1. Requirements for Submission

• Authors should submit an electronic copy of their manuscript to africastudies.kr@gmail.com in either MS word pr hwp format. All contributions except when acknowledged by the editorial committee, should not be published elsewhere or be under consideration for publication in other journals or books. Significant findings that have already appeared(or will appear) elsewhere must be clearly identified.

2. Length of Manuscript

• 1) The length of a manuscript should not exceed 6000-8000 words, inclusive of footnotes, tables, figures, and bibliography(Abstract and keywords are counted seperately). The book review should be written in 2000-2,500 words.
• 2) In determining manuscript length in terms of the number A4 pages, the following default setting of the Hangul word processor serves as the basis.

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3. Structure of Manuscript

• 1) Cover Page
  • full article title and running title
  • each author’s full name and institutional affiliation(s)
  • acknowledgements (with funding information)
  • total word count (including notes and references)
  • corresponding author (name, address, phone, e-mail)
  • each author’s brief biographical sketch of 80 words or fewer
• 2) Main document (Omit author information)
  • Title
  • Abstract (200 words)
  • Keywords (more than 5)
  • Body and Footnotes
  • Reference
• 3) Tables and Figures

  All tables and figures should placed within text and in appropriate positions using the numbering style in the following example: <Table 1>, <Figure 1>”. Sources should specified immediately below the table or figure.

• 4) Footnotes and explanations related to the body should be clearly indicated by numbers in the text.

4. Ensuring Anonymity of Authors

In order to maintain the anonymity of the author during the examination, the author’s name is written only on a separate cover page, and no mention of the author's identity should be included anywhere in the text and footnote.

5. Details of the text description

• The text begins article text on a new page headed by the title. No author identification.
• For headings and sub-headings, the numbering system in the following example should be used: “I.”, “1.”, “1)”, and “(1)”.
• References in the text or footnote. Examples of the citations in the text are:

Lee (1974); Lee (1974: 30-35); (Lee, 1974: 30-35); (Shilling and Mellor, 1998: 171)

For more than three authors, use “et al.” (Meyer et al., 1997)

List a series of citations in alphabetical order separated by semicolons. (Bourdieu, 1972: 10; 1977a: 24; 1977b: 30; Grusky, 2004: 12; Hauser, 1992: 788)

6. References Style Guide samples

• Books

  Tilly, Charles. 1978. From Mobilization to Revolution. New York: Addison-Wesley.

  Karvonen, L.(ed.). 2010. The Personalisation of Politics: A Study of Parliamentary Democracies. Colchester: ECPR Press.

  Poran, R. H., E. M. Gremlin, and M. Armstrong. 2005. Does foreign Direct Investment Promote Development? Washington D. C.: Blackwell.

• Book Chapters

  Walker, J. 1971. “Innovation in State Politics.” pp.35–86 in Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, edited by H. Jacob, T. Vedel, and K. N. Vines, Boston: Little Brown.

  Gasser, U., and J. Gerlach. 2012. “E-Campaigns in Old Europe: Observations From Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.” pp.1151–1179 in iPolitics. Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era, edited by R. Fox and J. Ramos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Journals, thesis, and reports

  Callon, M. 1984. “Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay.” The Sociological Review 32(1): 196-233.

  Reggiani, C., and T. Valletti. 2016. “Net neutrality and innovation at the core and at the edge.” International Journal of Industrial Organization 45(C): 16-27.

  Dulani, B., R. Mattes, and C. Logan. 2013. “After a Decade of Growth in Africa, Little Change in Poverty at the Grassroots.” Afrobarometer Policy Brief 1: 120–44.

  Ammassari, S. 2003. “Intercontinental Mobility and Return Migration of Elites to the Ivory Coast and Ghana.” Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation, Development Studies, University of Sussex.

  Krafcik, J. F., and J. P. MacDuffie. 1989. “Explaining High Performance Manufacturing: The International Automotive Assembly Plant Study.” Working Paper of International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

• Newspapers, internet documents

  The Korea Economic Daily. 2017. “Telecommunication companies, ‘Net neutrality deregulation, a need for the 5G investment’.” (by name of author if necessary) (Dec. 16).

  Weinberger, D. 2004. “Is There an echo in here?” Salon, February 21. https://www.salon.com/2004/02/21/echo_chamber/ (Accessed 2021.11.11.).

  Lucioni, R. 2013. “Senate Voting Relationships.” December 8. https://renzolucioni.com/senate-voting-relationships/ (Accessed 2021.11.11.).

  Saddiq, M. A. 2010. “Whither e-Jihad: Evaluating the Threat of Internet Radicalisation.” RSIS Commentary no. 83. http://dr.ntu.edu.sg/handle/10220/6646 (Accessed 2021.11.11.).

• Working Papers, Paper Presentations, and Proceedings

  Loth, R. 1992. “A Wider Race: Interstate Competition Across Health and Welfare Programs.” Working Paper, Columbia University.

  Venkatanathan, J., E. Karapanos, V. Kostakos, and J. Goncalves. 2012. “Network, Personality and Social Capital.” pp.326–329 in Proceedings of the 4th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, edited by R. Fox and J. Ramos. New York: ACM. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2380760.

  Venkatanathan, J., E. Karapanos, V. Kostakos, and J. Goncalves. 2012. “Network, Personality and Social Capital.” Paper presented at the 4th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, March 28–30, Vienna, VA.

7. Matters not specified in these Submission Guidelines shall follow the general customs of academic journals.