Author Guidelines

Currere and Praxis (C&P), which accepts research articles and review articles in English, is a double-blind peer-review journal.

Authors could use either British (-ise) or American spelling for their manuscript; however, one style should be used consistently throughout the manuscript. Authors must proofread their manuscripts for language before submission. Authors are responsible for ensuring their manuscripts meet language and formatting standards before submission.

Please register all the author(s) while submitting your manuscript to the Open Journal Systems (OJS). This is the corresponding author's responsibility. Please be informed that we do not add any authors in progress or after the decision.

Preparation

The manuscript submitted to the journal should be original, reflect the integrity expected from scientific communication, and show consistency and integrity that guarantees that the article is both understandable and interesting. Please review the suggestions below before submitting the article to the journal.

Correctly prepared original articles help speed up the editorial review process; inappropriate articles are returned to the author(s). Spelling, punctuation, usage consistency in format and explanations, sentence structure, spacing, number of words in the text, and number of tables, figures, and graphics should be carefully examined before submitting the article to the journal.

Authors are required to download the templates using the links below before submitting articles to the journal and make the necessary preparations using these templates when submitting their articles to the journal. Cover letter submission is optional and at authors' discretion.

Structure

Your manuscript should be compiled in the following order: title page (including author details and ORCID IDs); cover letter (optional); abstract; keywords; main text introduction, methods, findings/results, discussion, conclusion, and implications*; acknowledgments; declaration of conflicting interest; funding, about the author(s), references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

*Authors have the freedom to change the titles of the sections or present the manuscript in a different order.

Word Limits

The C&P is more flexible in terms of the length of the manuscript. Therefore, there are no word limits for any type of article.

Style Guidelines

Please refer to these quick style guidelines when preparing your manuscript, rather than any published articles or a sample copy.

  • Please use American or British(-ise) spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
  • Please use single quotation marks, except where 'a quotation is "within" a quotation'.
  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

Formatting and Templates

Manuscripts may be submitted in Word format. Tables and Figures should be saved in the main text. To assist you in preparing your manuscript, we provide multiple formatting templates including title page, manuscript, cover letter, and response letter templates.

Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.

References

In-text references and bibliography should conform to the American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual 7th Edition style.

You can see detailed information and examples about references as follows;

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list, they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

In-Text citations

Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;

Two authors: at all citations, list both authors' surnames with "&" separating them and the year of publication;

Three or more authors: at all citations, use the first author's surname followed by et al. and the year of publication.

Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.

Use the name of the author(s) followed by the year of publication when citing references within the text and page number. For example:

  • Single author (Callan, 1998, p. 15)
  • Two authors (Eggen & Kauchak, 2001)
  • Three or more authors (Ivanitskaya et al., 2002, p. 103)

List: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc., placed after the year of publication.

(Flett et. al., 2005; Hang, Espinoza, & Flett, 2010; Zhang & Espinoza, 1998)

How to Create a Reference List

Journal Article

Aguilera García, J. L. (2019). La tutoría universitaria como práctica docente: fundamentos y métodos para el desarrollo de planes de acción tutorial en la universidad. Pro-Posições, 30, e20170038. https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-6248-2017-0038

Deniz, Ü., & Pinar, W. F. (2025). Invoking teacher agency and professional identity through Currere: Insights from within Türkiye's centralized education system. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2025.2506431

Richardson, J. W., & McLeod, S. (2011). Technology leadership for the twenty-first century principal. Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 6(5), 287-308. https://doi.org/10.1177/194277511100600506

Kwiek, M. (2019). Changing European academics: A comparative study of social stratification, work patterns and research productivity. European Educational Research Journal, 18(1), 5-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474904118790900

Book

Biesta, G. (2013). The beautiful risk of education. Paradigm Publishers. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315635866

McLaren, P. (2015). Life in schools: An introduction to critical pedagogy in the foundations of education (6th ed.). Pearson.

Pinar, W. F. (2004). What is curriculum theory? Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781410609793

Book Chapter

Hayden, M., & Thompson, J. (2013). International schools. In R. Pearce (Ed.), International education and schools: Moving beyond the first 40 years (pp. 3-24). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472553034

Hargreaves, L. (2009). The status and prestige of teachers and teaching. In L. J. Saha & A. G. Dworkin (Eds.), International handbook of research on teachers and teaching (pp. 217–229). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73317-3_14

Schwartz, S. J., Luyckx, K., & Vignoles, V. L. (Eds.). (2011). Handbook of identity theory and research. Springer.

Master's Thesis

Schneider, M. S. (2019). Student sustainability leadership development at Portland State University: Developing holistic sustainability leaders (Unpublished master's thesis). Portland State University, Portland, OR.

Doctoral Dissertation

Day, J. (2023). Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z teachers: A comparison of generational preferences for leadership practices (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Alvarez, K. D. (2023). Undergraduate students of color raising children and persisting in higher education (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Portland State University, Portland, OR.

Website Source

Ho, S. S. (2020). Real-time video teaching can improve classroom teaching. Retrieved September 9, 2021, from https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200410135834115#:~:text=Based%20on%20real%2Dtime%20data,difficult%20class%20content%20they%20encounter

OECD. (2020). Why open science is critical to combatting COVID-19. https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/view/?ref=129_129916-31pgjnl6cb&title=Why-open-science-is-critical-to-combatting-COVID-19

Conference Proceeding

Armstrong, D. B., Fogarty, G. J., & Dingsdag, D. (2007). Scales measuring characteristics of small business information systems. In W.-G. Tan (Ed.), Proceedings of Research, Relevance and Rigour: Coming of Age: 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (pp. 163-171). University of Southern Queensland.

Taylor, J. A. (2006). Assessment: a tool for development and engagement in the first year of university study. Paper presented at the Engaging Students: 9th Pacific Rim in Higher Education (FYHE) Conference, Griffith, Australia. Retrieved December 9, 2023, from http://www.fyhe.com.au/past_papers/2006/Papers/Taylor.pdf

For additional examples and detailed formatting guidelines, please refer to the APA website.