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Author Guidelines

How to submit a manuscript

  • An English abstract should be submitted first
  • Accepted abstracts will be assigned to a thematic area
  • Authors will be requested to send their manuscript (in English)
  • The manuscript will be sent out to two anonymous referees
  • Accepted manuscripts will be formatted by the author according to the international editorial norms of and sent back to the editorial staff
  • English translations and revision are the author’s.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.

  3. Italian Journal of Sociology of Education

    PAPERS: Instructions for Authors

     

     

    Registration and login are required to submit papers online and to check the status of current submissions. Papers must be 10.000 words maximum, written in English and have to be sent via online submission http://www.ijse.eu/index.php/ijse/login In case you do not manage to submit your paper online, you can send it to barbara.segatto@unipd.it

    The first page of each paper should contain title, authors, institution and a short abstract of 100-150 words with a minimum of 4 key-words. Authors' names and institutions should be typed ONLY on the first page of the paper. The full postal and email address of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence should also be included only in the first page. To allow review, all submissions must be properly formatted for anonymous review process (see also instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review). The paper will be then sent out to two anonymous referees.

    The submission file has to be in Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF format.

    English translations and revision are under the author's responsibility.

    Papers submitted should be original, not under review by any other publication and not published elsewhere.

     

    If the paper is accepted,  it will have to be formatted by the author according to the editorial norms and sent back to the editorial staff.

    Editorial norms, as listed below, are divided into three points:

    1 Style guidelines;

    2 APA Style: BASIC RULES FOR CITING SOURCES;

    3 WORD TEMPLATE for Papers.

    Articles failing to conform to the following editorial norms may not be considered for publication.

     

     

    1. Style guidelines: Description of the Journal's article style

    Title

    times new roman 18, bold

    Author(s) name

    times new roman 12, italics

     

    Full name of authors (First name and Family name)

    Affiliation

    times new roman, 10, italics

     

    If there are 2 or more authors, write:  aFirst author's Department, University, City, Country; bSecond Author's Department, University, City, Country)

    Abstract

    times new roman 10

    Headings of Paragraphs (level one)

    times new roman 11, bold

    Text

    times new roman 11. The text is single-spaced; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses);

    Text in Tables

    times new roman 8.

     

    All illustrations, figures, images and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. It is strongly recommended to send also a separate file (ex: in Excel) with figures and data necessary to create each figure (send to: barbara.segatto@unipd.it)

    Footnotes

    times new roman 9

    Quotations (40 words or more)

    times new roman 9

    Correspondence details

    times new roman 9

    Short biographical notes on all contributors and acknowledgements

    times new roman 9

    Reference list

    times new roman 9

     

    Privacy Statement

    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.

     

     

    2. BASIC RULES FOR CITING SOURCES

     

    For a book  article

    Last name, Initial of First name (year of publication). Book title. City of publication: Name of the publisher.

     

    For a journal article, you need the following elements:

    Last name, Initial of First name (year of publication). Title of article. Title of journal, volume number (issue number), Page numbers.

     

    More details in the table below.

     

    Note: this table offers only an introduction to the APA (American Psychological Association) referencing system. For a comprehensive guide please refer to: American Psychological Association. (2009). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington DC: APA (or see www.apastyle.org)

     

    SOURCE TYPE

    In-Text Example

    Reference List Example

    BOOK

    Single author

    The theory was first propounded in 1993 (Comfort, 1997, p. 58) OR Comfort (1997, p. 58) claimed that...

    Comfort, A. (1997). A good age. London: Mitchell Beazley.

    2 authors

    Saddy and Hogan (1997, p.17)....OR

    "... to stop war " (Saddy & Hogan, 1997, p. 45).

    Saddy, R. S., & Hogan, T. (1997). The definition of disability in Australia: Moving towards national consistency. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

    CHAPTER IN  AN EDITED BOOK

    As discussed by Blaxter (1976)...

    Blaxter, M. (1976). Social class and health inequalities. In C. Carter & J. E. Peel (Eds.), Equalities and inequalities inhealth (pp. 120-135). London: Academic Press.

    JOURNAL ARTICLES

    JOURNAL

    As mentioned by Wharton (1996)...OR "...in China too" (Wharton, 1996, p. 8).

    Wharton, N. (1996). Health and safety in outdoor activitycentres. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 12(4), 8-9.

    ELECTRONIC SOURCES (with DOI or URL)

    As mentioned by Colombo (2009)...

