Submission
Ìrìnkèrindò:
A Journal of African Migration welcomes contributions on contemporary
issues and events of importance on African migration and immigration.
Articles must be original and should not be under consideration by
another publication at the time of submission. Articles should be
between 20-25 pages long. They should be readable, and jargon-free.
All submissions will be independently refereed. Accepted articles
must conform to Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal
of African Migration style requirements.
Formatting
Authors should remove all superfluous coding from submitted documents,
and ensure that the following guidelines are adhered to.
- Word or Wordperfect document style should be used for formatting.
- (P) should be used for basic paragraph text.
- Section headings should be in capitals and centered, subsection
headings italicized (underlined).
- Heading level one (H1) should be used for titles, abstract,
endnotes, and references
- Heading level two (H2) should be used for the first level of
heading used in the text.
- Heading levels 3 through 6 should be used for subsequent levels.
- (BLOCKQUOTE) should be used for all quotes indented text.
- Quotations of more than forty words should be indented.
- The initials of institutions or countries should be given without
periods, e.g. INS, UK, USA.
Titles
Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration
reserves the right to alter titles in consultation with the author.
Endnotes
- Notes should be marked clearly in the text at a point of punctuation,
and listed consecutively at the end of the article. They should
not be listed at the bottom of each page. Avoid over-numbering
references: if one source is cited for several references within
a paragraph, number this only once at the end of the paragraph.
The use of notes in general should be kept to a minimum. A Bibliography
should be included.
For books, the following order should be observed: author, title,
place of publication, publisher, date of publication, page numbers,
For example: Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, A Sapped Democracy, MD:
University Press of America, 1997, pp. 5-20.
- For articles, the following order should be observed: author,
title of article, name of journal (italicized) volume number,
issue number in parentheses, year, page numbers.For example: Bertrade
Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, “Language and Gender: the Bassaa of Cameroon”
Language and Gender, 69(4), 1987-88, pp 120-134.
- For articles or chapters within books, the following order should
be observed: Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, “Nigeria and Structural
Adjustment” in A Sapped Democracy, Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome,
(ed), MD: University Press of America, 1997, pp 59-98.
- Unpublished theses, mimeographs and reports should also receive
full references including the name of the appropriate institution.
For newspaper references, give the author, title, name of paper,
city in parentheses, date of issue and page numbers. Authors'
names should be written in full in the endnotes.
Proofs
An e-mailed attachment of the edited manuscript will be sent to each
contributor for final checking. Authors are expected to correct the
edited manuscript and return to Editors by e-mail.
Tables,
Maps, Diagrams & Figures
Maps and diagrams should be clearly drawn so that they are suitable
for conversion into HTML format as submitted. Each table, map, diagram
and figure should have a brief descriptive title and a citation indicating
the source. Please supply in Word or Wordperfect format.
House
Style
Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration
uses the z-suffix: for example, civilize, civilization rather than
civilise, civilisation. Dates should be written as follows: January
10, 1999. American rather than British spelling should be used. Numbers
from one to nine should be written out in full: figures should be
used for numbers greater than 10.
Alterations
& Revisions
If the Editors think that an article should be shortened or particular
expressions deleted or rephrased, such proposed changes will be submitted
to the author for approval prior to publication. Correction of errors
in punctuation, spelling and style will not be submitted for approval
if they do not alter the meaning or sense of the original manuscript.Authors
may be asked to resubmit articles in response to evaluation.
Copyright
The Editors are responsible for the selection and acceptance of articles,
but responsibility for errors of fact and opinions expressed in them
rests with their authors.The content of articles should not infringe
any existing copyright. If any figure, table, or more than a few lines
of the text from previously published material are included in a manuscript
the author must obtain written permission for republication from the
copyright holder; the original source should be clearly noted and
acknowledged.
Orthography
of African Languages
Citations from African languages should, follow theestablished orthography
in the country or countries concerned.
Submission
Authors should submit their article either on a diskette, or by email
attachment (Wordperfect or Word format) double-spaced throughout (including
all quotations and footnotes), and written in English or French. A
copy should be retained for consultation.Articles should be accompanied
by an abstract of not more than 200 words. The following information
should be supplied for the Notes on Contributors:
- Name(s) of author(s),
- Address,
- Email, fax and telephone numbers (where possible),
- Professional affiliation,
- Major publications and forthcoming publications (with dates).
Please send submissions, questions or comments to the Editors
at the following addresses:
Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome, Ph.D.
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Department of Political Science
3413 James Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
11210-2889
mokome@africamigration.com
Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Ph.D.
Lehman College, CUNY
Department of Black Studies
285 Carman Hall
250 Bedford Park Boulevard
Bronx, NY 10468-1589
Please send questions or comments to:
bertrade@lehman.cuny.edu
Designed
and Maintained by Muoyo Okome
:: mokome@princeton.edu
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