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Author Guidelines

Dear Authors,

We are pleased to welcome you at the webpage of the Journal of Early Years Education. If you wish to publish a manuscript, please read The submission process first.

The submission process

Journal of Early Years Education uses for publication the on-line platform of Open Journal System (OJS). Manuscripts can be submitted in several sections.

The Journal of Early Years Education publishes only original, peer-reviewed work that has neither appeared elsewhere for publication, nor which was under review for another refereed publication. Writings published in Journal of Early Child Education can be re-published in other publications in the same or other language with proper bibliographic reference to the first publication.

The editorial process

The papers for the Studies section, the Thematic section, and the Workshop section are reviewed by two reviewers, while items for the Review and the Boarderless section are reviewed by one reviewer well acquainted with the topic. Both Author(s) and nominated independent referee(s) participate anonymously in the process of preparing the publication. It is of paramount importance that the authors do not disclose their names in either the abstract or the text of the study.

The main points considered by the referees are: 1. how well the paper fits into the profile of the Journal, 2. the relevance of the topic, 3. the relevance, originality, and coherence of the theoretical approaches in the paper, 4. the nature of the research paradigm, 5. the quality of the research and the methods of data analysis employed, 6. the presentation of the results, 7. the overall impression made by the manuscript.

Review is made through an on-line platform by two reviewers, where author is informed about the result. If the paper is rejected by both referees, the paper, whether amended or not, will not be published. In the case of one positive and one negative review, the Journal will send the text to a third reader. In the case of two positive reviews, the Author will modify the text in accordance with any recommendation(s) by the referees. If the latter accept the Author's amendments, the Journal will publish the paper. The Author will be sent the reviews anonymously (without the names of the reviewers). If the paper has more than one Author, only the lead or corresponding Author will be sent the reviews. The Journal makes every effort to ensure that the length of the reviewing process does not exceed two months.

Submission checklist

As part of the submission process of Journal of Early Years Education, 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 is typed single-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font without any additional formatting, e.g. paragraph indenting, page breaks, page numbering etc. Tables, plates and figures should not be embedded in the text, place them instead at the end of files.

Each Section has its own checklist, please submit your Manuscript accordingly.

Stylesheet and checklist

The style guide of Journal of Early Years Education follows the international style released by APA (American Psychological Association) which tailors our authors and readers in understanding the standards used in journals of human studies and motivates our authors to keep self-control in writing.

As part of the submission process of Journal of Early Years Education, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items.

1. Studies, 2. Workshop and 3. Thematic sections

✓ author’s name: surname, first name
✓ title of the manuscript
✓ email address
✓ affiliation: workplace (universities have to include also department’s name)
✓ ORCID-ID
✓ abstract: 1 paragraph having no longer than 1.500 characters or 350 words, in English (and if possible in Hungarian)
✓ 3–5 keywords in English (and if possible in Hungarian)
✓ DOIs or URLs provided for the references whenever possible
✓ the stylistic and bibliographic requirements applied as described in Author Guidelines
✓ author’s introduction: most important scientific information on author having no longer than 700 characters or 170 words, in English (and if possible in Hungarian)
✓ telephone number: optional

4. Review and Borderless sections

✓ author’s name: surname, first name
✓ title of the manuscript
✓ email address
✓ affiliation: workplace (universities have to include also department’s name)
✓ ORCID-ID
✓ DOIs or URLs provided for the references whenever possible
✓ the stylistic and bibliographic requirements applied as described in Author Guidelines, manuscript having no longer than 5-15.000 characters, 2–7 pages
✓ author’s introduction: most important scientific information on author having no longer than 700 characters or 170 words, in English (and if possible in Hungarian)
✓ telephone number: optional

Privacy Statement

 Journal of Early Years Education – Open Access Publishing Agreement

Open Access (OA) is free, online, digital information. Open Access allows the free and legal re-use of scientific results by removing financial and legal restrictions. Open Access documents can be downloaded, copied, shared, printed, with acknowledgement of the original source. The Berlin Declaration states that: ’Establishing open access as a worthwhile procedure ideally requires the active commitment of each and every individual producer of scientific knowledge and holder of cultural heritage. Open access contributions include original scientific research results, raw data and metadata, source materials, digital representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia material.’

