Submissions

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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 manuscript is not previously published, nor is it considered in any other journal (or give explanation in the field 'Comments to the editor').
  • The manuscript follows the requirements for styles and formatting as they are stated in the Author guidelines.
  • The reference list shows DOI or URL for all cited references that are accessible via the Internet. DOIs and URLs have to be active
  • The manuscript is in accordance with the instructions in the Author Guidelines enabling Blind Peer-Review.
  • The author(s) confirms that all relevant research ethical assessments are done, and accepts to document this if asked to do so. Submit a completed and signed statement of co-authorship
  • The author(s) confirms to have used The article template

Author Guidelines

Articles have to adhere to the focus and scope of SJVD as outlined in the section About the Journal.

Publishing in SJVD is free of charge. To ease the publishing process, the editors kindly ask contributors to conform to these Author Guidelines.

Languages
SJVD accepts manuscripts in English (UK or US) and Scandinavian languages.

The manuscript
The word limit is 8000 words, exclusive reference list and endnotes.

Please download and use The article Template when you prepare your manuscript.

Articles in a Scandinavian language have to have a title (and sub-title) both in the Scandinavian and the English language. Furthermore, they have to have two abstracts, one in the Scandinavian and one in the English language. Abstracts contain 250 - 300 words each. A list of three to five keywords follows each of the abstracts. Articles in the Scandinavian language have two sets of keywords, one in the Scandinavian and one in the English language.

Styles and Bibliographical Formatting

Articles should follow the APA 7-standard both for references and formatting, including videos, images, figures and tables. See guidelines on Apa Style Blog or use guidelines from Purdue University

  • Italic can be used 
  • Underlined text: only allowed in URLs and DOIs
  • Bold: only allowed in headings
  • All illustrations, figures and tables appear in their rightful place
  • Please upload figures also as separete files, jpg or tif, minimum 300 ppi
  • Footnotes are not accepted (due to the prinociples of Universal Design).

Editorial Review
The SJVD editors perform an initial editorial review of all submitted manuscripts. The editors communicate the result of the initial editorial review including relevant feedback for suggested improvements (if applicable) to the corresponding author, and dependent upon the quality of the manuscript, eventually initiate the peer-review process.

After the completion of the peer-review process, the editors perform a final editorial review and communicate the result including relevant feedback for suggested improvements to the corresponding author.

Double-blind Peer-review
The manuscript file (Microsoft Word) and other media files have to be completely anonymised (including the files’metadata) i.e. omit all direct or indirect personal and institutional information about the author(s) to enable the double-blind peer-review process.

Please provide a separate document with contact information, including the title of the article, name and contact details for the corresponding author, name(s) and email address(es) of the author(s), a short note of biographical details, and contact details for suggested potential peer-reviewers within their fields. Please upload this document together with the manuscript when submitting. 

SJVD encourages authors to support the peer-review process by suggesting qualified potential peer-reviewers within the fields of their articles.

Outcomes of the review process
The review process might have one of four outcomes:

  • The article is suitable for publication without changes
  • Only minor adjustments are required before publication
  • The article may only be published after major revisions
  • The article is not suitable for publication in SJVD

The editors will decide the need for a new review process if they accept the manuscript on the condition of revision.

Special issue on vocational didactics

Manuscripts to the specil issue on vocational didactics

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in SJVD accept the following terms:

  1. The author(s) retain copyright and gives the journal the right to the first publication of the work licensed simultaneously under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work when authorship and first release in the SJVD are recognised.
  2. The author(s) may enter separate, extra-contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (for example, send it to an institutional archive or publish it in a book) referring to the first release in SJVD.
  3. The author(s) are allowed and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional archives and on their website) before and during the filing process, as it may lead to useful exchanges of views, as well as faster and increased citation the published work.

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