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Author Guidelines

Article types | Manuscript Preparation | Structure | Permissions 

Submissions should be made electronically through this website. Authors who have questions for the Editor prior to submission can send an Email to jte@iteea.org. Once a manuscript has been submitted through this website, the author can track the submission and communicate with the editors via the online journal management system. Manuscripts that appear in the Articles section have been subjected to a blind peer review by three or more members of the Editorial Board or alternative reviewers. This process generally takes two to three months, at which time authors are notified of the status of their manuscript. Position papers and reviews are subject only to editorial review.

Please ensure that the following guidelines are addressed when preparing a manuscript. Failure to do so may delay processing the submission or result in a rejection prior to peer review.

Manuscript Preparation

1. Please ensure the manuscript fits the “Scope of JTE.”
2. All JTE submissions should be in English and submitted as Microsoft Word or rich text file ocuments.
3. All submissions are to be made through the website: jte-journal.org
4. All manuscripts must be double-spaced and must adhere to the guidelines published in Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (most recent edition). Tables and figures, however, should be imbedded within the text itself rather than at the end of the document.
5. Figures and tables should be optimized for portrayal on a 4.5” x 6.75” black and white page. All figures and tables must fit and be legible within these size requirements without sacrificing legibility. Tables, line drawings, and graphs must be editable within Microsoft products and in vector rather than raster format when possible. Shading should not be used as a background for illustrations or graphs and within bar graphs; if needed, fill patterns consisting of lines should be used.

Article types

• Research articles describe the outcomes and application of unpublished original research. These should make a substantial contribution to knowledge and understanding in the subject matter and should be supported by relevant figures, tabulated data, and statistical analysis with connections to the literature. Manuscripts should generally be 15-20 pages (22,000-36,000 characters in length, with 40,000 characters including spaces an absolute maximum for the entire document). Research manuscripts are subject to double-blind peer review.
• Position Papers include guest editorials, reactions to articles, and other relevant scholarly discourse in the field of Technology and Engineering Education. These should generally be four to eight manuscript pages (approx. 6,000-12,000 characters). Position manuscripts may be subject to editorial or blind peer review.
• Reviews summarize and present an unbiased assessment of timely works (generally within the last 3 years), which may include books and other media. The review (approx. 6,000-12,000 characters) should be relevant to teachers and teacher educators of Technology and Engineering Education or, more generally, STEM education. Manuscripts are subject to editorial review.

All word limits include the abstract, tables, citations, referencing, and any appendix that is to be printed with the article.

Structure

Title page
The title page should list the manuscript title, abstract, and keywords only. To ensure blind peer review, please do not list the authors’ names or affiliated institutions within the manuscript.

However, the names of all authors, affiliations, contact details, biography (optional) and the corresponding author details must be completed online as part of the submission process. All authors must fit within the journal's definition of an author, available here.

Author names should include a forename and a surname. Forenames cannot include only initials.

• J. Bloggs is not preferred. The full name, Joe Bloggs is required (this will enhance the 'findability' of your publication).

The affiliation should ideally include ‘Department, Institution, City, Country’. However only the Institution and Country are mandatory.

Abstract and keywords
Research articles must have the main text prefaced by an abstract of no more than 250 words summarizing the main arguments and conclusions of the article. This must have the heading ‘Abstract’ and be easily identified from the start of the main text. A list of four to six key terms (i.e., keywords) should be placed below the abstract. The abstract and keywords should also be added to the metadata when making the initial online submission.

Main text
The body of the submission should be structured in a logical and easy to follow manner. A clear introduction section should be given that allows non-specialists in the subject an understanding of the publication and a background of the issue(s) involved. Methods, results, discussion, and conclusion sections may then follow to clearly detail the information and research presented. Headings and subheadings should be used to organize the text, following the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

Acknowledgements (optional)
Any acknowledgements must be headed and in a separate paragraph, placed after the main text but before the reference list.

Funding Information (if applicable)
Should the research have received a funding grant then the grant provider and grant number should be detailed. 

Ethics and consent (if applicable)
Research involving human subjects, human material, or human data, must have been performed in accordance with the principles of the Belmont Report which was written by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Where applicable, studies must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee and the authors should include a statement within the article text detailing this approval. Experiments using animals must follow national standards of care. For further information, click here.

References
All in-text citations should have full references listed at the end of the main text file conforming to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (current edition).

Appendices (if applicable)
When appropriate, additional information can be included in an appendix. An appendix that is printed with the article would count toward the character-count of the article.

Additional information to be provided that is not included in character-count:

Competing interests(if applicable)
If any of the authors has any competing interests then these must be declared. A short paragraph should be placed before the references. Guidelines for competing interests can be found here. If there are no competing interests to declare then the following statement should be present: The author(s) has/have no competing interests to declare.

