Guidelines

Article Submission Guidelines

African Academics Network (AAN) Journals are open access peer reviewed journals that, provide free access to the researchers and the students to its full text of articles. Students and researchers don’t need to pay or get any permission to read, copy, download and distribute the published work. Authors are welcomed to submit their research work that meets the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Accepted papers will be published approximately after one one of acceptance.

Paper Language

Authors need to submit the manuscript written in English language. Manuscripts written in other than English language are not accepted.

Paper Submission

Respected authors may submit their manuscript through online submission system. For this, they are supposed to follow some easy steps.

  1. First register yourself with the journal portal system, if you already have an account then Log in.
  2. From Journal List select the journal in which you want to submit your manuscript.
  3. Click on the submit manuscript key located on the right side of the page.
  4. Fill the online submission form, attach the manuscript file and then submit.

Note: Authors are requested to submit the manuscript in MS Word not in PDF or any other format.

Authors also can submit their manuscript by email as an attachment

 Peer Review Process

The goal of peer review is to assess the quality of articles submitted for publication in a scholarly journal. Before an article is deemed appropriate to be published in any of AAN’s peer-reviewed journals, it must undergo the following process:

  1. The author of the article must submit it to the journal editor who forwards the article to experts in the field. Because the reviewers specialise in the same scholarly area as the author, they are considered the author’s peers (hence “peer review”).
  2. These impartial reviewers are charged with carefully evaluating the quality of the submitted manuscript.
  3. The peer reviewers check the manuscript for accuracy, plagiarism and similarity index and assess the validity of the research methodology and procedures.
  4. If appropriate, they suggest revisions. If they find the article lacking in scholarly validity and rigour, they reject it.
  5. Your paper is reviewed within 5 working days
  6. Your accepted paper is published within 15 days after the receipt of your Article Processing Fee (APC)

Types of Manuscripts

 Original articles:

These include empirical study, exploratory research, randomised controlled trials, intervention studies, studies of screening and diagnostic test, outcome studies, cost effectiveness analyses, case-control series, and surveys with high response rate. The text of original articles amounting to up to 3000 words (excluding Abstract, references and Tables) should be divided into sections with the headings Abstract, Key-words, Introduction, Literature Review/Material and Methods, Methodology, Data Presentation, Analysis, Results and Discussion, Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations, References, Tables and Figure legends.

Review Articles:

It is expected that these articles would be written by individuals who have done substantial work on the subject or are considered experts in the field. A short summary of the work done by the contributor(s) in the field of review should accompany the manuscript.

The prescribed word count is up to 3000 words excluding tables, references and abstract. The manuscript may have up to 50 references. The manuscript should have an unstructured Abstract (250 words) representing an accurate summary of the article. The section titles would depend upon the topic reviewed. Authors submitting review article should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarised in the abstract.

Case reports:

New, interesting and rare cases can be reported. They should be unique, describing a great diagnostic or therapeutic challenge and providing a learning point for the readers. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority. These communications could be of up to 1000 words (excluding Abstract and references) and should have the following headings: Abstract (unstructured), Key-words, Introduction, Case report, Discussion, Reference, Tables and Legends in that order.

The manuscript could be of up to 1000 words (excluding references and abstract) and could be supported with up to 10 references. Case Reports could be authored by up to four authors.

Sending a revised manuscript 

The revised version of the manuscript should be submitted online in a manner similar to that used for submission of the manuscript for the first time. However, there is no need to submit the “First Page” or “Covering Letter” file while submitting a revised version. When submitting a revised manuscript, contributors are requested to include, the ‘referees’ remarks along with point-to-point clarification at the beginning in the revised file itself. In addition, they are expected to mark the changes as underlined or colored text in the article.

Prints and Proofs 

AAN Journals publish articles online and also provide printed copies. Authors can purchase printed copies on request, payment for which should be done at the time of submitting the proofs. Proofs will be sent to the corresponding authors by email approximately 5 days before the publication date. The issues are published immediately payment for the accepted paper is received.

