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Author Guidelines

General Information about Content

Please note: Only papers that are uploaded using the online submission system of JEDICT will be considered. Please do not send papers as email attachments to the Editors.

Before uploading a paper for consideration for publication in IJEDICT, please check that the content is relevant by reading other articles in IJEDICT. We strongly recommend that you start by doing a search through IJEDICT for articles that are relevent to your field and then using, referring to, and even quoting these in developing your article for the IJEDICT readership.

Submissions are invited for all sections of this journal. Refereed research articles should be between 3,500 and 7000 words in length. Project descriptions for the "Project Sheets" section should be between 500-1500 words in length. Descriptive articles and case studies for the "From the Field" section should be 2000-5000 words in length. Research-in-progress, reviews, reports, notes and other submissions can be any length (within reason). Submissions can be in Microsoft Word .doc (not .docx), Rich Text Format (RTF), equivalent Open Source document file format, or HTML format.

General Formatting Information

Do not use "styles" - instead use the simple formatting "bold" or "italic".

Please use Arial 12-point font for the Title, which should be in bold "title" (upper and lower) case.

Use Arial 10-point font for the remainder of your article.

Use single spacing throughout. Use for a space between paragraphs (do not use Word style to give the space).

First level headings should be in bold upper case, and second level headings in bold upper and lower case.

No footnotes please - instead use endnotes.

Photographs, maps, diagrams and other audio-visual aids are encouraged. Please include these in the text where and as they should appear. Please provide images in gif or jpeg formats.

Click to download the IJEDICT Author's Guidelines actually presented in the format required.

Abstracts

Please provide an abstract of approximately 100 words. The abstract should be included with the rest of your article in the submission file, but it should also be copied into the appropriate text box during the on-line submission process.

Biography

Please supply a short (100 word) biography for each author. This should include the name, rank, institution, institutional address, and email address. Do not place the biography in your submission file but copy it into the appropriate text box during the on-line submission process.

Style

Submitted manuscripts must be written in the Harvard editorial style, brief details of which are included below:

References should relate only to material cited within the manuscript and be listed in alphabetical order, including the author's name, complete title of the cited work, title of the source, volume, issue, year of publication, and pages cited. See the following examples:

Marshall, S. 1991. "A genre-based approach to the teaching of report-writing". English for Specific Purposes, vol. 10, no.1, pp. 3-13.

Taylor, W. & Marshall, S. 2002. "Collaboration: the Key to Establishing Community Networks in Regional Australia", Informing Science, vol. 5, pp. 155-162.

Marshall, S., Taylor, W., & Yu, X. (eds.) 2003. Closing the Digital Divide: Transforming Regional Economies and Communities with Information Technology, Greenwood Publishing, Westport CT.

Citations in the text should include the author's name and year of publication where you use the source in the text, as in the following examples:

In this way, information technology can be seen to effect and influence changes in organisational structure (Orlikowski & Robey 1991).

Edwards (1995, p.250) views the globalising of distance education as "invested with the uniform cultural messages of modernity - of mastery, progress and moral superiority through the development of reason".

Globalisation, especially in relation to open and distance education, will reduce the tolerance of difference and so "how can local issues and contexts be addressed?" (Evans 1995, p.314).

Further information about the Harvard editorial style can be found at:

http://library.curtin.edu.au/referencing/harvard.html

http://www.lmu.ac.uk/lskills/open/sfl/content/harvard/index.html

Submission Preparation Checklist (All items required)

•	The submission has not been previously published nor is it before another journal for consideration; or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor.
•	The submission file is in Microsoft Word 97/2000 .doc (not Word 2007 .docx), Rich Text Format (RTF), equivalent Open Source document file format, or HTML format.
•	All URL addresses are activated and ready to click (e.g., http://pkp.ubc.ca) in the text or reference list.
•	The text is single-spaced; uses Arial 10-point font; uses italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); uses simple formatting - not "styles"; and has the figures and tables placed within the text, rather than at the end.
•	A 100 word abstract has been prepared and included in the manuscript as well as placed separately in the appropriate text box at the time of upload of metadata.
•	A 100 word biography of the author has been prepared but NOT included in the manuscript (the biography will be submitted separately with the other metadata).
•	The text is written in the Harvard editorial style.
•	If the journal section is peer reviewed, author identification has been removed, and "Author" and year have been used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of authors' names, titles, etc. The author's name has been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.
•	I have followed the IJEDICT Author's Guidelines and understand that my article will not be accepted in any other format.

Copyright Notice

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. It may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes, provided that the original author is credited.

Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings.

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International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology. ISSN: 1814-0556