The Community College Review (CCR) is a refereed journal. Its editorial staff relies on the advice of an editorial board composed of community college educators and scholars. The staff reviews all submissions and assigns those manuscripts that meet style and topic guidelines to at least two reviewers for evaluation. Reviewers include members of the editorial board and researchers who have a background in the topic addressed by the manuscript.
Please submit manuscripts as attachments to an e-mail message sent to:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ccr
CCR's editorial staff uses the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 5th edition) as its principal style guide. When questions of style cannot be decided using the APA manual, additional references consulted include The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition). The following brief instructions summarize some basic guidelines:
Submit manuscripts for consideration with one-inch margins all around, paragraphs indented five spaces, and pages clearly numbered in the upper right-hand corner. Manuscripts should be from 20 to 35 double-spaced pages in length, including references.
Preface the manuscript text with a title page that includes the name, title, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number of each author. In addition, please provide an abstract that briefly summarizes the manuscript’s content in no more than 50 words.
Use tables, graphs, and figures when the data summarized in the text are especially important to the research findings being presented. Tables should be typed and double-spaced following the format prescribed in the APA manual. Figures and graphs should be submitted as printed originals in camera-ready form using graphics or spread-sheet software.
Use citations instead of footnotes. Information from other sources should be documented with a citation in parentheses indicating the last names of the authors cited and the years of publication. Citations for quoted material should include page numbers from the referenced source.
Provide a reference list of cited sources at the end of a manuscript. This reference list should be double spaced. Include only those sources that have been cited in the text. The reference list should follow the format prescribed in the APA manual. Begin the reference list on a new page after the last page of the text.
Please check references and citations to ensure that complete and correct information is provided.
Please feel free to contact the CCR editorial office for additional information:
Community College Review
North Carolina State University
Box 7801
Raleigh, NC 27695-7801
Telephone: (919) 515-6248
Fax: (919) 515-4039
e-mail: community_college_review@ncsu.edu
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