aims and scope
The African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure (AJHTL) aims to publish interdisciplinary research that makes a clear contribution, theoretically or methodologically, to the body of knowledge relating to all aspects of tourism and hospitality within the Pan African context. AJHTL strives to publish first-rate academic articles in fields of human endeavour related to the core areas of hospitality, tourism and leisure. We offer the opportunity to publish research which is able to facilitate academic exchange and analysis in the international scientific community using open access publication as the vehicle. In a resource scares context which Africa finds itself, coupled with the changing dynamics of tourism in a rapidly complex global society, the AJHTL seeks to answer questions around tourism and hospitality that informs, public and private sector management, community development, policy and strategy development and implementation, sustainability and responsible behaviour amongst others.
Given the dynamic nature of the fields of hospitality, tourism and leisure, AJHTL also accepts articles in the related fields of tourism geographies, marketing, management, economics, business ethics, corporate governance, stakeholder management, operations management, entrepreneurship, food and nutrition, service quality, sustainability and globalization. However, such articles should show a strong link on hospitality, tourism and leisure in Africa. Articles that do not link accordingly, or has at least some value for or a focus on Africa will not be considered.
The review committee consists of an international panel which guarantees the journal’s high quality and impartiality. We are also open access on the internet and are totally independent from any institution, thereby ensuring objectivity.
Frequency:
The AJHTL aims to publish at least 5 issues per year (including a special issue)- 3I March, 30 June, 30 August, 31 October, 31 December). Each issue may have up to 25 -27 articles maximum. There may be up to 2 special issues a year or none.
Special Issues:
The AJHTL welcomes special issues that have a specific thematic focus from guest editors. Guest editors can submit a proposal to the Journal editorial board for consideration. The quality of all special issue papers will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process.
Editor/s in Chief roles: The editor’s objective is to accept intrinsically good quality papers and reject bad quality papers.
The journal editor has various roles and responsibilities, including:
The Editorial Assistants are responsible for the day-to-day editorial office tasks, such as submission checks and correspondence with authors and reviewers.
The Editorial Board comprises of a team of experts in the journal's field.
They may at times assist the editor(s) in decision making over issues such as plagiarism claims and submissions where reviewers can’t agree on a decision. They review submitted manuscripts and may also advise on journal policy and scope. They identify topics for special issues, which they may guest edit and attract new authors and submissions while promoting the journal to their colleagues and peers. Existing Board members may have suggestions for new members. The location of Board members represents the reach of the journal and their expertise should represent the journal's scope. These representatives are appointed from key research institutes and also include former guest editors of special issues, authors of key reviews and top reviewers.
Special Editions/Issues Proposals: There is possibly one per year but up to two can be considered depending on suitable peer reviewers' availability and external guest editorial assistance by experts in the field. A ‘Special Issue’ is a collection of papers focused on a specific topic. It may also be a collection of papers from a Conference associated with the journal. At times, when there is some synergy in scope, two Special Issues may be merged into one where themes allow for this and on approval by the EIC and guest editors. In such cases article numbering may be the same for different themes. This means that in one theme out of say three, article numbers may begin at 1 again, or run on from prior themes. For further details see About. Special issues will also be reviewed by additional external editors and reviewers.
Guest Editors
We may accept special issue proposals which are subject to evaluation and approval by the Editor-in-Chief.
Our guest editors are responsible to identify/invite authors for a special issue. They set deadlines to ensure timely submissions and timely publication and manage the peer review of the papers submitted.
Our guest editor/s responsibilities :
• Identify/invite authors for the special issue.
• Set deadlines to ensure timely submissions and timely publication.
• Manage peer review of the papers.
• Provide running order of articles, an Editorial to summarize the special issue,
• Help with marketing activities of the special issue if possible.
All papers received should must be double blind peer reviewed before they are published.
• You are expected to handle the peer review process within the editorial system in a timely manner.
• You are required to make decisions based on at least two independent referees’ reports.
