Author Guidelines
Authors are encouraged to carefully read and follow the submission guidelines provided on the TAU-JIST website before preparing their manuscripts. Submissions should be original research contributions that have not been published elsewhere and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be written in clear and concise language, with proper referencing and citation of sources.
- Manuscripts must be original, and must not have been under consideration or published in other publishing outlets.
- British English spellings must be used throughout the manuscripts.
- Manuscripts must be double-spaced with wide margins, pages numbered consecutively and continuous line numbering. The word processing should be Microsoft Word, 1.5 line-spaced, 12 pt font size for body text.
- All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- All manuscripts submitted will be subjected to plagiarism check (the acceptable similarity check must be less than 15%).
- Authors must provide an abstract of not more than 250 words.
- Minimum of 4 keywords and maximum of 6 keywords should be provided by the authors, this will be used for indexing purpose.
- Authors should state their names, institutional affiliations, e-mail address, title of paper, ORCID iD, postal address and corresponding author telephone number on a separate page.
- Referencing style APA format (6th Edition).
- Where available in the referencing section, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided (not underlined).
- Click on the link to submit your manuscripts → https://journals.tau.edu.ng/index.php/tau-jist/submission
*The corresponding author will receive confirmation that the manuscript has been submitted within 48 hours. Requests for revisions and the final decision of the reviewers will be communicated to the corresponding author within 60 days via e-mail. The decision of the editorial board based on the recommendation of the reviewers is final.
- All correspondences and enquiries should be addressed to the Managing Editor via email address; [email protected]
*All complaints will be properly investigated and will receive a decision within a reasonable period.