Submissions

Author Guidelines

Papers in the Croatian Journal of Education are published in English language with a text version (without illustrations and references) in Croatian language.

Paper submission. The paper is submitted without any information about the authors and without affiliations in the following format: A4 format, all margins 3 cm, font size 11 points. Font should be Calibri, single spaced (1.0). Italics are recommended instead of underlining.

The title. Centered, Calibri, sentence case, font size 14 points, bold, in English version Capitalize Each Word should be applied.

Abstract should have up to 1300 characters with spaces, should be written in Calibri, font size 11 points and italics. The text should indicate the purpose, the main findings and the conclusion of the paper. The abstract should be placed at the beginning of the paper, labelled Abstract, font size 12 points, bold. After the abstract, marked as Keywords there should be an alphabetized list of the most important concepts discussed in the paper (up to five terms not mentioned in the title of the paper and separated with a semi colon (;)).

The text of the research papers should basically consist of the following sections: Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement, Conflict of Interest, References. Subtitles should not be numbered, font should be Calibri, sentence case, font size 12 points, bold with one empty line above the subtitle. The first line in each paragraph should be indented and there should be no empty lines in between paragraphs. Automatic formatting with spacing above or after the paragraph should not be used.

Figures and tables should be black, white and grey, and positioned in the appropriate place within the text, font Calibri, size 10 points, centered. Write Table and the table number followed by the title of the table which should be in the next line and italicized. All graphs and tables should have a title, be numbered in the order in which they appear in the text (e.g. Table 1) and should be referred to in the text. The title of the table should be placed above the table, while the title of the figures or graphs should be placed below. All graphs, figures and tables should be created in accordance with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

Acknowledgement

List all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship, such as a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.

Disclosure of Conflict of Interest

It is the policy of Croatian Journal of Education to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in the Journal. All authors are expected to disclose to the readers any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest that may have a direct bearing on the subject matter of the article. All sources of funding of the papers submitted for publication, as well as possible authors’ and reviewers’ conflicts of interest must be clearly disclosed at the end of manuscript under the heading Acknowledgements.

Citations and references.

Croatian Journal of Education uses the APA system of reference (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed., 2020). Unless the referencing is in accordance with the APA style, the paper will be returned to the author prior to the reviewing procedure. The paper should include references and sources on the basis of which it was written, without bullets or numbering and with 1.0 hanging indentation (justified alignment). When other people’s syntagms, ideas, data, terms, etc. are cited, the source should be given in the text and not in the footnotes. References are given in brackets and should contain the author’s surname, year of publication and, in the case of a verbatim quotation, the page number (e.g. Rossi & Cassidy, 1999, p. 24; Vilke, 1993, p. 23). If the referenced work has more than two authors, both the first time the reference occurs and in subsequent citations only the surname of the first author should be included followed by et al. and the year of publication (e.g. Pastuović et al., 2003, p. 35), except where this would create ambiguity. When paraphrasing, the author’s name is written and the year of publication is given in brackets (e.g. Horvat (2001) claims that; Zarevski and Tominac (2008) maintain...). The reference list at the end of the paper (References) should include full information about all the works that are referred to in the paper, in alphabetical order according to the author’s surname (the works of the same author should be listed chronologically), in Latin alphabet. Furthermore, the publisher’s location is excluded from the reference list. The titles in the reference list need to be given in the language of the original, and their English translation should be given in square brackets []. When electronic sources are referenced, the exact web site from which the information was retrieved has to be stated and active links (hyperlinks) enabled. DOIs are formatted the same as URLs. URLs are not preceded by „Retrieved from“, unless a retrieval date is needed. The website name is included (unless it’s the same as the author).

Examples of referencing:

Rosenthal, R., Rosnow, R. L., & Rubin, D. B. (2000). Contrasts and effect sizes in behavioral research: A correlational approach. Cambridge University Press.

American Educational Research Association. (1985). Standards for educational and psychological testing. American Psychological Association.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (1999). Australia’s young people: Their health and wellbeing, the report on the health of young people aged 12-24 years. AIHW.

Hanna, K. (2007). Adsorption of aromatic carboxylate compounds on the surface of synthesized iron oxide-coated sands. Applied Geochemistry, 22(9), 2045-2053.

Kyratsis, A. (2004). Talk and interaction among children and the co-construction of peer groups and peer culture. Annual Review of Anthropology, 33(4), 231-247.

Parker, G., & Roy, K. (2001). Adolescent depression: A review. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 35(5), 572-580.

Friese, C., Hofmann, W., & Wanke, M. (2003). The impulsive consumer: Predicting consumer behavior with implicit reaction time measures. In M. Wanke (Ed.), Social psychology of consumer behavior (pp. 335-364). Psychology Press.

Hine, C. (2001). Ethnography in the laboratory. In D. N. Gellner & E. Hirsch (Eds.), Inside organizations: Anthropologists at work (pp. 61-76). Berg.

Payne, S. (1999). ‚Dangerous and different‘: Reconstructions of madness in the 1990s and the role of mental health policy. In S. Watson & L. Doyal (Eds.), Engendering social policy (pp. 180-195). Open University Press.

