Taylor & Francis
Prepare your manuscript for Africa Education Review.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-08-01
Article types
Review
Book Review
Letter
Lectio
Readiness requirements
Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.
Abstract length
- Below the abstract, please provide 5–8 keywords for indexing (only proper nouns should be capitalised).
- Do not type the abstract in italics.
Keywords
- Provide 5-8 keywords chosen by the author.
Reference style
- Articlo formats your supplied references in Harvard style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
- Articles should be between 5 000 and 6 000 words in length (including references).
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- If a scan is used from e.g. a catalogue, this must be indicated by means of an exact reference: Figure 4: Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Misanthrope (1568).
- Footnotes Footnotes with references in Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3—do not use i, ii, iii) are allowed on condition that these are limited to essential notes that enhance the content without impeding the fluent reading of the article.
- Single-author citations: If the author’s name appears in the text it is not necessary to repeat it, but the date should follow immediately: Malan (2014, 4) refers to this … Single author with two or more works in the same year: (Gray 2009a; 2009b) One publication with two or three authors: … contested by Smith and Jones (2013, 16).
- Abstracts should not contain any footnotes or citations.
- ISBN: 978-0-0000000-1, https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780199646241.001.0001 Reviewed by Rod Amner orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000 Rhodes University, School of Journalism and Media Studies, South Africa r.amner@ru.ac.za Style Do not use the ampersand (&) anywhere in the text or citations; use “and” instead.
- Footnotes do not replace the alphabetical list of references at the end of the text.
- Dates of individual items should be mentioned in the text, when applicable: (in the reference list) Egmont Manuscripts.
- Include cited authors in the reference list.
- Electronic references ( NB: The text reference must correspond with the alphabetical reference list ) Author’s surname, name and initials (if available); title of article/publication. website address (URL): Macdonald, Fiona.
- Citation Guidelines: Chicago Author-Date In text: Within the body of your text, citations are indicated in parentheses with the author's surname, publication date, and page number (if needed, as when quoting direct words), e.g. (Smith 2012, 45).
- Do not put a full stop after the DOI—A DOI is a permanent ID that, when appended to https://doi.org/ in the address bar of an Internet browser, will lead to the source.
Figure and table rules
- Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
- Captions of figures other than artworks should be short and descriptive.
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- Captions of artworks should include, in the following order: Figure 1 Artist, title (date).
Funding statement
- Include or confirm the funding statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Competing interests
- Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Blinded manuscript
- Include or confirm the blinded manuscript required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Cover letter
- Acknowledgements Acknowledgements appear at the end of the article, should be brief, and recognise sources of financial and logistical support and permission to reproduce materials from other sources.
Supplementary files
- Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
- Do not add supplementary files with graphic content.
Title page and author information
- Authors should include their affiliation or ORCID below their name, after the title of the article.
- Do not use a dash to replace author names.
Article structure and word limits
- The letters in ordinal numbers should not appear as superscripts (e.g., 122nd and NOT 122 nd ).
- Manuscripts must be presented as: A4 pages; normal margins; 12pt Times Roman; 1.5 line spacing.
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- Examples are: "This," wrote George Templeton Strong, "is what our tailors can do.” 1 The bias was apparent in the Shotwell series 2 —and it must be remembered that Shotwell was a student of Robinson’s.
- Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
- Submitted papers should be in final form and ready for publication.
- Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
- Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
- All graphic material has to be positioned at the correct place in the text and should be of a good quality.
- Book Review: Book reviews Please note the format and order of information required: Oxford Dictionary of Journalism Tony Harcup Oxford University Press.
- A note number should generally be placed at the end of a sentence or at the end of a clause.
- Use the % sign in parentheses and per cent in text.
- Single variables should be inserted into the text as Unicode characters.
- The example numbers should be in parentheses and placed next to the left-hand margin.
- Use surnames, first names (if known) and initials.
- Use headline-style capitalisation for titles of journals and periodicals (i.e., Journal of Social Activism ).
- Use only three full stops for an ellipse (A full stop is added before an ellipsis to indicate the omission of the end of a sentence, unless the sentence is deliberately incomplete).
- A space should be used between any initials.
- Such numbering should occur consecutively.
- Add a line break (enter key) between all paragraphs.
- Do not apply paragraph styles (hanging indents, automatic spacing after or before, etc.).
- Do not type double spaces anywhere; not between words, at the end of sentences or after colons.
Preprints and prior publication
- If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
Language and text style
- Proofing language must be set as UK English (colour—not color; travelled—not traveled; organise; organisation; organising—not -ize).
- Italicisation should otherwise be reserved for titles and words from a language other than that of the text.
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- Titles of standalone publications must be in headline style (significant words are capitalised) and in italics when typed in the text.
- Do not print indented text in italics and do not use quotation marks.
- Review: General Any submission must include a declaration that the manuscript has not been published previously and is not under simultaneous review elsewhere, as well as a statement that the article has been edited for language.
- Letter: Abbreviations Abbreviations that begin and end on the same letter as the word, do not get a full stop (Mr/Dr/Eds), but note Ed./Rev.
- Words well-known in South African English are set as roman, for example, “lobola,” “ubuntu,” “indaba.” Words/terms that need to be singled out as being “borrowed” from another author/source may be placed in double inverted commas.
Author contributions
- Letter: Credit lines of artworks should include all elements specified in the letter of permission from the rights holder, institution and/or photographer.
Article type and manuscript length
- Individual examples should only be numbered if they are discussed with reference to that number in the article’s body text.
What your package checks
Paper: 6,000 words
Keywords: 5-8 keywords
References: Harvard
Source transparency
This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.
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