Editors

Guidelines for contributing a book review

Editorial policy

The Journal of Education Policy is a blind peer reviewed journal published twice each year, Fall and Spring.

  • Submission deadline for the Spring issue is February 15th. Notification on or before April 1st.
  • Submission deadline for the Fall issue is September 15th. Notification on or before November 1st.

Editors reserve the right to edit submissions to ensure that published articles are appropriate in length, and that submissions meet the standards for an academic journal.  All such changes will be submitted to authors for final approval before publication.

By submitting a book review, you are confirming that the manuscript is your own original work and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously-published work.

Submission of a review implies a commitment to publish in the eJournal of Education Policy and serves as confirmation that the eJournal of Education Policy is the sole publisher to which the work is being submitted.

All review articles must be submitted in Word (.doc or docx) and submitted through email as an attachment to Dr. Frank Davidson.

Formatting of review

General Information

  • Use Times New Roman, size 12 font
  • Single space your document
  • Do not indent paragraphs; use a single line space between each paragraph.

Heading of book review

  1. Book to be reviewed in APA format
    1. Example:
      Kozol, Jonathan. (1992). Savage inequalities: Children in America’s schools. New York: Harper Perennial.
    2. Example:
      Louis, K. S., & Velzen, B. (2012). Educational policy in an international context: Political culture and its effects. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  2. Book information
    1. Number of pages
    2. Hardback, Paperback, Digital
    3. Price
    4. Keywords
  3. “Reviewed by” (followed with reviewers name, title, association, and contact information)
    1. Example:
      Reviewed by Robert Smith, EdD
      Assistant Professor of Education, Teaching & Learning
      Northern Arizona University
      101 Broadview Road
      Flagstaff, AZ 86011
      robert.smith@nau.edu
    2. Example:
      Reviewed by Sylvia Connors
      Department of Education Development
      University of Ottawa
      2589 Rideau Street
      Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 Canada
      sjconnors@ottawa.edu

Book review

  1. Book reviews are required to be between 750-1500 words.
  2. Content to include:
    1. State the audience of the book
      1. the one the author intends
      2. other audiences that may be interested in the book
    2. State the purpose of the book
      1. Theoretical
      2. Applied
      3. Pedagogical
    3. If the book falls outside the field of Educational Policy, explain how its content is useful to the audience of this journal.
    4. Other pertinent information that the reviewer deems necessary in the review.
  3. In-text citations follow current APA guidelines.

References

  1. If references are used in the book review, they should adhere to current APA guidelines.