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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 Microsoft Word document file format.
  • Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Submission Guidelines
The corresponding author will be required to submit a cover letter with the manuscript. The cover letter should include names of all co-authors, confirmation that the manuscripts has not been submitted elsewhere or published previously, and confirmation that any data collected were collected under IRB approval. Furthermore, any illustrations, tables or other graphic elements that have been published elsewhere must be reported, and copyright permission for reproduction must be obtained.

Manuscript Preparation
All submissions should conform to the 7th edition of the APA manual. Research manuscripts should not exceed 9,000 words (excluding cover page, abstract, references, tables, and figures). Practitioner manuscripts and research briefs should not exceed 4,000 words (excluding cover page, abstract, text, references, tables, and figures).

Authors of practitioner manuscripts should include informative, interesting visuals (e.g., high-resolution photographs, children’s work samples, charts, and graphs) that enhance the content of the article and promote understanding. Photographers must obtain and keep model releases for all recognizable people in each photo (signed by all adults who appear in the photo and by the parents or legal guardians of all of the children photographed.) Visuals should be uploaded as a part of the manuscript submission process. Do not include them in the body of the article.

Manuscript Submission Instructions
Please submit electronic files using MS Word. Each submission should consist of a cover letter file, manuscript title page, and a blind copy of the manuscript. The manuscript should include an abstract and 4 keywords. The title should conform to APA guidelines except that it may be up to 17 words.

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors from being known to the reviewers. Please adhere to the following steps with regard to the text and the file properties:

Authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

The authors of the document have removed personal information from the file properties by taking the following steps:

  • Microsoft Word for Windows:
    1. Go to File
    2. Select Info
    3. Click on Check for Issues
    4. Click on Inspect Document
    5. In the Document Inspector dialog box, select the check boxes to choose the type of hidden content that you want inspected.
    6. Click Remove All
    7. Click Close
    8. Save the document
  • Microsoft Word for MacOS:
    1. Go to Tools
    2. Click Protect Document
    3. Select Remove personal information for this file on save
    4. Click OK and save the file

Copyright Notice

Copyright to works published in Learners of the African Diaspora is retained by the author(s). Articles published in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process.

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