Submissions

Author Guidelines

At JIPE, we aim to streamline the submission process for our authors.

Requirements

JIPE’s editorial style conforms to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.), aka APA style.

Authors must include DOIs (digital object identifiers) for all references that have them. If a source does not have a DOI, please include the URL.

Authors are required to use the Title Page and Manuscript Template provided on the JIPE website. They are designed to help you structure your submission. To maintain the integrity of the peer review process, please upload the “Title Page” as a separate file. This ensures that the authors’ identities remain anonymous to reviewers.

All research involving human participants must have received approval from the appropriate Research Ethics Board.

For SoTL Researchers

Please note that for topics related to teaching and learning, personal classroom experiences, anecdotes, and/or reflections, student evaluations, and student grades are not normally sufficient forms of evidence; they may be included, but further evidence is also required.

For Students

JIPE invites graduate and undergraduate students from any institution to submit. The student(s) should be the primary author(s) of the manuscript.

Undergraduate students must work with a faculty member to ensure the submission meets JIPE minimum requirements. The faculty member must fill out an approval form before the student can submit their manuscript: JIPE Student Submission - Faculty Approval Form – Fill out form (https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/ZadZbMq5Th)

Once the form is submitted, students follow the same process and workflow as all other authors.

Journal Article Reporting Standards

Regardless of submission category, we expect research to be conducted systematically with scientific and academic rigour. All articles containing original research should adhere to the APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS).

JARS include information on what should be included in all manuscript sections for:

Quantitative research (JARS–Quant)

JARS–Quant include guidance for manuscripts that report:

• Primary quantitative research
• Experimental designs
• Nonexperimental designs
• Special designs
• Analytic methods
• Meta-analyses

Qualitative research (JARS–Qual)

JARS–Qual include guidance for manuscripts that report:

• Primary qualitative research
• Qualitative meta-analyses

Mixed methods research (JARS–Mixed)

JARS–Mixed includes both quantitative and qualitative research designs.

Race, Ethnicity, and Culture (JARS–REC)

Additionally, the APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards for Race, Ethnicity, and Culture (JARS-REC) provide guidance on how to discuss race, ethnicity, and culture in scientific manuscripts. JARS-REC should be applied to all research, whether it is quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. The use of JARS-RECs is one of the recommendations offered in the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Toolkit for Journal Editors.

Plagiarism & Academic Integrity

JIPE takes academic integrity seriously.

The editorial team uses Crossref's Similarity Check service to screen submissions for text similarity.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that sources are properly cited and that all references are real (i.e. not hallucinations), accurate, and support the stated claims.

If plagiarism, hallucinated references or other unethical academic conduct are identified during the editorial process, the manuscript will be rejected. JIPE reserves the right to take appropriate action, including informing the author’s affiliated institution. In the case of published papers, JIPE will publish a retraction.

Preprints

Preprint servers are online repositories where authors can post early versions of
their paper.

JIPE recognizes that the use of preprint servers is common in many academic disciplines. Posting a manuscript on a preprint server is not considered a duplicate publication and will not affect its eligibility for consideration by JIPE.

However, JIPE cannot ensure double-anonymous peer review for articles posted to preprint servers. In this case, peer review will be single-anonymous (the reviewer knows the author's identity, but the author does not know the reviewer's identity).

Note for Contributors

JIPE is an open-access journal that uses the Creative Commons license. The journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The names and email addresses entered in the journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. The articles published in this open journal are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Repository Policy

JIPE allows authors to deposit all versions of their manuscript—including:

• the submitted version (preprint),
• the accepted version (Author Accepted Manuscript), and
• the published version (Version of Record)—in any institutional, disciplinary, or general-purpose repository of their choice.

No embargo is applied, and authors are encouraged to share their work widely.