Guidelines for Authors

Editorial Review Procedures

All papers submitted to Curriculum Inquiry are subjected to a preliminary internal review, and those deemed appropriate for publication in the journal are sent anonymously to readers. The editors rely heavily on the judgments of those readers but are not bound by them. Intending contributors should note that the editors favor clean, cogent prose. Manuscripts are accepted for publication subject to nonsubstantive editing with the understanding that CI has the right of first publication.

Curriculum Inquiry conducts a double anonymous review process. To assure anonymity, please upload two versions of your manuscript. One version should contain no identifying information (e.g., name, institution, email, references to your previously published work) and you should use the "Manuscript - anonymous" option for this version. The second version should include your name(s), institutional affiliation(s), and contact information; for this version select the "Manuscript - with author details" option.

Curriculum Inquiry's policy is to present original publications that are available for the first time through our journal. For these reasons, during the online submission process authors must confirm that the submitted manuscript is an original work, has not been published before, or posted electronically, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere either in printed or electronic form. Notwithstanding the foregoing, sharing print or electronic copies of the unpublished manuscript (as long as acknowledgment of submission to Curriculum Inquiry is clearly visible) with a limited audience, such as colleagues or students, but not including posting to a widely accessible (online) website, would not prejudice acceptance. If unsure, please communicate with the Curriculum Inquiry editorial office.

General Guidelines

  • All manuscripts must be submitted via the online journal submission site at https://rp.tandfonline.com

  • Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words including tables, captions, reference list, and endnotes.

  • All copy—including quotations, indented matter, endnotes, and references—should be typed double spaced, on standard letter size (21.59 cm x 27.94 cm, or 8.5 x11 inches) pages, with 2.54 cm (1 inch) margins, using 12-point font.

  • We use endnotes rather than footnotes. Endnotes should be used for commentary only, not for references.

  • Manuscripts must be accompanied by an abstract of 200–250 words included in the main document. The abstract should give the reader a vivid sense of the issues, findings, and conclusions of the article.

  • Headings must be formatted following APA style. You can find detailed information about APA headings here: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/headings

  • Tables: Type each table on a separate page. Refer to each table in numerical order in the text. Prepare tables without vertical lines.

Figures

  • Authors must provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.

  • Figures must be saved separate to text. Do not embed figures in the manuscript file.

  • Figures should be saved as one of the following formats: EPS (encapsulated PostScript), PS (PostScript), JPEG, TIFF (tagged image file format), or PNG (Portable Network Graphic). Figures that have been created in Microsoft Word can be submitted as DOC or DOCX files.

  • All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).

  • Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the manuscript, and numbered correspondingly.

  • The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic (e.g. Figure1, Figure2a).

Citations and References

Authors preparing manuscripts for Curriculum Inquiry should refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Edition for bibliographic and referencing style. Numbered notes should only be used for acknowledgments and commentary, and should appear as endnotes. In-text citations should include, in parentheses, author surname, year of publication, and page numbers where appropriate (see chapter 8 of the APA manual for details and examples).

In all cases, a reference list formatted according to APA style must be provided at the end of the manuscript.  Examples of APA reference list style:

Journal Articles

Nxumalo, F., & Cedillo, S. (2017). Decolonizing place in early childhood studies: Thinking with Indigenous onto-epistemologies and Black feminist geographies. Global Studies of Childhood, 7(2), 99–112. https://doi.org/ 10.1177/2043610617703831

Teshome, T., & Yang, K. W. (2018). Not child but meager: Sexualization and negation of Black childhood. small axe, 22(3), 160–170.

Books

Simpson, A. (2014). Mohawk interruptus: Political life across the borders of settler states. Duke University Press.

Snorton, C. R. (2017). Black on both sides: A racial history of trans identity. University of Minnesota Press.

Chapters in Edited Books

Dryden, O. H. (2018). Má-ka juk yuh: A genealogy of Black queer liveability. In J. Haritaworn, G. Moussa, S. M. Ware, & R. Rodríguez (Eds.), Queering urban justice: Queer of colour formations in Toronto (pp. 62–83). University of Toronto Press.  

Gosine, A. (2010). Non-white reproduction and same-sex eroticism: Queer acts against nature. In C. Mortimer-
Sandilands & B. Erickson (Eds.), Queer ecologies: Sex, nature, politics, desire (pp. 149–172). Indiana University Press.

More detailed instructions for authors are available on the site of Curriculum Inquiry's publisher, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.