期刊名称：JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The Journal of Education Policy aims to discuss, analyse and debate policymaking, policy implementation and policy impact at all levels of and in all facets of education. It offers a forum for theoretical debate, and historical and comparative studies, as well as policy analysis and evaluation reports. The journal also analyses key policy documents and reviews relevant texts and monographs.
Instructions to Authors
The Journal of Education Policy discusses, analyses and debates policy-making, policy-implemetation and policy-impact at all levels of and in all facets of education. It offers a forum for theoretical debate, and historical and comparative studies, as well as policy analysis and evaluation reports. The journal also analyses key documents and reviews, relevant texts and monographs.
Contacting the Editors:
Managing Editors:
Stephen J. Ball
Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education,
Institute of Education,
University of London,
59 Gordon Square,
London WC1H ONT, UK
Ivor Goodson (Founding Editor)
Education Research Centre
Mayfield House
University of Brighton
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9PH
UK
Lead Editor:
Meg Maguire
Department of Education & Professional Studies
King's College London
Franklin-Wilkins Building (Waterloo Bridge Wing)
Waterloo Road
London
SE1 9NH
UK
Submitting a paper to Journal of Education Policy
In writing your paper, you are encouraged to review articles in the area you are addressing which have been previously published in the journal, and where you feel appropriate, to reference them. This will enhance context, coherence, and continuity for our readers.
Please read these Guidelines with care and attention: failure to follow them may result in your paper being delayed. Note especially the referencing conventions used by Journal of Education Policy and for all manuscripts, non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
Journal of Education Policy considers all manuscripts on condition they are the property (copyright) of the submitting author(s) and that copyright will be transferred to Journal of Education Policy and Taylor & Francis Ltd if the paper is accepted.
Journal of Education Policy considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Journal of Education Policy, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication, nor in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged all costs which Journal of Education Policy incurs, and their papers will not be published.
Please write clearly and concisely, stating your objectives clearly and defining your terms. Your arguments should be substantiated with well-reasoned supporting evidence.
For all manuscripts, non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
Abstracts of around 100 - 200 words are required for all papers submitted and should precede the text of a paper.
Manuscripts should be typed on one single side of A4 or 8 x 11 inch white good quality paper, double-spaced throughout, including the reference section.
Accepted manuscripts in their final, revised versions, may also be submitted as electronic word processing files on disk - see Electronic Processing.
Three copies of your manuscript must be submitted.
Authors should include telephone and fax numbers as well as e-mail addresses on the cover page of manuscripts.
Bionotes should be contained on a separate sheet and be located at the beginning of a paper.
In writing your paper, you are encouraged to review articles in the area you are addressing which have been previously published in the journal, and where you feel appropriate, to reference them. This will enhance context, coherence, and continuity for our readers.
Articles for consideration should be sent to the managing editors: Ivor Goodson (General Section North America); Stephen Ball (General Section UK, Europe, Australasia; Reviews); and Robert Burgess (Documents and Debates Section) Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, but may be also be submitted through any member of the executive editorial board.
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For further information on electronic submission, including information on accepted file types, please click here.
Early Electronic Offprints
Corresponding authors can now receive their article by e-mail as a complete PDF. This allows the author to print up to 50 copies, free of charge, and disseminate them to colleagues. In many cases this facility will be available up to two weeks prior to publication. Or, alternatively, corresponding authors will receive the traditional 50 offprints. A copy of the journal will be sent by post to all corresponding authors after publication. Additional copies of the journal can be purchased at the author’s preferential rate of ?5.00/$25.00 per copy.
Abstracts
Structured abstracts are required for all papers, and should be submitted as detailed below, following the title and author's name and address, preceding the main text.
For papers reporting original research, state the primary objective and any hypothesis tested; describe the research design and your reasons for adopting that methodology; state the methods and procedures employed, including where appropriate tools, hardware, software, the selection and number of study areas/subjects, and the central experimental interventions; state the main outcomes and results, including relevant data; and state the conclusions that might be drawn from these data and results, including their implications for further research or application/practice.
For review essays, state the primary objective of the review; the reasoning behind your literature selection; and the way you critically analyse the literature; state the main outcomes and results of your review; and state the conclusions that might be drawn, including their implications for further research or application/practice.
Abstracts should not exceed 200 words.
Copyright permission
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Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table, or extensive (more than fifty word) extract from the text, from a source which is copyrighted - or owned - by a party other than Taylor & Francis or the contributor.
This applies both to direct reproduction or derivative reproduction - when the contributor has created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source.
