Publication Guidelines
Notes to Journal Contributors and Subscribers
NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising was founded in 1979. NACADA promotes the quality of academic advising in institutions of higher education and is dedicated to the support and professional growth of academic advisors and the advising profession. Through its publications, conferences, institutes, and other development opportunities, NACADA provides a forum of discussion, debate, and the exchange of ideas regarding the role of academic advising in higher education.
The NACADA definition of research (NACADA Task Force on Infusion of Research, 2008) views research as “scholarly inquiry into all aspects of the advising interaction, the role of advising in higher education, and the effects that advising can have on students.” This is, in part, based on Boyer’s (1990) four elements of scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching. These are therefore three very different enterprises.
The NACADA Journal, the biannual
refereed journal
of the National Academic Advising Association, exists to advance
scholarly discourse about the research, theory, and practice of
academic advising in higher education. The NACADA Journal considers articles from a wide variety of interest areas and from a wide spectrum of disciplines. We are always looking for quality submissions for Journal articles. If you are a faculty member conducting research related to academic advising, a graduate student working on a thesis or dissertation related to academic advising, or an advising or other higher education administrator or an advising practitioner conducting scholarly inquiry in the area of academic advising, please consider submitting a manuscript in the near future.
Manuscripts are typically reviewed within three to four months of submission. Although we cannot promise automatic acceptance of your manuscript (the Journal typically accepts between 30 and 40 percent of the manuscripts submitted each year), we can promise that you will receive constructive comments from the Journal’s Editorial Board and assistance from us as your manuscript moves through the publication acceptance process.
Manuscript Guidelines
Style Guide : Prospective
authors should follow the guidelines in this Web page as a primary
reference and one of the following for matters not addressed on
this page.
- Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association, Fifth Edition (preferred).
- The Chicago Manual of Style, Fifteenth
Edition
- MLA Style Manual, Second Edition
Authors may not
mix styles within a single manuscript, and the title page must
indicate the style used. All manuscript submissions to the NACADA
Journal should be in a Word ".doc" file or in a Word-compatible
file with top, bottom, left and right margins set to one inch,
Times New Roman 12 point font, and double spaced. The body of
the paper, title page, references, tables, figures, and author
notes should all be contained in a single file. Page numbers should
be placed in the upper right corner of all pages. The editors
will remove personal and institutional identifiers before circulating
the manuscript for blind review.
Manuscript Submission: Manuscripts
submitted to the NACADA Journal should not be currently under
review by another Journal or been made available in print (e.g.,
working paper series) or on the Internet. One copy of the manuscript
should be sent as an e-mail attachment to Journals@ksu.edu
in one Microsoft Word (or Word-compatible) file. Manuscripts
submitted to the NACADA Journal are reviewed on a rolling
basis, so authors can email them to journals@ksu.edu
at any time they reach closure.
Manuscript Review:
The editors will acknowledge receipt of manuscripts and
send copies of manuscripts to editorial board members for blind
review. Authors will be contacted after the review process, a
process which generally takes from one to four months. Questions
about manuscript guidelines should be emailed to: Journals@ksu.edu
.
To the Editor letters should not exceed
1200 words including a title page with the authors' full name(s),
degree(s), affiliation(s) and the corresponding author's contact
information. Letters can have references but do not have an abstract.
Articles should not exceed 6,000 words
excluding the title page, abstract, biographical information,
and references. The abstract should not exceed 120 words. Identifying
information, including names of authors, addresses, phone numbers
and E-mail addresses, should be provided in a cover message. All
copyright constraints should be noted in the cover message. The
authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permissions for
previously published material.
Book Reviews should not exceed 600 words
including author, title, date, publishers, number of pages, cost,
ISBN, reference citations, as well as the reviewer's name and
institution. Reviews should be single spaced, in a Word ".doc"
file, and in Arial 10 point type.
Tables and Figures :
Authors should adhere to the following NACADA Journal -specific
guidelines for tables and figures:
- Electronically submitted graphic files
must be saved as Windows-compatible graphic files (e.g., BIP,
GIF, JPG). Word and WordPerfect tables are preferred.
- Do not allow tables or figures to
exceed 35 picas (5 in) in width or 51 picas (8 in) in length.
- Use Times New Roman Font on all graphics.
- Double-space all tables for easy editing.
Number all tables in the order that they are mentioned in the
text. Make sure that all tables are mentioned in text.
- Define all measurement units and abbreviations
in table notes.
- Graphics or photographs are considered
figures.
- Print tables with vertical and
horizontal rules suppressed
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