TROPICAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Tropical Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology (TJEST) is the initiative of the Nigerian Association of Academic Technologist (NAAT). The TJEST is to publish original articles emanated from any area of engineering, science and technology.
Application for manuscript submission
Manuscript to be submitted by author should accompany with a short letter, addressing to the Editor-in-chief of TJEST. In the letter, it should be unequivocally expressed the article has not been submitted elsewhere for a possible journal publication. In case of multiple authors, the lead author or corresponding author should write on behalf of others by mentioning their names. English is the language through which the paper must be presented while British English is most preferred. Full length paper, short communication, brief report and review are acceptable. All correspondences shall be sent to tjest@.............
Style of manuscript presentation
Articles for TJEST shall be prepared in standard A4 (8.27″ X 11.69″) page size with single column, using fonts with size of 12, with double-spacing, and margins of 2.5cm. Line numbering should be used starting from the title page to the last of references. The theme font should be Times New Roman. It is advisable for the authors to subject their articles to plagiarism test and should not be more than 25% similarity. A standard manuscript should a title, abstract, keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion and references.
Title
Title is often in the first page of an article, which distinguishes one’s paper from others. Therefore, endeavor to use a research title that is catchy, sparking interest for reading. Title should be between 15 and 23 words. Title should be in Title Case. The title should carry full names of the author(s), affiliation(s) and email of author for correspondence.
Abstract
Abstract should not be more than 400 words. Abstract should show clearly justification (Problem statement, belief and knowledge gap), objective of the study, methodology, results, conclusion and keywords (five words). The abstract for TJEST shall be presented in English, French and Arabic.
Introduction
Introduction is attempting to inform the reader about the rationale behind the study. It is justifying why your work is an essential component of research in the field or area. You must express the purpose of the study ensuring that sufficient background information is unambiguously provided. Few literature should be used to support the ideology for the study. A good introduction explains how you mean to solve the research problem. You should assume that your paper is aimed at someone with a good working knowledge of your particular field.
Materials and methods
Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. It should include explicit, concise descriptions of all new methods or procedures employed. Commonly used methods require only a citation of the original source. The description should be such that the reader can judge the accuracy, reproducibility, reliability, etc. of the work. The statistical tool used to analyze the data should be mentioned. In case of Experimental animals or human subjects must accompany with statement on necessary ethical approval from appropriate ethical committee.
Statistics
Experimental design and statistical analysis should be well stated. Data must be analysed with an appropriate procedure. Findings obtained should be presented with suitable indicators of measurement error and confidence intervals. When analysed data are presented as outcome for results, the statistical methods used to analyse them must be succinctly itemized. It is expected to describe statistical terms and indicate computer software used.
Results
Results are the presentation of a statistically analysed data and should be expressed without interpreting their meaning. It is important to carefully plan the tables and figures to ensure that their sequencing tells a story. Tables and figures are allowed but should not be interchangeably repeated.
Discussion
Discussion is the interpretation of the results in which inferences are drawn. Possible reasons are to be adduced from the analysed data. There is no hard and fast rule about combining results and discussion together, in which the author can choose. However, results should not be repeated in the discussion if the author decides to separate them. Assertions and observations are to be supported with references. Unnecessary explanations must be avoided in order reduce the length of the discussion. Contribution of authors from the past work should be paraphrased in order to be guiltless of plagiarism.
Conclusion
It is not s summary of the whole study. Rather, it is the implications of the results. Results should not be repeated or copied. Recommendation is not necessarily required. However, conclusion should be as short as possible,
Acknowledgements
Credit should be given to those that assisted the authors(s) in the course of design, experimentation, report collation, data analysis and write up. Technical and financial support by an individual or a group of people or funding agent should duly be acknowledged. Acknowledgement should be as short as possible. Unnecessary praises should be avoided.
References
The rule is that all references cited must be listed and vice versa. In case of a single author, name and the publication year must be separated a comma e,g. Babayemi (2021) or (Babayemi, 2021). For two authors, names and the publication year should be joined with ‘and’ e,g. Olowa and Igwegbe (2020) and be separated from year of publication by comma e.g. (Olowa and Igwegbe, 2020). However, if the authors are three or more, ‘et al’ should be used after the name of the first author and year of publication should be separated by comma e.g. Ayokunle et al. (2019) or (Ayokunle et al., 2019). In the reference section where all references are listed, it should be arranged alphabetically. For journal article; indicate name(s) of the author(s), put the year of publication in parentheses, write the name of the journal in full and italicize. For book referencing; write the name(s) of the author(s) and put the year of publication in parentheses, title of the book, place of publication and the publisher.
Tables and figures
Tables and Figures should be numbered serially with Roman numerals. Tables should be created by inserting it and not drawn.
Pay charges
The authors shall be charged with 40,000 naira on papers not more than 15 pages at submission. Subsequent each pages shall attract 5,000 naira. However, authors shall pay handling charge of 3,000 naira upon submission of the manuscript.
The authors shall be charged with 40,000 naira on papers not more than 15 pages at submission.
Subsequent each pages shall attract 5,000 naira. However, authors shall pay handling charge of 3,000 naira upon submission of the manuscript.