Submission and Preparation
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The articles submitted
should be original, unpublished, and not be in consideration for publication or
in the review process elsewhere at the time of submission to
the International Journal of Quality in Education (IJQE).
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All the articles sent
to IJQE are subjected to at least two international referees for double-blind
reviewing in respect of the criteria of IJQE comprising scientific competency,
innovativeness of the article, its contribution to the field, literature,
linguistic adequacy, the appropriateness of the study design, methods,
findings, discussions in the study after the initial review of the editor.
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The submission file is in Open Office, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect
document file format
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Where available, URLs for the references have been provided
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The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather
than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures,
and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at
the end.
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
Files should be in MS Word format only and should be formatted for direct
printing. Figures and tables should be embedded and not supplied separately.
Please make sure that, as far as possible, you use regular fonts in your
documents. Special fonts, such as fonts used in the Far East (Japanese,
Chinese, Korean, etc.) may cause problems during processing. To avoid
unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the ‘spellchecker’ function
of MS Word (proofing language: English UK) and to have your work language
edited by a professional English language practitioner. Please submit a letter
from the practitioner verifying that your work has been professionally edited.
Article Structure
Articles should be prepared in the following order:
Title: Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval
systems. Avoid
abbreviations and formulae where possible. The title
should not exceed 12 words and should be font size 16.
Abstract: The abstract is a meaningful summary or synopsis of the complete
document, written in one paragraph (300 words). It should address all of the
following elements: Purpose of the article, methods, results, conclusions, and
recommendations / future directions (as applicable).
Abstract Writing Style
• Use specific words, phrases, concepts, and keywords from your article.
• Use precise, clear, descriptive language.
• Write from an objective, rather than evaluative, point of view.
• Define unique terms and acronyms the first time used
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• Type in font size 8.
• Use complete sentences.
• Use verbs in the active voice
• If the article reports quantitative findings, write in the third person, as
traditionally done in
quantitative
studies. If the article reports qualitative findings, write in the first
person, as
traditionally done in qualitative studies.
Keywords: Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of five keywords.
List these in
alphabetical
order and use font size 8. Use semi-colons between words.
Key Elements of Article:
1. Introduction: This explains the nature and purpose of the article, the
theoretical background
relevant to the article’s focus, related research with
a clear indication of the gap(s)/limitation(s) in existing knowledge / practice
that the article will address, and the practical applications or significance
of what the article reports.
2. Methods: This section names and justifies the research design; describes the
participants/sample (e.g., contextualization,
demographics, recruitment/selection criteria, and
group assignment), the data collection instruments/
data generation techniques (e.g., task[s] /
method(s), equipment, instruments, including a
discussion of their validity and reliability, if appropriate, or
trustworthiness in qualitative studies), the procedures employed in the study
such as treatment(s) or the data generation process,
and data analysis. Authors must please
align the language of this section with their design
(i.e., quantitative and qualitative methods
sections will use different research jargon). Authors
must comment explicitly on how their work was ethical.
3. Results /Findings and Discussion: Results/findings should be clear and
concise. The discussion should explore the significance of the results of the
work, and not repeat them. Authors need to acknowledge their study’s
limitations. A combined results and discussion section is often appropriate.
Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature in the
discussion – instead use the literature to show how the results/findings are
significant.
4. Conclusion(s) and Recommendations/Future directions: The main conclusions of
the study may be presented in a short conclusions section, which may stand
alone or form a subsection of the discussion, or results and discussion,
section. Recommendations/Future directions may stand alone or form a subsection
of the discussion or results and discussion section. These include meaningful
suggestions for further research and/or practical applications flowing from the
study’s
conclusions.
Acknowledgements (when appropriate): Collate acknowledgements in a separate section
at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include
them on the title page, as a footnote to the title, or otherwise. List here
those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., language
editing, writing assistance, fieldwork, etc.) and sponsors.
References: References are listed in alphabetical order. Each listed reference
is cited in text, and each text citation is listed in the References.
References should be in line with APA 6 (American Psychological Association)
style.
Appendices: If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A,
B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate
numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and
so on.
Key Elements for Discussion Articles: major theme, logical development of the
theme, author's point of view, implications, inferences, or conclusions.
Key Elements for Systematic Reviews and/or Meta-syntheses: scope of the review,
publication time span, publication origin, types of documents reviewed,
author's opinion of the reviewed literature, particularly unique or important
research findings, and conclusions about the research trends.
Formatting your document
Articles should be prepared in single column format
suitable for direct printing onto A4 sheets of paper (8.3in x 11.7in/210mm x
297mm).
The body of the article (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion
and
Recommendations, Acknowledgements and
References) should be typed in Times New Roman, font size 12. Use 2.0 line
spacing. The length of the article - including abstract, tables, and references
-must be between 3500 and 6000 words. The article must be written in UK English
and must be language edited by a professional English language practitioner
prior to submission. Each paragraph should be longer than two sentences.
Write and structure articles according to APA 6 (American Psychological
Association).
Tables: All tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals. Headings should be
placed above tables, and centered. Leave one line space between the heading and
the table. Only horizontal lines should be used within a table, to distinguish
the column headings from the body of the
table. Tables must be embedded into the text and not
supplied separately. Table contents should be typed in font size 10.
Illustrations: All figures should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1, 2, …n).
All photographs, schemas, graphs and diagrams are to be referred to as figures.
Line drawings should be good quality scans (minimum of 300 dpi) or true
electronic output. Low-quality scans are not acceptable. Figures must be
embedded into the text and not supplied separately.
Lettering and symbols should be clearly defined either in the caption or in a
legend provided as part of the figure. Figures should be placed at the top or
bottom of a column wherever possible, as close as possible to the first
reference to them in the article. The figure number and caption should be typed
below the illustration, left justified, with subsequent lines indented.
Equations: All equations should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1, 2 ...n).
Style and References
Please adhere to APA 6 (American Psychological Association) style in your
article. Guidelines on how to do so can be accessed from the following link:
Submission checklist
The following list will be useful during the final checking of your article,
prior to sending it to the journal for review. Please consult this Guide for
Authors for further details of any item.
Ensure that the following items are present:
A letter to the editor, specifying that the submission reflects original work
that is not under
review elsewhere and how the submission fits the
journal’s scope and offers new knowledge. The
letter should also include information regarding which
one author has been designated as the
corresponding
author. Contact details for this author must be provided, including:
• Affiliation (department/school; faculty; university; country)
•Official E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
All necessary files have been uploaded, and contain:
• Title page (The full title of the manuscript, the name(s) of the author(s)
together with
their affiliations, and the name, address, and e-mail address of the author to
whom
correspondence should be sent, as well as date of submission/resubmission.)
• Abstract and keywords
• Main document
• All figure captions
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
• Manuscript has been professionally language edited
• References are in the correct format (i.e., APA 6) for this journal
• All references mentioned in the reference list are cited in the text, and
vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other
sources (including the Web)
Authors who publish with this journal
agree to the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with
the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution License that allows others to share the
work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication
in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate,
additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of
the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an
institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement
of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post
their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their
website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to
productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published
work (See The Effect of
Open Access).
- IJQE will not be responsible for further action on the Plagiarism issue. The author will be solely responsible for the content of their work and for the plagiarism issue
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