African Youth Peace Summit
Paper Submission Guideline
- Articles submitted for the African Youth Peace Summit should not be published or submitted elsewhere for consideration. Submissions, if accepted for publication, cannot be published anywhere else without FIAE’s consent.
- Articles submitted for the summit must comply with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). For more information: https://publicationethics.org
- In the submission proposals, the authors should state their titles, institutions they work, communication addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.
- Submissions should not exceed 10,000 words, excluding footnotes and bibliography. A maximum of 5 keywords should be included at the beginning of the articles. A maximum of 300 and minimum of 250 words should be used in the abstract.
- Just below the title of the article, the name and surname of the author should be indicated, aligned at the centre of the page, and a footnote with a star should be placed at the end of the surname. In the footnote with a star, the institution to which the author is affiliated, his title, e-mail address and ORCID ID address should be included.
- Submissions should be prepared in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Word 5.1 for Macintosh format.
- The main body of the text should be prepared in Times New Roman characters, 12 – point font, 1.5 line spacing, after paragraph spacing. Footnotes should be prepared with 0.5 cm indentation, Times New Roman characters, 10 – point font, 1 type in spacing and 1 pt paragraph spacing.
- Foreign words in the article should be specified in italic font.
- References and citations should be prepared in the Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) style. The final version of the relevant reference system can be accessed via https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/migrated/oscola_4th_edn_hart_2012.pdf.
- In the bibliography:References should be arranged in alphabetical order according to the author’s surname in the bibliography. If more than one work by the same author is cited in the bibliography, the author’s works should be listed in chronological order (from the oldest) and alphabetically by the first word of the title within a year. After the reference to the first work, the author’s name should be replaced by a dash. Works by more than one author should be listed alphabetically under the name of the first author, after that author’s works as a single author. If the first author has co-authored more than one work, the co-authored works should be listed alphabetically after the last name of the co-author. If more than one work by the same first author and co-author is cited, the works should be listed chronologically and the name of the co-author should be repeated each time.
- Submissions that are found unsuitable for publication by the FIAE Reviewers, will be returned to the author(s) for corrections and / or resubmission, before being sent to the the specific Journals.
- Submissions found suitable by FIAE will be sent to at least two independent reviewers in a blind procedure. In line with the reports from the referees, it is either decided to publish the submission, or to ask the author for corrections within the framework of the reports, or to reject the submission, and the author is notified of the situation as soon as possible.