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Author Guidelines

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Guide to Authors
There are five categories of submissions accepted for publication in the ASP. These include original contributions, short research reports, literature reviews, book reviews and short communications. The journal is multisectoral, and welcomes contributions from individuals or organizations interested or involved in the injury and violence prevention and containment sector in Africa. The sectors most closely related to the focus of the journal include the behavioural and social sciences, health professions, engineering, advocacy and educational sectors.

Manuscript preparation
The manuscript must be accompanied by a letter indicating that the article has not been published elsewhere. This letter must be signed by all listed authors to indicate their agreement with the submission. All manuscripts should be typed in double spacing with a margin of 3.5 cm on the left and right sides of the page. The manuscripts should be in 12 point New Times Roman font, 1.5 line spacing with the main headings in capitals and bold, and sub-headings in capitals. No enumerations and section numbering should be included, and all graphs and tables should be inserted at the end of the document.

Original contributions
Full scientific manuscripts accepted for this category should not 6000 words, including the title page, references, figures and tables.

Short research reports
Shorter scientific manuscripts, reporting on studies utilising limited samples, new methodologies, or replication studies, can be submitted for this category and should not exceed 3000 words, including tables and figures.

Literature reviews
Manuscripts submitted as literature reviews should not exceed 6000 words in total.

Book reviews
Review copies of books may be sent to Professor Kopano Ratele at PO Box 1087, Lenasia, 1820, South Africa.

Short communications
These communications include commentaries on events in the injury prevention sector, and organisation or programme reports. These should not exceed 2000 words, inclusive of references.

All original contributions and short research reports should have the following sections:

  1. Title Page. This page should include the title of the manuscript, all authors and their affiliations. Full contact details should be included for the corresponding author. The category in which the manuscript is to be submitted should be indicated at the top of the page. The appropriate types of articles for the ASP can be found in this issue of the journal.
  2. Abstract. All manuscripts, except short communications and book reviews should include an abstract placed before the main text of the article. This abstract should not exceed 250 words in length. While all abstracts need to be submitted in English, authors are also allowed to submit translations of these abstracts in French or Swahili.
  3. Main Text. The main text of the article should, as far as is appropriate, be divided into the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Prevention Implications.


Style and references
All contributions should follow the American Psychological Association style. This format can be found in: American Psychological Association (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). New York: Author.

Form and style of submissions:
  • All submissions should conform strictly to the guidelines supplied in these notes. Manuscripts that deviate to our house style will be returned to the authors.
  • Research and theoretical articles should not exceed upper limit of 7 000 words but should not be shorter that 5 000 words, including all notes and the bibliography.
  • Review essays should be 3000-4000 words, unless otherwise agreed upon with the editors.
  • Book reviews, short communications, conference reports and letters should not be longer than 2 000 words
  • An abstract of up to 250 words must be included. The abstract should summarise the method, theoretical framework, argument, findings and conclusions, and not merely be a list of contents.
  • The manuscript should be in single spacing.
  • Margins should not be formatted. Pages should be numbered. Section headings and sub-headings should be clearly indicated by the use of bold typeface.
  • Endnotes should appear at the end of the article or review and before the bibliography. Endnotes should be indicated by numerals embedded in the text (i.e. automatic endnote formatting in MS Word). Endnotes are for explanation and comment, or to refer to the reader to additional entries in the bibliography, but should not be used to supply references to in text citations.
  • ASP uses a version of the American Psychological Association referencing style.


    Butchart, A., Lekoba, R. & Kruger, J. (2000). Perceptions of injury causes and solutions in a Johannesburg Township: Implications for prevention. Social Science and Medicine, 50(3), 331-345

    Guerrero, R. (2006). Violence prevention through multi-secctoral partnerships: The cases of Cali and Bogota, Colombia. African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Violence and Injury Prevention 4(2), 88-98.

    Krug, E.G., Dahlberg, L.L., Mercy, J.A., Zwi, A.B. & Lozano, R. (2002). World Report on Violence and Health. World Health Organization. Geneva.

    Pence, E., & McDonnell, C. (1999). Developing policies and protocols (pp.41-64). In F. Shepard & E. Pence (Eds.) Coordinated Community Responses to Domestic Violence: Lessons from Duluth and Beyond. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

    Prinsloo, M., Matzoupoulos, R. & Sukhai, A. (2003). The magnitude of firearm homicide in Cape Town, 2001. African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention, 1(2), 19-25.

    Referencing of material from the Internet

    Last name of author, then initial. Date of article if available. Title of article. Name of site. http://full information. Date accessed: give date.

    Examples:
    Shapiro, J. & Odberg-Pettersson, K. (2006). Networking against intimate partner violence: Experiences from the perspectives of the professionsals. Hogskolan, Halmstad: Halmstad University. Retrieved 1 December 2007 from
    http://dspace.hh.se/dspace/handle/2082/908

    Weintraub, I. (2000). The Role of Grey Literature in the Sciences. Retrieved 1 December 2007 from http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/access/greyliter.htm

    OR:

    Name of site. Title of article/ information source if possible. http://full information. Date accessed: give date.

    Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP). (n.d.). Community Based Intervention – Overview. Retrieved December 1, 2007 from http://www.duluth-model.org /daipoverview.html

  • Spelling practices should be consistent throughout the article and should follow the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. use the British ‘s’ instead of the American ‘z’), unless you are quoting.
  • Provide translations of all material in languages other than English. Translations should be incorporated into the text, following the relevant term or passage.
  • Words or phrases can be emphasised with italics, but please do not use underlining or bold in the text.
  • Please note that articles that do not conform to our house style may be returned to the author before being considered for publication.
  • Please supply a footnote with affiliation and address details.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

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.

  1. 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).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
  3. When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca).
  4. 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.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review) have been followed.
 

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