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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.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration in another journal
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font (only footnotes, font 10pt); no endnotes, 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. Picturesare only black-white, 600 dpi (TIFF), graphic, figure: 600 (TIFF)
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • In case of submitting a Research Article, which will be peer-reviewed, follow the instructions for Ensuring a Blind Review.

Author Guidelines

Instructions for Authors

  • Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society is published in English only.
  • The texts should deal with politics, history, and society of the African region.
  • The texts should be either in the form of articles (papers or studies, about 8 000-10 000 words), reports (of events, conferences, etc.), or reviews (of books, journals).
  • All full-length articles must be preceded by an abstract (between 125-130 words) with five keywords.

  • All submissions should be submitted by using our web interface. In case of submitting a Research Article, which will be peer-reviewed,  prevent identities of authors to be known. You can check some information here.

  • The texts should adhere to citation guidelines of APA 6th Ed.

 

Peer-review policy:

  1. Each research article is sent to two reviewers.
  2. The name of the author is suppressed so that the reviewers are not aware of the author's identity.
  3. Similarly, the reviewers do not know mutually each other's names or the fact that they are reviewing this or that manuscript. Both reviewers' reports are sent to the author.
  4. If the recommendation is to revise, the authors are asked to implement the recommendations.
  5. If there is great disagreement between the reviewers, the manuscript is sent to a third anonymous reviewer.
  6. The reviewed manuscript may be sent back to reviewers for another check if the editor deems this necessary.

 

Section policy:

Research Article

☒Open Submission ☒Indexed ☒Double-blind peer-reviewed

Review of Book

☒Open Submission ☒Indexed ☐Double-blind peer-reviewed

Reports

☒Open Submission ☒Indexed ☐Double-blind peer-reviewed

Obituary

☐Open Submission ☐Indexed ☐Double-blind peer-reviewed

Editorial

☐Open Submission ☒Indexed ☐Double-blind peer-reviewed

 

Publication ethics and malpractice statement of the journal Modern Africa

Even if we are not a member of COPE, our Publication ethics and malpractice statement is based on the publication ethics of COPE and their Code of Best Practise.

 

Copyright Notice

Authors Certification

Basic instructions and copyright notice

The full publication ethics and malpractice statement of the journal Modern Africa could be found here.

In submitting the manuscript to Modern Africa, the authors certify that:

  1. They are authorised by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
  2. The submitted manuscript is original and has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, thesis or working paper), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication has been approved by all the authors and that the authors have full authority to enter into this agreement.
  3. They warrant and represent that they have the full power and authority to enter into and execute this agreement and to convey the rights granted herein, and that such rights are not now subject to prior assignment, transfer or other encumbrance. This also applies to the text and photo originals attained from other sources (for which the authors have secured the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere).
  4. Their manuscript contains nothing that is unlawful, libellous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy.
  5. In the event that the parties to this agreement, either individually or collectively, are held responsible for damages or the costs of a legal process undertaken by a third party as a result of the authors' actions under points 1, 2, 3, and 4, the authors agree to release the publisher from the claims of the third party and to compensate the publisher for any resulting legal costs.
  6. Plagiarism is regarded as a serious offence and leads to the rejection of a manuscript.
  7. Any violation of the above-mentioned rules leads to the rejection of a manuscript.
  8. They agree to the following license and copyright agreement:

Copyright Agreement


Authors who publish in the journal Modern Africa agree to the following terms:

  1.  The journal is no-fee open access journal.  That means all content is free and without charges available at journal webpages.  Also, authors are not charged for having their papers published in the journal.
  2. Authors retain the copyright but grant the journal right of first publication in print and online to the journal Modern Africa. The work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike, which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. The license is valid for both electronic and paper copies.
  3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journals published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), provided they add an explicit acknowledgement of its initial publication in the journal Modern Africa.
  4. Authors grant Modern Africacommercial rights to produce hardcopy volumes of the journal for sale to libraries and individuals, as well as to integrate the work, its title, and its abstract in databases, abstracting and indexing services, and other similar information sources.
  5. Court of jurisdiction is Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.