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Author Guidelines

General
Welcome to Learning and Performance Quarterly.  LPQ accepts qualitative, quantitative and theoretical submissions related to learning and performance. We value your work and contributions to learning and performance. Submitted manuscripts must be original, scientifically accurate, and in good form editorially. The manuscript should be significant, relevant, and informative. Manuscripts should summarize the basic facts and conclusions, and maintain a coherence and unity of thought. Furthermore, findings/conclusions must be literature or data-based using rigorous methods addressing appropriate questions.  Each submitted manuscript must identify its contribution to the field of learning and performance all contributions to the field and any potential further research. Tutorial or how-to-do-it articles should preferably include a section on evaluation. Controversial topics should be treated in a factually sound and reasonably unbiased manner.

Preview
Authors may voluntarily submit manuscripts to the Editor for review. Before submitting an article, please consider the following suggestions. Manuscripts received in compliance with LPQ specifications will serve to expedite the processing and prompt reviewing for early publication. Submitted manuscripts should be grammatically correct and formatted according to APA, 6th edition guidelines, which includes spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and the mechanical elements of arrangements, spacing, length, and consistency of usage in form and descriptions, prior to submission.

Pre-publication
LPQ will not consider manuscripts which have already been published or are being considered by another journal. Authors must include a statement with their letter that the manuscript has not been published and is not under consideration elsewhere.

Handling of Manuscripts
All manuscripts are acknowledged upon receipt. Review is performed out as promptly as possible. The manuscript will be reviewed by at least three members of the Editorial Review Board, which takes usually no more than two months. When a decision for publication or rejection is made, the senior author or author designated to receive correspondence is notified. At the time of notification, the author may be asked to make certain revisions in the manuscript, or the Editor may submit suggested revisions to the author for approval. Authors will be required to complete a transfer of copyright for each article accepted for publication.

All papers should adhere to Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition

 

Applies to Book Reviews
LPQ accepts reviews of current scholarly books on topics related to research, policy, or practices in the field.  Book reviews may be submitted or invited to either themed or open-topic issues of the journal.  Preference will be given in the review process to book review essays that comment on two or more related books.  Book review essays should not exceed 3,800 words and should include city, state, publisher, and year of the book's publication.  An abstract of 150 words or less and keywords are required for book review essays.  Reviews of single books should not exceed 1,900 words.  At the beginning of the text please include title, author, publisher, city, date, and page numbers of the book(s) under review.  Because the editors submit book reviews to blind review, writers must exclude authors' names, institutions, and clues to the authors' identities except as citations.  Further questions can be posed to the editors at the email and postal addresses noted above.

 

 

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. Format
    The format of headings, tables, figures, citations, references, and other details should follow the APA, 6th Edition style as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association available from APA, 750 1st St., NE, Washington, DC 20002 USA.

    Abstract
    An informative, comprehensive abstract of 100 to 200 words must accompany the manuscript. This abstract should succinctly summarize the major points of the paper and the author's summary and/or conclusions.

    Key Words
    Keywords must be appropriately related to the submitted manuscript and limited to two typed lines with a comma separating each key word.

  2. Length
    In general, articles should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages (see below for specific requirements by type of submitted manuscript). Long articles or articles containing complex material should be broken down by short, meaningful subheadings.

  3. Presentation
    Accepted Submission File Formats - All submissions must be sent in electronic form using the Article Submission Form. No hard copy submission manuscripts will be accepted. A format which best preserves the "document look" is preferred. Submit your manuscript in either of the following formats: MS Word, Rich Text Format (RTF). Font size should be 12. All graphics should formatted to APA 6th Edition format; please send high quality attachments of graphics as a JPEG.

  4. Citations and References
    Citations and references should strictly follow American Psychological Association (APA), 6th Edition style guide with the required information thus allowing the reader to trace down the referenced source.  Avoid extensive self-citations to avoid identifying yourself as the author.  See Ensuring a Blind Review.

    All references should be in alphabetical order by author (unnumbered).  All references shall include the required information thus allowing the reader to trace down the referenced source.  Avoid extensive self-citations to avoid identifying yourself as the author. See Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
    The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
    Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided.
  5. Blind Review
    Manuscripts are blind reviewed so there should be no indication of the author(s) name on the pages (Headers, Footers, or Title Page).     If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  6. Submission Logistics
    All manuscripts shall be electronically submitted.  Physical documents will not be accepted.  Once a document has been received, an acknowledgement shall be initiated using the provided email address.  Please Double Check the accuracy of your entry of your email address.     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).

 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:


  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).



 

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