Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission Preparation Checklist

Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; and has approved the submitted version and agrees to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and documented in the literature.

Manuscript Preparation and Submission

1. Submission Process

Manuscript(s) for submission are to be written in English (UK), Arabic, Hausa and French and have not been published or submitted elsewhere for consideration. Manuscripts should be submitted via the Journal email at yajamss@naub.edu.ng

 The submitting author, who is usually the corresponding author, is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer-review process. The submitting author must ensure that all eligible co-authors have been included in the author list and that they have all read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript. 

1. Accepted File Formats

Manuscript(s) should be prepared in Microsoft Word document using Font 12, Times New Roman and double line spacing. Manuscript(s) should not exceed 15 pages including references or a maximum of 7,000-word count. All manuscript(s) cover page should have the title of the manuscript, name(s) of author(s), institutional affiliation(s), email addresses and phone number(s). The total amount of data for all files must not exceed 120 MB. If this is a problem, please contact the Editorial Office at: yajamss@naub.edu.ng

• Microsoft Word

Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in Microsoft Word format, insert graphs, table, diagrams, photographs, and figures, etc. in the main text.

Supplementary files: May be any format, but it is recommended that you use common, non-proprietary formats where possible

1. Free Format Submission

YaJAMSS accepts free format submission. We do not have strict formatting requirements, but all manuscript (a) must follow templates in writing scholarly works as applicable in Arts, Management and Social Sciences.

Your referencing style should be in APA or MLA current edition throughout. It is essential to include author(s) name(s), Journal or Bok title, article or chapter title (where required), year of publication, volume and issue (where appropriate) and pagination. DOI numbers (Digital Object Identifier) are not mandatory but highly encouraged. The bibliography software packages EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, and Reference Manager are recommended.

Acronyms/Abbreviations/Initialisms should be defined, first time they appear in each of three sections: the abstract; the main text; the first figure or table. When defined for the first time, the acronym/abbreviation/initialism should be added in parentheses after the written-out form.

1. Title

The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant. It should identify if the study reports (human or animal) trial data, a systematic review, meta-analysis or replication study.

1. Abstract

The abstract should not be more than 250 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts, and summarized the article's main findings and conclusions.

Keywords: Six keywords are required to be added after the abstract. We recommend that the keywords are specific to the article, yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.

• Introduction

The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should explain the purpose of the work and its importance. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. Highlight debatable and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly state the main aim of the work and highlight the main conclusions. 

• Materials and Methods

Material and method should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to imitate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. Give the name and version of any software used and make clear whether computer code used is available. Include any pre-registration codes.

1. Results

Provide a concise and precise explanation of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn.

1. Discussion

Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted in perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The findings and their consequences should be discussed in the broadest context possible and limitations of the work highlighted. Future research directions may also be stated. This section may be combined with Results.

1. Conclusions

 This section is mandatory; this should justify the aim of the research but can also be added to the manuscript if the discussion is unusually long or complex.

• Supplementary Materials

Describe any supplementary material published online alongside the manuscript (figure, tables, video, spreadsheets, etc.). Please indicate the name and title of each element.

• Funding

All sources of funding of the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate grants that you have received in support of your research work and if you received funds to cover publication costs. Note that, some sponsors will not refund article processing charges if the funder and grant number are not clearly and correctly identified in the paper. 

Editorial Procedures, Decision and Peer-Review

All articles published in YaJAMSS go through the peer-review process and receive at least two reviews. The editorial Secretary will communicate the decision of the academic reviewer to the author, which will be one of the following:

1. Accept after Minor Revisions: The paper is in principle accepted after revision based on the reviewer’s comments. Authors are given five days for minor revisions.
2. Reconsider after Major Revisions: The acceptance of the manuscript would depend on the revisions. The author needs to provide a point-by-point response or provide a refutation if some of the reviewer’s comments cannot be revised. Usually, only one round of major revisions is allowed. Authors will be asked to resubmit the revised paper within a suitable time frame, and the revised version will be returned to the reviewer for further comments.

• Reject and Encourage Resubmission: If additional experiments are needed to support the conclusions, the manuscript will be rejected and the authors will be encouraged to re-submit the paper once further experiments have been conducted.

1. Reject: The article has serious flaws, and/or makes no original significant contribution. No offer of resubmission to the Journal is provided.

All comments should be responded to in a point-by-point fashion. Where the authors disagree with a reviewer, clear response must be provided.

Research and Publication Ethics

When reporting on research that involves human subjects, human material, human tissues, or human data, authors must declare that, the investigations were carried out following the rules of the declaration of an approval from an appropriate ethics committee or the government which must be obtained before undertaking the research to confirm the study meet up the national and international guidelines. As a minimum, a statement including the project identification code, date of approval, and name of the ethics committee, institutional review board or government must be stated.

Production and Publication

Yamtara-Wala Journal of Arts, Management and Social Sciences is an annual blind peer review Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Management and Social Sciences of Nigerian Army University Biu, Borno State.

Once the manuscript accepted, it will undergo professional copy-editing, English (UK), Arabic, Hausa and French editing, proofreading by the authors, final corrections, pagination, and, publication on the University Website.

Article Processing Charges

All articles published in YaJAMSS are published in full open access. In order to provide free access to readers/researchers, and to cover the costs of peer review, copyediting, typesetting, long-term archiving, and Journal management. The processing fee is ₦5,000 for peer blind review (non-refundable) while a Publication Fees is ₦20,000 after a successful manuscript(s) blind-peer review. Similarly, the print copy of the Journal will also be made available at the cost of production to whoever is interested.

All payments should be made via the account details:

Account Name: Yamtara-Wala Journal of Arts, Management and Social Sciences.

Account Number: 2276919675

Bank: United Bank for Africa (UBA)

Evidence of payment should be submitted to the email: yajamss@naub.edu.ng