Ensure that each key term appears in the abstract, introduction and that your main key terms appear in the title. An abstract, summarises everything about your research, and a reader must understand all your research is about from the abstract. Include purpose of research and methodology, briefly and summarise all results, conclusions and implications. Ensure all key words are included in abstract. Should be 200 words in italics and in past tense. It is a shortened but succinct version of your research article. ABSTRACTĪn abstract is a summary of the main elements of your research. Not more than 15 words, capitalised and bold. Should fit the category of African Social Work and our journal policy described above. Headings and subheadings should not be numbered.Subheadings should only have a capital letter at the beginning, and every other word must be in small letter unless it is a noun or abbreviation.Figures must not be too many or too large, each should not be longer than half a page.Each table or figure number with appropriate title on top.No unnecessary capital letters, bold, italics, spaces.Times New Roman font throughout, including figures (tables, charts etc).Not more than 5000 words including references, abstract and title.Name your document as follows: Surname_First Name_Short title of your manuscript AJSW referencing, writing and editing guide (AJSW GUIDE) Editing and formatting information Articles are to be written in English language but could have a second abstract in an African language of your choice. Submit a single email attachment to Ms Word. To help with our objective of decolonizing African social work, we anticipate that authors will have a majority of their citations from the continent including African books, articles, definitions, concepts, theories, frameworks and orature (oral literature) that is abundant in Africa but has not been tapped in social work. Papers focusing on African or related communities in the outside of the continent are welcome. Other submissions may include book reviews, media reviews, published article commentary or replies, suitable bibliographies, curriculum development or teaching aids, students’ essays, think pieces, news from professional associations and professional interviews. In addition to these articles, the journal is interested in brief notes and analysis of up to 1000 words on policy, programmes, legislations, organisations or interventions on social work that would be of interest to African social workers and the international social work fraternity. The journal prefers empirical papers but also accepts review, theoretical, historical, methodological or epistemological analyses. We ask authors to value communities that they research by being open in dealing with them, including them in the review process, providing opportunities for co-analysis and co-authoring and providing them with results of our research in accessible formats. The AJSW uses a double-blind peer review process in addition to community review that each author must fulfill. The journal is committed to reflecting culturally relevant and decolonised African social work. The African Journal of Social Work (AJSW) is a refereed journal that serves as a forum for exchanging ideas and knowledge and discussing issues relevant to social work practice, education and research in the African region. Social work is an academic discipline and profession that embraces and enhances long-held methods of addressing life challenges in order to achieve social functioning, development, cohesion and liberation using diverse African indigenous knowledges and values enshrined in the family, community, society, environment and spirituality (AJSW, 2020). The journal’s definition of African social work, derived from the international definition reads as follows: Welcome to the AJSW, a journal published by the National Association of Social Workers (Zimbabwe) since 1999.
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