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Author Guidelines
Articles should not exceed 8 000 words in length (including Abstract and References), and should relate to the political, economic and social aspects of telecommunications, broadcasting and IT.
Comments, reports, book reviews or rejoinders to articles should be not more than 1 500 - 3 000 words.
All submissions should be in 11-point Arial font, single space, left aligned Microsoft Word format (or compatible open source format) with minimal formatting/layout. Where necessary, footnotes rather than endnotes should be used.
All graphs (& other images) must be uploaded in either Jpeg or Gif format. Images in other formats & graphs or tables that are created in other applications may cause display issues on this platform.
Contributions are received with the understanding that their contents are original, upublished material, and are not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Translated material, which has not been published in English, will also be considered. The Editor reserves the right to edit or otherwise alter contributions.
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.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in either of the Microsoft Word, RTF, WordPerfect or Open Office document formats.
- Accords with SAJICs referencing conventions, and where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- Accords with SAJICs formatting and presentation conventions
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Copyright Notice
The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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