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Author Guidelines

The DBA Africa Management Review encourages authors to adopt the following writing style as they submit their manuscripts to us; -

  1. Overall Writing Style
  • Tone and Voice
    • Formal, academic, and impersonal
    • Third-person dominant; first person avoided except sparingly (“this study” preferred)
  • Evidence-driven, not opinion-driven
  • We prefer clarity over elegance: Declarative, cautious claims - no rhetorical flourish 
  1. Submission Guidelines
  • Anonymous Manuscript with no indication of authors to be submitted separately
  • An Abstract of less than 300 words and five to six key words to enhance article visibility will be provided by the authors
  • The manuscript should be between 5000 - 8000 words for research articles and upto 2000 words for opinion pieces or reviews
  • Not more than 5 tables and 3 images per submitted manuscript  
  1. Article Structure (Recommended)

The manuscript should be structured as follows; -

  • Abstract – Single paragraph and less than 300 words
  • Keywords (5-6 keywords)
  • Introduction
  • Background of the Study
  • Research Problem & Objective
  • Theoretical Anchorage to include Literature, Empirical and Conceptual Review
  • Conceptual Framework
  • Research Methodology
  • Data Analysis and Results
  • Discussion of Findings
  • Conclusion, Implications and Recommendations
  • References
  • Appendix

No numbering of sections - but hierarchical ordering recommended.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration for publication before any journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • Authors are encouraged to confirm the similarity of their manuscript to other published materials as we only accept for publication materials whose similarity is not deemed to be significant. We required that you provide reports from software such as Turnitin, iThenticate and other acceptable software.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • An Abstract in a single paragraph and of less than 300 words has been provided
  • A Title Page will be separately submitted upon acceptance of the article. This should include the names of authors and their institutions of affiliation, a declaration of funding sources of funding, ethics approvals sought (where possible) as well as acknowledgements
  • The list of references only contains items that have been cited in the manuscript and where possible URLs and DOIs have been provided
  • Appendices in the manuscript may also be submitted separately but clearly marked with no indication of authors
  • An anonymous Manuscript with no indication of authors to be submitted for purposes of the peer review. The blind manuscript should include all figures, tables and illustrations where applicable.
  • Upon acceptance of the manuscript, a publication charge of USD 200 or Kes. 20,000 will be paid prior to publication of the article. This will be strictly paid to the nominated accounts as advised by the Journal upon acceptance. 
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end and generally aligns to the writing style stipulated by the Journal.
  • The journal's preferred writing and referencing style is APA - 7th Edition.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright of their published work. Upon acceptance, authors grant DBA-AMR Journal the right of first publication, while the work is simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution non-commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence unless otherwise requested.

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