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Author GuidelinesContent of the Journals National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) publishes the journals Social Education, Middle Level Learning (as a supplement), and Social Studies and the Young Learner. Social Education invites submissions of the following kinds:
Social Education also has the following departments that welcome original manuscripts on specific aspects of the social studies: Book Reviews, Dateline, Elementary Education, Instructional Technology, Looking at the Law, Research and Practice, Surfing the Net, and Teaching with Documents. Social Studies and the Young Learner focuses on techniques and topics especially relevant to grades K through 6. Please click on the following link for instructions for that specific journal. Write about your classroom lesson! Evaluation and Editing Manuscripts are returned if they do not meet the technical specifications described in these guidelines. NCSS journals rely on referees who volunteer their time and expertise. Although editors routinely seek evaluations by qualified reviewers, the editors have the final responsibility for deciding suitability for publication. The editors reserve the right to edit for style (including grammar, punctuation, syntax, and vocabulary), but changes in content are made with the corresponding author's consent. Cover Letter Please enclose a letter of transmittal with your manuscript, stating that the article has not been submitted or published elsewhere. If there are several authors, please indicate the corresponding author in the cover letter. Length of Manuscripts In general, manuscripts should be between 1,000 and 3,000 words in length, although the editors may consider longer manuscripts in some cases. Provide a word count. Preparation of Manuscripts Submit one original and three photocopies of the double-spaced manuscript. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, editors will request an electronic copy of the text, which can be sent by e-mail or CD-ROM as a text file (preferably in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format). If you cannot save in those file formats, save the file as a text only (ASCII) file. On the CD, write your name, the title of the manuscript, and the name of the program used to create the file. Avoid automatic endnotes, superscripts, active URLs, and other special functions. Type these items in directly. Title Page Include the title of the paper and the name, professional title and affiliation, complete mailing address, e-mail, fax, and telephone number(s) of each author. This information should not appear on any other page, so that reviewers may be kept "blind" as to the identity of the authors. If there are several authors, please indicate who is the corresponding author on the title page. Photographs, Illustrations, and Figures Authors are encouraged to provide appropriate illustrations, graphics, photographs, lesson plan materials, figures, and samples of students' work with their articles. Figures should be numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals, discussed in the text, and accompanied by captions. Send photocopies of graphic material with the manuscript. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, originals will be requested. Art may be submitted on paper or electronically in the following formats: TIFF, FreeHand, Illustrator, Quark XPress, or EPS with preview. List all fonts used in figures and include copies of screen and printer font files. Please note that all scanned images must be at least 300 dpi in resolution. Tables Tables should be numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals and discussed in the text. A table should be intelligible by itself and have a concise title and column headings. Each table should appear on a separate sheet of paper after the references. Permissions Obtain permission in writing from publishers for text quoted at length or for materials (poems, maps, photographs, cartoons, etc.) that you would like to have included in an article. If photos of young students (or their names or work samples) are to be included, provide statements of parental permission. Proofreading Have colleagues or other professionals proofread your manuscript before submission. Notes Notes, which are numbered and follow the main text of an article, are used for citations, explanations, and acknowledgments. Place the notes, double-spaced, on separate pages that follow the text of an article, preceding other references or resource lists. Carefully check the correspondence between the numbers called out in the text and those in the notes section. Follow the style for notes and references as outlined below. Also, articles published in recent NCSS journals may serve as models. For situations not covered in these examples, follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993) as closely as possible (not APA style). Use authors' full names. Citations from books: 1. Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy (New York: Harper, 1957), 54. 2. Norman H. Nie, Sidney Verba, and John R. Petrocik, The Changing American Voter (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976), 111-113. 3. Thomas O. Erb, "What Team Organization Can Do for Teachers," in John H. Lounsbury, ed., Connecting the Curriculum through Interdisciplinary Instruction (Columbus, OH: National Middle School Association, 1992), 7-14. Citations from journals and magazines: 4. Edward G. Carmines and James A. Stimson, "The Two Faces of Issue Voting," American Political Science Review 74 (1980): 78-91. 5. Diana Hess, "Violence Prevention and Service Learning," Social Education 61, no. 5 (September 1997): 279-281. Citation from a newspaper: 6. Sean Holton, "Candidates Find End of Rainbows in S. Florida," The Sun Sentinel (July 3, 1996): 1. Citation for a website: 7. National Council for the Social Studies, National Standards for Social Studies Teachers (Washington, DC: NCSS, 1997), www.socialstudies.org. Several citations within one note: 8. Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy (New York: Harper, 1957), 54; Edward G. Carmines and James A. Stinson, "The Two Faces of Issue Voting," American Political Science Review 74 (1980): 78-91; Sean Holton, "Candidates Find End of Rainbow in S. Florida," The Sun Sentinel (July 3, 1996): 1. Citations from the same source: 9. Hess, 280. [Refers the reader to a note not immediately above.] 10. Ibid., 281. [Refers the reader to the immediately preceding note.] References References, which follow the notes section, are works of interest not cited within the main text or notes. For example, the references section might be a list of children's literature, teaching resources, or background reading. List items alphabetically. Barr, Robert, James L. Barth, and S. Samuel Shermis. Defining the Social Studies. Bulletin No. 51. Washington, DC: National Council for the Social Studies, 1977. Hazard, John N. The Soviet System of Government, 5th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Larson, Bruce E. "The Makah: Exploring Public Issues During a Structured Classroom Discussion," Social Studies and the Young Learner 10, no. 1 (September/October 1997): 10-13. National Council for the Social Studies. Resources categorized by the ten themes of Expectations of Excellence: Curriculum Standards for Social Studies can be found at the NCSS website, www.socialstudies.org. Click on "Teaching Resources." Where to Send Your Manuscript To submit a manuscript, please send it to: The Editors National Council for the Social Studies 8555 Sixteenth Street Suite 500 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 Voice: 301 588-1800 ext 122 Fax: 301 588-2049 E-mail: publications@ncss.org (Please use “Manuscript” as the subject line.)
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