FOR AUTHORS

SUBMIT AN ARTICLE

If you are interested in publishing an article in the Education Research Quarterly, please see the Author Guidelines and Submission Preparation Checklist below. To submit the text, go to the ICI Publishers Panel.

Submitting the manuscript:

1. 1. Register in the ICI Publishers Panel system by following the instructions displayed in sequence.
   2. Log in to the system and select the Author context. Select Add Manuscript (in the center of the screen).
   3. At the Journals page find “Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny”  (the Education Research Quarterly) by entering its Polish title or ISSN / E-ISSN number and click Select on the right side.
   4. Proceed to completing the following steps of the form, but first download a PDF file with a detailed manual (in the upper right corner of the screen).
   5. When submitting a manuscript, do not forget to include a file with the NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR, which should contain: your name and surname, academic title, current place of employment, scientific interests, and book publications (title and year of publication) – 60-70 words maximum.

Submission Preparation Checklist

• • The manuscript is the original work to which the author has full rights.
  • The manuscript was not previously published, nor was it submitted for publication in another journal.
  • The manuscript meets the requirements of one of the three types of articles published in the journal:
    • an original article,
    • a review article,
    • a scientific review.
  • The manuscript is prepared according to the Author Guidelines.

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

We invite Authors to submit manuscripts in the form of an original article, review article, and scientific review.

If you intend to publish your text in the Education Research Quarterly, please follow the rules below when preparing the manuscript:

• • The text with bibliography should not exceed 8,000 words.
  • Include a 200-250 word abstract. The abstract should include the following: purpose of the research, main research question and the research methods, conclusions, topicality and scientific novelty of the article.

• • Include 5-7 keywords.
  • Formatting rules: Times New Roman 12; line spacing 1.5; standard margins (2.5 cm on all sides); text contained in one column; tables must fit within the text page area (portrait or landscape orientation); do not use the hyphenation function.
  • Save the file in RTF, DOC, DOCX or ODT format.
  • Drawings, illustrations, photos, maps and other graphic materials should be sent separately in JPEG format. Graphics should not be smaller than 300 x 500 pixels. All graphic materials in the text should be marked, numbered (eg Fig. 1) and their sources should be given. If you use someone else’s graphic material, please send the author’s permission for their use.
  • Send the tables in a separate file, in DOC or DOCX format. Tables must be marked and numbered, same as pictures . You must also provide their sources and send consent for their use, if someone else is the author.
  • Both graphics and tables should be sent in black and white.
  • Please provide full contact details (name and surname, correspondence address, e-mail address, telephone number) and indicate the corresponding author.
  • Articles must be anonymous for Reviewers, so please remove all information identifying the Authors of the article from the text, links, footnotes and bibliography.
  • Keep the use of footnotes to a minimum (copyright notices and supplemental text information).
  • Use APA citation style.
  • Suggested paper layout:
    • • Introduction
      • Literature review
      • Methodology & methods
      • Findings
      • Discussion
      • Conclusions
      • References

IN-TEXT CITATIONS

The bibliographic reference shall be placed directly in the text in brackets and contain only the name of the author, the year of publication of the work, and the page number, e.g. (Jaeger, 2000, p. 5); (Filipiak, Lemańska-Lewandowska, 2015, p. 30).

When the author’s name is part of the discussion, in brackets include only the year of publication, e.g. Jaeger (2000) argues that…

When referring to multiple works by the same author, put them in chronological order: (Jones, 1998, 2005). When citing more than one work published by the same author in the same year, the following record shall be used: (Kozakiewicz, 2001a, 2001b).

When referring to several authors, an alphabetical order shall be used: (Frith, 2015, p. 148; Spitzer, 2008, p. 111).

If the quoted work is by two authors, both names shall be cited: (Johnson & Patrick, 2007, p. 30).
If there are three to five authors, all surnames should be cited when mentioned for the first time: (Martin, Johnson, Peters, & Smith, 2014). In subsequent mentions, “et al.” should be used: (Martin et al., 2014).
If the cited work is by six authors (or more), use the name of the first author followed by “et al.”: (Brown et al., 2020).

REFERENCES

The list of the works cited should be included at the end of the text in the References section. Examples:

Book

One author

Surname, A. B. (year). Title of the book: Subtitle. Place: Publisher.

Howe, C. (2010). Peer groups and children’s development. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Two authors 

Surname1, A. B., & Surname2, C. D. (year). Title of the book. Place: Publisher.

Three authors and more (up to seven authors)

Surname1, A. B., Surname2, C. D., Surname3, E. F., & Surname4, G. H. (year). Title of the book: Subtitle. Place: Publisher.

Edited book

Editor, J. K. (Ed.). (year). Title of the book: Subtitle. Place: Publisher.

Day, C. (Ed.). (2012). The Routledge international handbook of teacher and school development. London: Routledge.

Editor, J. K., Editor, B. D., & Editor, J. Z. (Eds.). (year). Title of the book: Subtitle. Place: Publisher.

Lamb, S., Markussen, E., Teese, R., Sandberg, N., & Polesel, J. (Eds). (2011). School dropout and completion: International comparative studies in theory and policy. Dordrecht: Springer.

Chapter in an edited book

Author, J. F. (year). Title of the chapter. In J. K. Editor (Ed.), Title of the book: Subtitle (pp. first page–last page). Place: Publisher.

D’Angelo, A. & Kaye, N. (2018). Disengaged students: Insights from the RESL.eu international survey. In L. Van Praag, W. Nouwen, R. Van Caudenberg, N. Clycq, & C. Timmerman (Eds.), Comparative perspectives on early school leaving in the European Union (pp. 17–32). Oxon: Routledge.

Article in a journal

One author:

Author, A. K. (year). Title of the article: Subtitle. Journal Title, volume(issue), page–numbers.

Helgeson, V. S. (2003). Social support and quality of life. Quality of Life Research, 1(12), 25–31.

Two authors 

Author1, A. K., & Author2, B. E. (year). Title of the article: Subtitle. Journal Title, volume(issue), page–numbers.

Dekkers, H., & Driessen, G. (1997). An evaluation of the educational priority policy in relation to early school leaving. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 23(3), 209–230.

Three to seven authors

Author1, A. K., Author2, B. E., Author3, D. C., Author4, R. T., & Author5, S. P. (year). Title of the article: Subtitle. Journal Title, volume(issue), page–numbers.

Fredricks, J. A., Blumenfeld, F. C., & Paris, A. H. (2004). School engagement: Potential of the concept, state of the evidence. Review of Educational Research, 74(1), 59–109.

Reports

Author, P. R. (year). Title of the report. Place: Institution.

Jasińska-Maciążek, A., & Tomaszewska-Pękała, H. (2017). Reducing early school leaving: Toolkit for schools. How to identify and monitor students and schools in need of additional care and support. Warsaw: University of Warsaw.

Online materials

Author, B. (date). Title of the text. Retrieved from http://xxx

AUTHOR’S STATEMENT

If your article has been accepted for publication, please complete the Author’s Statement and send the scan to: kwartalnik.pedagogiczny@uw.edu.pl