Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The text adheres to the stylistic, ethical, and structural requirements outlined in our Policies and the Author Guidelines.
- The submission has not been published elsewhere, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- The text is 1.5-line spaced; uses Calibri 11-point font with left aligned text; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The APA reference style has been applied and, where available, DOIs for references have been provided.
- The submission abides by privacy and copyright laws, with sources and permissions for third-party material clearly indicated.
Research articles
Research articles are based on original research or evaluation. These will be peer reviewed. Main text word count: 2,500 – 4,000 words (this excludes references, appendices, structured abstract of 200 – 300 words, keywords).
Practice-based articles
Practice-based articles provide knowledge based on real-world experience and may include types such as case studies, project reports, commentaries, and dissertation summaries. Main text word count: 1,000 – 3,000 words (this excludes references, appendices, abstract of 100 – 300 words, keywords).
Regular features
Regular features are submitted by regular contributors or topics/themes of interest. Word count: 500 – 2,000 words. Please contact the editors at hslj.hslg@gmail.com if you wish to write a series of articles.
Reports and reviews
This section includes reports and reviews on conferences and other events, publications, tools or products, websites or other information resources. Word count: 500 – 2,000 words.
Copyright Notice
The HSLJ is fully open access and under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. All authors must agree to this provision, which means that they retain copyright for their work, and it will be made freely available online. Anyone may reuse the content freely for non-commercial purposes as long as they give appropriate credit to the author’s work, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Authors may re-publish the HSLJ version of their work (including posting to a repository, their website, or publishing in a book) with a link and acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. We do not apply article processing charges or other author fees.
Authors must establish and declare that all materials included in their article have permission for use from the copyright owner or are openly licensed. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any third-party material and clearly identify this within their work (see author guidelines for details). If the journal editors are served with a cease and desist notice from a copyright holder, in the case of copyright infringement we will remove the article in question. If a satisfactory resolution is not possible, then an article may be permanently retracted.
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