Scope

The articles that appear in European Education demonstrate innovative approaches to and perspectives on the latest educational issues and studies across Europe. Submissions may range from research reports and policy papers to essays on pedagogical theory and practice. We encourage contributors to submit original articles as well as translated articles that have not been previously published in English.

Each issue of European Education explores in depth a specific theme.  Manuscripts prepared for submission are expected to address important aspects of theme to which the issue of the journal is devoted

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

General guidelines

It is the policy of European Education that manuscripts submitted for review must not have been published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Exceptions are made for translated manuscripts that have appeared in foreign language journals but have not been published in English.

All submitted papers must 1) be written in English, 2) include an abstract (limited to 160 words), 3)  not exceed 20 double-spaced pages in length (notes and references not included).

Author information

Please provide the following information on a cover sheet: name of author, title, academic/professional affiliations, mail and e-mail addresses, and telephone number (and fax if available). Please also include a brief biographical statement, limited to 100 words, which includes the following:  area of specialization, research interests, and the titles and dates of seminal publications.

Formatting

Use as little text formatting as possible. Manuscripts should following these basic conventions:

• 12 pt. Times New Roman font for all text

• double-spaced lines

• 1 space after punctuation

• 1-inch/2.5-centimeter page margins

• left aligned paragraphs only (no justified paragraphs)

Do not use automatically generated numbered, lettered, or bulleted lists. Instead, enter number, letter, or symbol and follow with [tab].

Do not switch between different font types or sizes in the manuscript.

Italicizing words or phrases for emphasis should be used very infrequently.

Headings should follow these conventions:

First-level heading (bold face) (cap only the first word)

Second-level heading (bold and italics) (cap only the first word)

Third-level heading (italics) (cap only the first word)

If you refer to email addresses or websites in the body of your text, please disable the hyperlink feature.

Terminology

Due to the internationally diverse and cross-disciplinary readership of European Education, authors are strongly advised to explain terminology not widely recognized and understood outside their particular area of professional or academic specialization as well as their cultural and national context.

Terminology may be defined as acronyms, foreign language terms, theoretical concepts, cultural references, technical language, etc.

Figures and tables

All figures, tables, charts or other graphics should be e-mailed as separate files. They should not be contained in the text of the manuscript. They should be black and white or gray-scale--not color-- and in an MS compatible (i.e., Excel preferred) or standard graphical format (i.e., JPEG, TIFF, BMP, etc.) identified in the e-mail message that accompanies them. Please send all files together with manuscript. All figures and tables must be specifically referred to in the text and should have brief, descriptive captions.

Manuscript style (all examples in blue)

All paragraphs should be indented.

Quotations should be properly attributed to their respective authors. For example: "between the external directives to institutions that shape the social space and the individual's capacity to choose; to be self-determining" (Broadfoot 2002, p. 5).

Quotations of less than 8 lines of text should be enclosed in double quotation marks. Only use single quotation marks to indicate a quotation inside a quotation.

Quotations of 8 lines or more should be offset from left margin without quotation marks. For example:

School autonomy is a philosophy that claims the independence of individual institutions as the ultimate guarantee of teachers' liberty. "Independence" can be defined in various ways such as in financial, content, and administrative terms. Two questions tend to arise as a result: independence from whom? and independent for what? The former question is concerned with the system from which the institution claims its independence (a local, national, or private system). The latter question pertains to the share of power inside the organization (how is teachers' freedom guaranteed in an autonomous school). (Kozma 1995, p. 34)

All notes should be placed at the end of the main body of text. Do not use footnotes. Do not use the automatic note generator feature in your word processor. Notes should be indicated by a superscript number in the text, and the note text should be placed as regular running text (12 pt. font) at the end of the manuscript or as a separate document. For proper format of notes, see section below.

The reference list should be provided at the end of the paper. The references should be arranged alphabetically according to the name of the first author or editor. All non-English reference titles should be accompanied by English translations in parentheses.

References should be formatted as follows:

References to articles in periodicals:

These should take the form: author(s), title, journal (italicized) volume and issue numbers, date, inclusive pages. For all authors, last names are given first; likewise for editors, with the names followed by “ed.” (With notes, the first name is given first.) The name of the last author ends with a period. More than two authors are separated by semicolons. The date is given in parentheses. For example:

Notes

17. T.H. Davenport and M.C. Beers, “Managing Information About Processes," Journal of Management Information Systems, vol. 12, no. 1 (summer 1995), pp. 57–80.

18. John Smith, “Why Economics?” New York Times, 1 April 1999, p. 25.

References

Davenport, T.H., and Beers, M.C. “Managing Information About Processes." Journal of Management Information Systems, vol. 12, no. 1 (summer 1995), pp. 57–80.

Smith, John. “Why Economics?” New York Times, 1 April 1999, p. 25.

References to books:

Author(s) are specified in the same style as for periodicals. In the title, all principal words are capitalized and the title is italicized. The title ends with a period and is followed by city, “:”, publisher, year. Example:

Notes

19. J. Nonaka, The Knowledge-Creating Company (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 65.

References

Nonaka, J., and Takeuchi, H. The Knowledge-Creating Company. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Beck, W.; van der Maesen, L.; and Walker, A.; ed. The Social Quality of Europe. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997. (If more than two authors, separate them with semi-colons)

Chapter in a book:

Tjeldvoll, A. "Quality of Equality? Scandinavian Education Toward the Year 2000, Past and Future." In W. Cummings and N. McGinn, ed., Handbook of Development of Education, Past and Future. Buffalo: State University of New York, 1996.

References to papers/presentations:

Zajda, J. "The Politics of Educational Reforms in Russia." Paper represented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, San Antonio, Texas, 11 March 2000.

References to reports:

Tjeldvoll, A., and Holmesland, I.S., ed. Globalization and Education: Essays on Quality of Equality. Report no. 10. Institute of Educational Research, University of Oslo, 1997.

OECD. Education at a Glance. Report. Paris: OECD, 1998.

United Nations. The UN Declaration of Human Rights of 10 December 1948. New York: United Nations, 1948.

References to web documents:

Due to the impermanent nature of web-based documents, citing and referencing online sources is discouraged and should be kept to a minimum. Manuscripts with excessive web references may be rejected unless it is clear that the materials cited can only be obtained through the internet. Online copies of print documents (e.g., a PDF-formatted copy of an article from a published journal) should be cited and referenced as as a traditional print document, not as a web-based document.

*Please note, authors are responsible for verifying all URLs contained in manuscripts.

Ministry of Education and Sport, Poland (MENiS). Strategy For Development of Continuous Education until the Year 2010. 2004. (www.men.waw.pl/menis_en/education), accessed 25 July 2004.

UNESCO. Right to Education: Implementation and Challenging Tasks. 27 May 2003. (http://portal.unesco.org/education), accessed 25 Jan. 2004.

Foreign language references:

Titles in all foreign language references should include in English translation immediately following the original title. For example:

Váňa, J. “O metodologických problémech v rozvoji pedagogické teorie” [Methodological Problems in Development of Educational Theory]. Pedagogika, 1962, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 272–319.

For any questions regarding the conventions above, please consult the editors at the addresses at the top.