Editorial Policy: School Psychology International publishes critical and descriptive review articles and empirical contributions of international interest in all practical and academic areas of school and educational psychology. Many issues will contain review articles based on defined themes. Review article manuscripts should normally be between 3000 and a maximum of 6000 words in length, including tables, figures and references, and will be evaluated by anonymous referees. Book reviews will also be published.
Submission of manuscripts: A manuscript will be accepted only on the understanding that it is an original contribution that has not been published previously. Papers should be submitted to one of the following:
Prof. R.L. Burden, School of Education, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QJ.
Authors in North America should submit manuscripts to:
Dr C.S. Mcloughlin, School Psychology Program, 412 White Hall, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA.
Manuscript Specification: Manuscripts should be submitted in English as A4 double-spaced typescript with generous margins, complete in all respects including a title and the name and address of the author(s). Original typescripts and figures should be submitted together with two photocopies.
Style: Each of the following parts of a manuscript should begin on a new page and should appear in the order shown: (a) Manuscript title and author(s) affiliation(s); (b) Abstract, not exceeding 200 words; (c) Text with appropriate headings, followed by address to which requests for offprints may be addressed; (d) Tables; (e) Figure captions; (f) Figures.
Spelling should follow the Oxford English Dictionary, and punctuation should conform to British orthographic conventions, including the use of single rather than double quotation marks except for quotations within quotations. Footnotes should be avoided. The text should be organized conventionally: a typical experimental report is divided into Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion; review articles require a different structure which depends upon the nature of the material discussed. Apart from the details mentioned above, the style of manuscripts should follow the guidelines laid down in either the Suggestions to Contributors published by the British Psychological Society or the American Psychological Association's Publication Manual.
Tables: Tables should be numbered consecutively and given titles which are comprehensible without reference to the text. Each table should be typed, double-spaced, on a separate sheet, and its approximate location should be indicated by a separate line in the text, e.g. '-Table 1 about here'.
Illustrations: Graphs, diagrams, and other illustrations on separate sheets should be numbered consecutively 'Figure 1', 'Figure 2', etc., and their approximate location in the text indicated in the manner shown above for Tables. Only high quality artwork can be satisfactorily reproduced. Labelling should be done with stencils or instant lettering of sufficient size to remain legible when reduced for reproduction. The figure number and author(s) names should be written in pencil on the back of each illustration, and the top indicated with an arrow. Figure captions should be typed on a separate sheet.
Permission to Reproduce: If illustrations are borrowed from published sources, written permission must be obtained from both publisher and author, and a credit line giving the source added to the legend. If text material totalling 250 to 300 words, or any tables, are borrowed verbatim from published sources, written permission is required from both publisher and author. With shorter quotations, it is sufficient to add a bibliographic credit. Permission letters for reproduced text or illustration must accompany the manuscript. If you have been unable to obtain permission, please point this out.
References: References should be cited in the text in the usual way, thus: Smith (1963); Smith and Jones (1965).
If a work has three or more authors use the 'et al.'form throughout, e.g. Smith et al. (1980). The list of references following the text, and the acknowledgements, should accord with the British conventions illustrated by the examples below:
1. Journal articles
Acker, W. and Toone, B. (1978) 'Attention, Eye Tracking and Schizophrenia', British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 17: 173-81.
2. Books
McGee, M.G. (1979) Human Spatial Abilities, New York: Praeger.
3. Articles in books
Coleite, G. and Hoffman, L.R. (1979) 'Valence, Satisfaction, and Commitment of the Group's Solution', in L.R. Hoffman (ed.) The Group Problem Solving Process, pp. 113-20. New York: Praeger.
Proofs: Page proofs will be returned to authors to allow for essential corrections. Changes other than corrections of printer's errors will not normally be allowed.
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If you wish your article to be freely available online immediately upon publication (as some funding bodies now require), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Open subject to payment of a publication fee. Manuscript submission and refereeing procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Open. For further information, please
visit http://www.uk.sagepub.com/sageopen.sp
