Submission Criteria The initial submission: should be prepared using the downloadable (for Mac or PC) WORD6/95 template document (iejbase.doc), complete with layout styles, images and tables correctly positioned in the text. Please refer to the WORD6/95 model for examples of correct layout. images that are imported or inserted into the text from an external source as figures should be included as separate graphic files (either GIF or JPG format) The editors reserve the right to return poorly edited or improperly formatted manuscripts. Hard-copy only submissions cannot be accepted or returned.

Manuscript Style  The manuscript should: show the article's title, authors' names, affiliation, and email addresses (these will be included on the online page), and postal address and telephone numbers (these will be removed from the final online page) not exceed 5,000 words in length (20,000 for occasional papers) include an abstract of approximately 150 words include 5 keywords describing the article to assist searching be in final form ready for immediate reviewing comply with the document template and modified APA referencing system, both described in detail below

Layout General Principles Papers should be prepared using the template iejbase.doc with Microsoft WORD on either a Macintosh or a Windows system. Format paragraph text using the 'Normal' style in the styles menu. This puts a space before each paragraph so that a blank line is not required to separate paragraphs and automatically sets the text to single line, full justified, 12 pt layout. Format the Title of the paper using the 'Title' style in the styles menu, use the 'Abstract' style for the abstract and the 'Quotation' style for paragraph quotes. Use foot-notes, with one set of numbers running through the whole article. Do not create additional headers and footers in the template document iejbase.doc, just modify them appropriately. By double clicking on the header it should become active, allowing you to change the Author(s) name and Title of the article. Figures Diagrams should be placed in the text where they are to appear. Diagrams should have a caption appearing beneath the figure on the same page, be numbered successively, and must be referred to in the text before their appearance, as shown in Figure 1.   Figure 1. Example of a figure Tables Use the 'Table' commands to produce tables. Do not use the space bar or the Tab command to align numbers and text. Tables should have a caption appearing above the table, be numbered successively, and be referred to in the text prior to their appearance. Use the 'Tabletext' style to format the text and numbers in the table. An example of how to present a table is given in Table 1. Quotations Quotations less than three lines long should be incorporated into the text using double quotation marks For longer quotations (more than three lines or two sentences), use 'Quotation' style in the styles menu References Insert 6 pts using the Paragraph command for the first reference in order to provide a gap between the references and the heading Format the reference list using the 'Reference' style in the styles menu.

Further Points to Note Use foot-notes, with one set of numbers running through the whole article. Use bold rather than underlining for emphasis. Use italics to emphasise book titles and foreign words or phrases (for example, via, however it is simpler and preferable to use 'through').  Avoid using the slash /. Say his or her, rather than his/her, and never use and/or. Avoid writing in the first person. For example, use "This paper discusses...", rather than, "In this paper I will discuss...". Use single quote marks for words or phrases that have a new meaning, for example, so called 'in your face', because it is not standard or commonly accepted English or is an unknown phrase. Use 'in order to' rather than the infinitive 'for'. Tenses in sentences in a given paragraph MUST agree. Short quotes and short spoken quotes use double quotation marks. Italicise spoken quotes.  Long quotes (over three lines), start a new line and use the 'Quotation' style.  All written quotes should have a page number included in the reference. For example, "Work is love made visible" (Gibran, 1923, p.15). Use p. as the abbreviation for page, not pg. In-text references, when there are more than one, should be in alphabetical order. For example (Arnold, 1994; Jones and Demp, 1990;  Lee, 2001; Smith and Yuan, 1983). Take care to avoid split infinitives. Use the English form: -is and -ys instead of 'z' in spelling words like standardise and analysing. The word 'program' is not spelt the French way (programme). Avoid confusing the words 'methodology' and 'method'. Methodology it is the study of methods, not the methods themselves. Never abbreviate words.  Always use United States (not US), United Kingdom (not UK), for example (not eg), and (not &). Always use per cent, and not %, unless it is in brackets or in a table. For example, 5 per cent or (5%), is fine.  Numbers up to ten should be written in full (for example, three students were interviewed), unless it is a label, such as, Grade 3, or Year 5, or a statistical number, such as 7 per cent.  Numbers above ten should be written as a numeral unless it is at the beginning of a sentence. Avoid using etc. at the end of a list of examples. Lists of items within a sentence should use letters (a), (b), and (c).  Lists of that are complete sentences should start each item on a new line and use dot-points or numbers 1. 2. 3. ...

Referencing To reference in the body of the manuscript, cite authors' last names and the year of publication in parentheses: for example, (Baker, Robertson and Sloan, 1993). When citing several authors within the same set of parentheses, use alphabetical order separated by a semicolon (Anderson, 1997; Hart, 1990). Include only items cited in the text in the list of references. References should be listed at the end of the paper and conform to the modified APA system, as provided in Table 1. Note that Table 1 is also an example of how a table and the caption should appear in your paper. Table 1. Example of the Modified APA System Book Baker, M., Robertson, F. and Sloan, J. (1993) The Role of Immigration in the Australian Higher Education Market. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. Journal Article Hart, G. (1990) Peer consultation in review. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 5 (4), 22-27. Articles in Edited Works Slee, R. (1991) Institutional approaches to discipline. In M. Lovegrove and R. Lewis, (eds) Classroom Discipline, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire. Theses Birkeland, J. (1992) Planning for a sustainable society. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Tasmania. Unpublished Works McGaw, B. (1993) Improving education and training research. Unpublished manuscript, Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research. Online Sources Anderson, J. (1997) Australian College of Education Review: 1996 in retrospect. Unicorn, 23 (1), 3-13. [Online] http://www.flinders.edu.au/education/Readings/Unicorn.html [1997, August 4]

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Tracking your article IEJ have a tracking system so that authors, and reviewers for that matter, can monitor the progress of the article through the review process.  You can access this online facility at: NA This process usually takes about six to nine months, depending on the celerity of the reviewer and the imminence of the next issue.  Once you send in your article to the online editor as an attached word document, you should receive within two weeks, a return email that provides the tracking code, consisting of the main author’s initials, the date of receipt and a key word from the title. For purposes of confidentiality, each article is coded so that only the author and IEJ Editors know whose article it is.