Submissions

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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 falls within the scope of the journal and is one of the following: an empirical work, a literature review, an action research manuscript, or a conceptual paper. Guideline for literature reviews: Remember to clearly state the objectives and scope of the literature review; include a mix of seminal works and recent studies; organize the literature review thematically or chronologically, as appropriate; provide a clear structure with headings and subheadings to guide the reader; make sure you have sufficient sources; provide a critical analysis/synthesis of the findings from the different studies; and highlight the originality and contribution of the literature review to the field.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
  • All formatting used in the manuscript (including tables, style, references, bibliography) adhere to the most recent American Psychological Association (APA) style guide (7th edition).
  • The text is double-spaced, uses 1 inch margins, uses a 12-point font, and employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses). All illustrations, figures, and tables must be placed within the text.
  • The manuscript must be anonymized and include the following: title, abstract (150 words), keywords (5), a running head, main text, page numbers, and references. The main text should not exceed 12,000 words (exclusive of references, tables, figures). Title pages may be submitted separately from manuscript.
  • The manuscript is ANONYMIZED. Author names, author affiliations, correspondence information, etc. are deleted from the manuscript.
  • Authors must comply with ethical, legal, and professional standards in research, writing, and publishing, including appropriate levels of citation.
  • Authors must accurately fill in their personal information and the manuscript's information when registering and submitting a document (uppercase letters where appropriate, all author contact information, correct number of authors, author fields of interest and disciplines, keywords, full title, abstract, etc.).
  • Authors retain copyright without restrictions, and readers are free to copy, display, distribute, and adapt an article, as long as the work is attributed to the author(s) and CIE, the changes are identified, and the same license applies to the derivative work. Read more about our Creative Commons license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
  • Authors of manuscripts that are ultimately accepted for publication will be invited to review at least one future manuscript.
  • Recommendations for students submitting class papers: Seek feedback on the structure, content, and clarity of your manuscript from your professor or advisor; adapt your manuscript accordingly to follow the submissions guidelines (including formatting, citation style, and structure); ensure your paper presents original research or insights; and thoroughly proofread your manuscript for grammatical and typographical errors.
  • Guideline for the use of AI: Artificial intelligence (AI) tools cannot be considered or listed as an author of a submission. The use of AI tools such as ChatGPT to assist in the production of manuscripts is an emerging issue in research. Like most journals, CIE requires that the author(s) be responsible for the creation and interpretation of their work and accountable for its accuracy, integrity, and validity. Any use of AI to produce the submission should be detailed in the appropriate sections of the manuscript, and any text or analyses produced using AI should be checked for accuracy, refined, and elaborated by the author(s). For more information about our AI policy, please refer to the Ethics Policy (in this link: https://cie.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/cieatasu/EthicsPolicy)

Author Guidelines

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CIE conducts a double-blind peer review process, which takes between 5 and 6 months once an article has been submitted. All documents must first be submitted online through our submission portal.

Manuscripts must be written in English and format, style, references, and title page must adhere to the guidelines of the most recent APA manual (7th edition). Documents that are not written in APA style will be returned to the sender for reformatting.

Additionally, all submissions must include a short abstract (150 words maximum). After the abstract, include a list of up to 5 keywords, which will be useful for indexing and searching.

Manuscripts must be ANONYMIZED. All aspects of your identity must be anonymized. Please remove your name from the title page and the properties tab of the Word document, references to your institution, self-citations, funding sources and self-authored work on the references pages must also be anonymized. Failure to anonymized your manuscript will result in having the document returned to you for correction and/or rejected.

Manuscripts must follow ethical, legal, and professional standards in research, writing, and publishing. Visit CIE's Ethics Policy for more details. 

CIE requests that manuscripts be no longer than 12,000 words, excluding figures, tables, and references. CIE provides a venue for scholarship that takes advantage of several aspects of emerging technologies, so CIE encourages studies that utilize graphics, photographs, or video streaming, etc. However, all graphics and photographs must be sent in jpeg or gif format.

Please refer to the Submission Checklist to ensure you have completed each item. Documents will be returned to the author if they do not meet the journal's submission criteria.

For manuscripts with multiple authors:

The author who submits the manuscript and serves as the primary contact for the submission, thereby agreeing to the initial submission guidelines, is responsible for authorizing any changes to the indexing and metadata. CIE is not responsible for adjudicating disputes between authors about authorship and related matters.

If a change in authorship is requested by the primary contact author before the manuscript is published, CIE will seek the approval of all authors before making any changes regarding authorship. Only the first author may request authorship changes.

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Authors retain copyright without restrictions. Unless otherwise indicated, from 2021 all articles are published under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license. For more information visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Articles published prior to 2021 used a CC-BY-NC-SA license.

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