Submitting a paper to the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Please read these Guidelines with care and attention: failure to follow them may result in your paper being delayed. Note especially the referencing conventions used by the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education and the requirement for gender-, race- and creed-inclusive language.

The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere.

All submissions should be made online at the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education's Manuscript Central site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.

The review process normally takes four months so please do not contact the Editors prior to the completion of this time period.

There are no page charges for publication in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.

Writing your paper

• A typical article will not exceed 35 manuscript pages or 9000 words.
• Please write clearly and concisely, clearly stating and defining objectives and terms. Arguments should be substantiated with well-reasoned supporting evidence.
• For all manuscripts, gender-, race- and creed-inclusive language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
• In writing your paper, you are encouraged to review articles in the area you are addressing that have been previously published in the Journal and, where you feel appropriate, to reference them. This will enhance context, coherence and continuity for our readers.
• Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout including the references section.
• All artwork for figures must be camera-ready.
• An academic biography for each author of no more than 50 words should be included with each submission. Authors should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses. Biographical notes should be contained on a separate page and be located at the beginning of the manuscript-see "Author's biographical note." 
• Abstracts of not more than 150 words are required for all papers submitted and should precede the biographical notes and text of the paper-see "Abstracts."
• Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; biographical note; main text; acknowledgments; appendixes (as appropriate); references; table(s) with heading(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list); artwork.

Word templates

Word templates are available for this journal.
Please open and read the instruction document first, as this will explain how to save and then use the template.

Select the template that is most suitable for your operating system.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/template/TF_Template_Word_Mac_2008_instructions.pdf
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/template/TF_Template_Word_Mac_2008.dot

If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other queries, please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk

1. Tables and figures should be informative, relevant, and visually attractive. The style and spelling of lettering in figures must correspond to the main text of the manuscript. Tables and figures must be referred to in the text and numbered in order of their appearance. Each table and figure should have a stand-alone descriptive title that explains its purpose without reference to the text; each table column should have an appropriate heading.

Tables and figures should be referred to in text as follows: "Figure 1," "Table 1,"  (not "Tab.", "fig." or "Fig.").

2. The ideal place at which a table or figure should be inserted in the printed text should be indicated clearly in the manuscript:

"[Insert table 2 about here ]"

3. Figures and tables must be on separate pages or in separate files and not embedded in the text. Original artwork for figures should be supplied. The scale of figures should allow for reduction to column width (130 mm) or page width (160 mm) or page length (205 mm) if to be placed landscape, but landscape reproduction (i.e. reading from bottom to top of the page) should be avoided. The use of colour in figures or photographs is discouraged and will incur page charges.

Acknowledgments

Any acknowledgement authors wish to make should be included in a separate headed section preceding any appendixes or references. Please do not incorporate acknowledgments into the biographical note or notes.

Book reviews

1. The following header material should appear in all reviews in the following order (note also the punctuation):

Editors:

James Joseph Scheurich and M. Carolyn Clark, Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4226, USA. Email: qse@tamu.edu

Book Review Editors:

Nina Asher, Dept. of Educational Theory, Policy, & Practice and Women's & Gender Studies Program Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. Email: nasher1@lsu.edu

Tara J. Yosso, Associate Professor, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. Email: yosso@chicst.ucsb.edu

Free article access:

Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk