Publication Standards
Researchers submitting manuscripts should consult the American Psychological
Association (APA) ethical standards (www.apa.org). Authors should declare
that the submitting manuscript has been submitted only to this journal and is
not published, in the press, or submitted elsewhere. The author(s) of a manuscript accepted for publication will be asked to assign copyright to
Education Reform Journal.
Peer Review Process
All submitting manuscripts are assigned to code and blind peer-review
process. The reviewers will make recommendations about worthiness for
publication and make suggestions for some changes in need of improvement. The
authors will be sent the reviewers’ recommendations anonymously.
4-6 weeks will be given to the reviewers for manuscript evaluation.
Publication Frequency
Education Reform Journal is published electronically twice a year. July (Summer) and December (Winter) are planned for 2019 issues.
Open Access Policy
Removing access barriers to the academic literature, the Education Reform
Journal adopts world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal
and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars,
teachers, students, and other stakeholders.
Galley-proof
The PDF proofs of an accepted manuscript will be sent to authors for checking
and correction.
Publication Language
The main official language of the journal is English (British or American).
Copyright Notice
This journal is an open-access journal. The authors accept that their
manuscript published in the Education Reform Journal® can be accessed by
readers through open-access policy. And they can not demand any fee or
publication cost for this policy. This journal issues a transfer of copyright
agreement that requires author(s) to sign. The author(s) will be responsible
for ensuring that all authors are identified on the copyright agreement and
written permission by letter or e-mail from each author to sign the copyright
agreement.
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This Journal uses Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC
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Anti-Plagiarism Approach
Education Reform Journal adopts zero tolerance policy for plagiarism.
Maximum efforts are made to preserve scholarly and scientific integrity.
iThenticate® Plagiarism Software will be used for each submitting
manuscript before the start of the peer-review process and possible evaluation by
editorial office of the journal.
Before submitting a manuscript, authors are advised to check their
manuscripts for APA Ethics Code Standard 8.11, Plagiarism.
Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review
the About the Journal page for the journal's
section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with
the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and
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or readership. See the journal's Privacy Statement, which assures readers that
their name and email address will not be used for other purposes. We encourage
research librarians to list this journal among their library's electronic
journal holdings. As well, it may be worth noting that this journal's open
source publishing system is suitable for libraries to host for their faculty
members to use with journals they are involved in editing (see Open Journal Systems).This
journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal
on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after
publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable,
its publication in this journal. Education Reform Journal
To avoid any delay, accepted manuscripts will appear at the current volume
of the journal after completing the galley-proof and copy-right agreement
processes. By this way, the Education Reform Journal is published
electronically twice a year.
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle
that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global
exchange of knowledge. The names and email addresses entered in this journal
site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will
not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. The
copyediting stage is intended to improve the flow, clarity, grammar, wording,
and formatting of the article. It represents the last chance for the author to
make any substantial changes to the text because the next stage is restricted
to typos and formatting corrections. The file to be copyedited is in Word or
.rtf format and therefore can easily be edited like a word processing document.
The set of instructions displayed here proposes two approaches to copyediting.
One is based on Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature and requires that the
copy editor, editor, and author have access to this program. A second system,
which is software independent, has been borrowed, with permission, from the
Harvard Educational Review. The journal editor is in a position to modify these
instructions, so suggestions can be made to improve the process for this
journal.
Copyediting Systems
1. Microsoft Word's Track Changes Under Tools in the menu bar, the
feature Track Changes enables the copy editor to make insertions (text appears
in color) and deletions (text appears crossed out in color or in the margins as
deleted). The copy editor can posit queries to both the author (Author Queries)
and to the editor (Editor Queries) by inserting these queries in square
brackets. The copyedited version is then uploaded, and the editor is notified.
The editor then reviews the text and notifies the author. The editor and author
should leave those changes with which they are satisfied. If further changes
are necessary, the editor and author can make changes to the initial insertions
or deletions, as well as make new insertions or deletions elsewhere in the
text. Authors and editors should respond to each of the queries addressed to
them, with responses placed inside the square brackets. After the text has been
reviewed by the editor and author, the copy editor will make a final pass over the
text accepting the changes in preparation for the layout and galley
stage. 2. Harvard Educational Review Instructions for Making
Electronic Revisions to the Manuscript Please follow the following
protocol for making electronic revisions to your manuscript: Responding
to suggested changes. For each of the suggested changes that
you accept, unbold the text. For each of the suggested changes that you
do not accept, re-enter the original text and bold it. Making
additions and deletions. Indicate additions by bolding the
new text. Replace deleted sections with: [deleted text].
If you delete one or more sentence, please indicate with a note,
e.g., [deleted 2 sentences]. Responding to Queries to the
Author (QAs). Keep all QAs intact and bolded within the text.
Do not delete them. To reply to a QA, add a comment after it. Comments
should be delimited using: [Comment:] e.g., [Comment:
Expanded discussion of methodology as you suggested]. Making
comments. Use comments to explain organizational changes or
major revisions e.g., [Comment: Moved the above paragraph from
p. 5 top. 7]. Note: When referring to page numbers, please use the
page numbers from the printed copy of the manuscript that was sent to you. This
is important since page numbers may change as a document is revised
electronically.
An Illustration of an
Electronic Revision
- Initial
copyedit. The
journal copy editor will edit the text to improve flow, clarity, grammar,
wording, and formatting, as well as including author queries as necessary.
Once the initial edit is complete, the copy editor will upload the revised
document through the journal Web site and notify the author that the edited manuscript is available for review.
- Author
copyedit. Before
making dramatic departures from the structure and organization of the
edited manuscript, authors must check in with the editors who are
co-chairing the piece. Authors should accept/reject any changes made
during the initial copyediting, as appropriate, and respond to all author
queries. When finished with the revisions, authors should rename the file
from AuthorNameQA.doc to AuthorNameQAR.doc (e.g., from LeeQA.doc to
LeeQAR.doc) and upload the revised document through the journal Web site
as directed.
- Final
copyedit. The
journal copy editor will verify changes made by the author and incorporate
the responses to the author queries to create a final manuscript. When
finished, the copy editor will upload the final document through the
journal Web site and alert the layout editor to complete formatting
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