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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.
  • 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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

EAST AFRICA LAW JOURNAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Any submissions to the editorial MUST comply with the following requirements:

  1. The submission must be original.
  2. The submission (or part thereof) should not have been published elsewhere prior.
  3. The main heading should be Book Antiqua, with capitals, font size 11, and in bold.
  4. Subheadings should be in Book Antiqua, capitals, font size 11 numbered consecutively.
  5. Manuscripts must be typed in Book Antiqua, font size 10.
  6. Footnotes should be in font 8. No other form of referencing, apart from footnotes, will be accepted.
  7. Footnotes should appear at the end of the page and must be numbered consecutively. Footnote numbers should be in superscript without any surrounding brackets.
  8. Proper nouns or acronyms should be written in full the first time and may subsequently be written in the abbreviated form: e.g. the East African Community (EAC).
  9. Self-made words should be in smart single quotes: e.g. ‘solidarism’.
  10. Words in foreign languages (status quo, locus standi, etc) should be italicized.
  11. Use UK English.
  12. Double quotation marks should be indented to a half inch (0.5”) on both sides, should be in Book Antiqua, and font size 9.
  13. All quotations should be indented to a half inch (0.5”) on both sides, should be in Book Antiqua, and font size of 9.
  14. Articles should average between 5,000 and 9,000 words (excluding footnotes) in length; case analyses should be 1,500-2,500 words; comments/notes should not exceed 3,000 words and book reviews should be between 500-1,500 words.
  15. Authors should indicate in the manuscripts their academic qualifications and professional status.
  16. Sources must be listed at the end of each article, giving full details.
  17. The first reference to books: e.g. MN Shaw (1991) International Law (Cambridge: Grotius Publications, 1991), p.233
  18. The names of the authors should be written as follows: R Kuloba - In the case of more than one authors, the style should be as follows R Kuloba & P Mutiso
  19. First reference to journal articles: PLO Lumumba, ‘Order 53: The Impact of Legal Notice No. 164 of 1992,’ [Volume] University of Nairobi Law Journal (1995) 2.
  20. Book Chapters: e.g. FG Flinterman ‘The Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ in OS Scriver & AS McDonald, eds., The United Nations and the Protection of Human Rights (Rome: Keswick Publishers, 1990), pp.
  21. References to statutes should not be in italics and should be underlined. Constitutions should be treated likewise.
  22. Reference to cases should adhere to the respective Law Reports citation. The names of the cases should be in italics.
  23. Websites should be cited as follows, for example <www.eastandard.com> (accessed on 14 July 2004).
  24. Dates should be cited as follows: 23 July 2005.
  25. Official titles should be put in the Title Case: e.g. The President of the Republic of Kenya. Capitals should be used sparingly.

NOTE; The submission will be submitted to a referee(s) for evaluation. The Editorial Board reserves the right to change the manuscripts to make them conform to the EALJ house style, to improve accuracy, to eliminate mistakes and ambiguity, and to bring the manuscript in line with the tenets of plain legal language.

For additional clarification, query, or article submission, kindly write to the Editorial Board through ealj@uonbi.ac.ke

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