Acta Didactica
Napocensia accepts research articles in the following subjects:
All the articles are double-blinded peer-reviewed. The review process has the following steps:
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The
editorial board checks the article if the topic is adequate for the journal and
if the paper satisfies the structure and formatting criteria described below.
If the article is not suitable for the journal or if it is not written
according to the journal’s requirements, it is rejected.
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The
articles accepted by the editorial board are sent to two referees.
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If
both of the referees reject the article, it is rejected by the journal.
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If
only one of the referees rejects the article, it is send to a third referee. If
the third referee is also rejects the article, it is rejected.
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If
the referees accept the article with revisions, their comments are sent to the
author, who has to correct the article taking in consideration these comments.
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The
corrected article is sent back to the referees, who decide, if the article is accepted for publication.
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The
editorial board decide, based on the referees’ opinion, if the article is
published or not.
Read this,
before submitting and article! Articles
submitted to Acta Didactica Napocensia
should not be under consideration by any other journal, or have been
published elsewhere. The author is responsible for the content, language,
originality of the article. Also the author should deal with any copyright
issue related with the text and figures from the submitted article. The text
of the e-mail, when submitting an article, should contain the following
paragraph: “The article is the original work of the author(s), it is not under
consideration by any other journal and it hasn’t been published elsewhere.” The
journal has a strict policy regarding plagiarism, the author caught with
plagiarism is not anymore accepted to submit a paper for the journal.
The
articles must be written in English, have an abstract in English, keywords
in English (please, choose the keywords carefully). If the article is in
Didactics of Mathematics or Didactics of Computer Science, it also should
contain the appropriate code from 2010 Mathematics subject classification (as
these articles will be included in MathEduc
database).
The
manuscript must be typed in Word, using the style of the journal. This file can
be downloaded from here: style file. In
exceptional cases we accept also articles typed in Latex (not
The
preferred length of an article is between 5-15 pages. In special cases we admit
longer articles, too.
The article should have a good theoretical
base. For this it is important that the reference list contains
articles from international journals, articles which are relevant for the topic
of the paper. Thus, most of the references should be articles from
international journals, written in a widely circulated language (English,
French, German – but mostly English, as the language of the journal is
English). Try to include the most important articles for the subject, and also
the newest results. The reference list should contain at least 10-15 articles.
We will not accept articles, which reference list contains mainly articles from
local volumes, journals. It should be a reference in the text to all the items
from the bibliographic list. We use the APA format for references.
The
articles should contain research results. (For example, a description of
a method or theory should be accompanied by a research on the efficiency of
that method, or the frequency of use of that method by teachers, etc.) We will accepts only those review
articles, which was requested by the editorial board of the journal (so
please, don’t send review articles without our request). We won’t accept
articles, which focusing on description of some events (open days,
workshops, etc.), projects (even if the authors try to study the impact of
that event or project) or institutions; on educational management or
history of education topics. We won’t accept articles, which
focusing exclusively on scientific content (ex. Physics, Mathematics, etc) without any Didactics content.
The responsibility for the language
correctness is belonging to the author, so referees will not do language
corrections, but could suggest language check or reject an article based on
incorrect language or unclearness of communication.
Read
this, when you get the evaluation of the referees! When the author resending
the modified article, he/she should attach a letter to each referee
which suggested modifications, in which to answer to all the comments of the
referee (ex. if the referee says, that one idea should be confirmed by
references, the answer would be something like “I have added references (authors,
year) and (authors, year) to confirm this idea” or “This is an original idea,
and it is proved by the experiment ... “ If the corrected article is not
accompanied by a letter to each referee, which suggested modifications, it will
be rejected.
Please,
send the articles to the e-mail address submitadn@gmail.com