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JALT Submission Guidelines
Format
- Manuscripts should be double spaced with margins on all four sides.
- Typical length is about 20 pages including footnotes, tables & figures.
- Longer papers may be suitable in some cases.
Citation
- In the body of the text, the work of other authors should be referred to by name and publication date in parentheses as follows:
"Xia and Alexander (1987) reported..."
- In the references, the referred-to articles should be listed fully in alphabetical order by author(s), title, and publication source information as follows:
"Voci-Reed, E. (1987). Teaching and learners using accelerated learning. Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 12 (1&2), 85-94."
- Footnotes should be used rarely, if at all.
- A set of references (bibliography) must accompany all manuscripts.
Visual Aids
- Tables and Figures should be kept to a minimum, and should supplement rather than duplicate the text material.
- Each table should be typed on a separate page and placed at the end of the manuscript.
- Figures should be submitted in a form suitable for reproduction.
Photographs are acceptable in color, but black and white are preferred.
Overview
- An Abstract between 50 and 200 words should be placed at the beginning of the manuscript.
- The abstract should include:
- purpose of the work/study
- design
- method
- description of subjects, &
- results and/or conclusions.
Technical Details
- Computer disks should include a note about the platform (IBM or Mac) and the software program used. (Word, Wordperfect, etc.)
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