Authors and Responsibilities of the Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies (NJESS)

Language

The language of the manuscript must be in English (either American or British standard, but not the mixture of both).

Length of paper

The length of the paper should not exceed 25 pages (including footnotes and references). Paper containing more than 25 pages words will be without review. Articles should be typed in 1.5 line space 1" margins. Authors are advised to write as concisely as possible, but not at the expense of clarity.

Author’s names and Affiliations

Authors' names must be clearly stated with surname coming first. Authors' institutional affiliation addresses should follow under the names. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country of each author. E-mail address, and telephone number of the corresponding author is only required. Authors must be part of the title page and must not appear on the main text.

Corresponding Author

Articles with more than one Author should clearly state the corresponding author. Therefore, correspondence at all stages of review, publication and also post-publication will be routed to that author. Ensure that telephone numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.

Acknowledgement of Sponsors

Articles which emanated from funded project should be mentioned and full acknowledgement of the support must be indicated.

Subdivision of the article

Article should be divided into clearly defined and numbered sections. Sections should be numbered 1, 2, 3, etc and Subsections should be numbered 1.1, 1.2, 1.1 & 2.2, etc.

Submission Preparation Checklist

Before submitting the manuscript, author(s) should check the following list. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration. The submission file is in Microsoft Word file. Manuscript has been made in the light of Journal’s author guidelines. Author(s) did not mention his or her name and affiliation in the main text Author(s) has read all the terms and conditions of the journal.

Submission

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the journal portal. Author(s) must register/create an account. Existing author(s) will need login into his/her account

Copyright and Access

Copyrights for articles published in NJESS are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. The NJESS and its publisher are not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author's responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author.

Archiving

The Society has an archiving procedure for its Journal, the NJESS. For every publication, soft and hard copies are kept in the Secretariat for future reference as necessary. All NJESS articles are available online.