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Guidelines for contributors
Guidelines for contributors
Rules set by the editorial committee
The Journal of Educational Research (Iceland) is published once annually in November.
Its purpose is to serve as a venue for scholarly discussion about educational research in
Iceland.
The journal accepts manuscripts of scholarly nature in Icelandic or English reporting
research results or discussing issues of value for education in a broad sense and from a
variety of theoretical perspectives.
Manuscripts should be original in the sense that they should not have been published
elsewhere.
The first author is considered to be the primary author and is responsible for the article
and for corresponding with the journal editor and with readers.
Manuscripts are reviewed by at least two independent experts in a double-blind process
where the identity of the author is unknown to the reviewer and vice versa.
The editorial board bases its decision about the publication of an article on reviewers'
comments and authors' reactions to these. Manuscripts that do not correspond to the
published criteria are rejected.
The deadline for submission of manuscripts is May lst. Manuscripts are submitted to
the editor (see www.fum.is)
Preparation of the manuscript
1. Manuscripts are 9000 words (25 pp.) maximum.
2. They are prepared in Word with Times New Roman font, 12p with double line
spacing and justified left. Only one space after full stop/ period. Headings are in
12p Times New Roman, justified left.
3. Manuscripts should conform to the APA style (Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association, 6th ed. 2010).
4. Icelandic author names should be referred to by forenames and surnames and their
forenames used for ordering in a list of references.
5. Figures and tables to appear in the article should be submitted without a legend
but the legend submitted separately marked with the number of the figure or table.
Authors should indicate clearly where they want figures and tables to be inserted
in the manuscript.
6. Authors are asked to indicate in an author note if the work is based on a university
assignment or if it has been completed with the support of a grant.
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