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How to submit

All submissions to the journal should be made via the journals submission system, at http://ucl.jams.pub. Please firstly login or register for a new author profile in the submission system.

  • Manuscripts should be formatted according to the London Review of Education author guidelines (https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/lre/site/author-guidelines).
  • Manuscripts that are not formatted appropriately for the journal may be referred to edit accordingly before peer review.
  • Please also note that the journal runs a continuous publication model – articles are published in the journal as and when they are ready.
  • The journal generally welcomes articles of around 6-8,000 words that reveal links between research, policy, and practice, and which analyse key themes in education, including public goals and policies, pedagogy, curriculum, organization, resources and technology, and institutional effectiveness.

When you are ready you can submit here:

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Important notice

Information gathered when registering with the UCL Press Journals Submission System (http://ucl.jams.pub) is used for the purposes of publication in the journal, including peer-review, typesetting, copyediting, proofreading, and online open access publication.


Submission enquiries
Submission enquiries should be sent to the Editors by email to ioe.reviews@gmail.com.


Submission statement of intent

Upon submitting, the article is considered under review for possible publication on the condition that it is submitted solely to the London Review of Education and that the article or a substantial portion of it is not under consideration and has not been published elsewhere. By submitting, authors are agreeing that the submission is original except for material in the public domain and such excerpts of other works have written permission of the copyright owner. Where there is potential for duplication, authors must correctly reference and cite the work.

By way of submitting, all authors have read and agree to the journal’s Editorial Policy (https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/site/editorial_policy) and the Journals Contributor Agreement, found publicly available online at https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/site/licence.


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 London Review of Education 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 blinded.


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/lre/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 ioe.reviews@gmail.com.