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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.
  • Submission fees of R500 has been paid, without it, the article will not be considered for review. Please send proof of payment to: sajhe@sun.ac.za - without proof we cannot mark your submission as paid. ABSA Bank code 632005, Acc no. 4063856791, Acc name SAJHE, REF: Your Surname and Initials.
  • If AL and AI-assisted tools are used in the research approaches of the submissions, the authors should disclose having used such technologies if the article has been accepted for publication. Failing to do so would lead to a removal of the article from SAJHE's website.
  • A Turnitin report has been submitted as a supplementary file (the score of which is 15% or below). Failure to do so would lead to a removal of the article from SAJHE’s website. Please remember to turn of repository on the Turnitin-website when submitting your article.
    1) Choose the Edit Assignment tab and click on the Operational settings link
    2) scroll to the bottom, and under ‘submit papers to’, choose ‘no repository’ and then click on the submit button.
  • Grammar and language editing – is the sole responsibility of the author, you hereby confirm that you have consulted with a professional language editor/consultant to check/edit your grammar and language.
  • The journal takes only responsibility for the layout and reference checking of your paper – which is done by our Production Editor prior to publication of the paper.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration and is the author(s) own original work.
  • The submission file is in a Microsoft Word 2007 or later file format, and adheres to the style sheet available for download from the Author guidelines. (Submissions not conforming to the journal's style will be rejected)
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    Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
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    The text is 1.5-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the article text and clearly marked.
  • The instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed, and all author details have been removed from the initial review copy.
  • I have removed authors' Name(s) and Surname(s), ORCiD ID and affiliation(s), from the original manuscript, and submitted it as a supplementary file. (step 4 of submission process - Upload Supplementary Files)

Author Guidelines

  1. Submission fees of R500 has been paid, without it, the article will not be considered for review. REFERENCE - 0000 (Paper/Article ID no.) and Surname of Author (e.g. 4507 Bester) - Please send proof of payment to: sajhe@sun.ac.za - without proof we cannot mark your submission as paid. See Bank details
  2. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration and is the author(s) own original work.
  3. The submission file is in a Microsoft Word 2007 or later file format.  (Submissions not conforming to the journal's style will be rejected)
  4. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  5. The text is 1.5-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the article text and clearly marked.  The article should be between 5500 and 7500 words in length.  References: The Chicago Manual of Style author-date system is used.  That is, references are cited in the text by the author(s) name(s), the year of publication and the page numbers(s) in brackets, for example, (Apollonia 1973, 370), as a key to the full list of all references that appears at the end of the article.  The list of references should include every work cited in the text.  Ensure that dates, spelling and titles used in the test are accurate and consistent with those listed in the references. 
  6. When citing others' work, always use double quotation marks for the citation, and, if required, use single quotation marks within the citation.  This especially applies to indented quotations.  Turnitin does not recognise indentations with quatation marks, instead, it recognises indented quoted text without quotation marks as previously used work that appears elsewhere (thus - picks this up as plagiarism).
  7. The instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed, and all author details have been removed from the initial review copy.
  8. The article has been professionally edited and a letter from the editor will be attached to it (step 4 of submission process - Uploading Supplementary Files)
  9. Professional grammer and language editing is the sole responsibility of the author(s), without it the manuscript will not be considered for review.
  10. I have removed authors' Name(s) and Surname(s), ORCiD ID and affiliation(s), from the original manuscript, and submitted it as a supplementary file. (step 4 of submission process - Upload Supplementary Files)

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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.

  1. Submission fees of R500 has been paid, without it, the article will not be considered for review. Please send proof of payment to: sajhe@sun.ac.za - without proof we cannot mark your submission as paid.
  2. Grammar and language editing is the sole responsibility of the author, you hereby confirm that you have consulted with a professional language editor/consultant to check/edit your grammar and language.
  3. The journal takes only responsibility for the layout and reference checking of your paper - which is done by our Production Editor prior to the publication of the paper.
  4. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration and is the author(s) own original work.
  5. The submission file is in a Microsoft Word 2007 or later file format.  (Submissions not conforming to the journal's style will be rejected)
  6. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  7. The text is 1.5-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the article text and clearly marked.  The article should be between 5500 and 7500 words in length.  References:  The Chicago Manual of Style author-date system is used.  That is, references are cited in the text by the author(s) name(s), the year of publication and the page numbers(s) in brackets, for example, (Apollonia 1973, 370), as a key to the full list of all references that appears at the end of the article.  The list of references should include every work cited in the text.  Ensure that dates, spelling and titles used in the test are accurate and consistent with those listed in the references.  Please take note that quotes must be done with double quoatation mark - as Turnitin picks this up as plagiarism.
  8. The instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed, and all author details have been removed from the initial review copy.
  9. I have removed authors' Name(s) and Surname(s), ORCiD ID and affiliation(s), from the original manuscript, and submitted it as a supplementary file. (step 4 of submission process - Upload Supplementary Files)

