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Author Guidelines

Manuscript Types and Length Guide

The following manuscript types are encouraged:

  • Research Articles: Substantive reports of original research; up to 5,000 words.
  • Letters: Brief reports of original research, or responses/commentary on previously published AISHE-J articles; up to 2,000 words.
  • Reviews: Brief reviews of specific resources (books, websites, multi-media etc.); up to 1,000 words.

Manuscript Preparation

Manuscripts for review must be initially submitted in PDF format only.

Note that to facilitate the double-blind peer review, author names should not appear anywhere in the initially submitted manuscript for review. (Contact details for the corresponding author will be captured separately during the manuscript submission process.) Author information will, of course, be included in final manuscripts after they have been accepted for publication.

When a manuscript is accepted for publication, the final version must be submitted both in PDF format, and in a suitable electronic "source" format. The following source formats are accepted:

Please use British English spelling and idiom throughout. Ensure that the manuscript has been fully spell-checked and proof-read for grammar, punctuation etc., before submission.

The manuscript should have a title page containing the following information:

  • Title (maximum 40 words).
  • Type: Research Article, Letter or Review.
  • For Research Articles only, include an abstract (maximum 300 words).
  • Keywords: A list of key terms for indexing etc.

Citation and referencing should be done in conformance with the Harvard (author/date) style.

Web Hyperlinks to resources external to the manuscript may be embedded and associated with relevant link text using the appropriate native mechanism of the electronic format in use; alternatively, place the URL of a hyperlink in a normal, numbered, footnote (using the native footnote mechanism).  Where references are available online, the title in the reference list should be hyperlinked as appropriate.

Sections, subsections etc., should be numbered using a hierarchical decimal format with dotted separators, thus: "1", "1.2", "3.1.6", to a maximum hierarchical depth of three.

Tables and figures should be numbered in separate decimal sequences ("Table 3", "Figure 5" etc.). These should be incorporated in the appropriate locations in the running text (i.e., they should not be gathered separately at the end of the manuscript).

Footnotes may be used. These should be encoded and embedded with the appropriate native mechanism of the electronic format in use. They should be numbered in a single decimal sequence.

Internal cross-references, including citations, should be hyperlinked using the appropriate native mechanism of the electronic format in use.

 

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 initial submission file is in PDF file format.
  3. Where appropriate, both internal and external hyperlinks have been embedded in the manuscript; specifically including hyperlinks to access full texts of cited references online (preferably open access versions, where available).
  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; 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 instructions for Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

All articles published in AISHE-J are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 licence.

 

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ISSN: 2009-3160