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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Ife Journal of Language and Communication Arts (IJLCA) prioritizes scholarly and
educationally oriented articles which provoke and promote a cross fertilization of scholarly
research and academic discourse among language arts and media educators and researchers in
the fields of Language Arts, Language Education, mass media/media studies specifically
broadcasting. Speech communication, public relations marketing development
communication/journalism, publishing, creative writing/children’s literature, indigenous
communication and cross cultural communication can publish in IJLCA.


About 7,000 words are expected as the maximum length for articles that are well researched
and scholarly while the abstract should not be more than 250 words. Extra charge will be placed
on any outrageous article that flagrantly has more than the stipulated number of words. Other
works like reviews and conference reports should not exceed 3,000 words.


Reference format should conform with the Sixth Edition of American Psychological Association.
Bibliography is not accepted

Articles that are qualitative and/or quantitative in nature and as well as making use of analytical
methods thus contributing immensely to the academic pursuits are majorly appreciated and
accepted. On some occasions, a call could be made for special editions that are essentially
devoted to specially chosen theme. In such a circumstance, an external assessor would be tasked
with the assignment of coordinating the call for papers, assessment, selection and final editing of
the submitted articles.


It should be put on note that other appropriate works on film, conference reports as well as book
reviews are included in the academic works of Ife Journal of Language and Communication
Arts. In the same vein, the Institute of education, the editors and the assessors will not be held
responsible for any errors or consequences’ arising from the use of information contained in the
journal.


Except for protocols, we do not have strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must
contain the essential elements needed to convey the content in clearly defined sections: Title,
Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and/or Conclusions, Figures
and Tables with captions, and any Supplementary materials required.
Submission Template
About 7,000 words are expected as the maximum length for articles that are well researched and
scholarly while the abstract should not be more than 250 words. Extra charge will be placed on
any outrageous article that flagrantly has more than the stipulated number of words. Other works
like reviews and conference reports should not exceed 3,000 words.


Reference format should conform with the Sixth Edition of American Psychological Association.
Bibliography is not accepted.


Vetting fee of #5,000.00 and publication fee of #30,000.00 should be paid into the account
Institute Research and Outreach, United Bank for Africa, 1020689118.


Articles should be sent as MS-Word to the Editor-in-Chief at ijlca2024@gmail.com

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