About the Journal

PUBLICATION ETHICS

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

For peer-reviewed manuscripts to be published in the journal, all parties involved—authors, reviewers, the chief editor, managing editors, associate editors, editors, and board members—must continuously work together. The chief editor and managing editors are in charge of maintaining the academic record and keeping an eye on publishing ethics. The editorial office takes on the duty of checking the articles for false information or plagiarism. The editorial team's objective is to keep the journal up to the highest publishing standards, which implies not only original, high-quality articles based on research but also any necessary retractions, explanations, and apologies. We value the input that each participant to the works that we publish.

Authors’ Ethics and Responsibility

  • Only individuals  acknowledged as authors should be those who made a significant contribution to the paper.
  • The submitted paper must be the authors' original work and must not have been previously published.
  • Authors must confirm that the article they have submitted has not already been accepted for publication elsewhere.
  • Only the articles that have contributed to the author's work should be cited; extraneous citations shouldn't be included.
  • Writers should present their work in the most unbiased way feasible.
  • Discriminatory arguments based on racial, sexual, national, or religious origin are not accepted. Fake findings should not be reported.
  • The authors must certify that all information is accurate and true.
  • Authors must submit a corrected version of their work in accordance with the suggestions of the reviewers and must notify the Chief Editor/Editors of any problems in their published paper.

Reviewers' Responsibilities:

  • Ensuring the secrecy of the entire evaluation process.
  • Rapidly provide a thorough, insightful, and objective assessment of the work's scientific substance.
  • Reviewers should find pertinent published works that the authors have not cited.
  • Notifying the journal editor of any potential conflicts of interest, whether financial or personal, and rejecting to review a manuscript if one might be present.
  • Notifying the journal editor of any ethical issues that come to light while reviewing submitted manuscripts, such as any unethical treatment of animal or human subjects or any striking similarities between the manuscripts being evaluated and previously published articles.

Chief Editor/ Editors' Responsibilities

  • Editors decide which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published
  • Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication
  • Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit
  • Peer review assists the editors in making editorial decisions. Editors should publish only peer-reviewed accepted articles
  • Editors should have a clear picture of a research's funding sources
  • An editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Peer-review Policy

  • The papers submitted to AJER are subjected rigorously to double-blind peer review.
  • No follow-up review is undertaken for rejected articles.
  • All articles should be properly cited and the corresponding primary and secondary data sources indicated.

The Journal's Copyright Statement

  • AJERNET is an open-access journal. This means that all content is freely available to all. The author retains the copyrights associated with their work within AJERNET’s policy framework.
  • All articles can be accessed freely without any limitations of use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium so long as they are expressly cited.
  • The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, and so forth in this publication, even if not specifically identified, may not mean that these names are not protected by the relevant laws and regulations in their respective countries.
  • The publisher believes that all information is true and accurate at the time of going to press. In this regard, the authors, editors, and publishers cannot accept any legal responsibility for any errors, typos or omissions that may be made. There is thus no warranty for the materials contained in the articles.

The Journal's Licensing Position:

Position: Open-access

Licence: CC BY-NC

Article processing charges (APCs).

The journal charges an arcticle process fee  of USD 50. Waivers are provided on a case by case basis.

Terms & Conditions Policy

AJERNET will not be held responsible for the information in papers published in the journal; the author will be solely responsible for such matters (s). The opinions expressed in the articles are strictly the authors' own, and AJERNET may not entirely agree with them. Before a work is accepted for publication in AJERNET, peer reviewers assess it to gauge its efficacy, morality, and sincerity. The reviewers' conclusions should be regarded as final. The authors alone bear responsibility for the content's originality. AJERNET shall uphold the highest ethical standards for scientific publishing.

Plagiarism Check
All papers are checked for originality through the Turnitin plagiarism checker. This means that all manuscripts submitted for publication are checked for plagiarism by comparing them with billions of web pages and millions of content items.

Creative Commons
Authors publishing with AJERNET retains the copyright of their work under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC). This license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, provided that the original work is properly cited.

Crossref
CrossRef is a scholarly publishers’ association that offers a shared infrastructure to support scholarly communications. All manuscripts published in AJERNET have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Paper Submission

Papers are submitted in MS-Word compatible formats. This is after logging into the AJER portal with their credentials and accessing the Online Submission Link. The authors are then guided by a sequential process to submit their papers. After submission, the authors get automatic acknowledgment through their email accounts with an especially ascribed reference number. The authors will then be contacted directly by our editor.

Paper Format and Page Layout

  1. Papers must submitted in MS-Word (.doc & .docx) format
  2. The paper should not exceed 20 pages
  3. The authors name and institution of affiliation should be clearly indicated.
  4. Keywords should not be more than six
  5. The spacing for the paper should be as follows: Abstract –single spacing; main body- 1.5 line spacing and; references-1.5 spacing
  6. The font sizes of the papers are as follow: title-14 font size; names of authors – 12 font size; names of authors’ institutions-11 font size; all other parts-11 font size
  7. The font for the paper should be Times New Roman
  8. The page setup should be as follow: Portrait; A4 size; left margin-1.5 inches; all other margins 1 inch.
  9. Pages numbers should be placed at the bottom and centered. Nothing else, including footnotes, is allowed in the bottom margin of the paper.
  10. The papers should be referenced in the APA sixth Edition Style. Automatic referencing is preferred
  11. Spelling should be checked automatically through MS word and Grammarly [if possible] to avoid unnecessary grammatical errors and typos
  12. Download any of our published papers for guidance.

Structure of Paper

The manuscript is to be arranged in the following order:

  1. Title of paper/work; author(s) names, and complete name(s) of institution(s)
  2. Contact number (phone) & valid Email address
  3. Acknowledgment (optional):
  4. Abstract
  5. Keywords
  6. Introduction
  7. Objective(s) (must be included if more than one)
  8. Research Question(s) and/or; Hypothesis
  9. Results and Discussion
  10. Conclusion
  11. Recommendations
  12. Reference

Structure the paper as shown below:

Title of Work:

This should present the complete title of the paper/work. It should be followed by the complete list of the author(s) and their respective addresses

Acknowledgment (optional): This should briefly acknowledge other persons who assisted in the research but who are not listed as authors. It should also present the funding institutions if any.

Abstract: Each work should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 400 words. It should be a brief summary of the work that describe the research context, purpose, research methods, main findings, conclusions, and recommendations. It should not include any references.

Keywords: these should be placed immediately after the abstract and should not exceed six.

Text: The paper should be numbered corresponding to the various sections highlighted under the format of the paper above Tables and figures should be numbered chronologically 

Introduction: This describes the context and problem being addressed by the study. All relevant variables must be introduced

Objectives: these should be listed if they are more than one.

Experimental work: All studies conducted in the laboratory or on fauna and flora should include the correct names of the specimens/ scientific names of the species studied

Results and discussions: These should be written in the past tense. Corresponding tables and figures should be included where necessary. The results should be analyzed against reviewed literature. Extensive citations should be avoided

Conclusion: This should highlight the emerging key findings and their significance.

References: These should be in APA, Havard of CMS latest format. They should be listed alphabetically.