Submissions

Author Guidelines

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

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

 The Croatian Journal of Education publishes research and professional papers which directly or indirectly reflect the topics related to academic theoretical and applied disciplines both in Croatia and abroad. The editorial board strives to make CJE a place where scientists from different disciplines are able to publish the results of their scientific research as well as professional and theoretical studies closely related to education.

Papers in the Croatian Journal of Education are published in both the English and Croatian language, without illustrations or references in the Croatian version.

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, followed by the preliminary review of methodology and a double blind review. After the review procedure, the papers are returned to the authors with reviewers’ suggestions for improvement, or they are rejected. The editorial board members read the revised paper and, provided adequate improvements have been made, select it 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• Papers have to be previously unpublished and they cannot be under consideration for publication in other journals; however, if the paper has been submitted elsewhere, the editorial board of the 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 has been accepted or rejected.

The accepted language for the categorized papers is English, with the Croatian translation (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 abide by these stipulations are offered a translation for a fee based on the market price of 20€ per standard page. The fee is paid after the paper has been accepted and before its publication. Standard page size is 1,800 characters with spaces. Proofreading is provided for all well-prepared texts. All prices include VAT.

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.

Permissions and consent

The authors confirm that copies of all permissions for reproducing the published material, using illustrations, presenting information about identifiable individuals or naming individuals for their contributions have been submitted with the manuscript. All used research instruments must be legally obtained; in other words, authors are required to present written consent from the copyright holder, publisher or author, granting them the right to use the instrument.

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, prevention of plagiarism, authorship criteria, disclosure of conflicts of interest and ethical responsibilities of authors, reviewers and editors.

Conflict of interest

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

Plagiarism checker

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

Corrections and withdrawals

The journal is dedicated to preserving the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record. If necessary, the journal can publish: corrections, clarifications, expressions of concern or withdrawals. Retractions may be issued in cases of serious ethical misconduct, plagiarism, falsification of data, double publication or major errors that invalidate the findings of the paper.

Ethical violation

The editorial board will investigate allegations of unethical behaviour. If a violation is confirmed, the journal reserves the right to reject manuscripts, withdraw published articles, inform competent institutions and take other appropriate editorial measures.

Content powered by artificial intelligence

Authors must disclose the use of generative artificial intelligence tools in manuscript preparation. Artificial intelligence tools should not be listed as authors, as they cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy, integrity or originality of scientific work. Authors remain fully responsible for all content submitted to the journal.

Reviewers

Before publication, each paper undergoes peer review. Each submitted paper is reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, all of whom are prominent scientists in their field of research and independently evaluate the submitted papers. Reviewers are generally not compensated, but the journal keeps records of successful review procedures for each reviewer individually. Reviewers can obtain statistical data on completed reviews at any time for the purpose of their scientific advancement.

Paper submission

Technical design of the paper

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

Online paper submission: The papers may be submitted exclusively online at URL address https://ojs.srce.hr/cje

Paper submission. Papers are submitted without any information about the authors and without affiliations in the A4 format, with 3 cm margins and the font size of 11 points. The font should be Calibri with single spacing (1.0). Italics are recommended instead of underlining.

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

The abstract should have up to 1,300 characters with spaces. It should be written in Calibri and Italics font in 11 points sizes. The text should indicate the purpose, main findings and conclusion of the paper. The abstract should be placed at the beginning of the paper, labeled Abstract, in 12 points bold font. 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 semicolon (;)).

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

Figures and tables should be black, white and grey, positioned in the appropriate place within the text, font Calibri, 10 points font size, centered. The word Table and the table number should be written, followed by the title of the table which should be in the next line and italicized. All graphs and tables should have a title, and they should be numbered in the order they are referred to in the text (e.g., Table 1). 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 the conflict of interest

It is the policy of the 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 submitted papers, as well as possible authors’ and reviewers’ conflicts of interest must be clearly disclosed at the end of manuscript under the heading Acknowledgements.

Ethical approval and research integrity

All submitted manuscripts must strictly comply with the journal’s ethical standards and internationally accepted principles of research and publication ethics. Authors are fully responsible for ensuring the integrity, originality and ethical conduct within the research presented in the manuscript, including the protection of the rights, dignity and welfare of all participants, especially children and vulnerable groups. Research involving human participants must be conducted in accordance with relevant ethical guidelines and approved by the appropriate ethics committee, where applicable. Any form of plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification or unethical research practice is unacceptable and results in rejection of the manuscript.

Citations and references

The 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 is 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, 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 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 should be written, and the year of publication 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’s name is included (unless it’s the same as the author’s).

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, please read the Submission Guidelines and manage the paper accordingly.

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

2.1. OPTIONAL

Reviewer proposal

Authors may upload a document and propose up to five relevant reviewers (at least two foreigners) who hold a PhD, excluding co-authors and employees of the authors' institutions. Potential reviewers should be listed with their affiliation, institution’s name and email address. However, the final selection of reviewers will be determined by the editorial board.

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 the 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. Authors who submit 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 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, there is the Order option, or if an author needs to be removed from the submission, select the option Delete Author. All data about authors should be entered in the English language, with the name of the author’s bio statement, 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 provided information before completing the submission. You can change any of the details displayed here by clicking the edit button at the top of each section. The process is finished by selecting the Submit option.

Paper categorization

Papers are categorized as research papers, professional papers and other. Research papers are 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

An article processing charge (APC) is 300 euros and is charged to authors whose papers are accepted for publication. The amount of the fee is determined based on the costs associated with the preparation, editing and publication of the paper, including the costs of the preliminary review of methodology, proofreading, technical preparation, layout, printing and other justified costs of the publishing process. The authors who do not submit their papers in both languages will be offered a translation for the previously mentioned fee (from the Croatian language into English and vice versa at 20 € per standard page, paid after the paper has been accepted and before it is published). Standard page size is 1,800 characters with spaces. All prices include VAT.

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