Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, 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 has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• Please submit texts as Word Documents, images as high-resolution TIFF files, and audio as MP3 files. OJS can accept submissions up to 1GB; contact ecestudentjournal@gmail.com if your submission file is larger than that.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• Credit for illustration and figures has been provided.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

Author Guidelines

Potentia Submission Guidelines: 

Potentia welcomes written (e.g., literature reviews, research papers, policy critique) and multimodal submissions (e.g.,  autobiographical inquiry, storytelling, poetry, photo essay, videos narratives) with a focus on early childhood education research, policy, practice.  We also invite book reviews, and practice orientated narratives (e.g., pedagogical documentation and projects).  

For Authors:

• Please upload submissions to the Potentia Journal online submission portal. Upon submission, you will receive an email as an acknowledgement from the editorial collective, which includes an estimated timeline for the review process. 
• Style should be consistent with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Edition). The journal uses Canadian spelling.
• Written submissions should not exceed 6000 words, excluding references and should be submitted as a Microsoft Word File. 
•  If you have questions about whether your submission fits these criteria, each call for papers has a designated contact person who will gladly discuss your ideas. 
• The author is responsible for protecting the identity of the children, and/or adults, and the early years environment unless written permissions has been obtained.

Peer-review process

Potentia is interested in reimagining hierarchical notions of knowledge creation and expertise that often characterize academic publishing relationships. We envision peer supported, mentor-author relations as highly relational and responsive.  

The Potentia editorial collective is committed to a review process that supports both reviewers and authors in their work to create powerful scholarship for early childhood education.

Potentia's  editorial collective consists of undergraduate, graduate, and recently graduated students who first screen the submissions for adherence to guidelines and general fit with the journal and/or issue theme. Successful manuscripts or multimodal submissions are then reviewed by at least 2 members of the editorial collective and/or faculty members and/or graduate students with relevant expertise to evaluate the quality and rigour of the submission. Any comments and/or constructive feedback from the reviewers are sent back to the author(s) for revision. Potentia implements two stages of the review process; in the first stage authors will be partnered with a reviewer to support them through the revision process.  In the second stage, the reviewers and Potentia editorial collective will reassess the revised manuscript or multimodal submission’s suitability for publication. If deemed appropriate, the manuscript or multimodal submission will be copyedited and then typeset for eventual publication. 

Please note that Potentia reserves the right to decline a manuscript or multimodal submission for publication at any point throughout the peer-review process. 

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0. that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.

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