• It’s very important to investigate any potential conflict of interest. Guest Editors can handle the review process of all papers if they are not authored by themselves. If there are submissions from Guest Editors, the review process will be taken care of by Editor-in-Chief.
Given the dynamic nature of the fields of hospitality, tourism and leisure, AJHTL also accepts articles in the related fields of tourism geographies, marketing, management, economics, business ethics, corporate governance, stakeholder management, operations management, entrepreneurship, food and nutrition, service quality, sustainability and globalization. However, such articles should show a strong link on hospitality, tourism and leisure in Africa. Articles that do not link accordingly, or has at least some value for or a focus on Africa will not be considered.
The review committee consists of an international panel which guarantees the journal’s high quality and impartiality. We are also open access on the internet and are totally independent from any institution, thereby ensuring objectivity.
Frequency:
The AJHTL aims to publish at least 5 issues per year (including a special issue)- 3I March, 30 June, 30 August, 31 October, 31 December). Each issue may have up to 25 -27 articles maximum. There may be up to 2 special issues a year or none.
Special Issues:
The AJHTL welcomes special issues that have a specific thematic focus from guest editors. Guest editors can submit a proposal to the Journal editorial board for consideration. The quality of all special issue papers will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process.
Editor/s in Chief roles: The editor’s objective is to accept intrinsically good quality papers and reject bad quality papers.
The journal editor has various roles and responsibilities, including:
- Peer review: Managing the peer review process, including selecting experts to review manuscripts and ensuring the process is fair, timely, and thorough
- Content quality: Editing content to improve its quality and deciding whether to accept or reject submissions
- Problem resolution: Resolving issues like plagiarism and ensuring articles are original
- Journal policies: Implementing journal policies, including authorship criteria and legal practices
- Author guidelines: Providing authors with guidelines for preparing and submitting manuscripts
- Journal visibility: Increasing the journal's visibility and spreading awareness of its mission and values
- Editorial board: Building an editorial board and celebrating experts in the field
- Author relationships: Treating authors with courtesy, fairness, and objectivity, and protecting the confidentiality of their work
The Editorial Assistants are responsible for the day-to-day editorial office tasks, such as submission checks and correspondence with authors and reviewers.
The Editorial Board comprises of a team of experts in the journal's field.
They may at times assist the editor(s) in decision making over issues such as plagiarism claims and submissions where reviewers can’t agree on a decision. They review submitted manuscripts and may also advise on journal policy and scope. They identify topics for special issues, which they may guest edit and attract new authors and submissions while promoting the journal to their colleagues and peers. Existing Board members may have suggestions for new members. The location of Board members represents the reach of the journal and their expertise should represent the journal's scope. These representatives are appointed from key research institutes and also include former guest editors of special issues, authors of key reviews and top reviewers.
Special Editions/Issues Proposals: There is possibly one per year but up to two can be considered depending on suitable peer reviewers' availability and external guest editorial assistance by experts in the field. A ‘Special Issue’ is a collection of papers focused on a specific topic. It may also be a collection of papers from a Conference associated with the journal. At times, when there is some synergy in scope, two Special Issues may be merged into one where themes allow for this and on approval by the EIC and guest editors. In such cases article numbering may be the same for different themes. This means that in one theme out of say three, article numbers may begin at 1 again, or run on from prior themes. For further details see About. Special issues will also be reviewed by additional external editors and reviewers.
Guest Editors
We may accept special issue proposals which are subject to evaluation and approval by the Editor-in-Chief.
Our guest editors are responsible to identify/invite authors for a special issue. They set deadlines to ensure timely submissions and timely publication and manage the peer review of the papers submitted.
Our guest editor/s responsibilities :
• Identify/invite authors for the special issue.
• Set deadlines to ensure timely submissions and timely publication.
• Manage peer review of the papers.
• Provide running order of articles, an Editorial to summarize the special issue,
• Help with marketing activities of the special issue if possible.
All papers received should must be double blind peer reviewed before they are published.
• You are expected to handle the peer review process within the editorial system in a timely manner.
