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Author Guidelines

Contributions must be original and not previously submitted elsewhere for publication. Contributions should add to knowledge and understanding of vocational education and training and be aimed at improving policy making and practice in this field. All manuscripts are expected to be analytical, with reports of studies interpreted both in terms of the theoretical literature and in terms of contemporary issues in vocational education and training.

Articles may be submitted to the refereed section of the journal or to the Policy and Practice section. The Policy and Practice section takes shorter articles of a more practical and applied nature.

Refereeing

All articles submitted to the refereed section of the journal are subject to the conventional double-blind refereeing system. Articles submitted to the Policy and Practice section are single blind refereed. All articles are peer reviewed.

Initial submission

The publisher, eContent Management Pty Ltd, uses a semi-automated manuscript tracking system to receive and accept reviews of research articles, case studies and literature reviews. Manuscripts submitted for publication are subject to a peer review process. To ensure prompt review of your manuscript, and to preserve anonymity in the review process, please observe the instructions on-screen and take note that:

  1. Manuscripts should be saved as a Microsoft Word or Open Office Writer files. These should contain: title of the manuscript, key words, article text, references, figures, and tables in that order, as one document.

  2. A 100-150-word abstract is loaded into the new submission form. You should cut/paste it from a existing document.

  3. Do not include any author information or acknowledgements in the manuscript or abstract. In Microsoft Word, please check the box 'Remove personal information from file properties on save' under Tools/Options/Security. Open Office users should consult this online help wiki for removing personal user data.

  4. Your manuscript will be forwarded directly to reviewers and should not contain any identifying information.

  5. Other information such as manuscript title, author postal and email contact details are added on the next page. All correspondence will be sent to the the first listed author.

  6. Please list all authors in the order they are to appear on the title page.

  7. Acknowledgements are added to the manuscript by the author following peer review and acceptance to publish.

Style Guide

The Journal uses the APA Formatting and Style Guide 6th edition for the formatting of submissions. This is a link to an easy to use guide to the APA requirements. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/1/  For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, second printing.

 'American' or 'English' spellings are acceptable, providing they are used consistently. Translation of articles from other languages into English is encouraged and should be provided by professional translators. The Editors reserve the right to make editorial and literary corrections.

 

The contributor's name, status and contact details should not appear in the manuscript to ensure anonymity in reviewing.

Tabular and statistical materials, graphs, figures and charts should be kept to a minimum. Illustrations, graphs and charts can be uploaded in seperate files in formats suitable for publication. Only horizontal lines should be presented in tables.

Notes and bibliographical details should be given at the end of the article. Footnotes and endnotes should be avoided.

Body of manuscript should be one document file commencing with the manuscript title; an Abstract of about 100-150 words; at least 6 Key words; the article text; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Figures and Tables - in that order.

Acknowledgements should not be included in the text but in the covering metadata, to preserve anonymity during the review process. It will be reinserted prior to publication.

Citations and References should be accurate, timely and consistent throughout. The journal uses an adaptation of Harvard Referencing Style as outlined below. Please ensure that in-text citations appear in References, and vice-versa as appropriate. The accuracy and format of reference citations is the authors' responsibility

Photographs: If author photographs are to be supplied, they should be clear, with good contrast, be of the head and shoulders, and be cropped to approximately 40mm x 50-mm in dimension.

Electronic black and white (greyscale) TIFFs of high resolution (300 dpi minimum) are preferred, around 300 KB in size.

Low resolution (ie under 150 dpi) JPEGs or GIFs are NOT suitable for printing. Do not repeat-save JPEGs, because the JPEG automatically compresses with each save, thereby losing detail each time.

Supplementary Files: Authors can also upload files of photographs, figures, tables and graphics as Supplementary Files. This should be in addition to inserting them in your manuscript.

Headings and Sections: The use of sub-headings is recommended, but such sub-headings should not be numbered. The first level of sub-heading should be bold capitals; the second, bold lower case; and the third, underlined lower case.

Main headings (all capital letters; centered) are first and should be used to identify the (normal) three or four major sections of the manuscript. It is unnecessary to have a heading such as 'Introduction'.
Second-level headings (title-style; flush left; nothing else on the line) are next.
Third-level headings (first letter of first word capitalized; indented and italicized) are next.

Examples:
METHODS

Data and Sample Measures

Independent variable

References:  References in the text should give the author's name and year of publication (with page number if necessary) according to the Harvard system with minimal capitalisation. References should be formatted as per examples:

Menacker, J 1975, From school to college: Articulation and transfer, American Council on Education, Washington, DC.

Anderson, D S 1966, 'Some implications of competitive entry to the university', The Australian University, vol 4, no.3, pp210-221.

Blaxter, M 1976, 'Social class and health inequalities', in Equalities and inequalities in health, eds C Carter and J Peel, Academic Press, London

 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. Author Warranties: by submission of material to the International Journal of Training Research (IJTR), all authors warrant that the material is their own, original material or that copyright clearance has been acquired to reproduce other material from employers, third parties or attributed to third parties, and that the material has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  2. Authors have secured the release of any copyright material and can provide written evidence to this effect to eContent Management Pty Ltd. It is also the author’s responsibility to obtain clearance for reproduction from the organization which commissioned the work if applicable. Submission of material to IJTR implies all authors’ consent to assignment of the material’s copyright to eContent Management Pty Ltd when that material is accepted for publication in the journal, for the full legal term of copyright and any renewals thereof throughout the world in all formats and in any medium of communication.
  3. By submitting material to IJTR, all authors of the material agree to indemnify eContent Management Pty Ltd, and its heirs and assigns in business, against any litigation or claims that may arise from the content of or opinions in the material provided. Submission of material to IJTR also implies all authors’ consent to assignment of the material’s copyright to eContent Management Pty Ltd when that material is accepted for publication in the journal, for the full legal term of copyright and any renewals thereof throughout the world in all formats and in any medium of communication.

    If the corresponding author is no longer active any of the other authors may become the corresponding author and they will accordingly be bound by these terms and conditions

    (Note: On acceptance for publication, an agreement specifying the terms noted here and above will be sent to the corresponding author for signature by the corresponding author who is duly authorized to sign this agreement on behalf of all authors and contributors. No printers proof will be sent to the author. The copy provided by the author on acceptance is the version used for typesetting. The publisher reserves the right to make editing corrections.)

  4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  6. You have created a title-page file from your original manuscript and removed all identifying information from the text and document properties.  Note: the submission process requires the abstract and keywords to be copied into the submission form.
  7. All citations refer to a publication listed in the References section of the manuscript and all references have been cited in the text.
 

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International Journal of Training Research
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ISSN 1448-0220
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