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Australasian Journal of Special Education

A quality peer-reviewed journal of The Australian Association of Special Education (AASE). The AASE aims to enhance access for students with special education needs to quality educational programs, promote professional standards of a high order and to support research that informs the delivery of special education in the Australian context. To further these aims, The Australasian Journal of Special Education publishes articles for a readership professionally engaged or interested in the education of students with special needs or the education of those who will work these students.

Editor
Jennifer Stephenson
Macquarie University

Associate Editor
David Evans

Sydney University NSW

The e-journal version of Australasian Journal of Special Education 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, Institutional Repositories, and Author Self-Arching
The Australasian Journal of Special Education is a 12-month delayed Open Access (OA) subscription-based journal (all content swiches to OA on a rolling volume basis upon publication of the correpsonding issue in the following year's volume). As such it may already fulfill your funding body's manadated or recommended publication policy under an OA agenda. In addition the Publisher allows for “Green Standard” OA author self-archiving or repository deposit under the following conditions:

Authors who have published in the Australasian Journal of Special Education are permitted 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, and that a link be provided to the relevant DOI for the definitive publisher's version of the article.

* An author 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  1030-0112
2 issues per year
ONLINE + Free Print if Available

 2010 SUBSCRIPTION RATE AU$

  Within Australia               $210.00
  New Zealand                    $190.00
  Rest of the World            $230.00
 

Aims and Scope

The Australian Association of Special Education (AASE) aims to enhance access for students with special education needs to quality educational programs, promote professional standards of a high order and to support research that informs the delivery of special education in the Australian context.

To further these aims, The Australasian Journal of Special Education publishes articles for a readership professionally engaged or interested in the education of students with special needs or the education of those who will work these students.

The Editor seeks articles in line with the theme of the Journal — the delivery of educational programs to persons with special education needs:

•           Case studies                    •           Position papers

•           Research reports            •           Review papers

•           Descriptions of research-based programs or classroom practices

Articles may be original qualitative or quantitative research papers, literature reviews, or conceptual articles relevant to any aspect of special education practice and policy.

Peer Review Policy

All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.

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Editorial Enquiries

Jennifer Stephenson
Macquarie University Special Education Centre
Macquarie University NSW 2109
Australia

Email: ajse@speced.sed.mq.edu.au

Author Guidelines

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

All contributions and general correspondence regarding editorial matters should be addressed to the Managing Editor. All articles are refereed. Papers submitted to the journal must not previously have been published nor submitted for publication to any other journal and must represent original work.

Digital Submission Guidelines

1. At least two separate files need to be submitted online via the Australian Acaddemic Press Journal Submission Manager at https://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]_AJSE_Title.doc
   
   2) an Article document. The name of this file must be constructed as follows:
   
           [lead author last name]_[ddmmyear]_AJSE_Article.doc
   
   3) all Figure documents should be supplied with the name of the file constructed as follows:
   
           [lead author last name]_[ddmmyear]_AJSE_Figure# (with # being the number of the figure)
   
   
   
2. 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.
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
5. 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.
   
   
6. 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

1. 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.
   
   
2. 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).
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
5. A list of figure captions should follow the tables in the manuscript.
   
   
6. 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.