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Prepare your manuscript for Journal of Eastern African Studies.

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Article types

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Research Article
Book Review
Lectio
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Systematic Review
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Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • Should be 8–10,000 words, inclusive of: Abstract.
  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  • Please submit a cover page with your manuscript including the following details: Title, author(s), affiliation(s), corresponding author email, abstract (200 words), key words (5-7), Acknowledgements, Disclosure statement, funding statement, AI statement, ORCiD (optional).

Keywords

  • Provide 5-7 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Should contain between 5 and 7 keywords.

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.
  • Should be 8–10,000 words, inclusive of: References.
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  • Media sources should be treated as primary sources, with details in endnotes only (not in-text, and not in the bibliography).
  • Author first names should be named in the bibliography and excluded in notes.
  • Review: Please submit an anonymized manuscript with author names, references, and identifying information blinded for peer review.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • In order to avoid inconsistency between authors from the Horn of Africa and the rest of the world, works by authors using their father's name as second name (surnames) should be referenced by their second name in footnotes and list of references.
  • However, when they are found in abstracts from interviews or citations, dates in Ethiopian or Hijri calendars should be kept in the original calendar, with the Gregorian added between brackets.
  • 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.
  • Review: Please submit the following documents: Anonymized manuscript for peer review, full manuscript with identifying details and citations (not for review), cover page with acknowledgements and declarations (not for review).

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • Should be 8–10,000 words, inclusive of: Tables.
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  • Should be 8–10,000 words, inclusive of: Figure or table captions.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
  • Figures should be saved separately from the text.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.

Funding statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • 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].
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  • This should be included as a disclosure statement and formatted as the acknowledgements, disclosure and funding statements.

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

  • Review: Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other direct identifiers from the blinded manuscript file.

Cover letter

  • Using Third-Party Material You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
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  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Author contributions

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
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  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • A statement on AI use is required for submission to this journal.
  • Title should be in bold, with capitals for first word and proper nouns only, e.g.: The “hustle” amongst youth entrepreneurs in Mathare’s informal waste economy.
  • Papers should include details of translation for primary source material (both text and interviews where relevant) as a methodological note.
  • Words in languages that do not use the Latin alphabet can be transliterated as the authors please.
  • 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.
  • In line with the Taylor and Francis policy on AI use, this statement must include: the full name of the tool used (with version number), how it was used, and the reason for use.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Book Review: We do not publish literature reviews, book reviews, or commentaries.
  • However, the authors shall pay attention to consistency throughout the paper and avoid switching between one transliteration system and another.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

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.
  • Use of Artificial Intelligence JEAS allows AI for slight language editing only.
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  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
  • 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

  • In the main text, all dates should be in the Gregorian calendar.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Title; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments (optional); funding statement; declaration of interest statement; AI statement; ORCiD (optional); bibliography; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
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  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Title; abstract; keywords; main text; bibliography; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Language and text style

  • Please use single quotation marks in the main body of the paper, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’.
  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
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  • Text sources in languages other than English should be cited using the original source title with translation in brackets.
  • Cited sources in languages other than English should be referenced by their original title, with an English translation of the title in brackets.

Manuscript structure

  • Primary sources should be referenced in the endnotes only.
  • 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).
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Keywords: 5-7 keywords
Declarations: Funding, Acknowledgements, 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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