Author Guidelines
LAUJOCES welcomes studies in the forms of Original research articles, Review articles, Case studies, technical notes and book reviews.Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft word format should be uploaded to our website - www.laujoces.org OR e-mailed to laujoces@lautech.edu.ng.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- Language
Manuscripts must be written in English Language preferably in British Standard.
- Paper Length
Total length of paper submitted for possible publication in LAUJOCES should be maximum of 10000, 6000 and 2000 words for review papers, research articles and technical notes, respectively. Manuscripts must be prepared only in MS Word format with single column, 12 font size and single line spacing in A4 size with left margin: 2.5cm, right margin: 2.0cm, top margin: 2.0cm and bottom margin: 2.0cm, using Times New Roman.
- Title Page
Title page must contain the authors’ full names, address or affiliations of all authors as well as the email address and phone number of the corresponding author.
- Title
Title must be clear, concise, informative and may contain no more than fifteen words asides prepositions and conjunctions.It must also be in “title case” without abbreviations and formulae where possible.
- Abstract
All articles must contain abstract with maximum of 250 words as well as 5-6 keywords. Abstract must be very clear, concise and give information about the purpose of the study, method used, major findings and conclusion. It should be devoid of references but may contain recommendations useful to researchers.
- Manuscript Body
The body of all manuscripts should include the following sections:
Introduction
Materials and Methods
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements (optional)
References
Appendix (optional)
- Main body heading format
Section (First Level): Title case
Sub section sample (Second level): Sentence case
Sample heading (Third level):This level, if any, should be in italic and not bold.
All paragraphs should be in block type
Displayed equations are centered and set on a separate line.
x + y = z (1)
- Tables and Figures format
Tables and Figures should be numbered serially, must be referred to within the text and presented immediately after their discussions. In this journal, all illustrations are referred to as “Figure” and written as Fig. 1.
- References
References should follow the APA Style of referencing. It should be arranged in alphabetical order. The following referencing styles can be used as guides.
For articles:
Adesanya, D.A. and Raheem, A.A. (2009)Development of corn cob ash blended cement, Construction and Building Materials, 23(4): 347-352.Doi…(if available)
For books:
Adegbola, A. A. (2010). Guidelines to Writing a Final Year Project Report in Tertiary Institution, Hydroplan Associates, Ibadan, Nigeria.
For chapters in books:
Son, M. and Adedokun, S. (2014). Earthpressure against the excavation wall in a jointed rock mass, in Yoo, C., Park, S., Kim, B. and Ban, H. (Eds), Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground, CRC Press,Korea, pp. 449-452.
For conferences:
Ojoawo, S. O., Lateef, A., Adelakun, W. M. and Osho, O. O. (2020) Biosorption of heavy metals in automobile panel workshop effluent using Bacillus safensis LAU 13, Proceedings, Global Conference on Advanced Smart and Sustainable Technologies in Engineering (GCASSTE), Mangalore Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mangalore, India, 30th-31st January 2020, pp 7-12.
For web sites:
IITA (2004). Title, Retrieved on April 11, 2018, from http://www.iita.org.
For project report/ theses:
Oluremi (2015). Evaluation of waste wood ash treated lateritic soil for use in municipal solid waste containment application, Unpublished PhD Thesis, submitted to the Department of Civil Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
REVIEW
The manuscript will be subjected to Double blind review. The comments of the reviewers will be forwarded to the corresponding author for revision of the manuscript.
After revision of the manuscript, author(s) should submit:
i. a revised version of the manuscript
ii. letter indicating the changes made and reactions(s) to reviewer’s/editor’s comments where status quo was maintained.
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