UG Ghana Journal of Geography
Name of Journal: GHANA JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY
INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS
Submission to the Ghana Geographical Journal
Papers submitted to the journal should follow the guidelines set out below. All correspondence between editor and author is performed by e-mail, and paper copies are not required at all stages. A manuscript must be submitted electronically as email attachment (or on a cd/dvd/pendrive). The manuscript, including illustrations, tables, etc., must carefully consider the guidelines given below. Articles should be a minimum of 6,000 words and a maximum of 9,000 words. Contributions are received with the understanding that they comprise original, unpublished material and have not been submitted/considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions be sent as email attachment to jayaro@ug.edu.gh or samensah@ug.edu.gh or abasiedu@ug.edu.gh
The title page should include:
• The name(s) of the author(s)
• A concise and informative title
• The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
• The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 200 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Presentation
Manuscripts should be written in English and typed with font type New Times Roman and size 12, double spaced and with a wide left hand margin. Footnotes must be avoided. If English is not the author’s mother tongue, please arrange proofreading by a native English speaker before submission.
Text
The text should be double-spaced and organized under appropriate section headings. All headings should be placed on the left-hand side of the text. The pages in the manuscript must be numbered. All illustrations, tables, etc. should be inserted at the appropriate location in the text. Only three levels of headings are accepted in the text and do not number the headings. Avoid unnecessary formatting and codes. Avoid the automatic hyphenation function and do not hyphenate manually at line breaks. All measurements should be given in metric units. Acknowledgements may be made briefly just before the list of references.
Illustrations
Illustrations, figures, diagrams, and photos should be ready for immediate use and included in a single numbered series. The format should be designed to occupy 1 or 2 columns i.e. 85 mm respectively 176 mm, alternatively 124 mm, – they must not exceed one page. Grades in the legend should be easy to distinguish. The font size of text in illustrations should not be too large, say 8 pt is suitable. Folded or detached illustrations or tables are not accepted. Colour plates only accepted if costs are covered by the author. Photos should have a resolution of 300 dpi and must not exceed one page. File formats for the photo: Tiff (pc), psd, bmp, jpeg.
TABLES AND FIGURES
(a) All illustrations other than tables are to be numbered consecutively as Figures (e.g. graphs, drawing and photographs) using Arabic numerals.
(b) Lines on line drawings should be thick enough to allow for reduction.
(c) Photographs and other illustrations will be reproduced in black and white unless otherwise agreed with the editors. Any printed in colour will be at the discretion of the editors and at the author’s expense.
(d) Tables should be numbered in separate sequence with Arabic numerals.
(e) Figures and Tables should be constructed to be reducible to the published page width (16.8 cm) or to the column width (8 cm). All Figures and Tables are to be referred to in the text by their number.
Citations in text
Cited references in the text are to be cited in the text using the surname(s) of the author(s) followed by the year of publication of the work referred to, for example: Tivy (1990), (Tivy, 1990), (Tivy & Smith, 1993) or for references to page (Tivy, 1990: 7). In case of more than two authors use name of first author followed by “et al.” (Smith et al., 1995). If several works are cited, they should be organized chronologically, starting with oldest work. In the case of more than two authors the reference is to be written Jensen et al. (1988). Multiple citations must be separated by ; inbetween author surnames only
Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Also include personal communications and unpublished works. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list. Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.
Articles in journals:
Whittsley, D. (1936): Major agricultural regions of the World. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 26(2):190-240.
Book chapters with an editor:
Hunter, J. M. (1972): Population pressure in a part of the West African savannah. Pp. 152-161 in: Prothero, R. M. (ed.): People and land in Africa South of the Sahara. New York, Oxford University Press.
Books:
Tivy, J. (1990): Agricultural Ecology. Harlow, Longman.
Copyright
If the manuscript includes material formerly published elsewhere, written permission must be obtained from the author or source and submitted with the manuscript.
Proof
A first proof (page proof) will be sent to the corresponding author, who should in particular check numbers, proper names, tables, and mathematical expressions. Moreover, it is the responsibility of the contributors that calculations, references, names of places and of people as well as biological terms, etc. are correct. At this stage it is not possible to add further text, tables or illustrations to the paper. The editors may make minor changes in the text; greater ones, e.g. proposed by the referees, are made in cooperation with the contributor.
Contributors will receive one complimentary copy each for free.