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Author Guidelines

This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.

To facilitate this, authors need to ensure their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not reveal their identity.

You can download the RASP TEMPLATE here (article model).

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Manuscript organization
Format

The file must be in Word format (.doc or .docx) and not protected.

Text volume

The volume of the text must be between 15,000 and 35,000 characters, including spaces.

Title

The title should be specific, descriptive, concise, and understandable by readers outside of your field. It should be left-aligned with a bold, Times New Roman size 14 font. Only the first letter of the title should be capitalised.

Authors and Affiliations

The full names of the authors must be indicated and separated by a comma. Link to the authors' affiliation as follows: department, organization, city, country.

The corresponding author should be marked in Asterix with his/her exact address, email, and phone number in a different paragraph.

Titles and subtitles

Titles and subtitles are allowed up to no more than 3 levels. Only the first letter should be capitalized.

Abstract and keywords

The abstract (non-structured) should:

Describe the context and objective of the study. Explain how the study was conducted. Summarise the results and their meanings.
Must not exceed 250 words.

Please minimise the use of abbreviations in the summary.

Main text

Body text should be 12 Times New Roman size font with 1.15 line spacing.

It must include

  • Introduction

It should present a brief description of the state of the study area, the problem, the importance and the rationale for the study.

  • Materials and methods

This section should provide information on the methodology used to conduct the study including the materials used, and a description of the tools used for the analysis.

Studies requiring ethical approvals should reproduce it here.

  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement

In case there would be.

  • Conflicts of interest

All authors should declare that there are no conflicts of interest relating to this article.

  • Author contribution statements

We encourage transparency in authorship and contribution reporting. 

  • References

RASP uses the American Psychological Association (APA, 6th Edition) as a citation style.

Bibliographic Information in Roman Script (Roman script or Latin script refers to the alphabet used to write English; even if you have cited a study in Chinese or Japanese, you should write the reference in Roman script and not in Chinese or Japanese script.)

You can learn more about this style at www.apastyle.org

Journal / Journal / Magazines (hard paper):

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C., (Year). Title of the article. Journal Title, Volume / Number, xxxx-xxxx

Less than seven authors: cite all

From eight and more: cite the first 6 authors and the last author in last position

Books

Author, A. A. (Annee). Document title. Location: Publisher

Chapter of a book

Author, A. A. (Annee). Chapter title. In Author (s) of the book (Eds.), Title of the book (pp. Xxxx-xxxx). Location: Publisher

Journal / Journal / Magazines (online):

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C., (Year). Title of the article. Journal Title, Volume / Number, xxx-xxx. doi: xxxxxxxxxx

If there is no doi, indicate the URL of the document in question

Other online documents

Author, A. A. (Annee). Document title. Retrieved from web address

Tables and Figures

Formats (.png, .jpeg, .eps) are acceptable as images. The table numbers must be numbered and the titles clear and precise.

The RASP reserves the right to contact the authors of the studies cited to confirm the citations. The journal is demanding on questions of plagiarism.

Ethics

RASP places great importance on ethics in research. Any document received will be analyzed by anti-plagiarism software. The acceptable threshold is a maximum of 25% similarities.

Digital identifiers

The journal assigns Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to all accepted articles as part of its editorial workflow, in partnership with the African Journals Online (AJOL) platform. While DOIs may be displayed in advance, their activation (i.e., full resolution) is completed upon final publication of the issue, in accordance with the AJOL registration process.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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.
  • All authors whose names appear on the submission made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; drafted the work or revised it critically for important intellectual content; approved the version to be published; and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
  • RASP carries a manuscript processing charge* of 30.000 FCFA ($55 USD) upon submission of each new manuscript
  • I understand that I must also pay the non-refundable publication fee of thirty thousand (30,000) CFA francs for my manuscript after acceptance of my article.

Articles

Politique par défaut

Note

Les notes de recherche ne sont pas des articles académiques complets, mais des notes de discussion, cherchant à faire avancer une nouvelle idée, une perspective théorique, un programme de recherche ou une approche méthodologique dans les études d'organisation. Contrairement aux articles de recherche complets, les notes de recherche peuvent suivre un schéma de papier moins strict, mais doivent néanmoins apporter une contribution précieuse à l'étude de l'organisation. Autrement dit, la clarté polémique et la rhétorique sont des qualités importantes d'une note de recherche lisible et intrigante. Lors de la rédaction d'une note de recherche, il est important que le ou les auteurs soient clairs sur le type de contribution qu'ils souhaitent apporter au domaine des études d'organisation, qu'ils soient capables d'avancer un argument intelligible et solide en faveur d'une théorie particulière, une étude ou une méthodologie, et qu'ils apportent une nouvelle vision à l'attention des lecteurs de la revue. Le rôle de la note de recherche n'est donc pas tant de justifier ou de soutenir davantage les perspectives théoriques prédominantes, mais de servir de forme d'incubateur ou de laboratoire pour de nouvelles réflexions dans le domaine des études d'organisation.

Les notes de recherche sont préférables entre 3 000 et 4 000 mots.

Copyright Notice

The authors retain rights for authorship of their article and grant to the edition the right of first publication of the article on a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY), which allows others to freely distribute the published article, with the obligatory reference to the authors of original works and original publication in this journal.

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