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Author Guidelines

The Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology publishes articles devoted to original research in the area of educational technology. Submission are not being accepted at this time.

Format

Note: to see an example of how a manuscript should be formatted, please look at any articles in the most recent issue of RCETJ.

Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word only, single-spaced and using a 10 point Arial font. Use 1" margins all the way around. Paragraphs should be left-aligned (i.e. don't indent the first sentence) with one blank line in between paragraphs.

Include a one or two-sentence summary of your article that will be used as a link.

Abstracts of 100-150 words are required to introduce each article.

The body of the manuscript should use the following levels of headers (left-aligned):

Main header

text text text text text text text text text text text text

Subheader Level 1
text text text text text text text text text text text text

Subheader level 2.
text text text text text text text text text text text text

References are to be submitted in APA style (6th Edition). 

Multimedia

The editors strongly encourage authors to submit articles that are accompanied by multimedia evidence that is germane to its content. Manuscripts should clearly indicate where multimedia files should be placed in the text. Multimedia files should contain brief examples or explanatory artifacts that provide information not given textually. They may include, but are not limited to, tables and figures, hyperlinks, images, video, audio, and animation.

Tables and figures should be used when they can present information more effectively than in running text and should be submitted in their intended size. Use an Arial font. Care should be taken to insure that tables can be effectively presented in html, since articles will be published in both html and pdf formats. Titles should be at the top of each table and at the bottom of each figure in the following format:

Table 1: Title of the Table.

Tables can be embedded in the manuscript but also need to be submitted as GIF or JPEG files.

Figures should be numbered in series and legends should be included. Symbols (open or closed circles, triangles, squares) and lettering must be clear when rendered in GIF or JPEG format. Please review all figures after converting to GIF or JPEG format to insure that they are readable. If the author wishes to use color figure, (s)he may do so since this is an online journal and no additional costs are incurred for color.

Original line drawings should be submitted as GIF or JPEG files. Please review all drawings after converting to GIF or JPEG format to insure that they are readable.

Hyperlinks can be embedded in the manuscript. Authors should ensure that hyperlinks work and link to the correct information. If they do not, they will be removed before publication.

Images can be accommodated as GIF or JPEG files; authors should carefully crop images prior to saving as files, and try to keep file sizes at a minimum without sacrificing quality.

Video can be sent as WMV, MOV, or MP4. Authors should make sure that the video has been edited so that its content is relevant to the article. Authors should preview their final video files before submission to ensure that audio and video are of publishable quality. Large video files can be accommodated and will be streamed, but remember that the larger the video file, the longer the download time.

Audio: can be submitted as WAV, or MP3. The same guidelines apply as for video files.

Animations: can be submitted as animated GIFs, Flash files, or video files. The same guidelines apply as for video files.

Copyrighted Material

Authors who want to make use of work already published are required by copyright law to ask the owner of the copyright (usually the publisher) for permission to do so. Please be careful to assign proper credit; for example, in the legend of a figure "...from (reference); reproduced by permission of...." If any verbatim quotations of text amount to more than a few words, the same procedure should be followed. If authors use material from their own published work, permission must be obtained from the publisher. If an article is accepted for publication the author must provide the copyright permissions in writing for already published material. If the author receives permissions faxed from the permission grantor, (s)he may fax or mail these permissions to us.

RCETJ believes authors must secure permissions from information that is on the Web. Although copyright law is not completely clear on this point, for RCETJ the author must secure permission for anything that is reprinted, unless it is explicitly stated that the information may be republished/shared under the Creative Commons License.

 

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 file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided. URLs have all been checked and are functional.
  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 10-point Arial font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. All illustrations, images, videos, sound files are submitted as supplementary files with the manuscript. These files adhere to the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  7. The instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

Articles in RCETJ are published and freely available under the Creative Commons License (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives). This means that you are free to to download articles and share them with others as long as you mention RCETJ and link back to the journal, but you can’t change the articles in any way or use them commercially. The only exception to this is term b. below, which only applies to authors.

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 their 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, and as long as the version published is sufficiently different from the verions published in RCETJ to be considered a new work. The RCETJ editor should be notified of such arrangements.

  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). Once a manucript is published in this journal, authors may repost their publication online with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  4. The author retains the right to present the work at a meeting or conference and to hand copies of the work to the attendees.

 

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