Contributing to AAMT journals

Teachers, teacher education students, researchers and teacher educators are encouraged to consider writing for AAMT journals. Editors welcome submission of articles of any kind that you think may be appropriate. Some ideas about writing journal articles are available in this PDF.

How are articles selected for publication?

Each submitted article undergoes a process of blind peer review in which it is read by at least two reviewers. Based on the opinion of the reviewers, the article will be accepted or rejected for publication; recommendations may also be made to authors about possible changes to the article.

Practicalities

Manuscripts should be sent to the editors of the appropriate journal, care of the AAMT office.

When submitting an article for publishing, please send:

an electronic copy of the paper;
any appropriate diagrams or pictures; and
a completed Author's Warranty form.

Required format

It is preferred that articles are prepared using Microsoft Word. If articles are prepared in other word processing applications then they should be saved in Rich Text Format (.rtf).
Articles SHOULD NOT be prepared using html, PowerPoint, Publisher, Pagemaker, Framemaker or LaTex.

Illustrations

Diagrams should be prepared using an appropriate drawing software package.

Other digital pictures (apart from photos taken with digital cameras) should be saved as a TIFF file at a minmum of 300 dpi.

JPEGs and GIFs taken from websites cannot be used; not only are they copyrighted, but their quality is not suitable for high-resolution printing.

If you import images into word processed articles, please also include a copy of the original image file as well.

Photographs and diagrams can be scanned at the AAMT Office and returned, if requested.

Remember that full colour is not available in any of the journals.

Other details

All journals are prepared for printing on a Macintosh using Quark XPress 6.

Please be sure to include all contact details for yourself with your article, including post, phone, fax and email.

All authors are sent a complimentary copy of the journal when their article is printed.