AUTHORS GUIDELINES

Instruction to Authors and Article Review Process

Article is submitted for publication in this journal on the understanding that the manuscript is authors’ original work and that it has neither been published nor under consideration for publication in another journal. Publication as an abstract in a scientific conference is acceptable. All authors listed on the manuscript must have satisfied criteria for authorship, that is, must have made substantial contribution to the work. They should have contributed to either conception, design, analysis and/or interpretation of data to merit authorship. Contribution to funding or rendering technical services, provision of patients, or materials, may be essential to the work, but are not sufficient contributions to justify authorship. The editorial members will first evaluate all articles submitted for publication for compliance to the journal styles, and if they deem the manuscript appropriate for publishing in the African Journal of Allied Health Sciences, only then will the manuscripts be sent to a minimum of two reviewers for double blind peer assessment. Based on the reviewers’ recommendations, the article will be further evaluated, and the editor will decide whether to accept, revise, or reject the work.

The language of the Journal is English Language

We publish quarterly; March, June, September, and December

African Journal of Allied Health Sciences operates under an open-access publishing model, with authors retaining copyright to their work.

Authors should declare conflicts of interest if there is any competing interest, otherwise authors should just state “they have no conflicts of interest”.

All manuscripts submitted to AJAHS are checked for plagiarism. Reported cases of plagiarism will be investigated according to the COPE guidelines. Manuscripts confirmed with plagiarism will be removed from consideration for publication in the journal.

Evidence of ethical clearance for studies involving human subjects or vertebrate animal such as the study approval letter or certificate from the Institutional Research and Ethics Committee, must be uploaded as a supplementary file at the time of submission.

Authors should acknowledge anyone who contributed towards the study but who does not meet the criteria for authorship

Effort is on-going to get the journal indexed in reputable databases and indexing services.

To prevent needless delays in the review process and publication, prospective writers must closely adhere to the instructions in the sections that follow.

The submitted work must be between 4000 and 5000 words long, including all titles, headings, endnotes, titles of tables and figures, acknowledgements, and references. The paper will be checked for length and word count during the first assessment.

The manuscript title must be between 18 – 22 words using sentence case

It is necessary for the authors to present a separate authors page that includes their names, affiliations, email addresses, postal addresses, and a clear indication of the name of the corresponding author.

The abstract of the manuscript should have a maximum of 300 words and must be structured into separate sections: Background: the context and purpose of the study; Methods: how the study was performed and statistical tests used; Results: the main findings; Conclusion: brief summary and potential implications.

A minimum of five and maximum of eight keywords are mandatory in the article.

All headings should be bold uppercase and all sub-headings should be bold lowercase.

The body should have Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgement and References.

The figures must be numbered in sequence as it appears in the text.

The Tables must be numbered in sequence as it appears in the text.

Abbreviations should not be used in the title or abstract. Write all abbreviations in full at first mention in the text.

The references should be numbered according to the Vancouver referencing style. References must be numbered consecutively, in square brackets e.g., [1]; [1, 2] or [3-5]; in the order in which they are first cited in the text; and a list of all references cited at the end of the article in the order in which they appear in the text. Authors are encouraged to use reference management software, such as Zotero (free), Mendeley (free), or EndNote.

Oduola T, Bello IS, Adeosun OG, Abdul-Waheed AA, Raheem GO, Avwioro OG. Hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity evaluation in Wistar albino rats exposed to Morinda lucida leaf extract. North Am J Med Sci 2010; 2: 230-233.

Gailiani D, Broze GI. Regulation of coagulation by tissue factor pathway: In 7th Recent Advance in coagulation, Paller L, Ludlan CA, Churchill Living – stone and Edinburgh, 1997; 1-18

Famodu AA. Concise Haemostasis and Thrombosis. Lagos: Ode-Magba Scientific Publications, 2003; 16-19

http://www.cms.gov/apps/media/press/factsheet.asp?Counter=4221. Accessed January 30, 2012.

  1. Cover letter (A letter to the Editor about the submission)
  2. Cover Page (Containing title, authors names and affiliations
  3. Full article without authors name and affiliations (4000-5000 Times New Roman)
  4. Permission from sources (only in case using pictures or figure from published work)

Submit your manuscript in a single file to the Journal’s email: ajahs@fuhsi.edu.ng

Each manuscript will undergo a double blind peer – review process

The African Journal of Allied Health Sciences is self-supporting and expected support from the Institution and TETFund as a result; the journal’s operations are entirely supported by the processing costs that authors pay. The processing fees are necessary to cover operational costs like payroll, internet, power, and other expenses. Producing an article that has undergone peer review, editing, formatting, and preparation for online publication as well as hosting it on a server that is always open and unrestricted costs money. We kindly request that the author, institution, or funding agency pay a nominal charge to assist in defraying the actual cost of the crucial final stage, publication, as a tiny portion of the research expenses. Article processing fee of N30, 000.00 for Nigerian authors or 50 dollars

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Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund)

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