1. Statement by the author of the Journal of Early Years Education (hereafter JEYE):

By signing this statement, the author agrees that by submitting a paper to the journal via the OJS system (http://ojs.elte.hu/gyermekneveles) or via email, JEYE may publish the above-mentioned paper in its entirety on the OJS interface of the journal free of charge. The author hereby acknowledges that the publishing rights of the first publication are vested in the Publisher under the terms of this statement.

The author declares that the granting of the publishing rights of his/her paper to JEYE writing in accordance with this declaration has been made free of charge by the author, that he/she has no claim against JEYE for monetary remuneration or reimbursement of expenses, and that he/she considers the publication of the writing by JEYE with an indication of its authorship (the granting of the opportunity to publish) to be a proportionate and sufficient consideration for the granting of the exploitation rights.

2. First publication of the manuscript, JEYE’s publishing rights

The right of first publication of the paper is exclusively reserved to JEYE. The author agrees that JEYE will publish the manuscript and any third party may reuse the first publication only with rights governed by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license terms. JEYE makes the writing freely available and downloadable on its website without time limitation. JEYE may commercially exploit the article on its own or as a journal-wide publication without geographical or time restrictions (subscribers, one-time downloads, one-time users of the article archive, etc.), may convert the article into any electronic format, copy the article to a computer or to an electronic storage medium, can publish the manuscript in the electronic (and print) journals listed on the official website. JEYE may translate the paper into other languages and publish it without changing its content.

Without the author's consent, JEYE may not share the rights of publication and use of the text with third parties. JEYE may take action on behalf of the author in the event of infringement, misappropriation or any other form of behaviour that constitutes an infringement of intellectual property rights.

3. Protecting the integrity of the work

JEYE undertakes to safeguard the integrity of the work published on its own platforms and to ensure that all those to whom it grants the right to use the work also safeguard the integrity of the work.

In particular, JEYE shall refrain from any alteration, abridgement or addition to the work, both in the Hungarian language versions and in translations.

4. Warranties and other obligations of the author

The author declares and warrants that – together with the co-authors named in the paper – he/she is the sole author of the work and that he/she has the consent of all co-authors to the publication of the work on the JEYE OJS site. The author also declares that the work is his/her own original intellectual creation, and that he/she has not assigned the first publication rights to the work, in whole or in part, to any third party without informing JEYE in writing. Therefore he/she is fully entitled to authorise JEYE to publish the first publication of the manuscript and to exercise the rights of use of the text in accordance with this declaration.

Author grants that any manuscript submitted to JEYE for publication, is not published or submitted elsewhere for publication and any manuscript that has been revised and already accepted by the journal will not be published in any other journal. The authors are entitled to publish the publisher’s version of their text (published in the journal) on non-commercial servers, personal or institutional servers, with the acceptance of the publisher’s copyright and resources, after publication of the text.

By submitting a manuscript for publication in JEYE, the author warrants that the manuscript is free from plagiarism, that it is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge, that it contains no libel, obscenity, or other matter that infringes the copyright, privacy, or any other right of any third party, or that it is not otherwise in violation of any law, and that the manuscript is not under consideration or publication in any other journal, in Hungarian or any other language, in whole or in part.

The author acknowledges and agrees that if he/she wishes to publish material in his/her manuscript that is in the possession of another copyright holder, publisher or author, it is the sole responsibility of the author to obtain the appropriate permissions (as set out in the previous paragraph) from these copyright holders for publication and use before submitting his/her manuscript to JEYE.

5. Other provisions

The paper which is the subject of this declaration is published for the first time in Hungary, therefore the rights and obligations of the author and JEYE under this declaration and the declaration are governed by the laws of Hungary, primarily Act LXXVI of 1999 on copyright.


22/11/2020