ZAMANI JOURNAL POLICIES
ZAMANI JOURNAL POLICIES
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
The journal charges zero fee to all authors who submit their research for publication consideration. Also, all online published issues are free of charge in the journal landing page. For print copies, there is a little production and postage fee which charged by the journal's publisher, Pluto Journals.
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES TO AUTHORS
i. All submissions should be written in British English consistently. Authors are, thus, advised to edit their works prior to submissions to make the review process a smooth exercise.
ii. Authors should submit manuscripts in word format document and justified. All texts should be in Times New Roman font size 12 and in single-space throughout. Quotations exceeding 20 words should be indented consistently. Page numbers should be written in the centre of the footer.
iii. At the time of submission, the work should not be submitted for consideration elsewhere.
iv. Each author should submit two word-format documents. The first document should a one-page document with title of submission, name, institution affiliation, ORCID number, and active email address. The second document should have five main elements: title, abstract, keywords, main essay and references.
v. Authors should use Chicago Style (16th edition) in organising their footnotes and references consistently. Here are few examples:
End of article reference page with full citations in Chicago Style:
If it is a BOOK: Nyerere, Julius K. Freedom and Unity. Dar es Salaam: Oxford University Press, 1966.
If it is CHAPTER IN A BOOK: König, Wolfgang. “Design and Engineering.” In The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
If it is an ARTICLE IN PRINT JOURNAL: Smiley, Sarah L. “Researching Housing, Water, and Sanitation in the British and Tanzania National Archives.” History in Africa 40 (2013): 353-364.
Footnotes should be written continuously (at bottom of page); with full citation when cited for the first time and with brief relevant citation of Author’s last name and short title only when cited again. Here are the examples:
1. Julius K. Nyerere, Freedom and Unity (Dar es Salaam: Oxford University Press, 1966), 24-25.
2. Nyerere, Freedom and Unity, 26.
3. Sarah L. Smiley, “Researching Housing, Water, and Sanitation in the British and Tanzania National Archives,” History in Africa 40 (2013): 353-364.
4. Smiley, “Researching Housing,” 355.
5. Interview with a healthcare worker, March 20, 2024, Peramiho.
vi. On length:
for book reviews, submissions should be between 900 and 1200 words. If necessary, book reviews may include a very limited number of footnotes.
For essay reviews, the submissions should not be less than 3000 and not more than 4500 words long including footnotes.
For papers coming from allied sciences of history, particularly African Archaeology, the submissions should not be less than 5000 words.
For conventional articles, the submission should be not less than 7000 words and not more than 9000 words with footnotes and references.
viii. Authors have a responsibility to sort out copyright issues for all materials used in their works and that originally do not belong to them. Such materials include images, maps and other forms of illustrations.
ix. Submissions may regrettably be returned back to authors if the above guidelines are not adhered to. For more details see: https://www.plutojournals.com/wp-content/uploads/Zamani-Author-Guidelines-Submission.pdf
PEER REVIEW POLICY
Zamani journal strictly adheres to a double-blind peer review policy. All submissions that have passed the quality/desk review stage, except book reviews, will be peer reviewed by at least two scholars with expertise in given thematic focus. The editors will remove identity of authors and reviewers during the review exercise to ensure impartiality in the reports and in working on feedback from reviewers. The review exercise may take a duration of up to 8 weeks.