Policies

Plagiarism

Any submission suspected of any form of plagiarism will be rejected as soon as it is detected.  If detected after publication, the paper will be removed from the website.  The journal routinely scans submitted manuscripts using various means, including automated online screening tools.

Evaluation

All papers will be reviewed by more than one referee whose proposed amendments, if any, will be conveyed to the author.  This is a blind review.  Authors must nominate at least two referees, and the editor may ask them to review the paper. It remains the editor's prerogative to appoint referees, and nominated persons will not necessarily be invited to participate in the review process. Full contact details of nominated referees must be supplied. Papers accepted for publication may/will be subject to editorial correction.

Copyright

Authors submitting work for publication must furnish an undertaking that the work has not been published previously. Authors are responsible for the factual accuracy of their papers.  Ownership of copyright of work published remains with the authors,  and published in open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

The author(s) and journal should be properly acknowledged, when works are cited.

Authors may use the publisher’s version for teaching purposes, in books, theses, dissertations, conferences and conference papers.

A copy of the authors’ publisher’s version may also be hosted on the following websites:

  • Non-commercial personal homepage or blog.
  • Institutional webpage.
  • Authors Institutional Repository.

The following notice should accompany such a posting on the website: “This is an electronic version of an article published in RDj, Volume XXX, number XXX, pages XXX–XXX”, DOI.   Authors should also supply a hyperlink to the original paper or indicate where the original paper (https://rdj.journals.ac.za/index.php/pub) may be found.

Authors publishers version, affiliated with the Stellenbosch University will be automatically deposited in the University’s’ Institutional Repository SUNScholar.