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Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Journal of Education and Educational Development welcomes original empirical research by both established and emerging scholars to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration on topical issues of interest to academics, policymakers, and the public at large. Please read carefully the Guidelines to Authors and Manuscript Preparation Guidelines before finalizing and submitting your manuscript. Submit your manuscripts in MS-Word file as an email attachment to the editor JoEED. The submissions will be screened through a blind review process by ascertaining the suitability of the manuscript for publication. Authors can send their submissions in any of the categories given below:

Article: Research papers of up to 4000 - 5000 words including visuals. Contributions exceeding this length may be discussed with the editor prior to submission for special consideration owing to the nature of the work reported.

The manuscript should include all necessary and complete information within the main text, not as footnotes & Endnotes.

• The research paper should be of 5000 words (approx)
• It should have an introduction (with citations)
• Literature Review
• Methodology (Research design, Sample, Instrument, Data analysis)
• Results and Discussion (with citations)
• Conclusion
• At least 25 references in an article.

Discussion: Write-up of maximum 2500 words dealing with introduction of a model, best practice, process with immediate application in respective field, critical analysis, opinions, discussions, field-related organizational or international experiences and perspectives.

Citations and References

The in-text citations and references should follow the APA style 7th edition. JoEED has the right to refuse the publication of an article on the basis of it being unable to follow the APA 7th edition guidelines. 

The APA 7th edition can be found on the link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13YMFJPk5JUY6L6IbZSCVESCofansCy40/view

Privacy Statement

Journal of Education and Educational Development considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that       

• the manuscript is the author’s own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including the author’s own previously published work.  
• the manuscript has been submitted only to Journal of Education and Educational Development; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere.
• the manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
• A publication from an author will be accepted after 2 years.

Please note that Journal of Education and Educational Development uses a plagiarism detection software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal material. By submitting your manuscript to Journal of Education and Educational Development, you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your manuscript may have to undergo during the peer-review and production processes.  

Any author who fails to adhere to the above conditions will be barred from further publishing in Journal of Education and Educational Development.

Article Processing Charge: There is no submission fee but once the pre-reviewe feedback is given to the author, the processing fee of Rs. 10,000/100$ must be paid within 10 days of pre-review feedback. 

The Review Process

Double blind peer review helps to maintain the quality, validity, and relevance of the papers that are published in JoEED

1. Desktop Review: Your paper is first evaluated by the editors for scope, focus and sustainability. Papers that are found to be acceptable for the journal go for double blind peer review for a more in-depth analysis of the article.
2. Double Blind Peer Review: During this process, selected independent, anonymous expert referees assess the selected research papers. The comments of the selected reviewers guide and inform the editor’s decision on a manuscript and also help authors to improve their manuscripts. The reviewers inform the authors about any gaps that they may have overlooked in their manuscript.
3. Preparing your Manuscript for a Double Blind Peer Review: If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, no names or affiliations of the authors should be mentioned in the word format of the paper submitted to the journal through the journal management system.

Ethics for Authors

It is understood that the authors listed in the journal article have all made a significant contribution in the research article. This contribution may exist in form of research design, data acquisition or analysis, or help design, shape and report the research work. Every author, may it be the primary author or secondary authors share the responsibility of the content and improvement of the manuscript.

Unethical Practices by Authors

1. Gift Authorship: The primary authors add people as authors to oblige them but they have no part in writing the paper.
2. Ghost Authorship: The authors want to at times take full credit of the article that have been submitted and they do not include the names of the people of authors who have made a significant contribution in the reported work.
3. Plagiarism: “When somebody presents the work of others (data, words or theories) as if they were his/her own and without proper acknowledgment.” Committee of Publications Ethics (COPE). When citing any work either your own or of any other author, ensure that the verbatim is quoted the in double quotation marks and attributed to the authors through in-text citation and referencing. Similarly, any idea, result, figure or table that belongs to another author must be attributed to them using the in-text citation and referencing.
4. Avoid Self-plagiarism: Self-plagiarism takes place when one uses his/her own work redundantly without properly citing and referencing it. This is a cause of repetition in the academic literature and is responsible for skewedness in the meta-analysis of the data sets. It is thus mandatory to cite and reference your work whenever you discuss it in your papers.

5. Data fabrication / falsification: It is important that the data which you present in your paper is authentic/original or has been taken from the source that you have mentioned in your article. In case JoEED feels that the data posed is in some way lacking then JoEED has the right to ask the authors to provide raw data.

6. Conflicts of Interest: It is very important for the authors to inform JoEED about any conflict of interest whether it is direct or indirect in form of a funding, supply of equipment or material, or any other support. It will help JoEED gauge any bias or skewedness in your research. A conflict of interest can occur when you (or your employer or sponsor) have a financial, commercial, legal, or professional relationship with other organizations, or with the people working with them, that could influence your research. You can disclode your conflict of interest by writing to the JoEED editor at education.journal@iobm.edu.pk.