Submissions

Author Guidelines

The prospective authors must comply with the following manuscript guidelines when submitting articles for publication in RABSEL.

1. Manuscripts submitted to RABSEL should be original material and not under consideration by any other journal, nor should they be available in any medium before submission. Submitting the same paper to more than one journal concurrently is a violation of scholarly publication ethics. Any such manuscript will be rejected.
2. All manuscript submissions should be in a Word “doc” file or in a Word-compatible file with top, bottom, left, and right margins set to one inch.
3. The complete title of the paper, the names of the author(s), institutional affiliations, e-mails, and other identifying material should be typed on a separate sheet/the title page only to ensure anonymity in the review process. The first text page of the article should have the complete title of the manuscript, but not the names of the author(s).
4. The length of manuscripts should be not more than 5000 words.
5. All manuscripts should be sent with an abstract of 150–200 words and 4 to 5. The abstract should be placed preceding the paper.
6. Articles should be double-spaced and in 12-point Times New Roman font. Do not use forced section, page breaks, or automatic
7. Make sure to provide complete and recent APA (7^th Edition) formatted references and text citations, making sure the two correspond exactly. Use the APA format for table representation in the article 
8. Change all instances of passive voice to active voice whenever possible, as these changes will be necessary before publication. Spell out each acronym at its first use.
9. Set all margins to 1 inch.
10. Format for 8½ x 11 in. paper. Do not format for A4 paper.
11. Please type all copies in upper and lower case—do not use all capitals or small caps.
12. Place all figures and tables in the Tables need not be double spaced and must be presented professionally.
13. All figures must be camera-ready, and suitable for Figures will not normally be redrawn by the publisher.
14. Please use your tab key and centering functions to do head alignment and paragraph indents; DO NOT USE THE SPACE BAR.
15. Please apply appropriate heading styles to separate different sections and sub-sections.
16. Use endnotes as sparingly as possible. Number them with Arabic numerals starting with 1 and continuing through the article; for example: “(see Note 1).” Do not use endnotes.
17. Figures must be provided as production-ready. Acceptable electronic formats for figures or other art are TIFF, EPS, Word, or Excel. If you have trouble loading Excel files, copy and paste them into a Word document. Scans must be of high resolution. Scans done at lower resolutions will have very poor print quality, even if they look crisp and clear on a laser printout.

Three types of manuscripts are appropriate for submission to the CERD journal (RABSEL)

I. Reports of empirical research

Reports of empirical research are descriptions of research studies. These studies must have clear and important implications for education and/or research. CERD considers research representing diverse methodologies, including group design, single-subject research, case study, etc. The major criteria for publication are quality of design, implementation, and writing, as well as importance to the field.

II. Scholarly review

Scholarly papers take the form of essays that represent well-developed arguments on philosophical, theoretical, or practical problems in the field of education. They are not required to adhere to an empirical research design (i.e., methods, data collection, and data analysis). Instead, scholarly papers pose analytical or conceptual frameworks. Scholarly papers should contain as many of the following as are applicable, preferably in this order: (1) objectives or purposes of the inquiry; (2) the philosophical, theoretical, or practical argument; (3) literature, sources, or evidence to support the argument/analysis; (4) conclusions and implications of the argument; and (5) significance of the argument

 III. Project Reports

These articles will be shorter and more preliminary reports about interesting educational projects (innovative courses, learning communities, etc.). Several of these reports could be published each issue. The focus of a project report is on the progress or outcomes of an academic innovation that addresses issues in education.