Author Guidelines
Introduction:
The Nigerian Journal of Communication (TNJC) is a publication of the African Council for Communication Education (ACCE Nigeria Chapter) and provides outlet for products of research in Communication, Media Studies, Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising and related disciplines for the promotion of sound scholarship in communication related disciplines. For further details, please, visit the Journal website @ www.tnjc.org.ng
Author’s Guidelines:
1. Manuscripts for publication consideration in the TNJC should not be longer than 8000 words – notes and references inclusive, and should also have an Abstract of not more than 200 words. The author should identify five keywords from the paper immediately below the Abstract.
2. An Abstract is a synopsis of the entire paper. It should sell the paper to the reader and indicate what the paper/theme is all about (Introduction), how you went about doing the paper (method), what you found out (results), and the implications/recommendations of your findings. The Abstract should be about 200 words or less, and formatted with Times New Roman (for the font type) and 11 points for the font size. The abstract should be written in single line spacing.
3. The manuscript title, author(s)’ name(s) and institutional (University/Department) address and contact details should be identified on the Abstract page only. Please, remember to add your email and phone numbers as part of your contact details. These contact details should not appear in any other part of the paper. This is to help maintain the blind peer review policy of the Journal.
4. Author(s) Surname should be written in Capital letters first and separated by a comma. Other names could then follow. Example: EKEANYANWU, Nnamdi T., Ph.D.
5. The body text (font type) of the entire paper should be in Times New Roman, 1.5 lines spacing, and the font size should be 12. Page alignment should be “Justified” while the paragraphing style should be indented with one tab in 0.5inches (Please, do not present paper in block paragraphing).
6. Authors must use the British English spelling all through their work.
7. Papers or manuscripts should be sent in Microsoft Word Document and referencing should follow the APA style, 5th Edition, Updated Version. The style sheet selected should be used in both in-text referencing and on the Reference page. Furthermore, manuscripts should be rich in literature and references. Efforts should be made to avoid dated references.
8. Tables and figures should be alluded to in the text while allusions to ‘notes’ should be indicated in superscript in the body text. Explanation of the notes should be presented as endnotes at the end of the article, just before the Reference page.
9. All the contents of any table or figure should be mainly referred to and in most cases only the trends emerging from such tables are discussed. Please, avoid table reading. Table reading is an unacceptable way of reading out every item in a table with the pretence one is analysing the table.
10. Author(s) shall be responsible for securing any copyright waivers and permissions as may be needed to allow the use of copyrighted materials in their work.
11. Manuscripts submitted to the TNJC shall be subjected to plagiarism check and only those that meet the acceptable threshold shall be published.
12. Author(s) who submit manuscripts to TNJC will be expected to pay N3000 (for the Conference Edition) and N5000 (for the Non-Conference Edition) for Paper Assessment and N15,000 Page Fees (for the Conference Edition) and N20,000 (for the Non-Conference Edition), if the paper is accepted for publication. Page Fees for the Thematic Book remains N10,000 only. The TNJC Bank Details are:
Account Name: ACCE-ETF Journal Account
Account No: 1190101987
Bank: KEYSTONE BANK
OR
Account Name: African Council for Communication Education
Account No: 2005410228
Bank: FIRST BANK.
13. Manuscript should be prepared in Microsoft Word document and submitted via the ACCE’s official email thus: acce.nigeria@gmail.com Accepted and Revised paper will be submitted via the Journal web address: submission@tnjc.org.ng
14. The submission deadline for Conference Edition is January 30th every year\ while the deadline for the Non-Conference Edition is February 27th every year.
Copyright Notice
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