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Author Guidelines

Please read Aims and Scope and the journal's Review Policy before submitting your manuscript.

Online submissions After carefully reviewing the style guidelines below, submit manuscripts online at Research in Learning Technology's website. Step-by-step instructions on how to submit your manuscript online are available during the submission process. Further information can be obtained online from the submission site via the 'Support' button.

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Preparing for submission In his/her covering letter, the corresponding author should reveal whether the submitted article – or very similar work - has been previously published, or is under consideration elsewhere.

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Language All articles should be written in English - British or American - as long as consistency is observed. SI units should be used. Please subject the manuscript to professional language editing before submitting the final version if you are not a native speaker.

Non-discriminatory writing Non-discriminatory writing. Articles should make no assumptions about the beliefs or commitments of any reader, should contain nothing which might imply that one individual is superior to another on the grounds of race, sex, culture or any other characteristic, and should use inclusive language throughout. Please ensure that writing is free from bias, for instance by replacing 'he' or 'his' by 'he or she' or 's/he' or 'his/her', and by using non-racist language.

Competing interests Authors are responsible for disclosing all relationships that could be viewed as potential conflicts of interests.

Acknowledgements List all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship, such as a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged. Groups of persons who have contributed materially to the paper but whose contributions do not justify authorship may be listed under a heading such ‘participating investigators’ and their function or contribution should be described.

Publication fee Publishing in Research in Learning Technology is free of charge. Colour illustrations are also free of charge, just as supplemental audio-visual or interactive material.

Manuscript layout Manuscripts should normally be less than 6000 words including tables, captions, and references. Wherever possible, the paper should follow the traditional layout. Begin each section, including figure and table legends, on separate sheets; insert running page numbers.

Title page Organize the title page in the following way: 1) title of manuscript, 2) name of author(s), 3) name of department(s) and institution(s), and 4) name and full postal and email address of the corresponding author who also acts as 'Guarantor' for all parts of the paper. Please observe that the journal adheres to a 'double blind' review process and thus, the identity of the authors should remain unknown until the paper is accepted; the submitted paper should not include author name, affiliation and corresponding author address. Please see Ensuring a Blind Review

The title should be informative and accurate and at the same time trigger the interest of the reader. A short running head will be derived from the title to appear on each page of the article.

Abstract Articles must include an abstract of 200 words providing sufficient information for a reader to be able to decide whether or not to proceed to the full text of the article. After the abstract, please give 3-5 key words; avoid using the same words as in the title.

Section headings Please do not number section headings. Use a maximum of three levels of headings made clear by orthographic indicators, i.e. capitals, italics, bold etc.

Figures Upon acceptance please supply figures/graphics/images in at least 300 dpi. For further information please see Guidelines.

If the figures/graphics/images have been taken from sources not copyrighted by the author, it is the author’s sole responsibility to secure the rights from the copyright holder to reproduce those figures/graphs/images for both worldwide print and web publication. All reproduction costs charged by the copyright holder must be borne by the author.

When figures/graphics/images are reproduced, a parenthesis should be added to the figure legend thus: (Reproduced with permission from xxx.)

References system References should follow the Harvard style. Examples

Journal
Kselman, T. & Davies, B. N. (1988) ‘The problematics of education in the 1980s: some reflections’, Oxford Review of Education, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 312–332.

Book
Parry, J. P. & Smith, G. (1994) Death in Banaras, 2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Chapter in edited book
Young, G. (1981) ‘Hospice and health care’, in Race, Class and Education, eds C. Saunders, H. Summers & G. Teller, Edward Arnold, London, pp. 145–167.

Edited book
Bloch, M. & Parry, J. (eds) (1982) Death and the Education of Life, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Conference proceedings
Bohre, N. (1993) ‘Integrated education’, IEEE Symposium on Education, Detroit, MI, pp. 276–281.

Newspaper
Simpson, L. (1987) ‘Education goes private’, The Sunday Times, 13 Oct., p. 10.

Electronic media
Weibel, S. (1990) ‘Metadata: the foundations of resources’, D-lib magazine, [online] Available at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/July95/07weibel.html

Dissertaion
Smith, J. (1998) Social Work Education in Scotland, Dissertation Thesis …, University of Glasgow.

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.

1. I, the corresponding author, am authorized by all of my co-authors to submit this paper. The paper has not been submitted, in its current version, to any other journal. The journal adheres to a 'double blind' review process and thus the identity of the authors should remain unknown.
2. The article contains nothing obscene, indecent, objectionable or libellous. The article, or any part thereof, is in no way a violation of any existing original or derivative copyright.
3. I/we have strictly followed the guidelines provided and made sure that:
   - the URLs to access references online are provided and ready to click (e.g., http://www.ResearchinLearningTechnology.net)
   - only one space has been entered after the full-stop at the end of a sentence
   - the text has not been justified; a ragged right-hand margin has been used
   - a double hyphen (--) has been used to indicate a dash in text
   - TAB has been used when indenting paragraphs or separating columns in tables
   - 'italics' or single quotes have been used for emphasis (avoid using underlines!)
   - the same elements have been keyed in exactly the same way throughout the manuscript.
4. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and the manuscript file is complete - thus all tables, figures, legends and supplemental material (if applicable) are placed at the end of the manuscript following the references. Upon acceptance - each figure and supplemental material is supplied separately in the original source file.

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