Submissions
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.- Before starting, please ensure your email account is set to receive messages from ijsap@mcmaster.ca as notification emails can sometimes be sent to spam/junk folders.
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
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DOI numbers for journals are given.
- The text is double-spaced; uses 12-point Calibri font; has 1 inch margins; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The manuscript is being submitted solely to IJSaP, and it represents new, unpublished findings or arguments
- Where the contribution includes reporting on research that you have undertaken with human participants, you have included a statement at the end of the text before the references that the research was successfully reviewed according to your institution’s research ethics committee guidelines.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting a research article, case study, or reflective essay, the instructions inEnsuring a Blind Reviewhave been followed.
- The number of words, excluding abstract (for research articles and case studies only) and references, is included at the end of anonymized version of the contribution; and this is less than the maximum for the section of the journal to which you are submitting.
Research Articles
These are papers that provide a clear rationale for the study situated within a body of published research, an overview of the research methodology used, an analysis of findings, and a discussion of those findings and their implications in relation to existing knowledge. As IJSaP is a multidisciplinary journal, we welcome a wide range of disciplinary or interdisciplinary approaches to research, including staff engaging students as co-researchers, and the use of participatory approaches. Theoretical and conceptual pieces, policy analyses, and critical literature reviews that provide new insights into students as partners are also welcome (between 4,000 and 6,000 words). Research articles should include an abstract (150 words).
Please see Author Guidelines for further information and review criteria.
Case Studies
These articles are brief, scholarly explorations of specific practices, examples or initiatives, including continuing and one-off projects. They discuss the context and rationale for the work, place the case study in the context of the relevant literature, analyze the implementation of the initiative, identify strengths and weaknesses, and offer critical analysis of impacts on students, staff, practice, and policy as appropriate. Case studies do not need to include a theoretical framework or make a significant original contribution to the field, however, purely descriptive case studies are not acceptable (a maximum of 3,000 words).
Please see Author Guidelines for further information and review criteria.
Opinion Piece
These are short and thought-provoking pieces, stating a position and supported by a persuasive argument (a maximum of 1,500 words).
Please see Author Guidelines for further information and review criteria.
Reflective Essays
Complementing scholarly, research-supported articles and case studies, these reflective essays offer a different angle on student-staff pedagogical partnership. They capture in less formal, less finished presentations the lived experiences, surprises, insights, questions, uncertainties, and other in-process aspects of partnership. Continuing the tradition of its former venue, Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education, this section of IJSaP welcomes individual submissions as well as sets of (normally no more than three) themed or institution-specific essays (500 – 3,000 words).
Please see Author Guidelines for further information and review criteria.
Reviews
These include critical reviews of a book, conference/symposium or resource, or reviews of several related works at once (a maximum of 750 words, or 1,250 words where comparing more than one item).
Please see Author Guidelines for further information and review criteria.
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Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a 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.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.
Authors are permitted 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).
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