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Use the DJCIS Standard Paper Template to format your manuscript before submission.
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items.
Submission Information Original manuscripts that have not been published or are not being considered for publication elsewhere should be electronically submitted through the journal website at submissions.aspx or by email to djcjs@delsu.edu.ng.
Submission of Manuscripts to DJCIS
Original manuscripts that have not been published or are being considered for publication elsewhere should be electronically submitted through the journal website or by email to djcjs@delsu.edu.ng.
Manuscripts considered for publication include original research papers, review articles, technical notes, book reviews, reports of conferences and meetings, short communications, and letters to the editor.
To include authors' names in a paper, their contributions to the publication must meet four requirements:
The author who contacts DJCIS and uploads an article on behalf of all authors, regardless of author order, is known as the "corresponding author." He or she must include all of the team members' personal information, including full names and affiliations, in both the title page file and the online submission form.
Authors must present proof of ethical clearance for using human and animal subjects, or just the institute's consent to carry out low-risk research with self-certification. When conducting research with human samples, researchers should request written consent from healthy volunteers or patients, along with their feedback on the research.
To identify instances of plagiarism or cheating, DJCIS employs a standard plagiarism detection tool. To avoid plagiarism, authors should appropriately cite or quote other authors' work as needed. We will immediately reject the paper, return it to the authors for revisions, or rescind it if we discover plagiarism during the review process.
Submissions to DJCIS should include the findings of original research that hasn't been partially or fully published elsewhere.
Manuscripts should be in double-spaced type on A4 paper format (Font type: Times New Roman; Font size: 12) with line numbering on the left margin. The title should be centralized with uppercase or capitalize each word except prepositions, conjunctions, articles, etc. Each manuscript should be in the following order: title page, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion, conflict of interest, acknowledgements, and references.
The title page should include the manuscript title, all authors' full names and affiliations, corresponding author contact information, and a running title.
Abstract should start on a new page after the title page. A concise and factual abstract, which is unstructured, is required. Abstract should briefly state the purpose of the research, methodology, principal results, main findings, major conclusions and should not be more than 250 words.
The introduction should only include pertinent background material and significant references. You must explicitly state the project's goals, as well as its applicability and contribution.
Thoroughly document new procedures and modifications to existing ones to facilitate replication by other workers. Refer to published procedures using the original method's literature citation and any subsequent revisions used for established and published methods.
The results should be concise and easy to understand. Each and every figure and table ought to be self-explanatory. Table titles should be given above the tables, and figure titles should be given beneath the figures.
Contrast the findings with those of other studies; in the absence of prior reports, provide a rationale for the results. Repetition of results and methodology should be avoided in your discussion.
Provide a summary of the research and suggest a few practical areas for further study.
We publish each article with a declaration detailing any financial conflicts of interest, or none at all. During the submission process, the corresponding author is required to submit this statement on behalf of all paper authors.
Funding body and all those who assisted in the work but may not qualify as an author should be acknowledged.
DJCIS follows the Harvard referencing style. All citations must adhere to this referencing style in the text e.g., (Abike et al., 2016; Babalola, 2010), or Abraham et al. (2018), or according to Abiodun (2013) and Bolaji and Akpan (2020).
Line drawings should be provided in Microsoft Word. Diagrams and graphs should generally be of such size that, after linear reduction to one-half or one-third, they should be legible. Photographs must be of good quality and should be sharp black-and-white prints.
Manuscript Length & Formatting The manuscript should not exceed fifteen (15) pages. The SI units should be used for all scientific and laboratory data. Temperatures should be given in degrees Celsius. Avoid using footnotes; instead, include this information in the text.
If you have prepared the title page and manuscript, you can now submit them online using the process as detailed below.
If you receive an email indicating that there are "minor or major revisions," you have two weeks to make minor revisions and four weeks for major revisions.
You will receive a galley proof of your accepted manuscript a few weeks after receiving an acceptance email. After that, you'll need to copyedit and proofread as needed, then email the proof back to DJCIS.
Important Notice No further corrections to the article are allowed after publication.
Authors who have their papers accepted for publication are expected to pay US $60 for authors outside Nigeria or ₦40,000 for authors based in Nigeria.
DJCIS publishes two issues per year (Biannually). Issue 1 (January-June) and Issue 2 (July-December).