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Research on Textbooks and Educational media:  The Iartem Journal


Article submission to the Journal of Research on Textbooks and Educational media.

Notes for Contributors
The Editors invite submission of papers related to the aim of the Journal of Research on Textbooks and Educational media. Papers will not be considered of they have been published previously or are being considered for publication elsewhere. All papers will be fully referred by two blind reviewers in a blind review process.

Manuscripts
1. Manuscripts should be single spaced, with generous margins all round. An electronic copy should be supplied to the administrator of the eJournal in Word-format.

2. Each article should have at least following items:
- title
- complete communication details of all authors
-- Four - five descriptive keywords
-- main body of paper
-- references

3. Footnotes and endnotes are not accepted, all such information should be included in mail text.

4. The paragraphs should not be indented. There should be one line space between consecutive paragraphs. There should be single space between full stop of previous sentence and first word of next sentence in a paragraph.

5. The keywords (just after the abstract) should be separated by comma, and each keyword phrase should have initial caps (for example, Internet based system, Distance learning).

6. Do not use "underline" to highlight text. Use "italic" instead.

7. Headings. Articles should be subdivided into unnumbered sections, using short, meaningful sub-headings. Please use only two level headings as far as possible. There should be one blank line after each heading and two blank lines before each heading (except when two headings are consecutive, there should be one blank like between them).

8. Tables
Tables should be included in the text at appropriate places and centered horizontally. Captions (maximum 6 to 8 words each) must be provided for every table (below the table) and must be referenced in the text.

9. Figures
Figures should be included in the text at appropriate places and centered horizontally. Captions (maximum 6 - 8 words each) must be provided for every figure (below the figure) and must be referenced in the text. The figures must NOT be larger then 500 pixels in width.

Please provide all figures separately in GIF or JPEG (JPG) formats besides embedding them in the text.

10. For anonymity in the reviewing process, authors' names, affiliations, postal addresses and telephone numbers should appear on a separate email to the attachment containing the article submitted.

11. Articles should be approximately between 6,000 and 10,000 words in length.

12. An abstract
of approximately 150 words should accompany each manuscript.

13. No payment will be made for articles submitted or commissioned for the IARTEM eJournal.

14. Potential authors will be asked to verify authorship before prior to the publication of any article or paper. Authors should be aware that consent must be obtained from IARTEM prior to publication elsewhere of papers published in the IARTEM eJournal.

15. References should be indicated in the manuscript using the Harvard System by giving the authors' name with the year of publication in parentheses. The full names and first names of authors should be included in references. If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a, b etc. should be placed after the year of publication. References should be listed in full at the end of the paper in the following format: All references should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the article under the heading "References".

Sample
Anderson, Bente. (1997) Freedom in Referencing, St. Valentine Press, Chicago.

Bureau of Statistics (2003) Education and Training Indicators, cat. no. 2270, ABS, Canberra

Smith, Gene. (2001) "Internet Resource Referencing", Education Publishing Review, vol. 3, accessed 12 April 2002 <http://www.edpubrev.ml.edu.au/onlikepress/>

Smith, Jann, Hale, Sharon. & Johnson David. (1998) "The Pleasure of Footnotes", The Pedant Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 221-45

Thompson, Dagrun. (1996) "Future Methods of Producing Journals", In Dagrun Thompson & Jason Smith (eds), Tomorrow's Science, Academic Publishing Corporation, Sydney.

Urbane, Illiana. (2002) "Civilization in the Holy Roman Empire", paper presented at the Annual Conference of Medieval Scholars, London, 12.14 Sept.

16. The required data format is Microsoft Word 2000 or earlier.

17. The language of the journal will be English, however, submissions in other languages will be considered by the managing editors.

Proofs

Prior to publication proofs will be sent to the authors of there is sufficient time to do so. They should be corrected and returned to the Managing Editor within three days. Major alterations to the text cannot be accepted.




 
 
 
 
 
March 2, 2005