Information For Authors

Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

Guideline for Manuscripts

The Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice is an open access journal and asks authors to comply with the style guide upon submission to the Journal. The Editors will return to authors and ask for compliance if it meets the initial Editor-in-Chief review for quality, and prior to it being distributed to reviewers. The Journal believes that reviewers should be able to focus on the quality and content of the manuscript, rather than the style, and seek to provide reviewers with correctly styled manuscripts to enable this aspiration.

The Journal provides authors with guidance to support quality manuscript development, which authors are required to use:

  • Guideline for Manuscripts (Authors). This Guideline provides a list of formatting requirements that are closely aligned, but have some variation, to APA 7 expectations.
  • Guidance on Using the JUTLP Template. This Guidance provides advice to authors on how to format a manuscript effectively and in alignment with the manuscript template.
  • JUTLP Manuscript Template. This Word document template provides an easy to complete template for the style expected by the journal including considerations to transparency of information and consistency.

Cover Letter

When uploading a manuscript, authors must include a clear cover letter. The Journal offers useful templates for these including:

    • Initial Cover Letter Template. This template is useful for authors making first submissions to clearly articulate the value proposition and alignment of the manuscript to the Journal and Section aims.
    • Revise and Resubmit Cover Letter Template. This template is useful for authors who are making a revision to their article based on editor and/or reviewer feedback, and provides a table to illustrate changes made.

Accuracy of Content

Although every effort is made by the publisher and editorial board to see that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinions or statements appear in this journal, they wish to make it clear that the data and opinions appearing in the articles and advertisements herein are the sole responsibility of the contributor or advertiser concerned. Accordingly, the publishers, the editorial board and editors and their respective employers, officers and agents accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the consequences of any such inaccurate or misleading data, opinion or statement.

Artificial Intelligence Usage

All manuscripts must align to the five principles of the AI Authorship Policy listed here: AI Authorship Editorial.

Prior Publication and Conferences

The existence of a conference paper on a conference website or the presentation of a paper at a conference does not disqualify a manuscript from being considered for publication in Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice. However, conference papers would need to be substantially developed and meet the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice scope and review criteria prior to submission. Additionally, any working paper must be fully referenced on the submitted manuscript, e.g. ‘This article is based upon a conference paper X, presented at X.’. Previously published works however, cannot be reproduced in this Journal.