Author Guidelines
Publishing with this journal
The Ghanaian Journal of Economics has no publication fees (article processing charges or APCs) and we do not charge page fees.
Instructions for authors
It is always a pleasure to receive manuscripts for consideration in the Ghanaian Journal of Economics. Because we aim to publish well written research that make an impact on the theory, practice and policy of the discipline of economics, adhering to strict standards and protocols is essential to guarantee a balanced outcome. The instructions given here will ensure that we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production, and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow the instructions as closely as possible. Doing so will ensure that your paper matches the journal’s requirements and lives up to the high standard that we want to see in the scholarly sphere. Failure to abide by the submission procedures will result in your article being returned to you. Should you fail to present a well formatted and edited manuscript after three attempts at correction, it will be deemed that your paper is not a good fit for this journal, hence your article will be desk rejected.
Since we publish open access, we expect authors and contributors to meet us halfway by exercising due diligence and helping to re-ignite the passion for good and well-presented advanced research.
One Author designated as corresponding Author should provide a valid:
• E-mail address
• Full institutional and/or postal address
• Telephone number
The submitting author should ensure that all necessary information has been provided, including but not limited to:
• Abstract, Keywords and Abbreviations
• All figures have captions and are mentioned in the text
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes) are mentioned and discussed in the text
• Ethics declaration, Conflicts and Interests, Acknowledgement
Include a one paragraph biography of all authors and contributors to the article.
In order to ensure efficient processing and typesetting, please ensure that:
• The manuscript has been "spellchecked" and "grammar-checked"
• All the references are in the correct format for this journal
• All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web).
All submissions should be prepared with the following files, and submitted via the OJS System, our online submission and peer-review system. Authors who were born before computers can submit directly to the journals editorial office using the postal address. We also receive submissions via editor’s email address, especially when the online system is not accessible.
Checklist: What to include in your submission
- Author details. Please ensure all listed authors meet the Porthologos Press authorship criteria. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCiDs and Google Scholar handles.
- Abstract of about 300 words
- At least 5 keywords.
- Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies.
- Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. If there are no relevant competing interests to declare please state this within the article, for example: The authors report there are no competing interests to declare.
- Ethical considerations: The GJE adhere to Committee on Publication Ethic (COPE) guidelines and policies regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. Authors using AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in this section how the AI tool was used, and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.
- Authors may submit their manuscript files in Word (as .doc or .docx) or LaTeX (as .pdf), format. Word files must not be protected.
- Data availability statement (DAS). Authors are required to provide a data availability statement, detailing where data associated with a paper can be found and how it can be accessed. If data cannot be made open, authors should state why in the data availability statement. The DAS should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s), or information on how the data can be requested from the authors.
- Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper.
- Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX).
- Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
- Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable.
Abstracting and indexing
We strive to have all Porthologos Press journals indexed by all top databases, including Web of Science, Scopus, DHET, ABDC, ABS, Google Scholar, Repec, Journal Citation Reports, DOAJ, Econlit, AREFLiT. This ensures that papers published in Porthologos Press journals receive maximum exposure and citations.
The Ghana Journal of Economics is archived in EBSCO and Portico. Application for inclusion in Scopus, DOAJ and ABS is in process.
Manuscript Length
We encourage authors to write an article between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Letters and comments and review works are often shorter, between 1,000 and 2,000 words.
References
Alphabetical order, Unnumbered. Cite properly using the following as a guide.
Journals:
Obeng-Odoom, F. (2012). Problematising the resource curse thesis. Development and Society 41(1), pp.1-29.
Adu, G. and Marbuah, G. (2011). Determinants of inflation in Ghana: an empirical investigation. South African Journal of Economics 79 (3), pp. 251-269
Alagidede, P., Panagiotidis, T and Zhang, X. (2010). Causal Relationship between stock prices and exchange rates Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 20(1), pp. 67-86
Books:
Levin, A. and Lin, C. (1993). The Microstructure of Foreign Exchange Market, 2nd edn. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Baah-Boateng W. (2012). Labour Market Discrimination in Ghana: A Gender Dimension, LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany
Edited books:
Moyo, S. and Yeros, P., (eds.). (2005). Reclaiming the Land: The resurgence of rural movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Zed Books Ltd. and David Philip, London and Cape Town.
Chapters in Edited books:
Goodhart, C., Ito, T. and Payne, R. (1996.). One day in June 1993: a study of the working of the Reuters 2000-2 electronic foreign exchange trading system, in The Microstructure of Foreign Exchange Markets, 2nd edn (Eds) J. A. Frankel, G. Galli and A. Giovannini, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 107–79.
Baah-Boateng, W. and Turkson, E. F. (2005). Employment, in Globalisation, Employment and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Ghana, (Ed) E. Aryeetey, ISSER publication, University of Ghana, pp. 104-139
Working Paper:
Pedroni, P. (1995). Panel cointegration; asymptotic and finite sample properties of pooled time series tests, with an application to the PPP hypothesis. Indiana University, Working Papers in Economics No. 95-013. University of California, San Diego
Discussion Paper/Unpublished Paper
Levin, A. and Lin, C. (1993). Unit root tests in panel data: asymptotic and finite-sample properties. Discussion Paper/Unpublished Paper No 34-7, mimeo, University of California, San Diego.
Conference Papers:
Mills, E. (1971). City sizes in developing economies, paper presented at the Rehovot Conference on Urbanisation and Development in Developing Countries, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 16-24 August.
Website:
Rimes, K. J. (1999). Global Investments Prospects Assessment (GIPA) Report. Available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals (accessed 2 July 2007).
Online content:
SARS Expert Committee, SARS in Hong Kong : From Experience to Action. Hong Kong
SARS Expert Committee, 2003. Available from: http://www.sars-expertcom.gov.hk/english/reports/reports.html.
Cited journals should be abbreviated according to ISO 4 rules. For examples, see http://www.issn.org/services/online-services/access-to-the-ltwa/.
Proceedings:
Cox, D. R. (1961). Tests of separate families of hypotheses, in Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Vol. 1, University of Berkeley Press, Berkeley, CA, pp. 105–23.
English Editing
In order to speed up the peer review process, we encourage non-native English-speaking authors to send their manuscript to a native English speaker or an English editing company for polishing before submitting to our journal.
