For authors

Working with a partner

Partners can help you prepare, submit and revise your manuscript. Here is what they do, what they may not do and what it costs.

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At a glance

  • Working with a partner is optional.
  • You pay only for the services you agree to, each on its own invoice apart from the publication fee.
  • Partners never influence the review or the decision.
  • You remain the author and responsible for the manuscript.

Partners are organisations and individuals approved by Journal of Education and Teaching Learning to assist authors. They can help with language, the template, the submission form, revisions and following the manuscript. They work for you, not for the editorial office.

Choosing a partner

  1. Browse the journal's partners and their services.
  2. Ask a partner for assistance from that page, or use the referral link a partner gave you.
  3. Agree with the partner on what they will do for you before they start.
  4. Give your written consent for the partner to submit or revise on your behalf. Every co-author must agree too.

A partner's referral link is remembered for 7 days while you register and submit.

What a partner may do

  • Help you prepare the manuscript in the journal template and check the language.
  • Submit the manuscript for you and follow it on the tracking page.
  • Help you answer the reviewers and upload the revision.
  • See the invoice of your manuscript.

What a partner may not do

  • Promise acceptance, a publication date or a review outcome.
  • Write the manuscript for you, add or remove authors, or change data and citations.
  • Contact editors or reviewers to influence a decision.

Report anything like this to [email protected]. See publication ethics and the partner terms.

The partner's fee

The partner proposes each service with its price on your tracking page. You agree or decline; an agreed service is billed on its own invoice, apart from the publication fee, and never influences the editorial decision. State the help you received in your manuscript's Acknowledgements (the kind of help, for example "Language editing was provided by a professional service"), without the partner's name in the copy for reviewers. The submission form asks you to confirm it.

Your responsibility

You remain the author. The content, the authorship and the declarations in the manuscript are your responsibility, whoever submitted it. Read the author guidelines and the publication fee page as well.

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