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Author Guidelines
CIL seeks manuscripts on subject matter of interest to professionals in the area of higher education who are committed to advancing information literacy. Manuscripts may be theoretical, research-based, or of a practical nature. It is recommended that prospective authors query the CIL editors before submitting their works, but it is not necessary.
CIL does not accept simultaneous submissions of manuscripts.
CIL manuscripts should be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word documents. The author's name should appear on a title page, but nowhere else in the manuscript. After receiving the manuscript, CIL editors will remove the title page to ensure a blind review process.
CIL manuscripts should be double-spaced, with 1-inch top and bottom margins, and 1.25-inch left and right margins. Paragraphs should be indented. Headers and footers should be used for page numbers only.
CIL manuscripts must adhere to guidelines in the 5th edition of the Manual of Style of the American Psychological Association (APA). This rule applies in terms of format and references. The editors reserve the right to edit manuscripts for style, clarity, and length.
CIL accepts relevant tables, graphs, and illustrations for its manuscripts.
CIL authors are responsible for obtaining any necessary written permission to use copyrighted material, and to pay any and all relevant fees. Appropriate credit should be provided in the manuscript.
CIL manuscripts are blind reviewed. The reviewing process is anticipated to take six to eight weeks. Authors are notified when a decision has been made. Manuscripts are not returned unless they have been accepted for publication and revisions are required. Accepted manuscripts are published according to the CIL publication schedule.
CIL is an open access journal. In that spirit, CIL authors retain the copyright to their works. CIL facilitates the distribution of its authors’ intellectual property in a professional manner to enhance the process of scholarly communication, and to advance the cause of information literacy.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
- When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca).
- The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point Times New Roman font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review) have been followed.
Copyright Notice
Copyright for articles published in CIL is retained by the authors.
Authors grant first publication rights to the journal and acknowledge that "first publication" includes publication in both print and electronic media, as well as the right to make the work available through an open access archive.
Authors also extend to the Editors of Communications in Information Literacy the right to redistribute their articles via other scholarly resources and bibliographic databases at their discretion. This extension allows the authors' copyrighted content to be included in some databases that are distributed and maintained by for-profit companies.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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