• You are required to make decisions based on at least two independent referees’ reports.
• It’s very important to investigate any potential conflict of interest. Guest Editors can handle the review process of all papers if they are not authored by themselves. If there are submissions from Guest Editors, the review process will be taken care of by Editor-in-Chief.
soliciting papers in the domains of
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AJHTL The journal incorporates all types of empirical and conceptual research in issue relevant to Tourism, Hospitality, Leisure Management and general Management. We also accept articles in the related fields of Marketing, Strategic Management, Communication Science, Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, Stakeholder Management, Operations Management, Law, Entrepreneurship, Nutrition, Service Quality, Sustainability and Globalization BUT the area should make an impact and be applicable in some way or other, on Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure in Africa.
IT IS THUS EXPECTED THAT ARTICLES SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST SOME RELEVANCE TO AFRICA
IT IS THUS EXPECTED THAT ARTICLES SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST SOME RELEVANCE TO AFRICA
peer review process
The journal welcomes the submission of articles that satisfy the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence in the disciplines covered by its scope and will publish only original articles. The journal may include editorials as well as book reviews from time to time.
All articles published in AJHTL are double-blind peer-reviewed by scholars who are experts in the subject/topic areas and in the discipline or methodological approach used. The main criterion for publication in AJHTL is that the paper must make a clear contribution substantively, theoretically or methodologically, to the body of knowledge as per journal scope.
Submitted manuscripts are initially reviewed by the Editor in Chief for suitability. At this stage, the article is not fully reviewed but checked for compliance in terms of the journal scope, style and presentation. Articles rejected at this stage are those that have not met the journal requirements.
Subject to submission of all required documents, and meeting all requirements, manuscripts are double-blind peer-reviewed by two independent expert readers in the field who remain anonymous throughout the process. Articles are only published if reports submitted to the journal are positive and if the author/s have made any revisions and/ or corrections which might have been deemed necessary. Articles are indexed in CrossRef and assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
Our steps in the process:
Reviewers are asked to select one of the decisions regarding the submission as stated below:
• rejection: The manuscript is not accepted outright.
• revise and resubmit: The manuscript is not accepted in its current form, but the author is encouraged to resubmit in the future after substantial changes have been made.
• accept with minor revisions: The manuscript is accepted with only a few minor suggestions for improvement.
• accept with major revisions: The manuscript is accepted under the condition that the author revises the draft as stipulated by the reviewer and editors.
Africajournals reserves the right to reject the publication of any manuscript that fails to implement the suggested revisions. After the completion of revisions, the author must send a final electronic version to the editor in MS Word format. The final version must conform to the expected conventions outlined. Final drafts that fail follow the conventions will be returned to the author. The editor will contact the author if there are any unresolved issues in the draft. If the content of the passes initial editing, the author will be sent galley proofs when the typesetting is complete. If corrections are required, they should be corrected in the galley proofs and submitted to the editors by the deadline requested. The amount of time from submission to publication depends on numerous factors, but usually takes more or less 90 days.
Our goal is to ensure a high standard of scholarship with an in-depth substantive review prior to all publication. Overall quality and originality is assessed in terms of structure, narrative, themes, methods and contribution to the body of knowledge. Authors may thus be expected to effect changes and make adaptations and revisions as stated above, where appropriate before publication of any manuscript. We provide open access so that articles are available to all to read and at no charge.
Legal notice: The responsibility for opinions conveyed and for the accuracy of facts published in articles and book reviews legally rests exclusively with the individual authors.
All articles published in AJHTL are double-blind peer-reviewed by scholars who are experts in the subject/topic areas and in the discipline or methodological approach used. The main criterion for publication in AJHTL is that the paper must make a clear contribution substantively, theoretically or methodologically, to the body of knowledge as per journal scope.
Submitted manuscripts are initially reviewed by the Editor in Chief for suitability. At this stage, the article is not fully reviewed but checked for compliance in terms of the journal scope, style and presentation. Articles rejected at this stage are those that have not met the journal requirements.
