Guidelines for Authors

Submission Portal
Please submit your manuscript via Taylor & Francis’s Submission Portal: https://rp.tandfonline.com

Word Count
Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words including the abstract, tables, captions, reference list, and endnotes.

Formatting
Please ensure all copy—including quotations, indented matter, endnotes, and references—is double-spaced with 2.54 cm (1 inch) margins, using 12-point, black font. Manuscripts should be submitted as Microsoft Word documents rather than PDFs.

Cover Letter
We ask all authors to include a cover letter with their submission. Cover letters are particularly important and therefore highly recommended for submissions that fall into one or both of the following categories. 

First: Submissions wherein the topic, method, or theoretical, conceptual, and/or political approach of the work is significantly different from the work we usually publish. We expect authors to be familiar with the journal, and it is useful for us to understand how authors see their work in relation to what we typically publish. In these cases, it is helpful for authors to briefly explain the contribution of the piece (to theory, practice, method, politics, policy, organizing, mobilizing, etc.). We are especially interested in work that pushes the journal toward more critical engagements in/with critical curriculum studies. 

Second: Submissions from outside of the US and Canada. Although Curriculum Inquiry is an international journal, the editorial team and our reviewers tend to be more familiar with US and Canadian contexts than with other parts of the world. This means we may not always understand the ways in which a particular approach or argument is doing critical work in a particular regional, national, local, or district context. We encourage others to be explicit about this in a cover letter so that we can do our best to read the work in relation to its context.

Abstracts
Please include a 200–250-word abstract with your manuscript. The abstract should give the reader a vivid sense of the issues, findings, and conclusions of the article.

Figures
We ask that authors provide the highest resolution images possible, ideally at least 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale, and 300 dpi for colour.

Please upload figures as individual files rather than embedding them in the manuscript file. Figures should be submitted in one of the following formats: TIFF, JPEG, EPS, or PNG. Figures created in Microsoft Word may be submitted as DOC or DOCX files.

Citations and References
Curriculum Inquiry uses APA 7 style, and we recommend that authors consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Edition, particularly when formatting citations and references.

You’re welcome to use endnotes for commentary, but please note that citations should not be formatted as endnotes.

Editorial Review Procedures
All papers submitted to Curriculum Inquiry are reviewed internally by the editorial team. Following the internal review, editors may decide to send a manuscript out for external peer review, request that the author make revisions before being considered for peer review, or decide to reject the manuscript in its current form.

All manuscripts that are ultimately published in Curriculum Inquiry are anonymously peer reviewed by external experts. The editors rely heavily on the judgments of external peer reviewers but are not bound by them.

Curriculum Inquiry's policy is to present original publications that are available for the first time through our journal. For these reasons, during the online submission process, authors must confirm that the submitted manuscript is an original work, has not been published before (including electronically), and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Notwithstanding the foregoing, sharing print or electronic copies of the unpublished manuscript (as long as acknowledgment of submission to Curriculum Inquiry is clearly visible) with a limited audience, such as colleagues or students, but not including posting to a widely accessible website, would not prejudice acceptance. If unsure, please reach out to us at curriculum.inquiry.oise@utoronto.ca