Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist

Australian Educational
and Developmental Psychologist

A quality peer-reviewed journal of The Australian Psychological Society College of Educational and Devlopmental Psychologists. The journal publishes psychological research that makes a substantial contribution to the knowledge and practice of education and developmental psychology. The broad aims are to provide a vehicle for dissemination of research that is of national and international significance to the researchers, practitioners and students of educational and developmental psychology.

Editor
Terence Bowles
Ballarat University

Editorial Board
Jim Athanasou
University of Technology, Australia
Jean Annan
Massey University, New Zealand
Fiona Bryer
Griffith University, Australia
Janet Fletcher
University of Western Australia, Australia
Erica Frydenberg
University of Melbourne, Australia
Alison Garton
Edith Cowan University, Australia
Frances Gibson
Macquarie University, Australia
Linda Gilmore
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Tim Hannan
University of Western Sydney
Ian Shochet
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

The e-journal version of Australian Educational and developmental Psychologist is available in over 20,000 libraries worldwide including 90% of US college and university libraries and every major research library across Australia and New Zealand. It is also available as part of the AAP Online Collection and ALPSP Learned Journals Collection.

Open Access and Author Self-Arching Policy
Australian Academic Press adheres to the Open Access (OA) “Green Standard” for author self-archiving which allows journal authors who have published in an Australian Academic Press journal to upload their original accepted-for-publication manuscript (termed an author post-print*) (NOT the publisher's PDF version) to an online archive, repository, or website but must stipulate that public availability be delayed until 12 months after first online publication in the journal.
* Definition of an author post-print: A post-print is the final draft of an author's manuscript that has been accepted for publication with any referee's ammendments but before it has undergone typesetting, layout, copyediting, and proof correction by the Publisher.

ISSN 0816-5122
2 issues per year
ONLINE + Free Print if Available

2010 SUBSCRIPTION RATE AU$

Within Australia $175.00
New Zealand $160.00
Rest of the World $195.00

Aims and Scope

The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist publishes psychological research that makes a substantial contribution to the knowledge and practice of education and developmental psychology. The broad aims are to provide a vehicle for dissemination of research that is of national and international significance to the researchers, practitioners and students of educational and developmental psychology.

The general aims of the journal are:

to disseminate research relevant to the field of educational and developmental psychology;
to facilitate the exchange of information between Members of the College;
to promote the aims of the College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society.

The journal publishes psychological research relevant to education across all ages and educational levels. The Journal will publish submissions on a diverse range of content and subjects including:

Intelligence, cognition, literacy, numeracy and language;
Learning, motivation, achievement, efficacy, coaching, and training;
Emotional and behaviour, social, and relationship development;
Personality;
Language, mathematics, theory of mind, drawings, spatial cognition, biological and societal understanding;
Curriculum, curriculum delivery and design, educational policy and provision;
Career and vocational development;
Developmental difficulties, developmental issues across the whole age/stage range in particular pertaining to the above, including comparison across the age range;
Issues pertaining to atypical development, including developmental disorders, learning difficulties/disabilities, and sensory impairments;
The influence of background issues including: family, social behaviour, education, social context and culture.

Guest editors will be invited to manage an edition and special editions of the journal involving contributions from invited authors. On occasion, relevant peer commentaries and reviews will be invited from researchers.

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Editorial Enquiries

Dr Terry Bowles
Senior Lecturer
Postgraduate Professional Clinical Program Coordinator
School of Behavioural & Social Sciences & Humanities
University of Ballarat
University Drive
P.O. Box 663
Ballarat VIC 3353

Email: t.bowles@ballarat.edu.au

Author Guidelines

To be reviewed for possible publication in this journal all authors must follow the style and digital submission instructions below and submit their manuscript online using the "Submit an Article" link in the menu at the top left of this page.

Manuscripts submitted to the journal must represent reports of original research. Manuscripts will be sent for anonymous review either by members of the editorial board, or by individuals of similar standing in the field.

All articles are refereed. Papers submitted to the journal must not previously have been published nor submitted for publication to any other journal.

