Submissions

Manuscripts for Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue are expected to be on topics related to teaching and/or curriculum and must be received via the submission portal by February 15 to be reviewed and considered for publication in the current volume. Authors are expected to comply with COPE guidelines on publication ethics, including submitting their manuscript only to CTD while under review.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue accepts three types of submissions as described in the Call for Manuscripts.

Research Paper/Conceptual Essay
Book Review
Outtake

Please review the specific submission guidelines for each manuscript category below, followed by general submission instructions. All manuscript types must be received via the submission portal by February 15.

Guidelines for Submitting a Research Paper/Conceptual Essay

Manuscript length should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages or approximately 5,000 words including references.
Research papers and conceptual essays undergo double blind peer review. Please make sure you have removed any identifying information from your file so that reviewers cannot see who you are. This step requires making sure your text as well as your file name does not include your name or affiliation. You should also remove identifying information such as the document author in your document properties (the document author is typically automatically recorded by Microsoft as the last person who saved the document). For complete guidance on removing hidden data and personal information, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/remove-hidden-data-and-personal-information-by-inspecting-documents-presentations-or-workbooks-356b7b5d-77af-44fe-a07f-9aa4d085966f. The submission portal will collect your identifying information in a separate form, linking your information with your paper for the editorial staff only.
Please include tables, figures, and graphs in the body of the manuscript rather than at the end.
Please include an abstract of no more than 75 words as well as 3–5 keywords.
Please include DOIs where available. Visit https://search.crossref.org/ to check whether the articles you cite have a DOI.
CTD readers value readability. Strive to make your writing vivid as well as precise.
Avoid the passive voice. The passive voice creates unnecessary ambiguity, while the active voice makes clear who is doing what.
CTD readers range from curriculum theorists to teacher educators to education policy experts to practitioners: Your article need not appeal to all of these groups, but you should know who your target audience is and write with them in mind.

Guidelines for Submitting a Book Review

Reviews of books related to the teaching or curriculum fields are welcome. Books published in the last three years are preferred.
Submissions should be 750–1,000 words.
Please include DOIs where available. Visit https://search.crossref.org/ to check whether the articles you cite have a DOI.
Book reviews undergo editorial review only.
The book review should situate the book within the field and consider its relevance to members of AATC and readers of CTD.
Reviewers should introduce the readership to the book’s content and focus, how the author approaches the topic, and the logic of the argument. Reviewers should consider the readability of the author’s writing and describe how the book relates and contributes to what is happening in the academic discipline. A review is not a summary of the book.
Criticality is important to educational research. In discussing merits and potential shortcomings of the text, the reviewer should situate critiques within the relevant scholarly literature and cite evidence from the text being reviewed. Reviews should be fair to the author and include an evaluation of the book’s content, merits, and its contribution to the subject along with discussions of shortcomings.
Reviewers may draw comparisons with earlier or similar books to establish the book’s place in existing literature. Reviewers should not describe what the author(s) should have written.
Strive to make your review informative, insightful, and readable. Be specific, give details, and include particularly relevant direct quotations or notable facts or findings that would entice readers of the review to read the entire book.

Guidelines for Submitting an Outtake

Research outtakes provide researchers with an opportunity to share unusual situations, surprises, and unexpected challenges that they have encountered in conducting research but which may be out of place in a standard research article.
Outtakes undergo editorial review only.
Submissions should be 1,000–1,500 words.
Please include DOIs where available. Visit https://search.crossref.org/ to check whether the articles you cite have a DOI.
The focus of an outtake manuscript should be an unusual situation, surprise, or unexpected challenge the author(s) have encountered when conducting research, its effect on their project, and (possibly) how it was resolved.
Avoid overly technical vocabulary and citations and strive to make your review informative, insightful, and readable.
Be concise and specific.
Think of your outtake manuscript as a very short play:

General introduction (What was your research project?)
Specific introduction (Who or what in your project was expected to happen that relates directly to the outtake?)
Outtake incident (What happened?)
Impact (How did the incident affect the study?)
Resolution (Was the outtake resolved? If so, how?)
Reflection (Did the outtake lead to any “ah ha!” moments or changes in process?)

How to Submit Your Manuscript

Visit https://ojs.library.okstate.edu/osu/index.php/ctd/about/submissions.
Register to create an OJS user account affiliated with CTD. You must check the box next to “Yes, I agree to have my data collected and stored according to the privacy statement.” You may also request to be a reviewer for CTD while registering for your account.
You will receive a confirmation email at the address with which you registered. Click it to finish the registration process.
Log in using the credentials you just created.
Click on the button that reads “New Submission” in the upper right corner.
Choose the type of manuscript you are submitting (Research Articles, Research Outtakes, or Book Reviews). Please do not select other available options; these are for the editorial team's use only.
Indicate that you understand each submission requirement; documents must be in Open Office, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format; use a 12-point font; and follow APA 7 guidelines.
If you are submitting a research paper or conceptual essay, make sure you have removed any identifying information from your file so that reviewers cannot see who you are. This step requires making sure your text as well as your file name does not include your name or affiliation. You should also remove identifying information such as the document author in your document properties (the document author is typically automatically recorded by Microsoft as the last person who saved the document). For complete guidance on removing hidden data and personal information, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/remove-hidden-data-and-personal-information-by-inspecting-documents-presentations-or-workbooks-356b7b5d-77af-44fe-a07f-9aa4d085966f.
You must check the boxes next to “Yes, I would like to be contacted about this submission” and “Yes, I agree to have my data collected and stored according to the privacy statement.”
Save and continue.
Select Upload File in the upper right corner. When the next box appears, select “Article Text” from the dropdown list.
Click continue.
Click complete.
Save and continue.
Enter the metadata for your article, including your title, subtitle if applicable, abstract of no more than 75 words, and keywords. If you have additional authors, you can add them now by clicking “Add Contributor” on the right in the section “List of Contributors.”
Save and continue.
Finish submission.
You should receive an email confirmation letting you know that your submission is complete.