Submissions

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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

Authors who publish with JESAR and benefit from:

  • An easy-to-use manuscript submission system
  • Dedicated editors who are active in their respective academic and research communities
  • High editorial standards, ensuring all published manuscripts undergo an in-depth peer-review process.
  • Quick, efficient publication 
  • The greater impact, reach, and visibility of research output through open access.
  • Retention of all ownership and copyright of published research.

Submission

One of the authors of the manuscript should submit the manuscript through the Online Journal System (OJS). The manuscript submission system accepts only electronic PDF (.pdf) or Word (.doc, .docx, .rtf,.txt) files. The manuscript should be between 4000-and 7000 words (15-25 pages double-spaced pages). The main manuscript file's file name should not contain any special characters. Any submissions from anyone other than one of the authors will be rejected. During submission and peer review, the submitting author is responsible for the manuscript. For technical help, please contact chukauni.jesar@chuka.ac.ke.

Terms of submission

This journal will only consider for publication manuscripts that they have not been previously published. The author submitting the paper is responsible for ensuring that all other co-authors have given their approval for the paper to be published. The submitting author will also be responsible for ensuring that the article has received all appropriate institutional clearances. Only the editorial office's acknowledgment determines the formal date of receipt. Unless otherwise specified, the author(s) will get additional correspondence and proofs before publication. The authors must agree to the work being edited for readability as part of the submission process. All inquiries concerning the publication of accepted manuscripts should be addressed to chukauni.jesar@chuka.ac.ke. 

Articles

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Publishing Policies

  1. JESAR is published one a year 
  2. The journal accepts for publication original research papers, reviews, and short communications on environmental sustainability derived from agricultural, biological, business, educational, health, social, scientific, technological, and innovative basic and applied research to have a long-term impact on society and humanity.
  3. The journal uses a double-blind review method, which means that the identities of both the reviewer and the author are kept hidden from the reviewers and vice versa during the review process.
  4. Papers submitted for consideration in JESAR must be the author’s original work, which has not published been previously.
  5. Authors should not submit their manuscripts to many journals at the same time. 
  6. All writers should sign a copyright form and submit it with the article.
  7. The writers are solely responsible for the manuscript.
  8. JESAR will run a plagiarism check on all submitted manuscripts. The plagiarism report's similarity index should not surpass 18 percent.
  9. Authors should not breach any existing copyright rules, both domestic and international.
  10. The copyright to the published papers remains with the authors.
  11. JESAR is dedicated to providing open access to its content. From the date of publication, all papers in JESAR are free to access.

 

Open access policy and licensing terms

 

Open access statement

 

JESAR is an open-access journal. This means that any reader or his or her institution can access all of the content for free. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the complete texts of the articles for any lawful purpose without first seeking permission from the publisher or author, as defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

Licensing terms

The Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International license governs JESAR publications. Readers can remix, modify, and build upon any content from JESAR for non-commercial purposes as long as they provide credit to the author.

Copyright statement

Papers submitted for consideration in JESAR must be the author's original work, which has not been published previously in any form. The copyright to the published papers remains with the authors.

Article Processing Charges

To support the publishing of this journal as an Open Access title, the prospective authors will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) of Ksh. 5000/= payable once the paper has been accepted for publication and at the beginning of an editorial process

 

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses given on this journal's site will only be used for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be shared with anyone else for any other purpose.

Confidentiality

Peer-reviewed manuscripts will be kept strictly confidential. Reviewers should not share manuscripts or content of review reports outside of the peer-review process, reviewers must not exchange manuscripts or discuss their content. Unless they want to reveal their name by signing the review report, reviewers will remain anonymous to the authors.

Conflicts of interest

Reviewers should decline to review a manuscript from an author in situations where they:

  • Have a recent joint publication or current submission with the author
  • Share or have recently shared affiliation with the author
  • Collaborate or have recently collaborated with the author
  • Have a close personal connection to the author
  • Have a financial interest in the subject of the work
  • Feel unable to be objective in reviewing the submission