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). Under Comments to the Editor, indicate if the paper was presented during AESON conference stating the number or if it is a direct submission. Also indicate that processing fees has been paid and the amount paid).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
Confirm that the article was subjected to a plagiarism test, indicating the software used for the test and the result.
Show evidence that payment for review fee has been paid. Include evidence of payment under the section "comment for the editor"
The text is double-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.
Dates of references and citations used in the article are within the last five years from the date of submitting this article and follow strictly APA style
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Author Guidelines
Formatting
Manuscripts on any of the identified interest areas (see scope of the journal interest) must be prepared in accordance with these guidelines:
Articles should be type-written in English, double spaced on only one side of A4 (210 by 297mm) paper and not more than 15 double spaced pages.( using one-inch margins with Arial Theme and 12-point), inclusive of references, tables, figures and appendixes. JAE reserves the right to ask authors to shorten excessively long papers before they are entered in the review process. However, JAE recognizes that papers intended to make very extensive contributions or that require additional space for data presentation or references may require more pages.
At the point of submission each articles should indicate on the first page the title of manuscript
Capitalise first letter of each word of the title
At the point of submission do not include authors name, address, email and phone number to allow blind reviewType surname and other names followed by address below the title
After acceptance include all authors name, address, email and phone number
Type surname and other names followed by address below the title
Capitalise the first letters of each name
The names of the author(s) should be followed by the abstract and subsequent parts of the article.
Section heading
Capitalised only the first letter of each word or of proper nouns of the section head
Sub-section heads should be flushed left
Tables:
Number each table in Roman Numerals followed by a colon and the title
Give each table an explicit title
Capitalise the first letter of each proper nouns in the table title
Place the title of each table on top of the table
Do not use frequencies and percentages as separate columns in a table. Use percentages and indicate the sample size in bracket after the word percentage
Indicate boarders of table row headings, sub headings sub-total and total
Type table(s) in exact text location(s)
Figures:
Number each figure
Give an appropriate title to each figure
Capitalise the first letter of each nouns in the figure title
Place the title of each figure below the figure
References and citations
Follow the style of the American Psychological Association (APA)
Note: Processing fees of ₦10,000 ($30) at submission and publication charge of ₦25,000 ($70) for articles not presented at the annual national conference after acceptance apply. Payable into the following as appropriate:
For payments by authors within Nigeria (Naira) Bank Name: Access Bank (Ilorin Branch) Account Name: Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria Account Number, 0020725578
For payments by authors outside Nigeria (Dollar) Pay through:
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FOR FINAL CREDIT TO: ACCESS Bank Nigeria
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Copyright Notice
JAE supports free online communication and exchange of knowledge as the most effective way of ensuring that the fruits of research and development practice are made widely available. It is therefore committed to open access, which, for authors, enables the widest possible dissemination of their findings and, for readers, increases their ability to discover pertinent information. The Journal adopts and uses the CC BY-NC-ND license. Under this license users are permitted to: Copy and distribute the article (non-commercially); you can’t change or alter the article in anyway; Users are not allowed to data mine the article.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
