch, 2011; Mountford, 2013; Foster, Brown & Steward, 2017). Use the semi-colon to divide the list of authors in citations. If there are four or more authors, name the first author and then use et al. In a reference list at the end, every separate reference must be listed alphabetically:

Direct quotation, provide page reference: e.g. Smith and Blackwell (2017:132) describe the situation as ‘untenable’ or Smith and Blackwell (2017) if there is no direct quotation. 

Footnotes
Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and only used where absolutely necessary. No endnotes, please.

Figures and tables
1. Figures should be of a high quality and be saved as TIFF, JPEG or .eps format and placed where they should be in the article. Images or figures not the property of the author should have the necessary permission to be used. Please do not attach these separately. Captions for figures should appear below the figure.
2. Tables should be easy to read and interpret. The same requirements for figures apply. Captions for tables should appear above tables.

Please take note of the following requirements for your emailed submission on a SEPARATE page:

1. Author details. All authors’ full names (main author first), affiliations, telephone numbers and email addresses on a separate title page that accompanies your article. Please repeat the title in your article which should not contain your name(s).
2. An Abstract of no more than 200 words.
3. 4 to 6 Keywords should follow your abstract, in lower case, italicised and separated by commas.
4. Indicate any funding details. Please acknowledge any funding or grant awards that made your research possible.