Submissions

Author Guidelines

We welcome the voices of all literacy advocates, from literacy scholars/researchers, P–12 classroom teachers and school leaders, and graduate students. Authors should submit unpublished work not under consideration by any other publication.

Types of Submissions

Georgia Journal of Literacy accepts research-based and practitioner-based articles related to language and literacy education at all educational levels. Articles may focus on topics from curriculum, instruction, and assessment to strategies for teaching diverse populations of literacy learners. Specifically, we accept manuscripts in the following categories: 

Research and Practitioner Articles: These articles should be approximately 5,000 to 8,000 words in length, excluding references, tables, charts, etc. Research-based articles may be quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, or literature reviews. Practitioner-based articles should focus on the application of research-based practices.

Teaching Tips: These short articles should be approximately 1,000 to 2,000 words in length and should be written for literacy teachers, highlighting one teaching strategy/technique that has been shown to enhance student learning. We encourage photographs and student work samples.

Manuscript Form

Manuscripts should follow APA (7th edition) style guidelines. Please be sure to include an abstract (no more than 250 words). Manuscripts go through a double-blind peer review process, so all manuscripts should be blinded at the time of submission. Blinded manuscripts do not contain any information identifying the author(s), location of research, sponsoring institution, etc. (Follow the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review to ensure the manuscript is blind.) Full references for all citations must be included.

Submitting a Manuscript

• The submission should not have been previously published, nor should it be submitted to another journal for consideration.
• The submission file should be a single Microsoft Word document.
• All illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text should be in APA (7th edition) format. See sample APA professional paper.
• Where available, DOIs or URLs for the references should be provided.
• The instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review should be followed.
• In the “Comments for the Editor” section, the full names, professional credentials, contact information, affiliated institutions, and short bios (100–200 words) for all authors listed (in order of authorship) should be included.

The Review Process

The editors will review manuscripts before sending them out for peer review. Manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer review process with at least two reviewers who are members of the Editorial Review Board.