Submissions

Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure that you have read the journal's Author Guidelines and the information below.

All submissions to our journals are made through the online submission system. You will be asked to log in to an existing account or register for a new account.

Information provided during registration and submission is used solely for journal operations and publication processes, including peer review, editorial management, production, and online publication.

To help ensure a smooth review process, please make sure your manuscript complies with the journal's formatting and submission requirements. Manuscripts that do not meet the journal's guidelines may be returned to authors for amendment before they can proceed to review.

When you are ready, please click the submission button below.

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Submission Enquiries

Submission enquiries should be sent to the editorial office at editors@internationaljournalofsocialpedagogy.com  

Submission statement of intent

By submitting, you confirm that:

  1. The article is considered under review for possible publication on the condition that it is submitted solely to the journal and that the article, or a substantial portion of it, is not under consideration and has not already been published under another publisher’s imprint.

  2. You agree to the UCL Press Author Contributor Agreement Terms on behalf of yourself and all of your co-authors (if any) and understand that these terms apply to the article when published:
    Author Contributor Agreement Terms

  3. You have read through the journals Editorial policies carefully to ensure the submission follows the required ethical standards for publication, as outlined on the UCL Press editorial policy pages:
    Editorial policies

  4. You are either the sole author of the article submitting to the journal or, where you are a co-author of the article, you are authorised by all of the article’s co-authors to submit the article on the basis of the UCL Press Author Contributor Agreement Terms:
    Author Contributor Agreement Terms

  5. That all figures, images, or other materials included in your manuscript are either original to you the author(s) or are cleared by the copyright holder for reproduction in the journal with full copyright permission. Where permission is required, you confirm that you have secured the right to reuse the material for publication in this open‑access journal and have cited the source in accordance with the journal’s referencing style, as outlined in the UCL Press Author Contributor Agreement Terms:
    Author Contributor Agreement Terms

Any breach of the UCL Press Journal Author Contributor Agreement terms or the declarations made in this checklist may lead to withdrawal of the manuscript from consideration or retraction of the published article.


Acceptable use of AI-assisted technologies in articles

Please refer to UCL Press's Principles on the use of AI-assisted technologies in articles here.

Broadly, the use of AI-assisted technologies and tools should not replace key authoring tasks and applying AI technology should be done with transparency and human oversight. All the work should be reviewed and edited carefully, because AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or biased.


Authorship and author consent

All listed authors must have made a significant contribution to the article in the manuscript and have approved all its claims. Where necessary to clarify this, authors are required to include an authorship statement in their manuscript to outline how each author contributed to the paper, after any acknowledgements in the article – please note that this information should be removed from the main manuscript file for peer review.

UCL Press adheres to the statement of authorship as outlined by the ICMJE statement (https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html) and considers an author of an article to have:


  1. made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
  2. drafted the work or revised it critically for important intellectual content; AND
  3. made final approval of the version to be published; AND
  4. agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

For suspected and incorrect authorship, UCL Press journals will refer to the UCL Press Journals Editorial Policy as outlined at https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/site/editorial_policy and follow COPE guidelines.


Anonymisation

Double anonymised peer review


The International Journal of Social Pedagogy operates double anonymised peer review, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised during review. Authors are required to submit an anonymised version of the manuscript, stripped of all identifying references to the author(s) for peer review, in addition to the main manuscript word file as described below.

  1. The complete manuscript not anonymised, as a word file (.doc/.docx, etc.) and;
  2. An anonymised PDF version of the manuscript, stripped of all identifying references to the author(s) for peer review (anonymisation includes references to authors, acknowledgements, self references, and any electronic author identification., etc.)

Manuscripts may be returned before peer review if manuscripts are not sufficiently anonymised.


ORCID

We strongly encourage authors submitting to the London Review of Education to provide their ORCID identification number during submission. ORCID (http://orcid.org) provides researchers with a unique identifier that can be kept throughout their career and can be used in publications and grant applications. ORCID distinguishes between researchers with similar names, and helps ensure that publications are attributed and recorded correctly. It also helps researchers to comply with funders’ open access requirements. Funders, such as the Wellcome Trust and the UK Research Councils, now require or recommend the use of ORCID alongside systems like Researchfish that can link with ORCID.


How do I get an ORCID?

Researchers should register for an ORCID identification number by going to http://orcid.org and following the registrations instructions.


Submission preparation checklist

  1. Please submit your paper with an abstract of about 250 words and at least 5 keywords.
  2. Please submit the text double-spaced in Times New Roman 12-point font.
  3. Please ensure that you have followed the author guidelines at https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/ijsp/site/author-guidelines and two manuscripts are submitted (one non-anonymised word document file and one anonymised PDF file for peer review).
  4. Before submitting to the journal, all authors must have read and agreed to the journal’s editorial policy (https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/site/editorial_policy) and the above submission statement of intent.
  5. Any enquiries can be sent via email to the journal Editors at the editorial office admin@internationaljournalofsocialpedagogy.com.