Submit a Manuscript

Before you start, have these ready as Word documents:

Title page — authors, affiliations, ORCID, emails, acknowledgements, declaration of interest, funding statement and authors' contributions.
Anonymised manuscript — 8,000 to 10,000 words with references, abstract of 150 words, 4–6 keywords, APA 7th edition, Arial 11 pt, 1.5 spacing. No author names anywhere, including the file properties.

See the author guidelines. You can also submit by email to editor.tlajournal [at] tla.or.tz.

1. The manuscript

Article type *

Title *

Abstract * (about 150 words)

Keywords * (4 to 6, separated by commas)

2. Corresponding author

Full name *

Email *

Phone (optional)

ORCID iD (optional, e.g. 0000-0002-1825-0097)

Institution / affiliation *

Country *

Co-authors (optional — one per line: name, institution, email)

3. Files

Word documents (.doc or .docx), up to 20 MB each.

Title page *

Anonymised manuscript *

Tables, figures or other supplementary files (optional — Word, Excel or a ZIP of editable files)

Message to the editor (optional cover letter)

4. Declarations The work is original, has not been published before and is not under consideration by another journal. All authors have approved the manuscript and agree to its submission. The manuscript file has been anonymised: author names and affiliations appear only on the title page. I agree that TLA may store these details and files for the journal's editorial work, as described in the privacy policy.

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