Author Guidelines

The manuscript should not be published elsewhere or under consideration for publication.

Preparation of Manuscript: The maximum length of intended articles for publication in the journal is 8000 words. A short abstract of 150-250 words with 4-5 key words should precede the introduction. Contributors are to submit a separate cover page containing their contact details. Corresponding authors of papers submitted should be indicated. Upon acceptance of the paper, the author would be required to sign a copyright transfer form. Authors will receive a copy of the volume containing their articles. All diagrams, tables, and figures should appear as an appendix at the end of the paper.

Reference: We accept the American Psychological Association (APA) and a double or triple in-text citation (Johnson, 2010 or Johnson, 2010:10).

Disclaimer

The views and ideas expressed in articles/reviews are those of the author(s) and not necessarily of the editorial board of IJAPSM. Articles are published in good faith and the authors(s) will be liable for any copyright infringements; legal cases of plagiarism and defamation matters.

Publication Cost and Method of Payment

Accepted papers will be published online for a reduced publication fee of 65 USD per article.

Online publication  +1 hard copy is 165 USD

 Subscription Rates

Single issue prices (Institutional) Within Africa 70 USD; Outside Africa 120 USD

Single issue prices (Individual) Within Africa 70 USD; Outside Africa 90 USD

Indexing/Abstracting/Library of International Journal of Accounting and Public Sector Management (IJAPSM):

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Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

International Journal of Accounting and Public Sector Management (IJAPSM)is committed to promoting and maintaining the highest ethical code of conduct and standards for all the parties involved in the process and act of publishing in a peer-reviewed journal: the author, the editor of the journal, the peer reviewer and the publisher. In doing this, IJAPSM is guided by the guidelines defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). For further guidelines on COPE, please visit the link https://publicationethics.org/files/u7141/1999pdf13.pdf

IJAPSM has a zero tolerance for plagiarism and papers submitted for review are first checked for suitability, followed by checking its contents for plagiarism via the Grammarly Tools. Plagiarized papers are rejected.

Review Process

The review process is a key process of ensuring quality publication takes a period of 4-8 weeks. Papers are reviewed by competent reviewers to determine their suitability for publication. The process involved an assigned editorial member and independent reviewer scrutinizing the content of a submitted manuscript to determine the suitability of the paper and logical consistency of the debate presented in the paper. Normally decisions, whether a paper should be accepted, amended or rejected, will be based on editorial informed recommendations. To ensure that manuscripts are evaluated justly, fairly and objectively, the author’s identity is concealed from reviewers during the review process. The full names including institutional affiliations and ORCID of all contributors or authors should appear on a separate cover page of the manuscript. Submitted manuscripts by any member of the IJAPSM editorial board are subjected to the same editorial and review process and procedure. Manuscript with the defamatory language will be rejected.

The Editorial Board of IJAPSM reserves the right to reject any manuscript deemed not suitable for publication in the journal.