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Code of experimental ethics and practice
Contributors are required to follow the procedures in force in their countries which govern the ethics of work done with human or animal subjects. The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) represents a minimal requirement.
When experimental animals are used, state the species, strain, number used, and other pertinent descriptive characteristics.
For human subjects or patients, describe their characteristics.
For human participants in a research survey, secure the consent for data and other material - verbatim quotations from interviews, etc. - to be used.
When describing surgical procedures on animals, identify the pre anaesthetic and anaesthetic agents used and state the amount of concentration and the route and frequency of administration for each. The use of paralytic agents, such as curare or succinylcholine, is not an acceptable substitute for anaesthetics. For other invasive procedures on animals, report the analgesic or tranquilizing drugs used; if none were used, provide justification for such exclusion.
When reporting studies on unanaesthetized animals or on humans, indicate that the procedures followed were in accordance with institutional guidelines.
Specific permission for facial photographs of patients is required. A letter of consent must accompany the photographs of patients in which a possibility of identification exists. It is not sufficient to cover the eyes to mask identity.
Mathematics
Special care should be taken with mathematical scripts, especially subscripts and superscripts and differentiation between the letter 'ell' and the figure one, and the letter 'oh 'and the figure zero. If your keyboard does not have the characters you need, it is preferable to use longhand, in which case it is important to differentiate between capital and small letters, K, k and x and other similar groups of letters. Special symbols should be highlighted in the text and explained in the margin. In some cases it is helpful to supply annotated lists of symbols for the guidance of the sub-editor and the typesetter, and/or a Nomenclature section preceding the Introduction.
For simple fractions in the text, the solidus / should be used instead of a horizontal line, care being taken to insert parentheses where necessary to avoid ambiguity, for example, I /(n-1). Exceptions are the proper fractions available as single type on a keyboard.
Full formulae or equations should be displayed, that is, written on a separate line. Horizontal lines are preferable to solidi, for example:
61+ 5h +q
3n + 3yz2
But: a/b + c/d + a/d
P = (a2 + b2)(c2 + d2)
The solidus is not generally used for units: ms - 1 not m/s, but note electrons/s, counts/channel, etc.
Displayed equations referred to in the text should be numbered serially (1, 2, etc.) on the right hand side of the page. Short expressions not referred to by any number will usually be incorporated in the text.
Symbols should not be underlined to indicate fonts except for tensors, vectors and matrices, which are indicated with a wavy line in the manuscript (not with a straight arrow or arrow above) and rendered in heavy type in print: upright sans serif r (tensor), sloping serif r (vector) upright serif r (matrix).
Typographical requirements must be clearly indicated at their first occurrence, e.g. Greek, Roman, script, sans serif, bold, italic. Authors will be charged for corrections at proof stage resulting from a failure to do so.
Braces, brackets and parentheses are used in the order {[( )]}, except where mathematical convention dictates otherwise (i.e. square brackets for commutators and anticommutators)
Notes on style
All authors are asked to take account of the diverse audience of Journal of Education Policy. Clearly explain or avoid the use of terms that might be meaningful only to a local or national audience. However, note also that the Journal of Education Policy does not aspire to be international in the ways that McDonald's restaurants or Hilton Hotels are international; we much prefer papers that, where appropriate, reflect the particularities of each higher education system.
Some specific points of style for the text of articles, research reports, case studies, reports, essay reviews, and reviews follow:
1. Journal of Education Policy prefers US to American, USA to United States, and UK to United Kingdom.
2 . Journal of Education Policy uses conservative British, not US, spelling, i.e. colour not color; behaviour (behavioural) not behavior; [school] programme not program; [he] practises not practices; centre not center; organization not organisation; analyse not analyze, etc.
3. Single quotes are used for quotations rather than double "quotes", unless the quote is "within" another quote.
4. Punctuation should follow the British style, e.g. quotes precede punctuation.
5. Punctuation of common abbreviations should follow the following conventions: e.g. i.e. cf. Note that such abbreviations are not followed by a comma or a (double) point/period.
6. Dashes (M-dash) should be clearly indicated in manuscripts by way of either a clear dash (-) or a double hyphen (- -).
7. Journal of Education Policy is sparing in its use of the upper case in headings and references, e.g. only the first word in paper titles and all subheads is in upper case; titles of papers from journals in the references and other places are not in upper case.
8. Apostrophes should be used sparingly. Thus, decades should be referred to as follows: The 1980s [not the 1980s] saw .... Possessives associated with acronyms (e.g. APU), should be written as follows:The APU's findings that ..., but, NB, the plural is APUs.
