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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.
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines below.
  • Ensure that the submission does not include any information identifying the author(s). This includes (but is not limited to): author names, institutional affiliations, and/or identifying details in the text and self-citations. Additionally, please remove author metadata from the document using the "Inspect Document" feature in Microsoft Word.

Author Guidelines

The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education (CJSAE) publishes the following types of manuscripts.

Articles

This section includes original reports of research in adult education, continuing education, and lifelong learning that utilize all recognized social research methodologies including empirical, interpretive, ethnographic, historical, imperative, hermeneutic, and philosophical studies. Manuscripts in this section should not exceed 7500 words, not including references. Articles go through double-blind peer review.

Dialogue

This section includes discussions, with two or more authors, around diverse perspectives or themes concerning adult education, continuing education, or lifelong learning in the same text. Manuscripts in this section should not exceed 3000 words, not including references. Dialogues go through single-blind peer review.

Reflections on Practice.

This section includes reflections on the practice of adult education, continuing education, or lifelong learning, for example in higher education and/or community education. Manuscripts in this section must not exceed 3000 words, not including references. Reflections on Practice go through single-blind peer review.

Book Reviews

Solicited by the editors in each issue. Book reviews should not exceed 1,000 words.

Manuscripts submitted for publication can be written in either English or French.

Format & Editorial Style

 All manuscripts should be word-processed, single spaced, with 1" margins, and include all tables, figures, notes and references. All references to any institutions, locations, programs or persons that might help identify the authors must be excluded from the entire manuscript provided for review. A running head (the short title) must appear on each page. Figures and large tables should be printed on separate sheets. All manuscripts should conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (APA) 7th Ed. Authors are required to acknowledge that their manuscript conforms to the style guide.

Abstract

An abstract of approximately 150 words should be provided on a separate page with the running head only. 

Articles

This section includes original reports of research in the adult education, continuing education, and lifelong learning that utilize all recognized social research methodologies including empirical, interpretive, ethnographic, historical, imperative, hermeneutic and philosophical studies. Manuscripts in this section should not exceed 7500 words.

Perspectives

This section includes critical reviews of the literature of adult education and essays that focus on analytic examinations and critiques of issues in adult education, continuing education, and lifelong learning. Manuscripts in this section should not exceed 5000 words.

Field Notes

This section includes biographical and autobiographical reflections on the field and practice of adult education. Manuscripts in this sections must not exceed 3000 words.

Book Reviews

This section includes book reviews that are solicited by the CJSAE Book Review Editor. Book Reviews should not exceed 1000 words. All inquiries related to book reviews should be directed to the CJSAE Book Review Editor.

Copyright Notice

Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication will be required to assign copyright to the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education/L’Association canadienne pour l’étude de l’éducation des adultes.

CJSAE requests that, as the creator(s)/author(s) of the manuscript you are submitting assign certain rights to the manuscript to the CJSAE in exchange for undertaking to publish the article in print and electronic form and, in general, to pursue its dissemination throughout the world. The rights the CJSAE requests are:

  1. The right to publish the article in print and electronic form or in any other form it may choose that is in keeping with its role as a scholarly journal with the goal of disseminating the work as widely as possible;
  2. The right to be the sole publisher of the article for a period of 12 months;
  3. The right to make the article available to the public within a period of not more than 24 months, as determined by relevant journal staff of the CJSAE;
  4. The right to grant republication rights to itself or others in print, electronic, or any other form, with any revenues accrued to be shared equally between the author(s) and the journal;
  5. The right to administer permission to use portions of the article as requested by others, seeking recompense when the CJSAE sees it as warranted;
  6. The right to seek or take advantage of opportunities to have the article included in a database aimed at increasing awareness of it;
  7. As the author(s), the CJSAE wishes you to retain the right to republish the article, with acknowledgment of the CJSAE as the original publisher, in whole or in part, in any other publication of your own, including any anthology that you might edit with up to three others;
  8. As the author(s), the CJSAE withes you to retain the right to place the article on your personal Web page or that of your university or institution. The CJSAE askes that you include this notice: A fully edited, peer-reviewed version of this article was first published by the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, <Year>, <Volume>, <Issue>, <Page Numbers>.

BY AGREEING TO THE FOREGOING, YOU CONFIRM THAT THE MANUSCRIPT YOU ARE SUBMITTING HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE IN WHOLE OR IN PART AND THAT NO AGREEMENT TO PUBLISH IS OUTSTANDING.

SHOULD THE ARTICLE CONTAIN MATERIAL THAT REQUIRES WRITTEN PERMISSION FOR INCLUSION, YOU AGREE THAT IT IS YOUR OBLIGATION IN LAW TO IDENTIFY SUCH MATERIAL TO THE EDITOR OF THE CJSAE AND TO OBTAIN SUCH PERMISSION. THE CJSAE WILL NOT PAY ANY PERMISSION FEES. SHOULD THE CJSAE BE OF THE OPINION THAT SUCH PERMISSION IS NECESSARY, IT WILL REQUIRE YOU TO PURSUE SUCH PERMISSION PRIOR TO PUBLICATION.

AS AUTHOR(S), YOU WARRANT THAT THE ARTICLE BEING SUBMITTED IS ORIGINAL TO YOU.

Provided the foregoing terms are satisfactory, and that you are in agreement with them, please indicate your acceptance by checking the appropriate box and proceed with your submission.

This copyright agreement was extracted with permission from the "Best practices guide to scholarly journal publishing" (2007), produced by the Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ).

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