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Prepare your manuscript for International Journal of Social Pedagogy.

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Article types

Research Article
Review
Perspective
Letter

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Include or confirm the abstract length required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Keywords

  • Include or confirm the keywords required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Word length Manuscripts must be submitted in English and should not exceed 8,000 words 9excluding references.
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  • Review: Authors should submit an anonymous version of the manuscript, stripped of all identifying references to the author(s) for peer review.
  • A full references list should contain all the sources cited in the text.
  • Persistent identifiers (such as DOIs and accession numbers) for relevant data must be provided in the manuscript as a citation/reference.
  • The list of references should contain only those works cited in the text and should not be subdivided.
  • Each entry on the list of references must correspond to at least one citation in the text.
  • In the list of references: Give the names (surname and initials) for all authors – do not use et al.
  • Review: Authors should submit their manuscript as: An anonymous PDF version of the manuscript, stripped of all identifying references to the author(s) for peer review (anonymisation includes references to authors, acknowledgements, self-references, and any electronic author identification., etc.) Manuscripts may be returned before peer review if manuscripts are not sufficiently anonymised.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Figures, tables, file size and formatting No single file should exceed 20Mb.
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  • Where the manuscript includes Tables and Figures, the word total should be commensurately reduced to allow space for them.
  • Figures such as graphs and charts should also be submitted as separate files during submission as an Excel file with the original data (if they were created in Excel).
  • Please provide a caption to label and explain each figure.
  • Please include your alt text as an additional sentence/paragraph, below each figure caption and clearly labelled.
  • For all articles involving human subjects, including any images, videos, and any other personal and identifiable information, authors must have secured informed consent to participate in the study and to publication before submitting to the journal, and a statement declaring this must be included in the article.
  • Alt text As part of our commitment to accessibility, we require authors to provide alternative text – ‘alt text’ – for all figures, graphs, and images, in their article (alongside captions).

Funding statement

  • All sources of funding for the research reported should be declared, including any project codes.

Competing interests

  • Add or confirm the author-written Competing interests statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Where there are no conflicts of interests or competing interests, authors must clearly declare this under the same heading.
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  • Clearly declare any possible conflicts of interest, including but not limited to financial and non-financial competing interests.

Data availability statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Data availability statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Authors are required to confirm the data availability statement to indicate how fellow researchers can access their software and data and link to data sets in repositories.

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Review: Authors are required to show in their articles that they have received ethical approval for their research from all relevant institutional review boards and that they have followed appropriate personal data protection regulations (e.g. EU General Data Protection Regulation and the UK Data Protection Act 2018) in the handling of personal data.
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  • Research Article: Research articles Authors submitting research papers are required to follow best ethical practice for research as outlined in the British Educational Research Association, available online at https://www.bera.ac.uk/publication/ethical-guidelines-for-educational-research-2018, or similar professional body (please indicate this clearly in your submission).
  • Review: Authors are required to show in their manuscripts that they have received ethical approval for their research from all relevant institutional review boards and that they have followed General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in the handling of personal data.
  • In circumstances where ethical and legal issues dictate any restrictions on sharing data (including research using personal data), a statement to this effect must be included for clarity.
  • In circumstances where ethical and legal issues dictate any restrictions on sharing data (including research using personal data) should always be considered before doing so, when storing and preserving research data.
  • Research Article: The following ethics requirements are primarily for Research articles (that primarily report empirical research) and Practice papers (that report practice based evidence and learning) being submitted to the journal, however, the general principles of the ethical requirements outlined here should be applied across all manuscripts being submitted to the journal.
  • Where such committees do not operate, authors are responsible for providing evidence of their adherence to relevant ethical guidelines for the subject.
  • Where such committees do not operate, authors are responsible for providing evidence of their adherence to relevant ethical guidelines in the submission for the Editors attention (please indicate this clearly in your manuscript).

Blinded manuscript

  • Authors should submit their manuscript as: The complete manuscript not blinded, as a word file (.doc/.docx, etc.) and.

Supplementary files

  • Letter: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Review: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
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  • Perspective: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Research Article: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Embed or attach the author-supplied supplementary material so Articlo can extract and label it for the package.
  • Data or information should not be submitted as supplementary information alongside the manuscript, but instead be included in the manuscript or deposited into a publicly available repository, depending on the type of data or information concerned.

Title page and author information

  • Provide the author, affiliation, and correspondence details for the separate title page; Articlo creates the editable companion file.
  • The title page must be a single page and attached a the manuscripts first page and include all of the information below, in the same order.
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  • No further information should be included: Full name(s) of contributing authors including their institutions/affiliation and address, and their institutional email address (including ORCiD ID’s - see below note on ORCiD).
  • No further information should be included: The corresponding author(s) should be clearly identified and include their contact email address (normally this will be your university email address).

Preprints and prior publication

  • Review: Formatting Revisions Should your manuscript be requested for revision to raise the acceptability for publication in the journal, please ensure that you follow below points when revising your manuscript and responding to peer review comments.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Broadly, the use of AI-assisted technologies and tools should not replace key authoring tasks and applying AI technology should be done with transparency and human oversight.

