Africa Insight is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), a research Institute in the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). The journal is accredited by the National Department of Science and Innovation and is indexed in the International Bibliography of Social Science.
Publisher information
Africa Insight is published by the Africa Institute of South Africa an institute in the Human Sciences Research Council.
Accreditation
Africa Insight is accredited by the Department of Higher Education, South Africa.
Frequency
Africa Insight is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal.
Language
Africa Insight is published in English only.
ISSN
ISSN (Print) 0256 2804 Online 1995-641X
The guidelines for submitting
Africa Insight stresses the importance of using bias-free language, ensuring high-quality writing, addressing copyright and permissions, maintaining originality, and undergoing plagiarism checks.
The Guidelines
Originality (Protection and promotion of integrity in research)
All manuscripts may be submitted to internationally recognised plagiarism detection software. Please note that if plagiarism is detected in a manuscript, the author may face disciplinary charges as well as having the manuscript rejected for publication. Papers submitted to the journal must respect a high level of integrity and professionalism. Authors have a right, as well as a responsibility, to refrain from undertaking or continuing to undertake any research that contravenes ethical guidelines, violates the integrity and validity of research and/or compromises their autonomy in research, including design methodology, analysis and interpretation of findings. Contributors must be informed that the material submitted for publication must carry appropriate credits.
Africa Insight will not consider a manuscript that is being reviewed by another journal at the same time, nor will it consider an article that has been published previously in a similar form.
All papers accepted for publication in the Journal are subjected to a similarity test. Any result above 20% will be returned to the author. The institutional affiliation of an author must be informed if his/her submission has above 50% similarity index.
Clean Copy
The quality of the writing and the scholarship should be high enough that documents do not require more than a standard edit by the Publications Division. What this means is that an author must be completely satisfied with the accuracy and focus of the content of their submission and must try to eliminate all careless errors before submitting to the journal. The journal will not be responsible for rewriting sloppy work. Submissions that have not even been spell-checked will be returned for cleaning up.
Bias-free language
Biased language makes work less credible. Use gender-neutral language and language free of slighting allusions, assumptions, or stereotypes based on race, ethnicity, religion, disability, birth, or family status.
Copyright/Permissions
In terms of South African copyright law, AISA holds the copyright to any submission produced by a researcher working for HSRC. Contributing authors to Africa Insight are required to grant AISA an exclusive licence to publish their submissions. For contributions to the journal please ensure that you have signed a Copyright Agreement. A source should always be given, whether, or not, permission is necessary. Please ensure that you have obtained copyright permission where necessary. Please consult the Publications Division at AISA for further details.
