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Author Guidelines

Equiries: Potential contributors are invited, before formal submission, to enquire whether or not a particular article would be of interest, or to obtain advice about the way in which a manuscript should be prepared for submission.

Operations coordinator contact: Liezel Grunewald, email:submissions@sajhrm.co.za
Editor-in-chief contact: Prof Gert Roodt, email:editor@sajhrm.co.za

Covering letter: When submitting a manuscript, authors should provide a separate covering letter with the following information: the full name(s) and title(s) of the author(s); the position, affiliation (university or organisation), and contact details of each author; and the author to whom all correspondence should be addressed. It should also include a paragraph summarising briefly the nature of the contribution made by each of the authors listed on the article to the research performed.

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. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation will be provided below in “Comments to the Editor”).

2. This work is original and all third party contributions (images, ideas and results) have been duly attributed to the originator(s).

3. Permission to publish licensed material (e.g. tables, figures, graphs, measuring instruments) has been obtained and the letter of approval and proof of payment for royalties have been included in this submission.

4. The corresponding author is duly authorised to herewith grant the publisher unlimited rights to publish the work in any format and/or medium, whether for gain or any other purpose.

5. The text of the manuscript adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

6. The manuscript has been proofread by a linguistic expert in the applicable language.

7. This manuscript reflects as a whole my/our own original work. All co-authors have made significant contributions to the manuscript to qualify as co-authors.

8. If the Editor-in-chief does not delegate the payment of the article processing fees to a third party the corresponding author, who submits the article, accepts responsibility for the payment once the manuscript has been accepted for publication. The corresponding author (or the Editor-in-chief where applicable) confirms that he/she will organise such payment should the article be accepted for publication. This responsibility may not be delegated to any other party without the written permission of either the publisher or the Editor-in-chief. The article will not be published until such full payment is received.

9. This manuscript contains only Unicode fonts. (Click here to read more on Unicode fonts, important to note that not using Unicode fonts will cause a delay in the processing of your article.)

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