Guidelines for submitting accepted book manuscripts

Guidelines for submitting book manuscripts.

Procedure for preparing and submitting a book manuscript:

If the book proposal has been accepted by the editorial board

• The guest editor(s)/author appoint two reviewers per chapter.
• The reviewers review the chapter and send in a review report with the judgment: accept with minor revision/accept with major revision/reject.
• The guest editor(s) is responsible for communicating the comments and judgment of the reviewers to the authors of the different chapters.
• In case of major revisions, the revisions (per chapter) are checked by the guest editor(s) and send again to the reviewers. The reviewers review the revised chapter and formulate a final judgment upon the quality of the chapter.
• The guest editor(s) is the final judge and decides upon the quality of each chapter and the book manuscript as a whole (The decision criteria for publishing, can be found in the procedure for reaching a decision).
• The guest editor submits both a paper and electronic copy (on either disk or CDROM) of the book manuscript to the Editor-in-Chief. The format of the book manuscript should be consistent with the guidelines set by Routledge (writing style, bibliography style, spacing, etc.) which can be found at   http://www.routledge.com/books/series/New_Perspectives_on_Learning_and_Instruction. Note that Routledge envisage a manuscript length of between 200 pp and 250 pp (c. 90,000 and c. 120,000 words).
• The guest editor(s) sends also an extended report to the editorial board including a summary of the review reports, the actions undertaken by the authors (revision report) and the final decisions of the reviewers.
• The procedure for reaching a decision about a submitted book manuscript is as follows:
• The editor-in-chief evaluates if the review procedure is followed and therefore, a high quality of the manuscript can be guaranteed.
• A decision will be reached by the editorial board about whether or not to publish the submitted book in the series. The decision is based upon the following criteria:
  
        • Logicality of the structure
        • Clear conceptual framework
        • Research based
        • Methods applied are appropriate
        • Coherence between different chapters
        • Accuracy of the quality control (see submission procedure above)
  
  
• The decision will be conveyed to the editor(s)/author by the Editor-in-Chief.
• If the decision is positive, the Editor-in-Chief will contact Routledge, who will be in touch with the book author/editor about publication procedures.