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission Handling Fee (2024): 500.00 (ZAR)

Article Publication Fee - PER PAGE (2024) : 440.00 (ZAR)
If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs. The workflow will be: 1) You will receive the notification that your paper is accepted for publication.  2) Your paper will then be scheduled to be published in a specific isse (this may take up to 5 weeks to confirm). 3)  The production editor will contact you 6-8 week before the publication date of the specific issue, to finalise the layout of your paper.  4) After the final layout, we will contact the author to confirm the amount payable.  Note**No credit card facilities available.   Page fees will be confirmed annually.  The submission fee will be deducted from the final invoice for page fees payable if your paper is accepted for publication.

 

*Please pay the R500 submission fee, and forward the proof of payment to sajhe@sun.ac.za

 

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Examples of Chicago style referencing

Author-Date: Sample Citations

The following examples illustrate the author-date system. Each example of a reference list entry is accompanied by an example of a corresponding in-text citation.

 

Book

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Grazer, Brian, and Charles Fishman. 2015. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Smith, Zadie. 2016. Swing Time. New York: Penguin Press.

In-text citations

(Grazer and Fishman 2015, 12)

(Smith 2016, 315–16)

 

Chapter or other part of an edited book

In the reference list, include the page range for the chapter or part. In the text, cite specific pages.

Reference list entry

Thoreau, Henry David. 2016. “Walking.” In The Making of the American Essay, edited by John D’Agata, 167–95. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press.

In-text citation

(Thoreau 2016, 177–78)

In some cases, you may want to cite the collection as a whole instead.

Reference list entry

D’Agata, John, ed. 2016. The Making of the American Essay. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press.

In-text citation

(D’Agata 2016, 177–78)

 

Translated book

Reference list entry

Lahiri, Jhumpa. 2016. In Other Words. Translated by Ann Goldstein. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

In-text citation

(Lahiri 2016, 146)

 

E-book

For books consulted online, include a URL or the name of the database in the reference list entry. For other types of e-books, name the format. If no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter or other number in the text, if any (or simply omit).

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Austen, Jane. 2007. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Classics. Kindle.

Borel, Brooke. 2016. The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ProQuest Ebrary.

Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. 1987. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

Melville, Herman. 1851. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers. http://mel.hofstra.edu/moby-dick-the-whale-proofs.html.

In-text citations

(Austen 2007, chap. 3)

(Borel 2016, 92)

(Kurland and Lerner 1987, chap. 10, doc. 19)

(Melville 1851, 627)

 

Journal article

In the reference list, include the page range for the whole article. In the text, cite specific page numbers. For articles consulted online, include a URL or the name of the database in the reference list entry. Many journal articles list a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). A DOI forms a permanent URL that begins https://doi.org/. This URL is preferable to the URL that appears in your browser’s address bar.

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. 2017. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.” Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.

LaSalle, Peter. 2017. “Conundrum: A Story about Reading.” New England Review 38 (1): 95–109. Project MUSE.

Satterfield, Susan. 2016. “Livy and the Pax Deum.” Classical Philology 111, no. 2 (April): 165–76.

In-text citations

(Keng, Lin, and Orazem 2017, 9–10)

(LaSalle 2017, 95)

(Satterfield 2016, 170)

Journal articles often list many authors, especially in the sciences. If there are four or more authors, list up to ten in the reference list; in the text, list only the first, followed by et al. (“and others”). For more than ten authors (not shown here), list the first seven in the reference list, followed by et al.

Reference list entry

Bay, Rachael A., Noah Rose, Rowan Barrett, Louis Bernatchez, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Jesse R. Lasky, Rachel B. Brem, Stephen R. Palumbi, and Peter Ralph. 2017. “Predicting Responses to Contemporary Environmental Change Using Evolutionary Response Architectures.” American Naturalist 189, no. 5 (May): 463–73. https://doi.org/10.1086/691233.

