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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format with all indications of author identity removed from document text and metadata.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses 12-point Arial font; and placement of all illustrations, figures, and tables is indicated in the text with separate files for each image included as separate file.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

  • Articles should be 6,000 to 8,000 words in length (including endnotes and works cited) with a brief (300 words or less) abstract plus 5 article keywords. A short biography (50 words or less) with author’s full name, title, current affiliation, and a brief description of recent work should accompany the submission as a separate file.
  • Manuscripts should be a Word docx file and should be formatted in Arial 12-point font, with double-line spacing and a single space between sentences. Authors should anonymize their submission to the fullest possible extent.
  • Please indicate placement of tables & images by using the notation: [insert table 1 here]. The editorial staff reserves the right to determine inclusion or to change the size or placement of all graphics.
  • All articles should have page numbering, and there should be no section breaks.
  • We require the use of endnotes not parenthetical citations. Manuscripts with parenthetical citations throughout will be returned for revision prior to any review. There should be only one endnote per sentence, therefore all references in one sentence should be consolidated into one endnote and placed properly at the end of that sentence with superscript following the period mark. An endnote consists of two linked parts, the number mark in the text and the corresponding note at the end of the text. All endnotes must be inserted and linked automatically as generated by Microsoft Word. ASQ does not permit use of ibid. or op cit. etc.
  • References must be limited to works cited only. See below for specific reference style examples.
  • At-Issue pieces are short commentaries, opinions, and reactions of a scholarly nature. At-Issue submissions should be 2,500 to 3,500 words in length and contain a short biography (50 words or less) with author’s full name, title, current affiliation, and a brief description of recent work. Otherwise authors should follow the same submission procedures, formatting, and style guidelines as research articles.
  • Book reviews should be approximately 750 words in length. ASQ does not accept unsolicited reviews. To obtain a volume for review, please consult our available list and send your request to: ASQreviews@africa.ufl.edu  

REFERENCE STYLES

Book (single author)

Chalfin, Brenda. 2004. Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity. New York: Routledge.

If more than one book by the same author, then the most recent publication is first (the same is true for articles, etc.):

Chalfin, Brenda. 2010. Neoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

_____. 2004. Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity. New York: Routledge.

Book (three or more authors)

Hyden, Goran, et al. 2002. Media and Democracy in Africa. Piscataway: Transaction Publishers.

Chapter in edited book

White, Luise. 1997. “Cars Out of Place: Vampires, Technology, and Labor in East and Central Africa.” In Cooper and Stoler (eds.), Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Berkeley: University of California Press): 436-60.

Journal article

Amoko, Apollo. 2005. “The Resemblance of Colonial Mimicry: A Revisionary Reading of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s The River Between.” Research in African Literatures 36.1: 34-50.

Newspaper

Africa News, 7 December 1992, p. 5.

Nossiter, Adam. 2010. “Ivory Coast Standoff Leads to Fears of Violence.” New York Times, 6 December: A10.

Unpublished material (theses, dissertations, and other works)

Mapunda, Bertram Baltasar. 1995. “An Archaeological View of the History and Variation of Ironworking in Southwestern Tanzania” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Florida.

Moyd, Michelle R. 1996. “Language and Power: Africans, Europeans, and Language Policy in German Colonial Tanganyika.” Master’s thesis, University of Florida.

Conference papers

Smouse, Mantoa Rose. 2006. “Language and the Politics of Inequality in South Africa: The Case of the Western Cape.” Presented at the University of Florida Center for African Studies Gwendolen M. Carter Conference “Law, Politics, Culture, and Society in South Africa: The Politics of Inequality Then and Now” (Gainesville, Florida).

No ascertainable publication facts

(When no publication facts are to be found, the abbreviations n.p., n.d. may be used.)

Union of South Africa. Department of Information. n.d. “The Transkei: Emancipation without Chaos.”

Interviews

Interviews should be listed in a separate section following works cited. Interviews should follow a form similar to below:

Lemarchand, René. 2004. Transcript: Interview by Jennifer Ludden. Discussion re: the continuing violence in Central Africa between the Hutu and Tutsi. Weekend Edition (National Public Radio), 15 August. https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-105062017.html.

Jangano, Rishon. 1998. Personal interview, Nyakatsapa Mission, Zimbabwe. 23 April (transcripts in author’s possession).

Microform

Haydon, Edwin Scott. 1960. Law and Justice in Buganda. Butterworth’s African Law Series, no. 2. London: Butterworth. Microfilm. East Lansing: Michigan State University Libraries, 1996.

Book review

Robinson, David. 1997. Review of Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick by Leonardo Villalon. International Journal of Middle East Studies 29.1: 134-35.

Governmental meetings/hearings/debates

U.S. House of Representatives. 2010. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health. “Zimbabwe: From Crisis to Renewal.” 2 December. https://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1216.

U.S. Senate. 1977. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs. “South Africa, U.S. Policy and the Role of U.S. Corporations.” Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Government documents

United Nations Security Council. 2010. Thirty-first Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 30 March 2010. S/2010/164. https://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol= S/2010/164.

United States Senate. 1976. Committee on Foreign Relations. U.S. Policy toward Africa: Report to Accompany S. Res. 436. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Laws, public acts, and statutes

South Africa. 1953. “Bantu Education Act.” Act No. 47. Government of South Africa.

Archival holdings

National Archives of Zimbabwe file AOH/32: Testimony of Chief Marufu Chikwakwa (February 1978) 30.

United Methodist Church Archives, Lulu Tubbs Papers 1079-6-2:03-04: L. Tubbs, “The Record of a Great and Useful Life” (n.d.) 1.

Internet sources

Where the original source is available in another form, the pertinent publication information needs to be provided along with the URL used as a reference; where it is available only as an internet-based source, then the entry should follow a form similar to below:

Austin, Kathy L. 2010. Panel Discussant on WIDE ANGLE Program “The Changing Face of War.” PBS Video: 2 January. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/ interactives-extras/audio-and-video/women-war-peace-video-the-changing-face-of-war/4115/.

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