Digital Submission Guidelines

At least two separate files need to be submitted online via the Australian Acaddemic Press Journal Submission Manager at www.australianacademicpress.com.au/jsm:

1) a Title Page document. The name of this file must be constructed as follows:

        [lead author last name]_[ddmmyear]_AEDP_Title.doc

2) an Article document. The name of this file must be constructed as follows:

        [lead author last name]_[ddmmyear]_AEDP_Article.doc

3) all Figure documents should be supplied with the name of the file constructed as follows:

        [lead author last name]_[ddmmyear]_AEDP_Figure# (with # being the number of the figure)
The Title Page and Article documents should be saved as a Microsoft Word document, double-spaced with minimum margins of 25 mm on both sides and in A4 page size.
The Title Page document should contain the full title of the article as well as the full names and affiliations of all authors followed by a full postal and e-mail addresses for the corresponding author. A word count and suggested running head of no more than 50 characters including spaces should also be provided on this second page, along with a maximum of 6 key words.
The Article document should include the complete article without any identifiable author details but including the title and an abstract not exceeding 200 words that provides a brief overview of the aims, method and major findings without any citations.
TABLES

Tables should be created in Word and included at the end of the article Word document after the references with their approximate positions in the text indicated by the words, “Insert Table X here”. Horizontal and vertical lines should be used sparingly.
FIGURES, GRAPHS, ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHS, SPECIAL CHARACTERS

To ensure optimum quality, please follow the guidelines below when submitting artwork.

Figures, graphs, illustrations and photogrpahs (but NOT Tables) should be prepared to the correct size and each one supplied as an individual file, separate to the manuscript Word file. Include placement instructions in the Word document, such as "[Insert fig 1 here]".

Figures created in Microsoft Word, Excel or Powerpoint need to be saved as PDFs.

Figures created in a drawing program such as Adobe llustrator, CorelDRAW, Freehand, Microsoft Publisher or similar should be saved as EPS (encapsulated postscript) files.

Figures created in Photoshop or with other photographic software should be saved with a minimum resolution of 600 dpi and in TIF format. Minimum resolution for scanned graphics is 300dpi for halftone work (e.g., photographs) and 600 dpi for line art, and these should also be in TIF format. All figures and graphs should should be in black and white line art (artwork that has only text and lines, no shades of grey or blocks of colour).

All photographs should be supplied as separate files in JPEG or TIFF formats for a minimum 300 dpi resolution. (As a rough guide, the file size of each photograph should be above 200KB).

Manuscripts which contain special characters (equations, Chinese characters, etc.) need to be supplied as a high resolution PDF file (print or press format) with all fonts embedded as well as the Word or RTF document.

Prior to sending artwork, the separate files of figures, graphs, illustrations, and so on, should be printed by the author to test that the fonts have been embedded correctly and there is no distortion in the artwork (e.g., lines and fonts reproduce cleanly with no jagged lines or fuzzy edges), as any such faults cannot be corrected by the publisher.

General Style Guidelines

Contributions should follow the format and style described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Spelling and punctuation should conform to The Macquarie Dictionary (4th ed.). For matters of style not covered in these two publications the Style manual for authors, editors and printers (6th ed.) should be consulted.
Uncommon abbreviations and acronyms should be explained. Do not use underlining except to indicate italics. Full stops should not be used in abbreviations or acronyms (e.g., NSW).
Use single quotation marks to introduce a word or phrase used as an ironic comment, as slang, or which has been coined. Use quotation marks the first time the word or phrase is used; do not use them again. Do not use quotation marks to introduce a technical or key term. Instead, italicise the term.
Do not use any footnotes. Endnotes should be kept to a minimum and listed at the end of the text under the centred heading "Endnotes". Acknowledgments should be placed at the end of the article with a separate heading.
A list of figure captions should follow the tables in the manuscript.
References should follow the format and style described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Examples of citations are:

The theory was first propounded in 1970 (Larsen, 1971).
Larsen (1971) was the first to propound the theory.

Examples of references are:

Larson, P.J., & Maag, J.W. (1998). Applying functional assessment in general education classrooms. Issues and recommendations. Remedial and Special Education, 19, 338–349.

Sheridan, S.M. (1998). Social skills training for ADHD children. In S. Goldstein & M. Goldstein, (Eds.), Managing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children (pp. 592–612). New York: John Wiley.

Author Manuscript Checklist

Have I included all of the elements below in my submission?

first name and surname of all authors
affiliations (institution and country) of all authors
name and full postal and e-mail address of the corresponding author
running head of maximum 50 characters including spaces
up to 6 key words
abstract of no more than 250 words in length
the approximate positions of all tables and figures mentioned in the text indicated by the words "Insert Table/Figure X about here"
APA style for citations, references, numbers, capitalisation, table and figure captions, and statistical symbols
all figures supplied separate to text, NOT in colour, and clearly readable.

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