Subject to submission of all required documents, and meeting all requirements, manuscripts are double-blind peer-reviewed by two independent expert readers in the field who remain anonymous throughout the process. Articles are only published if reports submitted to the journal are positive and if the author/s have made any revisions and/ or corrections which might have been deemed necessary. Articles are indexed in CrossRef and assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
Our steps in the process:
Reviewers are asked to select one of the decisions regarding the submission as stated below:
• rejection: The manuscript is not accepted outright.
• revise and resubmit: The manuscript is not accepted in its current form, but the author is encouraged to resubmit in the future after substantial changes have been made.
• accept with minor revisions: The manuscript is accepted with only a few minor suggestions for improvement.
• accept with major revisions: The manuscript is accepted under the condition that the author revises the draft as stipulated by the reviewer and editors.
Africajournals reserves the right to reject the publication of any manuscript that fails to implement the suggested revisions. After the completion of revisions, the author must send a final electronic version to the editor in MS Word format. The final version must conform to the expected conventions outlined. Final drafts that fail follow the conventions will be returned to the author. The editor will contact the author if there are any unresolved issues in the draft. If the content of the passes initial editing, the author will be sent galley proofs when the typesetting is complete. If corrections are required, they should be corrected in the galley proofs and submitted to the editors by the deadline requested. The amount of time from submission to publication depends on numerous factors, but usually takes more or less 90 days.
Our goal is to ensure a high standard of scholarship with an in-depth substantive review prior to all publication. Overall quality and originality is assessed in terms of structure, narrative, themes, methods and contribution to the body of knowledge. Authors may thus be expected to effect changes and make adaptations and revisions as stated above, where appropriate before publication of any manuscript. We provide open access so that articles are available to all to read and at no charge.
Legal notice: The responsibility for opinions conveyed and for the accuracy of facts published in articles and book reviews legally rests exclusively with the individual authors.
ethical considerations
The Editor/s is required to act in a fair, balanced, objective manner and no discrimination of any sort is permitted or acceptable in any form or shape.All articles are required to considered if they align with the scope of the journal and are accepted solely on their academic merit and without commercial influence, after double blind peer review. All authors have a reasonable opportunity to respond to any complaints.
Reviewers are appointed based on their expertise, to contribute to the decision-making process, thereby assist in improving the quality of the published article by reviewing the manuscript objectively and timeously. Reviewers are to maintain the confidentiality of any information supplied by the editor or author and may not retain or copy the manuscript in any way for any reason.The reviewers are expected to alert the editor or managing editor of any published or submitted content that is significantly similar to that under current review. Reviewers must state any concerns about conflicts of interest and alert the editor to these, if necessary withdrawing their services for reviewing a particular manuscript, which for example be from the same institution as the one in which they are employed
The Author/s are required to retain accurate records of data associated with their submitted manuscript, supply or provide access to any data referred to in an article, if requested request to do so. No article submitted may be under consideration or accepted for publication anywhere else. All sources must be cited accurately. The author/s must confirm that all the work in a submitted manuscript is original in nature and to acknowledge and cite content reproduced from other sources used. They also need to acquire permission to replicate any content from other sources. Authors must ensure that any studies involving human or animal subjects conforms to national, local and institutional laws and requirements (e.g. WMA Declaration of Helsinki,) and confirm that approval has been sought and obtained where appropriate from university research ethics committees or other legal bodies. Authors must ensure that the well-being, safety and protection of persons involved in the research, where applicable, is of primary concern. Potential conflicts of interest must be disclosed. Where errors may occur in publication, the author/s should notify the editor and necessary revisions will be made and an erratum published. Where deemed necessary, an article may be retracted.