Balakrishnan, R. (2006, March 25-26). Why aren‘t we using 3d user interfaces, and will we ever? [Paper presentation].  IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces, Alexandria, VA. https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2006.148

Rowling, L. (1993, September). Schools and grief: How does Australia compare to the United States [Paper presentation]. In Wandarna coowar: Hidden grief. 8th National Conference of the National Association for Loss and Grief (Australia), Yeppoon, Queensland (pp. 196-201). National Association for Loss and Grief.

Hos, J. (2005). Mechanochemically synthesized nanomaterials for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell membranes [Unpublished PhD thesis]. University of Western Australia.

May, B. (2007). A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud. Canopus Publishing.

Eckes, T. (2000). The developmental social psychology of gender. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. https://prospero.murdoch.edu.au/record=b1600608

Ahmann, E., Tuttle, L. J., Saviet, M., & Wright, S. D. (2018). A descriptive review of ADHD coaching research: Implications for college students. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 31(1): 24-58. https://www.ahead.org/professional-resources/publications/jped/archived-jped/jped-volume-31

Paper length including abstract and references is determined according to paper categorisation and may not exceed:

• 25 standard pages for original research paper,
• 20 standard pages for preliminary communication,
• 30 standard pages for review paper,
• 17 standard pages for professional paper.

Standard page size is 1800 characters with spaces.

Manuscript Online Submission

MAKE A SUBMISSION

Before You begin pleas read the Submission Guidelines and manage the paper according it.

After You write the Title of the paper, select one of the three provided options of journal's sections:

• Basic Educational Sciences,
• Teaching Methodologies and Related Fundamental Sciences,
• Information and Communication Technologies and Other Sciences and Arts.

All submissions must meet the requirements stated in Submission Checklist. Select the role, give Privacy Consent and begin the submission.

Step 1: SUBMISSION DETAILS

Please provide the requested details to help us manage your submission in our system. Write full title, up to 6 keywords and Abstract (up to 250 words) in English. The process may continue by selecting Continue.

Step 2: UPLOAD FILES

Provide any files our editorial team may need to evaluate your submission. In addition to the main work, you may wish to submit data sets, conflict of interest statements, or other supplementary files if these will be helpful for our editors.

A question will appear below the uploaded document "What kind of file is this?". You must choose whether it is Article Text or other.

2.1. OPTIONAL

Suggestion of reviewers
The authors may upload also document and suggest up to five relevant reviewers (at least two foreign) who hold a PhD degree, excluding co-authors and employees of the authors’ institutions. Possible reviewers should be listed with their affiliation, institution name and email address. However, the final selection of reviewers will be determined by the Editors.

The Article Text needs to be prepared in accordance with the Submission Guidelines in Open Office or Microsoft Word document, with the information about the authors omitted for blind review. The paper is submitted in English language with the title, abstract, tables, figures and graphs positioned in the appropriate place in the text, followed by the reference list and appendices. Appendices should be avoided wherever possible, unless they are crucial for the paper. The authors also need to submit the Croatian version of the title, abstract and the manuscript with the omission of tables, figures, graphs and references. The authors submitting the Croatian version of the paper are kindly requested to specify the position of tables and illustrations in the paper marking it with e.g. Table 1; Figure 1. The process may continue by selecting Continue.

Step 3: CONTRIBUTORS

In this step, data about all authors need to be entered in the appropriate order and the name of the Principal Contact for the Editorial Correspondence needs to be specified. If there are multiple authors, their information can be added using the option Add Contributor. In case the order of the authors needs to be changed You have option Order, or if an author needs to be removed from the submission, select the option Delete Author. All data about authors enter in English language, with the name of the author’s  Bio Statement and Affiliated institution and the postal code specified. The author’s country  needs to be selected from the drop-down menu. The process may continue by selecting Continue.

Step 4: FOR THE EDITORS

Add any information that you think our editorial staff should know when evaluating your submission. The process may continue by selecting Continue.

Step 5: REVIEW

Review the information you have entered before you complete your submission. You can change any of the details displayed here by clicking the edit button at the top of each section. The process finish by selecting Submit.

Paper Categorization

Papers are categorized as research papers, professional papers and other. Research papers can be divided into the following categories: original research paper, preliminary communication and review paper.

Publication Cost

To authors whose papers have been accepted for publication will be sent Invoice to pay 200 €. For that fee to authors will be delivered five copies of the offprint of the same quality as the journal and one copy of the issue for the first author. Authors who may not submit their paper in both languages will be offered a translation for a fee according to the previously mentioned price (translation from Croatian language into English and vice versa at 20 € per standard page, paid after the paper has been accepted and before it is published). In addition, all texts which require more than 16 proofreading corrections per standard page will be charged additionally in the amount of 8 € per standard page. Standard page size is 1800 characters with spaces. All prices include VAT.

PAYMENT CAN BE MADE TO

IBAN HR9124020061100639639, SWIFT ESBCHR22

credit reference number 661514

The Faculty of Teacher Education in Zagreb

with a note: (your paper ID number) __________ –

Croatian Journal of Education