Journal

The official Journal of the Academy is The Journal of the Academy for Educational History. New issues of the Journal will appear on online. The Journal is published in January and June. All articles submitted for the aforementioned publishing date must be submitted no later that 30 days before publication. The Editors are not responsible for delays in publication. Potential writers for the Journal should use the Chicago Manual of Style. An example might be as follows: (Jones 1989, 123). The list of references must appear at the end of the paper. Also please recheck all grammar and spelling before submitting papers.

The articles should be fresh, insightful and envision new and innovative aspects of educational history. The language used in the paper should be clear and provide positive approaches to the history of education. The publication welcomes unsolicited manuscripts, reviews and comments.

Articles should be 8 -15 double-spaced, typewritten pages. Excessively long manuscripts will be returned. Each article should include a short single spaced abstract. If you submit material that has been published be sure to indicate this. Articles may be submitted by electronic submission. Papers are submitted in either MSWord or Word Perfect as an e-mail attachment. Submissions are acknowledged within 48 hours but the evaluation process usually takes 1-2 weeks.

Topic of interest for the journal include but are not limited to: educational biographies, history of higher education, medieval educational history, American educational history, European educational history and other areas of history of education.

Citing within the Manuscript

The manuscript guidelines are as follows:

the on-line journal use of the The Chicago Manual of Style : The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, 15th edition .

The Chicago style, sometimes called documentary note or humanities style, places bibliographic citations at the bottom of a page or at the end of a paper. Although The Chicago Manual of Style also offer guidelines for parenthetical documentation and reference lists, the Chicago style [is] most commonly thought of as note systems.

tables submitted with articles must be submitted in a separate file;
all questions pertaining to formatting should be be sent to the Editors.

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Please send articles to the Editors. The Academy for Educational History