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Author Guidelines

Types of Submission

Submissions will be considered in the following categories:

  • Papers: These may be on any topic relevant to engineering education in higher education and may take the form of pedagogic research papers, case studies, critical reviews and evaluations; they may describe investigations of new methods and the results of action research; they may consider policy matters and the changing context of engineering education. They should be written for a readership consisting primarily of engineering lecturers, and most contributors will be from that community; but contributions would also be welcome from education developers, employers, policy-makers, schools, FE colleges and those involved in IT, library and careers guidance support.

 

  • Comment:  Provide scholarly responses to previously published articles from the journal.  Such articles should provide further data/information/opinion together with appropriate support for views expressed.

Authors are encouraged to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the online version of the journal in the potential for use of video, audio, databases, images, animations and other electronic resources, subject to copyright limitations, that can be incorporated or provided as supporting appendices.

All papers must be relevant, topical, well-presented and supported by evidence and understanding of the literature.

 

Style Guide

General submission information

  • Papers must not exceed 5000 words in length.
  • The title should be less than 90 characters in length (including spaces) and describe the main theme of the paper.
  • Text should be in clear, concise, grammatical English, using English and not US spelling. SI units should be used.
  • Abstracts of between 150 and 250 words must be included.
  • Papers must be submitted electronically in a Microsoft Word format.
  • Text should have consecutively numbered pages.
  • All illustrations, figures, photographs, tables, boxes etc should be referenced in the text.
  • Do not try to recreate the look of the journal as this can hinder the production process. Supply your document in 11 or 12pt text, left-justified in Arial font. List all captions and references separately.
  • Clearly indicate the level of main headings and sub-headings.
  • Please use endnotes, not footnotes.
  • Citations to relevant published work are essential and should follow the Harvard Style.
  • Where acronyms are used, their full expression should be given initially.
  • Quotations - if the quotation is less than 2/3 lines, then it should be included in the main text enclosed in single quotation marks. If the quotation is more than 2/3 lines, then it should be separated from the main text and indented.

Page 1

Include:

  • Date written/revised and revision number.
  • Title of paper.
  • Full names and qualifications of all authors.
  • Positions/affiliations of all authors.
  • Identification of principal author.
  • Contact information.
  • Number of words.
  • List of tables, boxes, figures, photographs etc.
  • Up to six keywords.

Figures/photographs/illustrations/equations
Figures, photographs and illustrations should be sent electronically as jpeg, tif or eps files (with fonts embedded) at a minimum resolution of 300 dots per inch (dpi) for 100% size reproduction and be labelled in a similar way to the Word document (e.g. NAME-ABC-Photo1.jpg etc).  Please ensure that all annotations are typeset using Arial Light, Helvetica Light or Swiss Light at 8pt when reproduced at 100 per cent.  The maximum height and width of an image is 240mm (h)  x 180mm (w). Prepare figures suitable for black and white reproduction at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi for half-tone illustrations or images.  Half-tone illustrations, figures or photographs must be ready and suitable for reproduction or they will be rejected.

When submitting equations, please use Arial, Helvetica, or Swiss based on 9.5pt standard characters along with a sans serif symbol typeface for special characters.  To ensure accurate reproduction, please also supply the equation as an image (e.g. jpeg, tif or eps (with fonts embedded) or supply pages containing equations as pdf files) along with the Word or rtf file.


Referencing in the Harvard Style

A book with one author:

Ulrich, K.T. (1999) Product design and development, 2nd edition. London: McGraw-Hill.

An edited book:

Boud, D. and Feletti, G. (eds.) (1991) The challenge of problem-based learning. London: Kogan Page.

A book with two authors/editors:

Beer, D.F. and McMurrey, D.A. (2005) A guide to writing as an engineer. New York; Chichester: Wiley.

A book with three or more authors/editors:

Meriam, J.L., Kraige, L.G. and Palm, W.J., (2003) Engineering mechanics. 5th edition. New York; Chichester: Wiley.

[NB When citing the reference in the text ‘et al.’ should be used].

A book with an organisation, association or corporation as author:

Institution of Civil Engineers (1993) ICE Conditions of Contract. 6th edition. London: Telford.

A chapter or manuscript in a book:

Porter, M.A. (1993) The modification of method in researching postgraduate education. In: Burgess, R.G. (ed.) The research process in educational settings: ten case studies. London: Falmer Press, 35-47.

A journal paper:

Lock, G. (2007) Fluid mechanics with historical perspective. Engineering Education: Journal of the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre, 2 (1), 33-39.

Conference proceedings:

Fincher, S. (2000) From transfer to transformation: towards a framework for successful dissemination of engineering education. 30th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 18-21 October 2000, Kansas City USA.

An electronic resource:

Willis, L. (2008) Enhancing the first year experience for engineering students. Available from http://www.engsc.ac.uk/teaching-guides/first-year/ [accessed 7 March 2011].

Most university library websites contain detailed guidance about citing references in text and compiling bibliographies. Three such examples are:

Anglia Ruskin University Harvard System of Referencing Guide http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm [accessed 7 March 2011].

Leeds Metropolitan University Quote, Unquote: A Guide to Harvard Referencing

http://skillsforlearning.leedsmet.ac.uk/Quote_Unquote.pdf [accessed 7 March 2011].

University of Exeter Referencing the Harvard System http://education.exeter.ac.uk/dll/studyskills/harvard_referencing.htm  [accessed 7 March 2011].

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point Arial font, left-justified; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:


  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution non-commercial no derivatives licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) following publication in the journal. Please archive the final published PDF of the paper. This can be obtained by emailing the editorial assistant.

 

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Engineering Education: Journal of the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre | ISSN 1750-0052