9. All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate, e.g. The work of the Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) in the early 1980s ... Subsequently, The APU studies of achievement ..., in a reference ... (Department of Education and Science [DES] 1989a).
10. Brief biographical details of significant national figures should be outlined in the text unless it is quite clear that the person concerned would be known internationally. Some suggested editorial emendations to a typical text are indicated in the following with square brackets:From the time of H. E. Armstrong [in the 19th century] to the curriculum development work associated with the Nuffield Foundation [in the 1960s], there has been a shift from heurism to constructivism in the design of [British] science courses.
11. The preferred local (national) usage for ethnic and other minorities should be used in all papers. For the USA, African-American, Hispanic, and Native American are used, e.g. The African American presidential candidate, Jesse Jackson... For the UK, African-Caribbean (not West Indian), etc.
12. Material to be emphasized (italicized in the printed version) should be underlined in the typescript rather than italicized. Please use such emphasis sparingly.
13. n (not N), % (not per cent) should be used in typescripts.
14. Numbers in text should take the following forms: 300, 3000, 30 000. Spell out numbers under 10 unless used with a unit of measure, e.g. nine pupils but 9 mm (do not introduce periods with measure). For decimals, use the form 0.05 (not .05).
15. When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark authors must use the symbol ? or TM or alternatively a footnote can be inserted using the wording below:
This article includes a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark. Its inclusion does not imply it has acquired for legal purposes a non-proprietary or general significance, nor is any other judgement implied concerning its legal status.
Notes on tables and figures
Artwork submitted for publication will not be returned and will be destroyed after publication, unless you request otherwise. Whilst every care is taken of artwork, neither the Editor nor Taylor & Francis shall bear any responsibility or liability for non-return, loss, or damage of artwork, nor for any associated costs or compensation. You are strongly advised to insure appropriately.
Illustrations are as important as the text, and should be as simple, relevant and clear as possible. A potential reader, after reading the title, often glances next at the figures, and their main purpose should be evident from the legend beneath the figure and the words used in labelling the parts of diagrams and the axes of graphs without reference to the text.
Black-and-white photographs should have adequate contrast. Colour illustrations can be printed if they are necessary to convey the scientific content of the illustration.
Labelling of axes of graphs should be in words, whenever possible, and the dimensionless numbers on the axes should be those obtained by dividing the quantities measured by the units employed. For example, the numbers relating to density should be labelled Density/(kg M-3) , and numbers relating to temperature in degrees celsius should be labelled temperaturePC.
Please use different line thicknesses for emphasis; for example, thinner lines for axes of graphs and thicker lines for curves. Use different data points and lines, dashed or dotted, when more than one curve appears in a graph, and identify their meaning in the legend or by labelling, legends should explain any abbreviations used in the figures.
1. Tables and figures should be valuable, relevant, and visually attractive. Tables and figures must be referred to in the text and numbered in order of their appearance. Each table and figure should have a complete, descriptive title; and each table column an appropriate heading.
Tables and figures should be referred to in text as follows: figure 1, table 1, i.e. lower case.As seen in table [or figure] 1 ... (not Tab., fig. or Fig).
2. The place at which a table or figure is to be inserted in the printed text should be indicated clearly on a manuscript:
[Insert table 2 about here ]
3. Each table and/or figure must have a title that explains its purpose without reference to the text.
4. All figures and tables must be on separate sheets and not embedded in the text. Original copies of figures should be supplied. All figures should allow for reduction to column width (130 mm) or page width (160mm). Please avoid figures that would require landscape reproduction, i.e., reading from bottom to top of the page. Photographs may be sent as glossy prints or negatives.
Please number each figure on the reverse in pencil.
Do not type the caption to a figure on that figure; the legends to any illustrations must be typed separately following the main text and should be grouped together.
Acknowledgements
Any acknowledgements authors wish to make should be included in a separate headed section at the end of the manuscript. Please do not incorporate these into the bionote or notes.
Book reviews
1. The following header material should appear in all reviews in the following order (note also the punctuation):
The Politics of Social Research.
By Martyn Hammersley (Sage, London, 1995), 192 pp., ?5.00 (hbk), ISBN 0-8039-7718-2, ?1.95 (pbk), ISBN 0-8039-7719.
2. Page references within reviews should be given as follows: (p. 337) or (pp. 36-37).
Citations in Text
References should be cited using the author-date, or Harvard, system.
