Submission Guidelines

Articles must be submitted per the guidelines outlined below.

To inquire about a submission to the Informal Learning Review, please contact us at info@informallearningreview.org to connect with a co-editor to discuss your article idea.

Article length should be no more than 2,000 words.
Title: The title of the article should be at the top of the first page in bold.
Author(s) Name: The name of the author(s) should appear under the title of the article.
Author(s) Attribution: The name of the author(s), institutional affiliation/title, and email address is included at the end of the article.

Endnotes: Not footnotes. Bibliography, Note, or Reference style as found in the Chicago Manual of Style.

Bibliography:

Heckathorn, Douglas D. “Collective Sanctions and Compliance Norms: A Formal Theory of Group-Mediated Social Control.” American Sociological Review 55 (1990): 366-84.

Note:

Douglas D. Heckathorn, “Collective Sanctions and Compliance Norms: A Formal Theory of Group-Mediated Social Control,” American Sociological Review 55 (1990): 370.

Reference:

Heckathorn, D.D. 1990. Collective sanctions and compliance norms: A formal theory of group-mediated social control. American Sociological Review 55: 366-84.

Photographs and Illustrations: Please submit high resolution (300 ppi), color jpg files. Include brief (5-10 word) captions for all images and graphs. Clearly associate captions with any images. Provide photo attribution if necessary.

Formatting and Punctation

Please use the Chicago Manual of Style as a guide for formatting and punctuation. For example:

Use em dashes rather than hyphens for amplifying or explanatory elements (there are no spaces inserted between the em dash and words in a sentence).
The titles of museum exhibitions are not italicized, underlined, or placed inside quotation marks
Spelling will conform to American English conventions (i.e., center/centre), unless the spelling refers to a proper name.
Punctuation Spacing: One space after periods, commas, semicolons, or colons.
Periods and commas come before closing quotation marks. Colons, semicolons, question marks, and exclamation points follow closing quotation marks (unless a question or an exclamation point belongs within the quoted matter).

However, please use the Associated Press style in formatting numbers:

Spell out numbers one to nine and use figures for numbers 10 and above. Use figures for one to nine for addresses, ages, exact dates, decimals and fractions, measurements, and money.