Submitting Manuscripts
All manuscripts need to be submitted for double-blind review.
All manuscripts must be submitted online through the Scholastica platform.
If this is the first time using Scholastica, you will need to set up a free account (Author guide: instructions for setting up an account. Or follow the prompts on the sign-in page). New manuscript submissions at a later date are completed using this same account.
The manuscript submission page is made up of four sub-pages:
- Metadata (manuscript title and abstract)
- Authors (list details of all authors)
- Uploading files
- Final submission
The review process will take about two months – authors will be able to check on progress via the Scholastica platform.
Instructions for Authors
- Ensure the manuscript is blinded and does not contain author details.
- Remove document author details from the file information (MS Word: file tab → info → right click on author name → remove).
- Submit as a single Microsoft Word document – no PDF.
- The content of the manuscript must relate to the definition of work-integrated learning and be within the types of submissions sought.
- Manuscripts must be between 4,500 and 6,500 words (excluding abstract and reference list).
- Abstract must not exceed 150 words.
- State early in the manuscript what model of WIL was the focus.
- If the manuscript reports on data collected from humans, ensure that it includes a statement (usually within the methods) that human research ethics approval was successfully obtained along with the approval reference code. If such research does not have human research ethics approval, IJWIL is not able to publish the research.
- Manuscripts must follow the IJWIL style.
- Formal writing style. Use of first person writing and pronouns are discouraged.
- APA 7 referencing style (see apastyle.apa.org).
- American English.
- Palatino Linotype font, size 10.
- Two spaces after a full stop.
- Appendices are discouraged, inclusion is by negotiation with the Editor-in-Chief.
- Figures and images must be at least 300dpi or 1,500 × 1,500 pixels resolution.
- Tables should have minimal formatting. Horizontal lines are generally limited to the top and bottom of the table, and just below the column headings. Vertical borderlines are discouraged.
- Photos are discouraged, however, may be permissible for special circumstances.
- Use of colours is permissible only if these are discernibly different shades of grey when printed black and white.
- Please follow the detailed IJWIL styles instructions.
- Please review the publishing ethics and policy details and the use of AI statement before submitting the manuscript.