Stellenbosch University
Prepare your manuscript for Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-07-15
Article types
Review
Readiness requirements
Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.
Abstract length
- Include or confirm the abstract length required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
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.
- Copyright Notice This journal is an open access journal, and the authors and journal should be properly acknowledged when works are cited (Reference the full name of the Journal: Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk).
Figure and table rules
- Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
- Group figures at the end of the manuscript.
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- Group tables at the end of the manuscript.
- All illustrations, tables and figures must be placed within the text at the appropriate points (not at the end of the document), and should be in their original format (not saved as an image).
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
- Should ethical concerns arise regarding the data linked to a published article, the correction and retraction policies of the Journal will be implemented.
Blinded manuscript
- Review: Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other direct identifiers from the blinded manuscript file.
Title page and author information
- The complete ORCID iD URL of all authors must be included in the Submissions Details Form.
- All authors are required to sign a Publication Agreement, which will be provided to the corresponding author before the publication of the article.
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- Each manuscript must have a designated corresponding author, who may not necessarily be the first author but assumes responsibility for the submission of the manuscript and all correspondence with the journal.
Preprints and prior publication
- The typical timeline from article submission-to-publication ranges from a minimum of 6 months to a maximum of 24 months.
- If a manuscript is provisionally approved, the final editorial editing and publication queue time will not exceed 12 months from that point.
Artificial intelligence disclosure
- Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
- In exceptional situations, such as instances of plagiarism, the creation of texts solely by artificial intelligence (AI), redundant publication, or data errors, articles may require retraction.
Other submission requirements
- The article should be written in Times New Roman; 12-point font; 1.15 line spacing; justified; and standardised margins of 2.54cm.
- Corresponding authors must mandatorily submit the Journal’s Submissions Details Form along with the manuscript as a separate file.
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- Submit an article online through the journal's website.
- Articles must be submitted via the journal's website.
- Authors are required to consult the Journal’s Referencing and Formatting Guide before drafting manuscripts for submission.
- Authors will be required to rectify any referencing errors until all queries are resolved.
- The selected repository should be actively managed, allow for unrestricted access and appropriately describe the data and include metadata.
- 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.
- Articles as a whole may not be re-published with another journal.
- We assume no responsibility, and shall not be liable for any breaches of agreement with other publishers/hosts.
- Manuscripts that do not adhere meticulously to this guide will not be processed and will be returned to the authors with a request to comply with the guide before resubmitting the manuscript.
Authorship and originality
- All authors are required to sign the Journal's Publishing Agreement before publication, in the predetermined order of their names.
What your package checks
Declarations: Artificial intelligence
Format: 12 pt, Times New Roman
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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