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.

Only the papers written and prepared in accordance with Submission guidelines will be considered for publication in CJE.

Online paper submission: The papers may be submitted exclusively online

Technical design of paper:

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 Acceptance Procedure

The Editor-in-Chief reads all submitted papers and assigns a general priority level. Papers are compared to the aim, standard and the concept of the journal, then the methodology is preliminary reviewed, and after that they are sent to two blind-reviews. Following the review procedure the papers are returned to the authors with reviewers’ suggestions for the improvement, or are rejected. The editorial board members read the revised paper and, provided adequate improvements have been made, it is selected for publication according to its categorization.

• Papers have to be previously unpublished and they cannot be under consideration for publication in other journals; however, if the paper has been submitted somewhere else, the editorial board of Croatian Journal of Education should be notified.
• The submission file should be in Open Office or Microsoft Word document file format.
• Where available, URL links appearing in the text should be enabled.
• The text of the paper should be edited in accordance with the Submission Guidelines.

The decision regarding publication will be made by the editorial board after considering the reviewers’ recommendations. The editorial board is under no obligation to provide justification of its decision regardless of whether the paper is accepted or rejected.

Languages accepted for the categorized papers are English with Croatian translation of the text (without illustrations). Authors are obliged to submit the paper in both languages and they take full responsibility for the quality of the translated text. Authors who do not submit their paper in both languages will be offered a translation for a fee according to the market price of 20€ per standard page. The fee will be paid after the paper has been accepted and before its publication. Standard page size is 1800 characters with spaces. Proofreading is provided for all well-prepared texts, however, all texts which require more than 16 proofreading corrections per standard page will be charged additionally in the amount of 8€ per standard page. All prices include VAT.

Publication Ethics and Code of Conduct

The journal adheres to internationally recognized standards of publication ethics and academic integrity. Editorial policies include procedures for corrections and retractions, plagiarism prevention, authorship criteria, conflict of interest disclosure, and ethical responsibilities of authors, reviewers, and editors.

Permissions and Consents

Authors certify that copies of all permissions to reproduce published material, to use illustrations, report information about identifiable people, or to name people for their contributions are submitted along with the manuscript. All the employed research instruments need to be legally obtained, in other words the authors are obliged to present a written consent by the rightsholder, the publisher or the author, granting them the right to use the instrument.

Conflict of Interest

All participants in the publication process — authors, reviewers, and editors — are required to disclose any actual or potential conflicts of interest that could influence the evaluation, interpretation, or publication of a manuscript. Where a conflict of interest exists, appropriate measures will be taken to ensure an impartial editorial process.

Plagiarism Screening

Submitted manuscripts may be checked using plagiarism-detection software. Manuscripts containing evidence of plagiarism, improper citation practices, or substantial overlap with previously published material may be rejected or returned to authors for clarification.

Corrections and Retractions

The journal is committed to preserving the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record. Where necessary, the journal may publish: corrections, clarifications, expressions of concern or retractions. Retractions may be issued in cases of serious ethical misconduct, plagiarism, data fabrication, duplicate publication, or major errors that invalidate the findings of the work.

Ethical Misconduct

Allegations of unethical behavior will be investigated by the editorial board. If misconduct is confirmed, the journal reserves the right to reject manuscripts, retract published articles, notify relevant institutions, and take other appropriate editorial measures.

AI-Assisted Content

The use of generative artificial intelligence tools in manuscript preparation must be disclosed by authors. AI tools may not be listed as authors, as they cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, or originality of scholarly work. Authors remain fully responsible for all content submitted to the journal.

Reviewers

Prior to publication, every paper is peer-reviewed. Each submitted paper is reviewed by a minimum of two independent reviewers who are all prominent scientists in their field of study and they independently evaluate submitted papers. Reviewers generally do not receive a fee, but the journal keeps a record of successful review procedures for each reviewer individually. At any given time, the reviewers may obtain the statistical data about the completed reviews for the purpose of their scientific advancement.

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 and Circulation

The journal is published four times a year in electronic form and with a circulation of 100 copies in printed form. The editorial board may agree to publish special issues in addition to the regular publications.

Publication Cost

The authors whose papers have been accepted for publication will be sent an invoice of 200 € for article processing charges (APC). 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 for 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

 

Copyright and Licensing

Copyright fees are generally defined only for the requested papers, in accordance with the corresponding regulations. After submitting their paper for publication in Croatian Journal of Education, authors accept, without additional conditions, the regulations according to which their papers will be published in the journal, as well as the publication of the paper in full or partially on the Croatian Journal of Education web site, i.e. the web site of the Faculty of Teacher Education in Zagreb and other related electronic portals. By submitting their papers to Croatian Journal of Education, authors accept the above-mentioned conditions. Authors retain copyright of their work unless otherwise specified by the journal’s publishing policy. By submitting a manuscript, authors grant the journal the right to publish and distribute the accepted work in accordance with the journal’s licensing and open-access policy.

All articles published in CJE are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of articles for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the journal. Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication.