期刊名称：EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND CARE
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投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Instructions to Authors
This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below. Contents list
About the journal
Early Child Development and Care is an international, peer reviewed, publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal’s Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Peer review
Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.
Preparing your paper
Structure
Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
Word limits
Please include a word count for your paper.
A typical manuscript for this journal should be more than 5000 and no more than 8000 words; this limit includes tables, references, figure captions, footnotes, endnotes.
Style guidelines
Please refer to these style guidelines when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles or a sample copy.
Please use British -ize spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
Please use single quotation marks, except where 'a quotation is "within" a quotation'. Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
Papers may be submitted in any standard format, including Word and LaTeX. Figures should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting templates.
A LaTeX template is available for this journal.
Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.
If you are not able to use the templates via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk
References
Please use this reference style guide when preparing your paper. An EndNote output style is also available to assist you.
Checklist: what to include
- Author details. Please include all authors’ full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the title page. Where available, please also include ORCID iDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted. Read more on authorship.
- A non-structured abstract of no more than 150 words. Read tips on writing your abstract.
- Graphical abstract (Optional). This is an image to give readers a clear idea of the content of your article. It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels. If your image is narrower than 525 pixels, please place it on a white background 525 pixels wide to ensure the dimensions are maintained. Save the graphical abstract as a .jpg, .png, or .gif. Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
- You can opt to include a video abstract with your article. Find out how these can help your work reach a wider audience, and what to think about when filming.
- 3 to 6 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
- Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
For single agency grants: This work was supported by the[Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
For multiple agency grants: This work was supported by the [funding Agency 1]; under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency 2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency 3] under Grant [number xxxx].
- Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. Further guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to disclose it.
- Biographical note. Please supply a short biographical note for each author. This could be adapted from your departmental website or academic networking profile and should be relatively brief (e.g. no more than 150 words).
- Geolocation information. Submitting a geolocation information section, as a separate paragraph before your acknowledgements, means we can index your paper’s study area accurately in JournalMap’s geographic literature database and make your article more discoverable to others.
- Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online via Figshare. Find out more about supplemental material and how to submit it with your article.
- Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size). Figures should be saved as TIFF, PostScript or EPS files. More information on how to prepare artwork.
- Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
- Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable. More information about mathematical symbols and equations.
- Units. Please use SI units (non-italicized).
Using third-party material in your paper
You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission. More information on requesting permission to reproduce work(s) under copyright.
Submitting your paper
This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts to manage the peer-review process. If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in the submission centre. Please read the guidelines above and then submit your paper in the relevant author centre where you will find user guides and a helpdesk.
If you are submitting in LaTeX, please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you may also need to upload or send your LaTeX source files with the PDF).
Please note that Early Child Development and Care uses Crossref™ to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to Early Child Development and Care you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.
On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript. Find out more about sharing your work.
Publication charges
There are no submission fees or page charges for this journal.
Color figures will be reproduced in color in your online article free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in color in the print version, a charge will apply.
Charges for color figures in print are £250 per figure ($395 US Dollars; $385 Australian Dollars; €315). For more than 4 color figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at £50 per figure ($80 US Dollars; $75 Australian Dollars; €63). Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to local taxes.
Copyright options
Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Taylor & Francis offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. Read more on publishing agreements.
Complying with funding agencies
We will deposit all National Institutes of Health or Wellcome Trust-funded papers into PubMedCentral on behalf of authors, meeting the requirements of their respective open access (OA) policies. If this applies to you, please tell our production team when you receive your article proofs, so we can do this for you. Check funders' OA policy mandates here. Find out more about sharing your work.
Open accessThis journal gives authors the option to publish open access via our Open Select publishing program, making it free to access online immediately on publication. Many funders mandate publishing your research open access; you can check open access funder policies and mandates here.
Taylor & Francis Open Select gives you, your institution or funder the option of paying an article publishing charge (APC) to make an article open access. Please contact openaccess@tandf.co.uk if you would like to find out more, or go to our Author Services website.
For more information on license options, embargo periods and APCs for this journal please search for the journal in our journal list.
My Authored Works
On publication, you will be able to view, download and check your article’s metrics (downloads, citations and Altmetric data) via My Authored Works on Taylor & Francis Online. This is where you can access every article you have published with us, as well as your free eprints link, so you can quickly and easily share your work with friends and colleagues.
We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article. Here are some tips and ideas on how you can work with us to promote your research.
Article reprints
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Queries
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Updated October 2016
Editorial Board
Editor:
Roy Evans - School of Education, University of Northampton, UK
Assistant Editor:
Cathryn Welahm - Brunel University, London, UK
Regional Editors:
Western Europe: Deborah Jones - School of Education, Brunel University, UK
North America: Alice Sterling Honig - Syracuse University, USA
Australasia: Yeshe Colliver – Macquarie University, Australia
Southern Africa: Kobus Maree – University of Pretoria, South Africa
China: Yaoying Xu – Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Editorial Board:
Michael Allen - UK
Enrique B. Arranz Freijo - Spain
Fiona Baker - UAE
Geoffrey L. Brown - USA
Bettye Catdwell - USA
Chau-kiu Cheung - Hong Kong
Zlatka Cugmas - Slovenia
Marjory Ebbeck - Australia
Stephanie Feeney - USA
Harry Freeman - USA
Philip Garner - UK
Ithel Jones - USA
Abdulkadir Kabadayi - Turkey
Igor Kelmanson - Russia Sandor Komlosi - Hungary Alfred Lang - Switzerland Kaarina Määttä - Finland
J. G. Maree - South Africa
Darrell W. Meece - USA
Jane Murray - UK
Terje Naerland - Norway
Lisa Newland - USA
Julie Nicholson - USA
Karen Nonis - Singapore
Safak Öztürk Aynal - Turkey
George Th. Pavlidis - Greece
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson - Sweden
Konstantina Rentzou - Cyprus
Monique Robin - France
Aino Saar-Ugaste - Estonia
Olivia Saracho - USA
Daniel Seguin - Canada
Pamela Sharpe - Singapore
Helen Skouteris - Australia
Wilfried Smidt - Austria
Catrinel Stefan - Romania
Sotiria Tzivinikou - Greece
Satu Uusiautti - Finland
Saloshna Vandeyar - South Africa
Christine Wang - USA
Mike Watts - UK
Inger William Olsson - Sweden
Mary Williams - UK
Francis K. O Yuens - USA
Maria Zafrana - Greece
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