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Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review
(EASSRR)

Instructions to authors.../ Instructions aux auteurs...

1. The Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (EASSRR) serves social scientists in Eastern and Southern Africa as a forum for reflective thinking and a vehicle for the dissemination of the results of their research. 

2. The EASSRR publishes research articles in the social sciences that contribute to scholarly dialogue on the economic, social and related problems of the region. Apart from their scholarly quality, therefore, the major criterion used for selecting the articles to be published in EASSRR is their contribution to the body of knowledge about the region. 

3. Because OSSREA is a regional organisation, priority will be given to articles that deal with the problems of the region or of countries within it. However, articles concerned with other regions and countries within the continent will also be considered for publication so long as they have scholarly merit and provide a comparative insight.

4. All articles submitted to the EASSRR will be refereed by at least two scholars of proven competence in the particular field/s. However, the journal's editors shall make the final decision regarding publication.

5. The responsibility for the views expressed in the articles that appear in the EASSRR is solely that of their authors and not that of the editors or of OSSREA.

6. The EASSRR does not accept articles and other contributions that have previously been published.

7. Articles submitted for publication in the EASSRR must conform to the technical requirements set out in the "Guide to Authors".

8. In addition to the regular issues, OSSREA may publish special issues of the EASSRR that are devoted to specific themes and based on contributions solicited by the editors.

9. All articles submitted to the EASSRR will be acknowledged, but those not accepted for publication will not be returned to the authors. 

10. Authors of published articles will receive two copies of the particular issue and 10 offprints of their articles.

11. The copyright in all the contributions published by OSSREA is retained by the organisation. 

12. OSSREA shall consider the requests of authors to reprint their contributions elsewhere provided that the request is made in writing and the conditions stated in the copyright agreement are fulfilled. 

Guide to Authors

1. Manuscript Size
The EASSRR publishes articles, book reviews and short communications. The maximum length of manuscripts to be submitted to the journal is 25 pages (double-spaced) for articles and 10 pages for book reviews. In exceptional cases, longer manuscripts may be considered at the discretion of the editors.

2. Abstracts
All articles should be accompanied by abstracts of not more than 100 words. Abstracts should briefly state the nature of the problem, the methodology, and the findings/conclusions. 

3. Electronic & Hard Copies
In as far as possible, manuscripts should be submitted on a floppy disk (typeset using MS Word 6.0 or a later version) as well as in duplicate hard copies, typed double-spaced on only one side of A4 size paper, and with a margin of at least 3 cm left on either side of the page. 

4. Headings and Subheadings
4.1 If a manuscript has subsections, the following decimal notation should be used for numbering the headings and subheadings:

4.2 However, authors are advised to avoid using more than three levels of subheadings unless their treatment of the subject-matter is too complex.

5. Endnotes
5.1 Authors are advised to use endnotes rather than footnotes. 

5.2 Endnotes should be numbered consecutively throughout each chapter or article, and placed at the end of a work, in a section titled "Notes", after any appendix and before the reference list.

6. Text Citations
6.1 OSSREA uses the author-date system of citations in all of its publications. It is the responsibility of authors to ensure that author-date citations in the text agree exactly with corresponding entries in the reference list and that all the facts are accurate. 

6.2 The author-date citation in running text or at the end of a block quotation consists of the author's/editor's last, or family, name and the year of publication. Examples:

• Author, year, page no.: (Anderson 1987, 22-25)
• Two sources, with one author having two works: (Emery 1999; Jenden 1978b)
• More than three authors/editors: (Kassoguè et al. 1996)
• Organisation, year, volume, page no.: (World Bank 1988, 2:47) 

7. References
7.1 The reference list must include all and only those sources cited in the text and in the notes. 

7.2 The reference list should provide full bibliographic information on the cited sources, and, where applicable, using the following order for books: (i) author/s, or editor/s if no author is listed, (ii) date, (iii) title, (iv) editor, if provided in addition to author, (vi) edition, if not the first one, (vii) volume/s, (viii) title of individual volume, (ix) series title, (x) city, (xi) publisher. 

7.3 The details included in reference list entries for periodical articles are: (i) author's name, (ii) year, (iii) title of article, (iv) title of periodical, (v) issue information (volume, issue number, month or season), and (vi) page reference. 

7.4 Titles of books, periodicals, plays, and long poems are italicised, whereas titles of book chapters, articles, short poems and the like are given in roman style without being enclosed in quotation marks. Unpublished works are not italicised.

7.5 Titles of periodicals are capitalised in headline style; all other titles in the reference list are capitalised in the sentence style, i.e., only the first word in the title and subtitle, proper nouns and proper adjectives are capitalised. 

7.6 Examples of reference entries:
Adams, M. N., and S. E. Kruppenbach. 1987. Gender and access in the African school. International Review of Education 33: 437-53.
Apollos, Francis, and Afi Yakubu. 1999. Revitalising traditional African approaches to peacebuilding and reconciliation during an armed conflict. Paper presented at the All-Africa Conference on African Principles of Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation, Addis Ababa, 8-12 November. 
Lardner, Susan. 1980. Third eye open. Review of The salt eaters, by Tony Cade Bambra. New Yorker, 5 May, 169.
Kassoguè, A., M. Komota, J. Sagara, and F. Schutgens. 1996. A measure for every site: Traditional SWC techniques on the Dogon Plateau, Mali. In Sustaining the Soil: Indegenous soil and water conservation in Africa, edited by C. Reji, I. Scoones, and C. Toulmin, 69-79. London: Earthscan Publications. 
Nganda, Benjamin M. 1998. The equity objective in Kenyan health policy: An interpretation. Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review 14, no. 1 (January): 65-89.