Taylor & Francis
Prepare your manuscript for Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.
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
Editorial
Letter
Lectio
Systematic Review
Readiness requirements
Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.
Abstract length
- Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
- Abstract: An abstract of up to 200 words must be included, summarizing the content.
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- Citations must not be used within the abstract.
Keywords
- Include or confirm the keywords required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Reference style
- Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
- Please keep them in the sentence at the point of greatest relevance Dashes Spaced en rules for parenthetical dashes Use en rule between spans of numbers (e.g. 20–40), including page numbers in references.
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- A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.
Figure and table rules
- Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
- Review: It is the custom and practice in academic publishing that the reproduction of short extracts of text and some other types of material may be permitted on a limited basis for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission, on the basis that: •the purpose of quotation or use is objective and evidenced scholarly criticism or review (not merely illustration); •a quotation is reproduced accurately, either within quotation (“ ”) marks or as displayed (indented) text; •full attribution is given.
Funding statement
- You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
Competing interests
- Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Ethics statement
- Include or confirm the ethics statement 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
- As a general rule, you should secure permission in writing to reproduce any work in full that is owned and held in copyright by a third party, that is, and for which you are not attributed as author and in which you do not own copyright.
Article structure and word limits
- Review: Book reviews should be between 1000 and 1500 words and review essays between 1500 and 3000 words.
- Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
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- Editorial: LaTeX files should be converted to PDF prior to submission because Editorial Manager is not able to convert LaTeX files into PDFs directly.
- All LaTeX source files should be uploaded alongside the PDF.
- Submissions should not have already appeared in print, nor should they be under consideration elsewhere.
- All submissions should conform strictly to the guidelines supplied in these notes and in the style guide.
- 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 submissions should be accompanied by a cover page that includes the title of the article and the author’s name and contact details.
- A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
- Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
- Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
- The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
- Do not include square brackets otherwise.
Reporting guidelines
- Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
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.
Artificial intelligence disclosure
- Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
- Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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- Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
- A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
- Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
- Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
- Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
- A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.
Article type and manuscript length
- All articles should adhere to a word limit of up to a maximum of 7,000 words, including all notes and references.
Language and text style
- However, a quotation from a song lyric or a poem, whether used as an epigraph or within the text, will always require written permission from a copyright holder.
- Spelling Please use British spelling (OED) (–ize endings), italicize non-English words and phrases Punctuation Initials (e.g. US, NJ, BBC) do not have full points between them.
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- Capitalise major words in the titles of books/periodicals/chapters/ articles/poems written in English (The Merchant of Venice, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”, Sunday Times, The Story of My Life) Translation Non-English words / phrases (excluding proper nouns) should be in italics with the gloss or translation in brackets or worked into the sentence in which they appear.
Manuscript structure
- Please do not move superscript footnote to the end of sentences.
- Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.
Study reporting guidelines
- Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).
What your package checks
Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 7,000 words
Declarations: Artificial intelligence
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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