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.

After the heading, follow with:

1. An Abstract of no more than 200–250 words;
2. 4 to 6 Keywords in lower case, italicised and separated by commas;
3. Indicate any funding details. Please acknowledge any funding or grant awards that made your research possible. 

NB Please don’t forget to submit the article with your author(s) details (name, email address and affiliation) in a separate Word document.

Word limit: 8000 words, including references (indicate the number of words at the end of the article); includes abstract of no more than 200–250 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 full name with acronym in brackets thereafter.

Format: Kindly use Microsoft Word, Times New Roman, 12 point font, and double spacing throughout.

Formatting of headings (do not number or bullet): sentence case means capitalise only first letter and proper nouns 

Title [Centred, Bold, Sentence Case – also used for References heading]
Level 1 [Left-aligned, Bold, Sentence Case]
Level 2 [Left-aligned, Not Bold, Sentence Case]
Level 3 [Left-aligned, Bold Italic, Sentence Case]
Level 4 [Indented 1 inch (2.54 cm), Bold, Sentence Case, Period]. 

Citations and references (Quick Guide to a version of APA V7 referencing for JOVACET):
For the sake of consistency, please use the following APA style guide for references and citations (please take note of the punctuation):

BOOKS
Created by? Author (& s)
Year: (Year)
What is it called? Title (Italics and sentence case)
How to find it: Publisher or URL or DOI (see requirements for URLs and DOIs below)
Example: Smith, S. S., & Blackwell, W. (2022). Poverty below the breadline. SunMedia

CHAPTER IN A BOOK
Created by? Author (& s)
Year: (Year)
What is it called? Title (Sentence case)
How to find it: In Author (& s) (Eds or Ed.). Title of book, Publisher and page ref. (pp.).
Example: McMillan, J. W. (2017). Beyond poverty: An analysis. In Smith, S. S., & Blackwell, W. (Eds). Poverty below the breadline. SunMedia, pp. 24–32. [first letter capitalised after the colon in the title]

JOURNAL ARTICLES
Created by? Author (& s)
Year: (Year)
What is it called? Title (NB Initial capital letter after colon, no italics)
How to find it: Name of journal in italics, title case, Volume(issue), page reference (pp.) (vol. in italics)
Example: Smith, S. S. & Blackwell, W. (2022). Poverty below the breadline: Coming to grips. Journal for Economic Development, 3(7), pp. 112–121.  [page range indicated by n-dash not hyphen]

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. (pp.)
OR Title, Name of conference, day, place
Examples: Smith, S. S. 2022. Poverty below the breadline. Conference Proceedings: Economic development for sustainable living. Johannesburg: University of Johannesburg, pp. 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 (do not italicise)
How to find it: Title. Doctoral thesis/Master’s dissertation. Institution. [Only provide the place if it is not in the name of the institution]
Example: Smith, S. S. 2022. Poverty below the breadline. Doctoral thesis/Master’s dissertation. University of Stellenbosch

WEBSITES
Created by? Author (& s) or title of article if author is not known
Year: (Year)
What is it called? Title
How to find it: Full URL [Accessed: full date] in brackets at the end.
Example: Smith, S. S. 2022. Poverty below the breadline. https://www.economicsdirect.com/economy [Accessed: 15 August 2017].

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

DOI (use if available)
Created by? Author (& s)
Year: (Year)
What is it called? Title 
How to find it: https://doi.org/number
Example: Smith, S. S., & Blackwell, W. 2022. Poverty below the breadline: Coming to grips. https://doi.org/10.13121,etc [no full stop or retrieval date at the end]

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 et al., 2017). Use the semi-colon to divide the list of authors in citations. If there are three 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. Do not use et al. in the reference list.

Only use quotation marks for direct quotations: provide page reference e.g. Smith and Blackwell (2017, p. 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 apply for figures. Captions for tables should appear above tables.

Please take note of the following requirements for your emailed submission on a SEPARATE page:
Author details. All authors’ full names (main author first), affiliations, telephone numbers and email addresses, and orcid number on a separate title page that accompanies your article. Please repeat the title of your article. Please indicate who the corresponding author is.