GUIDE TO AUTHORS

NOUN International Journal of Private & Property Law (NIJPPL) is an annual peer reviewed (print and online) publication of the Department of Private & Property Law, Faculty of Law, National Open University of Nigeria. The Journal publishes contributions (including articles, essays, commentaries and case reviews) dealing with discourse on national, regional and international law and policy.

GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTION
1. Order
Manuscript should be written with elements in the following order:
-Title (include author(s) name(s) institutional affiliation(s) and contact
email(s) as footnote)
– Abstract
– Keywords
– Main text (including introduction and conclusion)
2. Length
Research manuscripts should be between 4,000 and 8,000 words
while commentaries, book/case reviews should be between 3,000 and
5,000 words – including footnotes, tables, figures, captions etc. Paper
should be written in English (UK) throughout (except for direct
quote of third party material).
3. Abstract
Abstract not exceeding 200 words should be submitted with the
paper. Abstracts should include 3-5 keywords separated by commas.
This should be inserted immediately after the abstract.
4. Format and Referencing Style
Manuscript should be formatted in Garamond 10 font in 1.5 line
spacing.

Footnotes should be in Garamond 9 font in single line spacing. Papers must adhere to the Oxford Standard Citation for Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) referencing style. Examples are as follows:
Books:
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (first published 1651, Penguin 1985)
268
Contributions to Edited Books
Francis Rose, ‘The Evolution of the Species’ in Andrew Burrows
and Alan Rodger (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of
Peter Birks (OUP 2006)
Encyclopedias
Halsbury’s Laws (5th edn, 2010) vol 57, para 53
Journal Articles
Paul Craig, ‘Theory, “Pure Theory” and Values in Public Law’
[2005] PL 440 (When pinpointing, put a comma between the first
page of the article and the page pinpoint e.g. JAG Griffith, ‘The
Common Law and the Political Constitution’(2001) 117 LQR 42,
64)
Online Journals
Graham Greenleaf, ‘The Global Development of Free Access to
Legal Information’ (2010) 1(1) EJLT
<http://ejlt.org//article/view/17> accessed 27 July 2010
Command papers and Law Commission Reports
Department for International Development, Eliminating World
Poverty: Building our Common Future (White Paper, Cm 7656,
2009) ch 5 Law Commission, Reforming Bribery (Law Com No
313, 2008) paras 3.12–3.17

Websites and blogs
Sarah Cole, ‘Virtual Friend Fires Employee’ (Naked Law, 1 May
2009) accessed 19 November 2009
Newspaper articles
Jane Croft, ‘Supreme Court Warns on Quality’ Financial Times
(London, 1 July 2010)

5. Review Process
Manuscripts will be subjected to strict double blind review.
Notification of acceptance/rejection will be communicated to the
author(s) upon completion.
6. Authorship Ethics, Use of Third-Party Material and
Plagiarism
NIJPPL is committed to upholding the highest standards in good
authorship. Every co-author listed in a manuscript should have made
significant intellectual contribution to same. All authors or co-authors
share equal responsibility or accountability for the content of articles
published in NIJPPL.
Author(s) bear the responsibility for obtaining necessary permission
for use of third-party material (including figures or tables) and
properly referencing same.
When citing theirs or others’ previous works, author(s) must clearly
mark quoted verbatim text with quotation marks and properly
reference the source of such quoted text.
All data included in an article must be accurate.
All competing interests including sources of research funding,
direct/indirect financial support etc. must be properly disclosed.

Manuscript must be original – not previously published or under
consideration for publication by another publisher. The author(s)
shall also commit not to submit it the manuscript for consideration
elsewhere prior to receipt of a notification of rejection from NIJPPL.

7. Further Enquiries
Francisca Anene PhD
Editor-in-Chief, NIJPPL
Faculty of Law
National Open University of Nigeria
Abuja, Nigeria
fanene@noun.edu.ng

Barr. (Mrs.) Olufunke Aje-Famuyide
Managing Editor, NIJPPL
Faculty of Law
National Open University of Nigeria
Abuja, Nigeria
oaje-famuyide@noun.edu.ng