Misconduct and unethical behaviour, if and when identified, must be brought to the attention of the editor and publisher. Minor misconduct will be dealt with rapidly and a ‘guilty’ party can respond electronically to establish their case in a collegial fashion. Any informant should also be collegial and provide sufficient information and evidence of error or intentional oversight, in order for an investigation to be initiated. All allegations are taken seriously and treated in the same way, until a successful decision or conclusion is reached. Evidence must be presented and no allegations will be made beyond those who need to know. The editor may consult with experts for advice and his/her decision will be binding. Where there has been misconduct, there will be a formal notice detailing the misconduct and the outcome thereof.
NOTE THAT THE USE OF AI IS PROHIBITED. IF USED IN EXTREME CASES IT MUST BE EXPLAINED WHY AND HOW.
Text changes after a proof layout issue
Authors are given the opportunity to revise and approve the text of the accepted manuscript in the final phase of copy-editing and are sent a proof to check. After the author checks and resends the work it is then considered as approved by him or her. The author must thus carefully proofread the final proof galleys. Proofreading is intended to correct any typesetting mistakes and may not be used to bring in any new changes.
Cautionary
Authorship
Inclusion/s of a person/s who were not involved in the writing of a manuscript is a violation of publication ethics.
Plagiarism
Submitted manuscripts must be the original works of the author(s). This why we require a plagiarism report such as Turnitin for each manuscript.
Duplicate Manuscript
It is highly unethical for authors to submit a manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously. This includes the submission of any manuscripts derived from the same data in such a manner that there are clearly no substantial differences in the submission. Submitting the same article in a different languages to another journal is also unethical.
Fabrication / Falsification of Data
Fabrication, manipulation or falsification of data is a severe violation of publication ethics. Where there is suspicion of false or fabricated data, legal steps may be taken against authors.
Citation Manipulation
Only articles/sources relevant to the article must be cited.
Data Protection
In terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA or the Act), No. 4 of 2013, for an author/s submitting a manuscript to us for reviewing for our publications, we require name, email address, Orcid ID (Where applicable), institutional affiliation and country. These are used for the regular operations of a publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of article publication, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. Where quantitative data has been collected, and in some cases qualitative or mixed methodology data, (unless totally conceptual desktop research) an ethical clearance attainment statement from institutions must be stated in the article by the author/s. All details on record are destroyed after 3 years. Except of course for what appears on the online article.
Retractions
Any retracted article will be identified and linked to a relevant article and published promptly to avoid and limit any detrimental effects. Who retracts the article and the reason and objective/s for this will be also be explained where relevant.
NSEF Code of Best Practice:
- The reported findings and/or conceptual insights must be original, in the sense that
that they are novel findings or insights that are not published elsewhere.
-Any paper submitted to a journal should only be considered for possible publication
if the author(s) have certified that the paper in question is not under consideration by
another publication, and will not be submitted to any other journal until a final
rejection decision (or formal withdrawal) from the present journal has been received.
-Manuscripts must contain, or permit reference in sufficient detail, of the methods and
materials used in the study (where applicable) in order to make explicit how the
knowledge was generated, and the academic basis for the claims being made.
-Integrity of scholarship requires that no apparently inconsistent data are omitted.
-The statistical treatment of data must be thorough and the conclusions reasonable,
and based on the results of the research and objectives.
-The existing relevant literature must be appropriately and fairly cited, and self-citation
must be limited; in this respect, efforts should be made to ensure that reference is
made to the first report of a finding or conceptual insight, if possible, rather than a
later citation with reference to subsequent work.
-Authorship must conform to the notions of responsibility and credit; thus special
attention must be given to the first ‘lead’ author (sometimes explicitly shared), and
the inclusion in the authorship listing only of persons who have made a significant
contribution to the production of the work at an intellectual, practical or conceptual
level.
Speculative decisions and statements must be clearly specified as such and kept to
a minimum (except where the nature of the contribution requires speculation, such
as philosophical articles, case discussions, theology, etc.).
-Acknowledgement of funding sources and possible conflicts of interest must be
stated.
-Author affiliations should be provided which reflect both the period of the study and
the present situation.
-Priority is given from the date of acceptance of an article (i.e. once the peer review
has already taken place), not from its date of receipt. However both dates are
always provided in the published version.
