Guide for Authors
Ethics in publishing
For information on Ethics in publishing
and Ethical guidelines for journal publication see
http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics and
http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.
Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including
any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work
that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously
(except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was
carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any
other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Changes to authorship
This
policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the
accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must
be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should
be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree
with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author
being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding
author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such
requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After
the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published
in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.
Copyright
It
is a condition of publication in the journal that authors assign copyright to the Africagrowth Institute. This ensures that requests
from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated
as possible. In assigning copyright, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the journal is acknowledged
as the original place of publication.
Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer
or institution) retain certain rights; for details you are referred to:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Role of the funding source
You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of
the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection,
analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the
funding source(s) had no such involvement then this should be stated. Please see
http://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Funding body agreements and policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors
whose articles appear in journals published by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions
of their grant awards. To learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
Language and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted,
but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission
please visit
http://webshop.elsevier.com/languageservices
or our customer support site at
http://support.elsevier.com
for more information.
Submission
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and
you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts source files to a single
PDF file of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted
to PDF files at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence,
including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail removing the need for a paper trail.
Referees
Please submit, with the manuscript, the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of three potential
referees. Note that the editor retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.
(1)
Manuscript should be typewritten using 1.5 spacing throughout, including tables, references, and footnotes. Assemble sections in the
following order
Title page (Separate Page)
Abstract (Separate Page)
Text (Including Tables & Figures)
References
Appendix
(2)
Manuscript (Microsoft Word) should be submitted to EES
http://ees.elsevier.com/rdf/. First time authors should register
themselves as Author.
(3) The
Title page should include the name(s) of the author(s), and institutional affiliation for each
author. It should also include name, address, telephone number and email of the author responsible for correspondence, as well as the
name, address of the author to who requests for reprints should be sent.
(4) Each article should include an
Abstract of not
more than 100 words, beginning on a separate page. The text should also begin on a separate page. The first numbered section should follow
the
Abstract of the article.
Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and placed at the bottom of the page on which they
are cited. Do not number author affiliations or acknowledgements of support or assistance.
(5)
Tables and Figures should
be placed on the page on which it is first referred to or as close as possible to such page and should be numbered sequentially with
Arabic numerals. Each should be designed to fit on a page without undue compression. Authors may use a "landscape" page setup for tables.
It should be as self-explanatory as possible, incorporating any necessary descriptive material in an unnumbered footnote.
Tables
- The table number and heading are displayed
above the table, in bold typed and left aligned.
Figures - All explanatory
material should be included in the legend and not in the figure itself. The figure number and heading are displayed
below the figure,
in bold typed and left aligned.
(6)
Headings are numbered and formatted as follows:
1. MAIN HEADING (bold)
1.1
Sub Heading (bold)
1.1.1 Minor Heading (italics)
(7)
References: the Harvard method must be used, namely short references
in the text and more detailed references arranged in alphabetical order at the end of the manuscript (follow the guidelines below).
References
in the text: Omit the page numbers if the entire publication is referred to (Cane, 1980); or … according to Cane (1987b).
If a quotation is cited, (Abraham, 1985: 2).
The list of references should be in unnumbered alphabetical format and should
begin on a new page.
Hakansson, N. (1979): "A Characterization of Optimal Multi-period Portfolio Policies", in Portfolio Theory, 25
Years After: Essays in Honor of Harry Markowitz, eds. E. Elton and M. Gruber Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp. 169-177
Gibbons, M. R.,
Ross, S. A. and Shanken, J. (1989): "A Test of the Efficiency of a Given Portfolio" Econometrica, 57(4), pp.1121-1152.
Merton, R.
C. (1990): Continuous-Time Finance. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell.
Norton, C. (2000): "African Capital Market: The way forward", Working
Paper, the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Use
of the Digital Object Identifier
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents.
The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic
publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly 'Articles in press'
because they have not yet received their full bibliographic information. The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows (example
taken from a document in the journal
Physics Letters B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.09.059
When you use the DOI to
create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, the DOIs are guaranteed never to change.
Proofs
One
set of page proofs (as PDF files) will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper
proofs will be sent by post) or, a link will be provided in the e-mail so that authors can download the files themselves. Elsevier now
provides authors with PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 (or higher) available
free from
http://get.adobe.com/reader. Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs (also given online).
The exact system requirements are given at the Adobe site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/tech-specs.html.
If
you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return them
to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections
and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail,
or by post. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures.
Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor.
We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately – please let us have all your corrections within
48 hours. It is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying,
as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed
with the publication of your article if no response is received.
For inquiries
relating to the submission of articles (including electronic submission) please visit this journal's homepage. Contact details for questions
arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, will be provided by the publisher. You can track accepted
articles at
http://www.elsevier.com/trackarticle. You can also check our Author FAQs (
http://www.elsevier.com/authorFAQ)
and/or contact Customer Support via
http://support.elsevier.com.
