Submissions

Author Guidelines

To ensure best practice authors are expected to follow the International Standards for Authors published by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (Wager, & Kleinert, 2011).

All contributions must have a distance teacher education focus.

All contributions must be submitted in English and will be submitted to referees (national and/or international). The consulting editors/referees will have documented expertise in the area that the contribution addresses.

When reviews are received, an editorial decision will be reached in terms of the following:

• to accept the article;
• to reject the article; or
• to request a revision (in some cases for further peer review).

Authors submitting contributions agree to there being no arbitration process should a contribution be rejected, as set out above. However, the editor will follow a supportive process to build publishing capacity in Africa, where possible.

As a rule, not more than one article per author or co-author will be accepted for refereeing and possible publication.

Authors bear full responsibility for keeping the factual content of their contributions accurate and recent. Authors are encouraged to adhere to COPE: ‘How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers’. The corresponding author must ensure that all contributing authors have been included in the final submitted version of the manuscript and the authorship form has been signed.

Authors bear full responsibility for obtaining copyright permissions for materials included in their manuscripts where applicable.

Authors should prepare two copies of their manuscript for submission – one with all the names of the authors and the second, an anonymised copy.

On submission of manuscripts, authors must present a written undertaking that the article has not been published or is not being presented for publication elsewhere. Authors must also provide a written declaration that the work is their original work and that they have not plagiarised.

The authors must ensure that the language in the manuscript has been properly edited and the name and address of the language editor must be supplied.

Preparation of manuscripts (Not more than 7 000 words)

The manuscript, including the abstract, figure captions, tables, etc., should be typed on A4-size paper and the pages should be numbered consecutively. Manuscripts must be submitted in MS Word format. Use the Arial 11pt font typeface.

The title should be brief (maximum 15 words), but specific, to facilitate discoverability, followed by the author(s) name(s) and e-mail address(es).

An abstract in English (approximately 190 words) must be provided. Up to 10 keywords that characterise the article must follow the abstract. The abstract must indicate the argument (thesis) put forward in the contribution, the reasons why the research was undertaken (rationale), research method(s) used, major findings and recommendations.

The first page must contain only the following:

• The title of the contribution
• The name(s) of the author(s)
• The abstract
• Keywords

The text of the article should be divided into unnumbered sections, for example, Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References, Appendix (in that order). If necessary, secondary, headings may be used for further subdivision.

Do not use footnotes. A maximum of five endnotes per contribution will be allowed.

Authors must observe publishing conventions and should not use any terminology that can be construed as being sexist or racist.

Figures should be clear, black and white originals, on separate pages - not embedded in the text. Grey or coloured shading must not be used. Tables or figures should be numbered consecutively with a brief descriptive heading/caption. Information should not be duplicated in the text and the tables. Each table and/or figure must be referred to in the text by number - not 'above' or 'below', for example, Table 1, Figure 1. These will be placed in a suitable position after the first reference.

References

References are cited in the text by the author(s) name(s) and the year of publication in brackets (APA 7th edition referencing style), separated by a comma, for example, (Brown, 1997).

If several articles by the same author and from the same year are cited, the letters a, b, c, etc. should be added after the year of publication, for example, (Brown, 1977a).

Page references in the text should follow a comma after the date, for example, (Brown, 1997, p. 48). In works by three or more authors, only the name of the first author is given, followed by the abbreviation et al., for example, (Ziv et al., 1995).

If reference is made to an anonymous item in a newspaper, the name of the newspaper is given in brackets, for example, (Daily News, 1999).

List of references

Only sources cited in the text are listed, in alphabetical order, under References. Bibliographic information should be in the language of the source document (not in the language of the article). References should be presented as indicated in the following examples. Special attention should be paid to the required punctuation. Please click here for more information. 

Journal articles:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of the article. Name of the Periodical, volume(issue), #–#. https://doi.org/xxxx

Example: Adnan, M., & Anwar, K. (2020). Online learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Students' perspectives. Journal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology, 2(1), 45-51. 
http://www.doi.org/10.33902/JPSP. 2020261309  

Books:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Copyright Year). Title of the book (7th ed.). 
Publisher. DOI or URL

Example: Anderson, T. (2008). Theory and practice of online learning (2nd ed). AU Press. https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item?id=TerryAnderson&op=pdf&app=Library

Chapters in books:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Copyright Year). Title of the book chapter. In A. A. Editor & B. B. Editor (Eds.), Title of the book (2nd ed., pp. #–#). Publisher. DOI or URL

Example: Dukzec, S. (1988). Gender issues. In D. Hicks & J. Brown, (Eds.), Education for peace (2nd ed., pp. 45–60). London: Routledge.

Report by a Group Author 
World Health Organization. (2014). Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/113048/WHO_NMH_NHD_14.1_
 eng.pdf?ua=1

Unpublished theses or dissertations:

Squelch. J. (1991). Teacher training for multicultural education in a multicultural society [MEd dissertation, University of South Africa].

Newspaper references:

 Reynolds, G. (2019, April 9). Different strokes for athletic hearts. The New York Times, D4.

Electronic references:

Blog Post 
Rutledge, P. (2024, April 23). Are tweens too young for digital literacy? Dr. Pam: Living With Media. https://www.pamelarutledge.com/are-tweens-too-young-for-digital-literacy/         

Publishing policies.

For best practice, TETFLE adheres to COPE’s Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing and COPE’s policies on ethical oversight. Before publication, TETFLE require authors to grant this journal the permission to publish their articles. TETFLE further adheres to COPE’s guidelines for post-publication discussions and corrections.