1. ¡®Ibid.¡¯ (and the like) are not used when repeating citations. Simply repeat the original citation verbatim, e.g. (Orwell 1945).
2. Citations should be included in prefatory material to quotes (wherever possible) rather than placing them at the end. Thus, for example, 'Orwell (1945, p. 23) reduces the principles of animalism to seven commandments, namely, ...' is preferred to 'Orwell reduced the principles of animalism to seven commandments, namely, ... (Orwell, 1945, p. 23)'.
3. Multiple citations within parentheses should be divided by a semi-colon, not a comma, and & should be used within such multiple references. References to works published in the same year should be cited as, e.g. (Smith, 1991a, b).
4. Multiple citations within a text should be ordered by date, not alphabetically by authors name, e.g. (Smith 1902, Jones and Bower 1934, Brown 1955, 1958a, b, Green 1995).
5. et al. may be used in references within the text when a paper or book has three or more authors, but note that all names should be given in the reference itself.
6. Page spans in references should be given in full, e.g. Sedgewick (1935, pp. 102-103; emphasis added) outlines them as follows:.
References
Journal of Education Policy uses the following conventions for references:
1. Reference to a book:
Lacey, C. (1977) The Socialization of Teachers (London: Methuen).
2. Reference to a chapter in a book:
Crozier, M. (1969) The vicious circle of bureaucracy, in T. Burns (ed.), Industrial Man (Harmondsworth: Penguin), 250-262
3. Reference to an article in a journal:
Buswell, C. (1980) Pedagogic change and social change, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 12(2), 15-25.
4. Proceedings, reports and unpublished literature
Smith, R. J. M. (1995) Accountability to the state: an exploration of the educational market and parental choice literature. Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Massey University, Palmerston North, 7-10 December.
Burnham, C. A. & Anderson, T. H., (1991) Learning to sew on a button by reading a procedural text. CSR Technical Report, No. 543, Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ERIC ED 332 157.
Cohen, D. K. & Ball, D. L. (1997) Policy, Cognition, and Instruction. Unpublished manuscript.
5. Reference to a newspaper or magazine
Richards, H., (1996, 1 November) Republican lite? The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 November, p. 16.
6. Reference to an Internet source
Bloggs, A. B. (2001) Style guides are fun. Available online at: www.webite.co.uk (accessed 20 March 2005).
7. Reference to a personal communication
Brannen, J., (1996), Personal communication.
8. Reference to a case in law
In text, italicize names of plaintiffs and defendants:
Miranda v. Arizona (1974)
9. Reference to government legislation
US Congress, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, (1956), The Mutual Security Act of 1956, 84th Congress, second session, report 2273.
United Kingdom Parliament, Committee on the Working of the Monetary System [Radcliffe Committee] (1960), Principal Memoranda of Evidence, vol. 2, Cmd 1958.
If you have any further questions about the style for this journal, please submit your questions using the Style Queries form.
Editorial Board
Editors:
Stephen J. Ball - Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education, Institute of Education, University of London, 59 Gordon Square, London WC1H ONT, UK
Ivor Goodson (Founding Editor) - Education Research Centre, Mayfield House, University of Brighton, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK
Lead Editor:
Meg Maguire - Department of Education & Professional Studies, King's College London, UK
Editorial Advisory Board:
Pat Ainley - Greenwich University, UK
Louise Archer - London Metropolitan University, UK
James Avis - University of Wolverhampton, UK
Robert Burgess -?em>University of Leicester, UK?br />Lynne Chisholm - University of Bremen
Tony Edwards (Chair) - University of Newcastle, UK
Sharon Gewirtz - Kings College London, UK
Gerald Grace - University of London, UK
Dennis Lawton - University of London, UK
Carole Leathwood - London Metropolitan University, UK
Johan Muller - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Nigel Norris - University of East Anglia, UK
Mark Olssen - University of Surrey, UK
Jenny Ozga - University of Edinburgh, UK
Sally Power - Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Naz Rassoll - University of Reading, UK
Diane Reay - University of Cambridge, UK
James Scheurich - University of Texas at Austin, USA
Alison Taylor - University of Alberta, Canada
Chris Taylor - University of Cardiff, UK
Sandra Taylor - Queensland University of Technology
Dennis Thiessen - University of Toronto, Canada
Pat Thomson - Nottingham University, UK
Martin Thrupp - University of Waikato, New Zealand
Carol Vincent - Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Geoffrey Walford - University of Oxford, UK
Geoffrey Whitty - Institute of Education, University of London, UK
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