GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS/REFERENCING STYLE

(JOURNAL ARTICLE, OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES & BOOK SERIES)

Proposal should be between 2,500 and 8,000 words. The draft of your proposal should be submitted via Centre’s email address (cemgs@noun.edu.ng) and the revised version (if required) should be received as specified on correspondence letter with the author(s).

Proposals are to be written in English. Authors are advised to avoid all forms of plagiarism including self-plagiarism. All ideas and works must be properly referenced. The author must properly reference his or her own work which have been used or published elsewhere. Authors are to avoid the use of Wikipedia.

Manuscripts should be reference using  endnotes or footnotes in the Chicago Manual Style as follows:

Book, Single Author

Hakeem Tijani, Britain, Leftist Nationalists and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria (London: Routledge, 2006)

Book, Two Authors

Robert Prior and Thomas Wilson, The First World War, 3rd ed. (London: Cassel, 2003), 10.

Book with Three Authors

Alison E. Buchanan, John Smith, and Heather Davis, Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 55-56.

Book with More than Three Authors

Tijani, Hakeem, et al; Africa and the Wider World (Boston: Pearson Books Solution, 2010), 60-82.

Book with an Editor

Hakeem Tijani, ed; African Diaspora: Historical Analyses, Poetic Verses and Pedagogy (San Diego: University Press, 2010), 171.

Work in a Collection, Anthology, or Edited Book

Peter Lurie, “Mad Cow Disease is a Threat to American Meat,” in Food-Borne Illnesses, ed. Karen F. Balkin (Farmington Hills, MI: Dushkin Publishing, 2004), 16.

Encyclopaedia and dictionary entries

The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed., s.v. “Africa.”