Submission Status

After the submission, author may inquire the status of the submission by email to editor@aanjournals.com. For status inquiry authors need to send the title of the manuscript and mention the journal in which they have submitted the manuscript. Authors’ mail will be responded in a short time. They will be informed about manuscript status and provided the paper id for future correspondence. Authors also may know the status of their submission through online system by logging in where they may view the status of their submission.

Article Processing Charge (APC)

Why we charge:

AAN Journals charge the publication fee of a manuscript to cover the expenses. These expenses include paper handling, peer review, editing, formatting, tagging, indexing, production, hosting on different servers, hard copy print and post expenses, website maintenance, electric and internet expenses, staff salaries etc. This fee is paid by author from his research budget or his supporting institution.

Respected authors/contributors will pay online  publication and hard copy fee for all journals as below:

Nigeria Other African Countries Rest of the World
Online Publication NGN25,000
Hard copy: NGN32,500		 Online Publication: $US50.00
Hard Copy: $US65.00		 Online Publication: $US75.00
Hard Copy: $US90.00

Note: If author don’t want hard copy, then he will pay only online publication fee.

APC – Article Processing Charge includes:

  1. Publication of one entire research paper.
  2. Certificate of publication to authors of paper
  • DOI for Article
  1. Editorial Fee
  2. Indexing, maintenance of link revolvers and journal infrastructures.

You can pay APC by Bank Transfer:

Bank Name: Zenith Bank

Bank Account No.: 1220866700

Account Name: AAN Journal Publishing Ltd

 Copyrights

The entire contents of the AAN Journals are protected under Nigerian and international copyright  laws. The AAN Journals, however, grants to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, perform and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any reasonable non-commercial purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship and ownership of the rights. The journal also grants the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal non-commercial use under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.

Presentation and format

  1. Double spacing
  2. Margins 2.5 cm from all four sides
  3. Page numbers included at bottom
  4. Title page contains all the desired information
  5. Running title provided (not more than 50 characters)
  6. Abstract page contains the full title of the manuscript
  7. Abstract provided (structured abstract of 250 words for original articles, unstructured abstracts of about 150 words for all other manuscripts excluding letters to the Editor)
  8. Key words provided (three or more)
  9. Introduction of 75-100 words
  10. Headings in title case (not ALL CAPITALS)
  11. The references cited in the text should be after punctuation marks, in superscript with square bracket.
  12. References according to the journal’s instructions, punctuation marks checked
  13. Send the article file without ‘Track Changes’

Language and grammar

  1. Uniformly British or American English
  2. Write the full term for each abbreviation at its first use in the title, abstract, keywords and text separately unless it is a standard unit of measure. Numerals from 1 to 10 spelt out
  3. Numerals at the beginning of the sentence spelt out
  4. Check the manuscript for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors
  5. If a brand name is cited, supply the manufacturer’s name and address (city and state/country).
  6. Species names should be in italics

Tables and figures

  1. No repetition of data in tables and graphs and in text
  2. Actual numbers from which graphs drawn, provided
  3. Figures necessary and of good quality (colour)
  4. Table and figure numbers in Arabic letters (not Roman)
  5. Labels pasted on back of the photographs (no names written)
  6. Figure legends provided (not more than 40 words)
  7. Patients’ privacy maintained (if not permission taken)
  8. Credit note for borrowed figures/tables provided
  9. Write the full term for each abbreviation used in the table as a footnote
  10. These ready to use templates are made to help the contributors write as per the requirements of the Journal. Save the templates on your computer and use them with a word processor program.
    Click open the file and save as the manuscript file. In the program keep ‘Document Map’ and ‘Comments’ on from ‘View’ menu to navigate through the file.

Journals are indexed and abstracted in:

  1. RePEc (Germany)
  2. IDEAS
  3. Scientific Indexing Service
  4. ACADEMIA
  5. Polska Bibliografia Naukowa
  6. Econ Papers
  7. Google Scholar
  8. SOCIONET PERSONAL ZONE
  9. J-Gate
  10. Academic Resource Index
  11. Academickeys
  12. CiteFactor
  13. SHERPA/RoMEO
  14. Slide Share
  15. Directory of Open Access Scholarly Recourse
  16. ADVANCE SCIENCE INDEX
  17. Citeulike