Enroll as a reviewer
African Population Studies encourages readers who are actively involved in research population and development interrelationships and with appropriate expertise to serve as peer reviewers of the journal:

• Already a registered user? Login to the journal website and edit your profile to include ‘Reviewer’ as a role. Kindly express your interest to serve as a Reviewer in an email to the Editor-in-Chief, specifying your user login.
• Not a registered user? Reviewers are required to register with the journal website. Kindly also express your interest to serve as a Reviewer in an email to the Editor-in-Chief.

Accepting an invitation to review.
Login to the journal website, (insert new journal website link), click on Reviewer and then the title of the article under active submissions. Under Review Step 1 select the email icon adjacent to the appropriate response (Will do the review/unable to do the review) to notify the Editor.

Performing/Submitting a review.
Ensure that you have accepted to perform the review (outlined above) and consulted the Reviewer Guidelines provided. Login to the journal website, click on Reviewer and the title of the article under active submissions. Complete steps 2 – 7 and click ‘Submit Review to Editor’. Should you require further assistance, contact the Editor-in-Chief via [email protected].

The posting of comments to published articles requires registration with this journal website. Only constructive comments that relate to the published material will be permitted. Posted comments solely represent the opinions of the respective user and not those of the African Population Studies, and do not imply endorsement by the Journal or its owners. The Journal reserves the right to remove comments without notice that are abusive, threatening, defamatory, contain advertising or spam, or violate another user’s privacy. It also reserves the right to revoke the privileges of users that post inappropriate material. Such material may be brought to the attention of the Editor-in-Chief. The Journal reserves the right to modify this policy without notice.

Readers of the UAPS are encouraged to register with the journal website to receive notifications of new issues online (open access).

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Plagiarism is defined as the use of another’s work, words or ideas without attribution or permission, and representation of them as one’s own original work. Plagiarism may take many forms, ranging from major plagiarism (the copy-and-paste of large amounts of text), to minor plagiarism without dishonest intent (e.g. when an author uses parts of an introduction from an earlier paper) and even self-plagiarism (the reuse of significant, identical or near-identical portions of one’s own work without citing the original version).

Manuscripts containing plagiarism will not be considered for publication in the journal. If plagiarism is brought to light after a manuscript has been published, the journal will proceed to conduct a preliminary investigation. Suspected misconduct will be reported to the institutes and funding agencies of the authors concerned. The journal reserves the right to formally retract such manuscripts and publish statements to reference material as plagiarism.

This journal subscribes to the Committee on Publication Ethics [COPE].