    Colombo, M. (2009). Coping with Ambivalence: Unanticipated Outcomes as Challenges for Experienced Teachers. Italian Journal of Sociology Of Education, 3, Retrieved November 3, 2009, from http://www.ijse.eu/index.php/ijse/article/viewFile/36/44

     

    If DOI  not available, please use URL. Do not put a period at the end of the DOI nor of the URL

    CONFERENCE PROCEEDING

    (Cutler, Frolich, & Hanrahan, 1997) 

    OR As discussed by Cutler, Frolich and Hanrahan (1997)

    Cutler, L. D., Frolich, B., & Hanrahan, P. (1997, January 16). Two-handed direct manipulation on the responsive workbench. Paper presented at the 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Stanford, CA. Retrieved June 12, 2000, from ProQuest 5000 database.

    Web page

    "It's essential you learn how to reference"

    (Dawson, Smith, Deubert & Grey-Smith,

    2002).

    Dawson, J., Smith, L., Deubert, K., & Grey-Smith, S. (2002). ‘S'Trek 6: Referencing, not plagiarism. Retrieved October 31, 2002, from http://studytrekk.lis.curtin.edu.au/

    ELECTRONIC BOOK

    (Schiraldi, 2009) OR

    As Schiraldi (2009) states...

    Schiraldi, G. R. (2001). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook [Adobe Digital Edition version]. doi:10.1036/10071393722

     

    If DOI  not available, please use URL. Do not put a period at the end of the DOI nor of the URL

     

    3. WORD TEMPLATE for Papers

     

     

     

    Type or paste your article title here (times new roman, 18, bold)

     

    Author names* (times new roman, 12, italics)

     

    Department, University, City, Country (times new roman 10, italics)

     

     

     

    ABSTRACT:

    Write your abstract here. This is your abstract (MAXIMUM 150 WORDS)

    This is your abstract This is your abstract This is your abstract (MAXIMUM 150 WORDS)

    This is your abstract This is your abstract This is your abstract (MAXIMUM 150 WORDS)

    This is your abstract This is your abstract This is your abstract (MAXIMUM 150 WORDS)

    This is your abstract This is your abstract This is your abstract (MAXIMUM 150 WORDS)

     

    Keywords: word; another word; lower case except names (MINIMUM 4 WORDS)

     

     

    Type or paste your article title here (times new roman, 18, bold)

     

    Heading 1. Use this for level one headings in your article.

     

     

     

     

    First paragraph style. Text: write your paper here. Text: write your paper here. Text: write your paper here. Text: write your paper here. Text: write your paper here. Text: write your paper here. Text: write your paper here. Text: write your paper here. Text: write your paper here. Text: write your paper here. Text: write your paper here. Text: write your paper here

     

     

    (1)    For numbered lists

    • For bulleted lists

     

    Equations here (times new roman, 10)

     

    Figure 1. Your title here (times new roman, 10, italics).

     

    Table 1. Your title here (times new roman, 10, italics)

     

     

    Gender

    Have you ever been to Italy?

    Boys

    Girls

    Yes

    41,4%

    40,7%

    No

    58,6%

    59,3%

    Total answers

    100,0%

    100,0%

    Totale case

    546

    494

     

     

    Correspondence details of first author (times new roman, 10)

     

    Acknowledgements (times new roman, 10)

     

     

    Reference (List Example)

     

    Blaxter, M. (1976). Social class and health inequalities. In C. Carter & J. E. Peel (Eds.), Equalities and inequalities inhealth (pp. 120-135). London: Academic Press.

    Colombo, M. (2009). Coping with Ambivalence: Unanticipated Outcomes as Challenges for Experienced Teachers. Italian Journal of Sociology Of Education, 3, Retrieved November 3, 2009, from http://www.ijse.eu/index.php/ijse/article/viewFile/36/44

    Comfort, A. (1997). A good age. London: Mitchell Beazley.

    Cutler, L. D., Frolich, B., & Hanrahan, P. (1997, January 16). Two-handed direct manipulation on the responsive workbench. Paper presented at the 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Stanford, CA. Retrieved June 12, 2000, from ProQuest 5000 database

    Dawson, J., Smith, L., Deubert, K., & Grey-Smith, S. (2002). ‘S'Trek 6: Referencing, not plagiarism. Retrieved October 31, 2002, from http://studytrekk.lis.curtin.edu.au/

    Saddy, R. S., & Hogan, T. (1997). The definition of disability in Australia: Moving towards national consistency. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

    Schiraldi, G. R. (2001). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook [Adobe Digital Edition version]. doi:10.1036/10071393722

    Wharton, N. (1996). Health and safety in outdoor activitycentres. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 12(4), 8-9.

     

 

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