-Post-publication errors and falsifications must always be corrected and/or retracted
in a later issue of the same journal by means of an erratum or a retraction notice
which should be published on the article HTML/website page as well as the PDF.
publication count
Note, that to maintain our rigor, 25 -27 articles will be published for each of the four annual issues of the journal as well as the two special editions which may have up to 20 articles per issue. The usual processing fee will be charged for such issues but other than this, no other fees are payable.
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accessible knowledge baseWe seek to make accessible a knowledge base in a wide range of related disciplines. The AJHTL, with its quality articles, showcasing both current and applicable knowledge in a number of disciplines directly or indirectly related to tourism, hospitality and leisure, from across the globe, is emerging as a favoured scientific research platform among academics.
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copyright notice
Authors who publish with AJHTL come to an understanding with the following aspects:
The author/s retains copyright and gives the journal the right of first publication with the work concurrently licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work and acknowledge of the work's authorship and primary publication in AJHTL.
Authors are free to enter into separate, supplementary contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive circulation of the AJHTL published version of the work such as posting it to an institutional repository or publish it or part thereof in a book. However, there must be an acknowledgement of the initial publication in AJHTL.
When an article is published by the AJHTL the author(s) of the article retains the copyright. Author(s) may republish the article as part of any book or other materials. When reusing a published article, author(s) should always cite that the article was originally published in the AJHTL and include the article DOI. The author should also accept that the article remains published by the AJHTL (except in occasion of a retraction of the article)
After the submission process, authors are allowed to post their work online in institutional repositories or on their personal website/s.
Article DOI
A DOI number (Crossref) is assigned to your article immediately after publication which will make your research outputs easy to find, cite, assess, and will also be linking out your content within the research community.
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors must declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial associations that could be construed as a possible conflict of interest.
SPECIAL EDITIONS REQUEST
Special editions may be considered on request from individuals, groups or institutions. To this end a proposal (see 16 and 17 below) must be submitted to AFRICAJOURNALS at africajournals @hotmail.com for final consideration and formal approval.
A Special Edition is supplementary to any of our journals’ regular issues and should focus on topics that may be under-researched or deliberate on leading-edge developments in the field that require some attention. The theme of a special issue and its constituent papers must form a coherent narrative while remaining relevant to the scope of the publishing journal.
The Editors need to assume responsibility to guarantee that the selected papers meet with the desired standard.
The interested individual, group or institution needs to submit a detail proposal as to what they envisage (see 16 and 17 below) to the Editor in Chief of the journal in question who is required to adhere to the following guidelines:
- Those calling for a special edition must make submit a detailed proposal to Africajournals (see 16 and 17 below) who will make a final decision on the matter after deliberation with the Editor in Chief of the journal in question. No reason needs to be furnished for non-acceptance of a special edition request.
- Special edition themes must be well-defined and within the scope of the journal concerned, and be of interest to a wide audience.
- Special Editions can be organized and edited by a maximum of 3 editors, the senior editor will be referred to as the Editor in Chief of that particular journal or as the Guest Editor (as may be decided) and the others as Associate Editors.
- The Editor in Chief is responsible for describing the aims and scope of the special issue and choosing associate editors if required. However this is generally the Guest Editor’s role.
- Special Edition articles should satisfy all the standard requirements of any individual Africajournals article as per that journals website.
- The Editor in Chief OR Guest Editor as the case may be, is responsible for the selection of papers and reviewers and will screen accepted manuscripts for quality and select papers must be accepted based on scientific merit.
- The Editor in Chief or Guest Editor as may be decided, will oversee the peer review process. This means that that person appoints reviewers for each paper, communicates with the authors about the review comments, and makes decisions on revisions, rejections, and approvals. It should however be noted that a Guest Editor’s decision to approve of a paper for publication is in essence a recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief who makes the final decision.
- The Editor-in-Chief will have access to the referee reports, the authors’ responses, etc. Where there is/are Guest editor/s they are required to uphold the high quality. requirements of Africajournals and deliberate with the Editor-in-Chief on all doubtful cases.
