All submissions should be made electronically via the submission link here 

Guidelines for Conference Papers

Kindly take note of the three aspects mentioned in the guidelines.

1.0 Submission

Papers must not exceed 5000 words in length, including abstract, figures, references and appendices.

Presenters should also, please, send a short biography of up to 50 words in a separate document, with a photograph if possible.

Before submitting a paper, please ensure that it has been carefully read for typographical and grammatical errors.

Papers should be submitted as a .doc or.rtf attachment by email to the conference secretariat to conferences@nkumbauniversity.ac.ug.  Papers MUST NOT be sent in PDF format and SHOULD NOT be zipped.

2.0 Paper format

Papers can be produced in Microsoft Word using Times New Roman font 12 pt for the main text.

Set the page size to A4.

Do not use multiple columns.

Put the title of the paper in bold, left aligned, at the top of the first page only.

Then, on the next line put the names of the authors. Where all authors are from the same institute, the following format should be used.

Lead Author, Co-author One, Co-Author Two Institute, Town, Country leadauthor@email.com co-authorone@email.com co-authortwo@email.com

Multiple authors from different institutions should appear as:

Andrew Nonymous1 Second Author2 and Third Author3 The department, faculty and name of institute, Town, Country 2The department, faculty and name of institute, Town, Country leadauthor@email.com co-authorone@email.com co-authortwo@email.com

All author details will be removed before the review process.

A 300-word abstract should follow, including up to 6 keywords or phrases

Do not use more than three levels of heading and use the numbering convention:

1 Heading 1

1.1 Heading 2

1.1.1 Heading 3

The main body of the text should be in Times New Roman 12 point, single spaced and fully justified. Please use normal capitalisation within the text and do not use bold face for emphasis. Italics are acceptable. All headings should use initial capitals only, excepting for use of Acronyms

You can include bulleted or numbered lists.

Figures and tables should be placed as close to their reference point in the text as possible. All figures and tables must have titles and must be referenced from within the text. Avoid colour diagrams as the proceedings will be printed in black and white. Images must be inserted as picture files (.gif, .jpg, .bmp, .pct, .png, .psd). You may be asked to supply the pictures as separate files.

3.0 Referencing

Please avoid the use of footnotes. Endnotes are not permitted and papers containing them will be returned.

References should follow the APA referencing style (7^th edition), which means that primary references in the text should be in the format (Asiimwe, 1999) and should then be listed at the end of the paper as per the following examples:

Asiimwe, S.M. and Abaho, A. (1997). The Business Environment: Challenges and Changes. London: Prentice Hall.

Namugumya, E. (1998). Leading at the Edge-of-chaos: How to Manage the Education FacultyEntebbe:Nkumba University Press

Barasa, Patrick and Nuwgaba, Collins. (2001). Chaos Theory: Marketing and Management Implications. Nkumba International Research Journal, 1(2), 66–75.

Lubega, J.T., Lwevuze, J. andBarakagira, A. (2003). Understanding and Managing Chaos in Organisations.Nkumba International Research Journal, 20(1), 23–35.

Smith, T., & Williams, B. M. (2019). How to structure a dissertation. Retrieved 19^th October 2021 from https://www.scribbr.com/category/dissertation/