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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.
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

  1. Any manuscript submitted for publication in this journal must be an unpublished work and not under

consideration for publication elsewhere. The articles should deal with matters that are of importance to

Pure and Applied Science, Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, and Mathematics Education, and

Business and Vocational Education.

  1. Articles should not be more than fourteen typewritten pages of A4-size paper (double spacing), including

references. An abstract of not more than 200 words should be included.

  1. The paper should be typed using Microsoft Word, with font type New Times Roman and size 11. All

headings and sub-headings should be bold. Three hard copies of the paper should be submitted along

with a CD plate (soft version) with an assessment fee of three thousand naira only.

  1. The cover page should contain the title of the article, the name(s) of the author(s), and a short address

identifying the designation and affiliated institution(s), including functional e-mail address and

telephone number(s).

  1. References should be done on a separate page at the end of the article, in line with American

Psychological Association (APA) format.

  1. Only articles found publishable after assessment by experts will be published on payment of the required.

publication and vetting fees.

  1. Author(s) will receive one free copy of the journal. Extra copies may be obtained at the cover price.

All manuscripts should be addressed to:

The Editor-in-Chief

Journal of Science Education,

School of Sciences

Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe

Anambra State, Nigeria

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Copyright Notice

Journal Author(s) Rights

In order for the Journal of Science Education (JOSE) to publish and effectively disseminate research articles, we require non-exclusive publishing rights (transferred from author(s) to the publisher). This is determined by a publishing agreement between the Author(s) and JOSE.

This agreement deals with the transfer or license of the copyright for publishing to JOSE, while Authors still retain significant rights to use and share their own published articles. JOSE strongly supports the need for authors to share, disseminate, and maximize the impact of their research and these rights, in any databases.

As a journal Author, you have rights for a large range of uses of your article, including use by your employing institute or company. These Author rights can be exercised without the need to obtain specific permission. Authors publishing in JOSE have wide rights to use their works for teaching and scholarly purposes without needing to seek permission, including:

  • Use for classroom teaching by Author or Author's institution and presentation at a meeting or conference and distributing copies to attendees;

  • Use for internal training by the author's company;

  • Distribution to colleagues for their research use;

  • Use in a subsequent compilation of the author's works;

  • Inclusion in a thesis or dissertation;

  • Reuse of portions or extracts from the article in other works (with full acknowledgement of the final article);

  • Preparation of derivative works (with full acknowledgement of the final article);

  • Voluntary posting on open web sites operated by the author or the author’s institution for scholarly purposes, (but it must follow the open access license of Creative Common CC-by-SA License).

Copyright Transfer Agreement for Publication (Publishing Right)

The Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, non-exclusive right for publishing (publishing right) of the article shall be assigned/transferred to the Publisher of JOSE.

During the submission of an article, authors will be asked to upload a 'Copyright Transfer Agreement for Publication (CTAP)' as a supplementary file.

The Journal of Science Education (JOSE), the Editors, and the Editorial Board make every effort to ensure that no wrong or misleading data, opinions, or statements are published in the journal. However, the contents of the articles published in JOSE are the sole and exclusive responsibility of their respective authors.

We would like to bring the attention to all potential authors that, even though we ask for a transfer of copyright for publication (CTAP), our journal Author(s) retain (or are granted back) significant scholarly rights as mentioned before.

The Copyright Transfer Agreement for Publication (CTAP) Form can be downloaded here: [Copyright Transfer Agreement for Publication (CTAP) Form] The copyright form should be signed and uploaded as a supplementary file during manuscript submission.

License

All content published in JOSE is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license.

This means Authors/Readers/Third Parties have the freedom to:

  • Copy and Redistribute: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

  • Remix, Transform, and Build Upon: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

However, they must adhere to the following conditions:

  1. Attribution (BY): They must give appropriate credit (the name of the creator and attribution parties (authors' detailed information), a copyright notice, an open access license notice, a disclaimer notice, and a link to the material), and provide a link to the license.

  2. ShareAlike (SA): They must indicate if changes were made (Publisher indicates the modification of the material (if any) and retains an indication of previous modifications using a CrossMark Policy and information about Erratum-Corrigendum notification) and distribute their contributions under the same license as the original Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA).

Authors/Readers/Third Parties can read, print and download, redistribute or republish the article (e.g. display in a repository), translate the article, download for text and data mining purposes, reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works, sell or re-use for commercial purposes, remix, transform, or build upon the material, provided they follow the terms of the CC BY-SA license.

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