Other submission requirements

  • All manuscript text should be Times New Roman 12-point font and be double spaced.
  • Use unspaced en dashes not hyphens for ranges of pages or dates, e.g.11–12, 22–9.
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  • Elide numbers to minimum digits, e.g. 233-4; dates, e.g. 1993-4.
  • The file size should not exceed 200Mb.
  • A statement to this effect should be included in the paper, as above.
  • All the work should be reviewed and edited carefully, because AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or biased.
  • These should explicitly draw on social pedagogical theories and principles to show the theory-practice connection.
  • Book reviews are generally invited only, however, suggestions are welcome and should be sent to the Editors of the journal.
  • No further information should be included: Title of the manuscript.
  • All articles must list a maximum of up to ten key words.
  • The body of the submission should be structured in a logical and easy to follow manner.
  • All notes should be used only where crucial clarifying information needs to be conveyed.
  • Should you require submitting a file exceeding this size, please contact the journal editorial office for further advice.
  • Authors must clearly state in their manuscript where their data are made available at time of submission.
  • Systems should consistently follow British conventions (except in quotations from other sources, where the punctuation convention of the original should be retained).
  • Punctuation should follow closing inverted commas (except for grammatically complete sentences beginning with a capital).
  • Use a hyphen when two words form a compound adjective: middle-class families.
  • Hyphenation must be used consistently throughout your text.
  • We do not use the Oxford comma – commas should be omitted before the final ‘and’ or ‘or’.
  • Spaced en dashes – not em dashes or hyphens – should be used.
  • Colons should primarily be used to introduce block quotations or lists.
  • Keep capitalisation to a minimum and use only for proper nouns and formal names of organisations, etc.
  • Centuries should be written as words not numbers, e.g. eighteenth century.
  • Quotations should remain exactly as they are in the original.
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  • Submit to the journal.
  • These articles are normally by invitation only, however, unsolicited articles are welcome and prospective authors should firstly contact the Editors with their contribution before formal submission.
  • Review: A book review might assess the importance of a book's contribution to a particular field covered by the journal’s aims and scope and should aim to objectively review the strengths and weaknesses that concern the journal’s audience.
  • Letter: Please provide your timely revisions along with a response letter to any reviewer reports, within the specified revision period to the Editor as instructed in your revision request email.
  • Data include but are not limited to: laboratory notebooks; field notebooks; primary research data (including research data in hardcopy or in computer readable form); questionnaires; audiotapes; videotapes; models; photographs; films; test responses.
  • A semicolon should be used to separate items in a complicated list (i.e. if the items in the list have internal commas or very long descriptions), or to separate two related but grammatically independent clauses.
  • Alt text describes the content of an image for those who cannot see it.
  • Letter: British style contractions will have no full points (e.g. Mr, St, edn), though abbreviated words, which do not end with their final letter, will (e.g. vol., vols., ed., eds.).

Authorship and originality

  • All authors submitting to the journal must read and accept the UCL Press Journals Editorial Policy and consent to the Journal Contributor Agreement.
  • Authors are required to include an authorship statement in their article to outline how each author contributed to the article, after any acknowledgements in the article.

Manuscript structure

  • A clear introduction section should provide non-specialists in the subject with an understanding of the topic and a background to the issue(s) involved.
  • Use endnotes, not footnotes, for any additional notes and information.
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  • Do not elide in titles and headings.

Language and text style

  • Up to three level headings may be present and must be clearly identifiable using different font sizes, bold or italics.
  • Review: In order to facilitate rigorous and high quality peer-review, all manuscripts should be submitted to a high and coherent level of English language.
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  • Should you require help when writing your manuscript, a native English language colleague may be well suited to help edit the level of English language in the manuscript.
  • Punctuation should precede closing quotation marks (except for dashes, colons and semicolons, unless these are part of the quoted matter).
  • If you need to use them please write in full at the first appearance with the abbreviation in brackets.
  • If quoting from a non-English source, the quotation should usually be in the original language.
  • Quotations should be indicated by single quotation marks but use double quotation marks for quotations within quotations.
  • Authors should consistently adopt British spelling conventions (except in quotations from other sources, where the spelling convention of the original should be retained, or where stipulated specifically in by the journal – for example World Health Organization).
  • The translation should usually appear in the text in parentheses immediately following the quotation but can be given in a numbered note if preferred.

Article type and manuscript length

  • In the main text: Do not use the ampersand – write ‘and’ in full, e.g. (Smith and Jones, 1990).
  • Figures should be included within the main text file in sequential order and should be set in the document as a.png file.
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  • Tables: should be included within the main text file.
  • In the main text: References should be after the closing quotation mark of a quotation but before the full stop in a sentence.
  • Use semicolons sparingly in the main text.
  • Very large figures and tables Where figures and data sets/tables are very large and cannot be included in the main text file as above (e.g. are larger than a single page) authors are encouraged to deposit the figure/data set/table in its original file format to a relevant data repository to assign it a DOI that can then be cited in the main text article.
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What your package checks

Paper: 8,000 words
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Data availability, Competing interests, Ethics, Acknowledgements
Format: 12 pt, Times New Roman, double spacing

Source transparency

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