In-text citation

(Bay et al. 2017, 465)

 

News or magazine article

Articles from newspapers or news sites, magazines, blogs, and the like are cited similarly. In the reference list, it can be helpful to repeat the year with sources that are cited also by month and day. Page numbers, if any, can be cited in the text but are omitted from a reference list entry. If you consulted the article online, include a URL or the name of the database.

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Manjoo, Farhad. 2017. “Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera.” New York Times, March 8, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/technology/snap-makes-a-bet-on-the-cultural-supremacy-of-the-camera.html.

Mead, Rebecca. 2017. “The Prophet of Dystopia.” New Yorker, April 17, 2017.

Pai, Tanya. 2017. “The Squishy, Sugary History of Peeps.” Vox, April 11, 2017. http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/11/15209084/peeps-easter.

Pegoraro, Rob. 2007. “Apple’s iPhone Is Sleek, Smart and Simple.” Washington Post, July 5, 2007. LexisNexis Academic.

In-text citation

(Manjoo 2017)

(Mead 2017, 43)

(Pai 2017)

(Pegoraro 2007)

Readers’ comments are cited in the text but omitted from a reference list.

In-text citation

(Eduardo B [Los Angeles], March 9, 2017, comment on Manjoo 2017)

 

Book review

Reference list entry

Kakutani, Michiko. 2016. “Friendship Takes a Path That Diverges.” Review of Swing Time, by Zadie Smith. New York Times, November 7, 2016.

In-text citation

(Kakutani 2016)

 

Interview

Reference list entry

Stamper, Kory. 2017. “From ‘F-Bomb’ to ‘Photobomb,’ How the Dictionary Keeps Up with English.” Interview by Terry Gross. Fresh Air, NPR, April 19, 2017. Audio, 35:25. http://www.npr.org/2017/04/19/524618639/from-f-bomb-to-photobomb-how-the-dictionary-keeps-up-with-english.

In-text citation

(Stamper 2017)

 

Thesis or dissertation

Reference list entry

Rutz, Cynthia Lillian. 2013. “King Lear and Its Folktale Analogues.” PhD diss., University of Chicago.

In-text citation

(Rutz 2013, 99–100)

 

Website content

It is often sufficient simply to describe web pages and other website content in the text (“As of May 1, 2017, Yale’s home page listed . . .”). If a more formal citation is needed, it may be styled like the examples below. For a source that does not list a date of publication or revision, use n.d. (for “no date”) in place of the year and include an access date.

 

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Bouman, Katie. 2016. “How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole.” Filmed November 2016 at TEDxBeaconStreet, Brookline, MA. Video, 12:51. https://www.ted.com/talks/katie_bouman_what_does_a_black_hole_look_like.

Google. 2017. “Privacy Policy.” Privacy & Terms. Last modified April 17, 2017. https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Yale University. n.d. “About Yale: Yale Facts.” Accessed May 1, 2017. https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts.

In-text citations

(Bouman 2016)

(Google 2017)

(Yale University, n.d.)

 

Social media content

Citations of content shared through social media can usually be limited to the text (as in the first example below). If a more formal citation is needed, a reference list entry may be appropriate. In place of a title, quote up to the first 160 characters of the post. Comments are cited in reference to the original post.

Text

Conan O’Brien’s tweet was characteristically deadpan: “In honor of Earth Day, I’m recycling my tweets” (@ConanOBrien, April 22, 2015).

Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)

Chicago Manual of Style. 2015. “Is the world ready for singular they? We thought so back in 1993.” Facebook, April 17, 2015. https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoManual/posts/10152906193679151.

Souza, Pete (@petesouza). 2016. “President Obama bids farewell to President Xi of China at the conclusion of the Nuclear Security Summit.” Instagram photo, April 1, 2016. https://www.instagram.com/p/BDrmfXTtNCt/.

In-text citations

(Chicago Manual of Style 2015)

(Souza 2016)

(Michele Truty, April 17, 2015, 1:09 p.m., comment on Chicago Manual of Style 2015)

 

Personal communication

Personal communications, including email and text messages and direct messages sent through social media, are usually cited in the text only; they are rarely included in a reference list.

In-text citation

(Sam Gomez, Facebook message to author, August 1, 2017)

 

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