Author Guidelines
The JOAMS-Journal is a peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. This journal only publishes manuscripts in English and for the paper to be published, the following should be observed:
The paper should be original.
The paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; structured abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; conclusion and references.
Papers should be submitted in Word format. Table(s) and figure(s) should appear within main text.
A classic paper for this journal should be no more than 7,000 words, inclusive of tables, references and figure captions.
The paper should be written in Times New Roman, font size 12, spacing 1.15 and should be consistent within the manuscript.
Long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
Use third person writing style (e.g., this paper, it is argued, this analysis, etc.), not first person (e.g., I, me, my, etc.).
Tables, Maps and Diagrams: Italicise the titles for tables, maps and diagrams. Indicate the source(s) where tables, maps and diagrams originated.
Heading Within Chapters: Major headings should be in bold and in capital letters while subheadings should be bold and in lower case. Each first letter of the content word should be capitalised. Both headings (major and sub) should be as short as possible, numbers should be used to distinguish different parts of a paper at not more than three levels; e.g.
1.1.1, 1.2.1, 1.2.2 etc.
References: References should follow the American Psychological Association (APA) style (latest edition – 7th edition).
Using references in text: For APA, you use the author’s surnames only and the year in text. If you are using a direct quote, you will also need to use a page number.
