Welcome from the JTE Editorial Team. The College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) has been selected as the next institutional home of the Journal of Teacher Education under the editorship of Drs. Sandra Odell, M. Christopher Brown II, Elizabeth Spalding, and Jian Wang, in collaboration with two associate editors, Drs. Cari Klecka and Emily Lin, and managing editor, Ms. Mora Snyder. During our editorship, the JTE will continue to focus on the core missions of teacher education and serve as a forum for the systematic examination of a wide range of voices, perspectives, and approaches to the field. We welcome and encourage your thoughtful, rigorous, and engaging submissions. We can be contacted by email at jte@unlv.edu or by postal mail at Journal of Teacher Education, College of Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 453005, Las Vegas, NV 89154-3005.
General articles and research manuscripts. All manuscripts must be submitted electronically at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jteachered. This system will permit the new editorial team to keep the submission and review process as efficient as possible. Our user-friendly, online manuscript submission and review system also offers authors the option to track the review process of manuscripts in real time.
Manuscript Criteria. The fitness of a manuscript for publication in JTE is carefully reviewed based on each of the dimensions listed below.
- Significance/relevance to teacher education/teacher learning
- Conceptual framework (connections to relevant constructs in literature)
- Methods (if manuscript is an empirical study)
- Appropriateness to questions
- Adequate description of methods (including data collection and analysis)
- Rigor of methods
- Findings/conclusions are literature or data-based
- Overall contribution to the field
- Writing style/composition/clarity
Typing. The acceptable format for electronic submission is MSWord. All text, including title, headings, references, quotations, figure captions, and tables, must be typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins all around. Please use a 12-point font.
Length. A manuscript, including all references, tables, and figures, should not exceed 10,000 words. Submissions exceeding this limit may not be accepted for review. Authors should keep tables and figures to a minimum and include them at the end of the text.
Style. For writing and editorial style, authors must follow guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition, 2001). Authors should number all text pages.
Abstract and keywords. All general and research manuscripts must include an abstract and a few keywords. Abstracts describing the essence of the manuscript must be 150 words or less. Authors should select keywords from the menu on the manuscript submission system so that readers may search for the article after it is published.
Book reviews. JTE accepts reviews of current scholarly books on topics related to research, policy, or practice in teacher education. Book reviews may be submitted or invited to either themed or open-topic issues of the journal. Preference will be given in the review process to book review essays that comment on two or more related books. Book review essays should not exceed 3,800 words and should include city, state, publisher, and the year of the book’s publication. An abstract of 150 words or less and keywords are required for book review essays. Reviews of single books should not exceed 1,900 words. At the beginning of the text please include title, author, publisher, city, date, and page numbers of the book(s) under review. Because the editors submit book reviews to blind review, writers must exclude authors’ names, institutions, and clues to the authors’ identities except as citations. Further questions can be posed to the editors at the email and postal addresses noted above.
Professional Editing Services. Authors who want to refine the use of English in their manuscripts might consider utilizing the services of SPi, a non-affiliated company that offers Professional Editing Services to authors of journal articles in the areas of science, technology, medicine, or the social sciences. SPi specializes in editing and correcting English-language manuscripts written by authors with a primary language other than English. Visit http://www.prof-editing.com for more information about SPi’s Professional Editing Services, pricing, and turn-around times, or to obtain a free quote or submit a manuscript for language polishing.
Please be aware that SAGE has no affiliation with SPi and makes no endorsement of the company. An author’s use of SPi’s services in no way guarantees that his or her submission will ultimately be accepted. Any arrangement an author enters into will be exclusively between the author and SPi, and any costs incurred are the sole responsibility of the author.
Notice to Authors of Joint Works (articles with more than one author). This journal uses a transfer of copyright agreement that requires just one author (the Corresponding Author) to sign on behalf of all authors. Please identify the Corresponding Author for your work when submitting your manuscript for review.
The Corresponding Author will be responsible for the following:
- ensuring that all authors are identified on the copyright agreement, and notifying the editorial office of any changes to the authorship.
- securing written permission (via letter or email) from each co-author to sign the copyright agreement on the co-author’s behalf.
- warranting and indemnifying the journal owner and publisher on behalf of all co-authors.
Although such instances are very rare, you should be aware that in the event a co-author has included content in his or her portion of the article that infringes the copyright of another or is otherwise in violation of any other warranty listed in the agreement, you will be the sole author indemnifying the publisher and the editor of the journal against such violation.
Please contact the editorial office if you have any questions or if you prefer to use a copyright agreement for all coauthors to sign.