Reviewer conflicts(if applicable)
Manuscripts will not be sent for blind review to an individual who works at the same institution as any of the authors. However, there may be instances where an author knows of some other conflict in having a particular JTE reviewer serve as a reviewer of the manuscript. If so, please identify the reviewer and that conflict.

Data Accessibility
Authors are encouraged to submit research manuscripts that would be sufficient without the need for the reader to locate research data stored elsewhere. However, if data, structured methods or code used in the research project have been made openly available, a statement should be added to inform the reader how/where to access these files. This should include the repository location and the DOI link. Read our reproducibility guide for more information on best practice and maximizing the impact of your open data.

If it is not possible to use a repository then the journal can host supplementary files. Such files must be listed in the Data Accessibility section, with a corresponding number, title and optional description. The supplementary files would also cited in the main text.

e.g. Supplementary file 1: Appendix. Scientific data related to the experiments.

Information identified as “supplementary files” will not be typeset so they must be provided in their final form and must be submitted for review during the original submission process. They will be assigned a DOI and linked to from the publication by the publisher.

NOTE: If data used in the research project has not been made available, a statement confirming this should be added, along with reasoning why.

The journal's data policy is available on the Editorial Policies page.

Permissions

The author is responsible for obtaining all permissions required prior to submission of the manuscript. Permission and owner details should be mentioned for all third-party content included in the submission or used in the research.

If a method or tool is introduced in the study, including software, questionnaires, and scales, the license under which this is available and any requirement for permission for use should be stated. If an existing method or tool is used in the research, it is the author's responsibility to check the license and obtain the necessary permissions. Statements confirming that permission was granted should be included in the Materials and Methods section.

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. Research has been approved by an appropriate ethics committee, with the name of the committee and reference number of approval included within the submitted file. Otherwise, a statement that ethics approval was not required has been added to the file.
2. All patients included within case reports or other article types in which an individual or a group of individuals can be identified have signed informed consent forms, or had had their legal guardian do so, giving permission to publish the submitted content under a CC-BY licence.
3. The corresponding author is submitting an ORCID identifier in their author data and co-authors have been recommended to also provide an ORCID, as per the journal policy.
4. The manuscript fits the scope of JTE.
5. The submission has not been previously published, in part or in whole, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
6. All third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission has been obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal. Authors acknowledge their responsibility to gain all permissions prior to submission.
7. All authors qualify as authors, as defined in the authorship guidelines, and have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper.
8. Authors’ names and affiliations have been temporarily removed from the manuscript to facilitate peer review. As per APA guidelines, relevant entries from the reference list have been temporarily replaced by “(citation omitted.)” The author’s name does not appear in hidden metadata within the document submitted, such as in the Author field in Microsoft Word documents under File, Info, Related People.
9. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. Every effort has been made to ensure that the submission is ready for peer review according to the journal's review policy (following the instructions to ensure blind peer review).

10. Tables and figures

    • Are referred to in the text and located in the body of the manuscript
    • Are formatted according to the APA Publication Manual
    • Are optimized to fit on a 4.5” x 6.75” page and black-and-white printing
    • Do not include shading for graphs, but may include line patterns as fill
    • Are editable using Microsoft products
11. Separate files are submitted for each figure using jpg, tiff, gif, or png formats and a resolution of at least 300 dpi (600 dpi preferred).

12. References

    • Every reference cited in the text appears in the list of references, except those whose full reference listing appears in the note of a figure 
    • All references listed in the list of references have been cited in the text 
    • All reference listings follow the format specified in the APA Publication Manual 
    • The accuracy of each reference listing and any URL it contains has been checked
13. Continuous line numbers are turned on. In Microsoft Word, this is done using Layout, Line Numbers, Continuous.
14. Tables and figures are all cited in the main text and inserted within the text document. Tables and figures are optimized for portrayal on a 4.5” x 6.75” black and white page. Tables must be editable within Microsoft products.
15. Fill patterns rather than shading was used in figures and tables to facilitate printing.
16. High-resolution files for each figure are uploaded as supplementary files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi (600 dpi or above preferred) in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, or PNG.
17. Figures and tables should be optimized for portrayal on a 4.5” x 6.75” black and white page. All figures and tables must fit and be legible within these size requirements without sacrificing legibility. Tables, line drawings, and graphs must be editable within Microsoft products and in vector rather than raster format when possible. Shading should not be used as a background for illustrations or graphs and within bar graphs; if needed, fill patterns consisting of lines should be used.
18. If human subjects or animal research was conducted, a statement that the research has been approved by an appropriate review committee, with the name of the committee included within the submitted file. Otherwise, a statement that ethics approval was not required has been added to the file.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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