Instructions for authors

Author Guidelines

JETEN does not charge authors for article submission or processing. JETEN exclusively publishes papers presented in Thematic Interest Groups (TIGs) during the ETEN annual conference. 

Thematic Interest Groups leaders review the papers and select ones suitable for the journal and submit them to the editorial board for blind peer review by three referees per article.

The Thematic Interest Groups are:

  1. Arts Education
  2. Creative Storytelling–Myths, Fairytales and other Narratives
  3. Education Technology
  4. Identity & Diversity
  5. Language Education
  6. Internationalisation
  7. Mathematics Education
  8. Movement Activities, Play, Health and Outdoor Learning
  9. Reflective Learning and Teaching for Thinking
  10. Special Education Needs
  11. Student-Teacher Transition
  12. Teaching and Learning Science & Technology
  13. Urban Education

The papers for submission to JETEN must be sent to the editors before the September 30, about twenty weeks after the annual conference.

Three members of the JETEN review panel blind review these papers. Authors of the papers selected for publication receive editorial comments for revisions during the first week of January and must turn in the final version before the last day of February. The final revised papers should be 3000 to 5000 words in length, including a 100 word abstract. The most current APA style should be used for referencing procedures. Below are listed some of the guidelines for formatting the article.

Auto formatting
Papers should NOT be submitted using any kind of auto formatting.

Page setup
Top and bottom margins 2.5cm
Left and right margins 3.0cm
A4, portrait
Times New Roman, font size 12
Single spacing between lines
Single spacing between words

Headings
Title: Times New Roman, font 18, bold, centered
Authors and affiliation: authors’ names on the second line, not titles or qualifications, Times New Roman, font 12, Institutional affiliation on the third line, city and country on the fourth line.

Abstract: Times New Roman, font 12, bold, starting on the extreme left without indentation, following the abstract text on the next line, adjusted to the left, using Times New Roman, font 12, regular.

Key words: Times New Roman, font 12, italic, maximum 5 words using same font, but regular.

Use headings throughout the paper. Headings are in bold, font 12. Only the first letter of a heading is in upper case, all other letters in lower case except where the word is a proper noun (name), or the first letter following a colon. If there are sub-headings, then use bold and italics together.

Paragraphs
Each paragraph starts on the extreme left of the page, there is no indentation. There is a blank line between paragraphs to indicate the start of a new paragraph to the reader. At the end of the last paragraph there are two blank lines before the next heading, but only a single blank line if it is a sub-heading.

Tables and figures
Tables are to be kept to a minimum, adjusted to the center within the page, and single spaced. Tables are to be labeled at the top, for example …

Table 1.

Generalization strategies applied to visual patterns.


All picture based material is to be kept to a minimum, and will be reproduced as they are. Such figures are to be labeled at the bottom, for example:

Figure 1. The instructional triangle (adapted from Lampert & Ghousseini, 2012; & Sträβer, 1994).

References Times New Roman, font 12, starting on extreme left. The references should use font 11, for example:

Becker, J. & Rivera, F. (2005). Generalization strategies of beginning high school algebra students. In H. Chick & J. Vincent (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 4, 121-128.

Blanton, M. & Kaput, J. (2005). Characterizing a classroom practice that promotes algebraic reasoning. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 36(5), 412-446.

Orton, A. & Orton , J. (1999). Pattern and the approach to algebra. In A. Orton (Ed.), Pattern in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics (pp 104-120). London: Cassell.

Yin, R. (2012). Application of case study research. Thousand Oaks, USA: Sage.

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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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point 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. The article was presented in one of the thematic interest groups at the ETEN annual conference.

Copyright Notice

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 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 the journal’s published version of the 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.
  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).

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

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