- A special edition should have 20- 25 articles maximum and a minimum of 16 and these should be publication ready when submitted to AJHTL along with the double blind peer review collated report, or individual reports and an indication of all revisions made in a normal word document showing track changes etc.
- Editorials are required for each special edition and must be written by the Editor in Chief or the Guest Editor as the case may be.
- The journals code of ethics must be adhered to as stated on the respective journal websites.
- Editors (Editor in chief or Guest Editor/s) must disclose and declare any conflicts of interests to the Africajournals.
- The Editor in Chief is accountable for setting up a timeline and sticking to publishing deadlines.
- Any special edition that is not finalized within the stipulated timeline will be discarded.
- Where there are guest editors they are requested to adopt the publishing journal’s editorial and review policies to make the special issue a success
- Initial proposal and agreement in principle
- The format of the proposals:
- Proposals should be detailed and formal and include where available, the titles and abstracts of the proposed articles. This proposal format must contain:
The title of the Special Edition.
A brief CV/s of the proposed Guest Editor/s (usually no more than three).
A statement of the Special Edition significance for the journal concerned and a
draft introduction of individuals, groups or institutions likely to be involved.
Where available, titles and draft abstracts of each of the proposed articles and any
draft papers that are available. Preferably, there should be at least 40 proposed
articles to allow for possible rejections.
Brief details of contributors.
An outline timetable for the Special edition.
We need to add a call for special issue papers to the journal in question’s website or
simply advertise it – thus we will require the Special Edition name, (which may be
based on a conference etc), a logo (where applicable) that may legally be used and
the expected date of publication of the Special Edition.
Publication info
Our publication model has been carefully thought-out to allows minimal processing fees. We are of the view that academic publishing is a not-for-profit enterprise undertaken for the good of universal dissemination, and it should not be determined by any exclusionary pay barriers. The authors of each accepted paper after a double-blind peer reviewing are asked to pay nominal processing fees. Readers and authors have the benefit of free and open access. No fees are charged for access to our journal but we have publication expenses such as peer review management, journal production, archiving and online hosting. We thus have article processing charges to authors, institutions for each articles published.
Processing Fee and Waiver Policy
The article processing fee is R6500.00 / US$398.00
We have a waiver policy in place for deserving authors. The provision for either a complete or partial processing fee waiver depends entirely on a case-by-case assessment. The waiver may allow for a half processing fee to be paid or no processing fee at all. A request for a full or partial waiver can only be considered if the request for a waiver has been sent to the related journal before submission of the manuscript. The Managing Editor will decide on the merits of each request. There is also a limit to waiver grants per year, so once reached, no further waivers are possible.
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Africajournals Legal Disclaimer
AJHTL shall not be liable for any losses, proceedings, claims, costs, damages or expenses or any other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever originating either directly or indirectly in connection with, or in relation to or which may arise out of content in/of any article published. AJHTL does not make any representation or warranty at all regarding the accuracy or completeness for any aspect of article content. Any and all opinions and views that are expressed in any article are solely the opinions and views of the author/s and are not in way the views of AJHTL and neither are they endorsed by AJHTL. Thus the accuracy of the content of any article should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information.
AJHTL reserves the right not to publish any article and does not need to explain why such a decision has been made.
AJHTL shall not be liable for any losses, proceedings, claims, costs, damages or expenses or any other liabilities whatsoever or howsoever originating either directly or indirectly in connection with, or in relation to or which may arise out of content in/of any article published. AJHTL does not make any representation or warranty at all regarding the accuracy or completeness for any aspect of article content. Any and all opinions and views that are expressed in any article are solely the opinions and views of the author/s and are not in way the views of AJHTL and neither are they endorsed by AJHTL. Thus the accuracy of the content of any article should not be relied upon and should be independently verified with primary sources of information.
AJHTL reserves the right not to publish any article and does not need to explain why such a decision has been made.
