Journal Details
Professional Development in Education
Instructions for Authors
***Note to Authors: please make sure your contact address information is clearly visible on the outside of all packages you are sending to Editors.***
A copy of the article, giving the full international contact addresses of the authors, should be emailed to the Editor, Ken Jones, at ken.jones@smu.ac.uk Paper copies may be posted to Professor Ken Jones, Editor, Professional Development in Education, Swansea Metropolitan University, Townhill Road, Swansea SA2 0UT, UK but electronic copies are preferred.
Books for review should be sent to:
Professor Kit Field, Dean of the School of Education, University of Wolverhampton, Gorway Rd, Walsall, WS1 3BD
Manuscripts submitted should be original, not under review by any other publication and not published elsewhere.
All pages should be numbered. Footnotes to the text should be avoided. Sponsorship of research reported (e.g. by research councils, government departments and agencies, etc.) should be declared. To allow refereeing, all submissions must be properly formatted for anonymous reviewing. Authors' names and institutions should be typed on a separate sheet and submitted with the manuscript. The full postal and email address of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence and offprints should be included also.
Each paper should be accompanied on separate sheets by an abstract of 100 to 150 words.
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Tables and captions to illustrations. Tables must be typed out on separate sheets and not included as part of the text. The captions to illustrations should be gathered together and also typed out on a separate sheet. Tables and Figures should be numbered consecutively by Arabic numerals. The approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the manuscript. Captions should include keys to any symbols used.
Figures. Please supply one set of artwork in a finished form, suitable for reproduction. Figures will not normally be redrawn by the publisher.
References should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name, with the year of publication in parentheses. If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a, b, c, etc. should be put after the year of publication. The references should be listed in full, including pages, at the end of the paper in the following standard form:
For books: Alexandrou, A., Field, K. and Mitchell, H. (Eds) (2005) The continuing professional development of educators: emerging European issues (Oxford, Symposium)
For articles: Kennedy, A. (2005) Models of continuing professional development (CPD): a framework for analysis, Journal of In-service Education, 31(2), 235-250
For chapters within books: O'Brien, J. (2007) Control or empowerment? The professional learning of Scottish teachers in the post-McCrone era, in: J. Pickering, C. Daly and N. Pachler (Eds) New Designs for Teachers' Professional Learning (London, Bedford Way Papers), pp. 219-241.
For online documents: General Teaching Council for Wales (2007) Professional Development Framework for Teachers in Wales. Available online at: www.gtcw.org.uk/welcome.html (accessed 20 February 2008).
Titles of journals and names of publishers, etc. should not be abbreviated. Acronyms for the names of organisations, examinations, etc. should be preceded by the title in full when first mentioned in the text.
Proofs will be sent to authors by email if there is sufficient time to do so. They should be corrected and returned to the Publisher within seven days. Major alterations to the text cannot be accepted.
Free article access: Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk
Copyright. It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or licence the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to the International Professional Development Association (IPDA). This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.