The Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, UUM Press 

(Open access journal; articles are available in full-text and free of charge to web visitors)

Special Issue based on collection of papers from the Conference; title to be decided.

Abstracting & Indexing

The journal is being indexed and abstracted in:

• Scopus
• MyCite
• Ulrichs Periodical Directory
• Cabell’s Directory in Educational & Curriculum Methods
For more information on the journal, and author guidelines, see the journal’s homepage at: http://mjli.uum.edu.my/

Other journals are to be listed soon!

Edited Books & Associated Publishers

In addition to the above Special Issues of journals, some other publications that are envisaged include Edited Books, for which the following publishers are associated with the ELLTA Conference 2012.

Note: The following were edited books from the ELLTA Conference 2011:

Are Theories Universal? – Edited by A. Ortenblad, I. A. Bajunid, M. Babur, & R. Kumari
Published by Yayasan Ilmuwan

‘Educational Leadership and Leadership Education in Asia’ – currently with University of Philippines Press

Full Papers Submission: Broader Guidelines and Specific Procedural Details

For Journal Special Issues

In case you want your paper to be considered for any of the international, refereed, academic journals that will publish Special Issues with sets of papers from the conference
(Leadership-Sage, Asia Pacific Journal of Education-Taylor & Francis, International J. of Learning and Change-Inderscience, Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction-UUM Press), please submit a signed separate letter in which you state that you give Roshni Kumari and Muhammad Babur the mandate to consider your paper(s) for any of these Special Issues, that your paper has not been published elsewhere, that it is your original work, and that it is not and will not be submitted elsewhere as long as the paper is being considered (inclusive of the reviewing and editing process) for these Special Issues, that you will let your paper be published in any of these Special Issues if your paper is accepted, and that you are committed to follow the whole process of required (if, any) revisions and resubmissions by the identified deadlines. This letter must be signed by all authors and submitted along with your full papers.

For Other Special Issues or Edited Books

In case you want your paper to be considered for any other Special Issue of other journals or edited books (e.g. Yayasan Ilmuyan see potential list of publishers: http://ellta.org/ellta-2012-publication/), which the conference organizers will contact, please submit a signed separate letter in which you state that you give Roshni Kumari and Muhammad Babur the mandate to consider your paper for any other publication, that your paper has not been published elsewhere, that it is your original work, that it is not and will not be submitted elsewhere as long as the paper is being considered (inclusive of the reviewing and editing process) by the conference organizers, and that you are committed to follow the whole process of required (if, any) revisions and resubmissions by the identified deadlines. This letter must be signed by all authors.

Specific Guidelines

You are supposed to submit two files (as described below).

Additionally, please, note that if you are interested in/ submitting your full paper to be considered for any of the special issue journal (associated with the conference), you need to
a) indicate in the header which of the journals your paper has been prepared for
b) prepare your manuscript in accordance with the style guide of the specific special issue journal that you have submitted your paper to/want your paper to be considered for.
1. One file with your title page (paginated as page 1) in a separate file, with

• Title (Times New Roman, all capitals, 14p, bold, centred)
• Author/s, their affiliations, brief biographical notes about authors, their email contacts, corresponding author, and any acknowledgements due
• Abstract (of maximum 100-150 words, describing purpose, method, theoretical contributions, and implications; Times New Roman, 12p)
• Five keywords.

2. Second file with the manuscript (normally 5,000 – 7,000 words – excluding figures and references, stating the word count on the manuscript), prepared either in accordance with the style guide of the specific special issue journal (associated with the conference) that you have submitted your paper to/want your paper to be considered for (if so, please indicate in the header which of the five journals your paper has been prepared for), or according to the following:
Manuscript Related Guidelines

• Remove names and any other text that may identify the author/s
• First page (p. 2, i.e. “2”) should contain paper’s title (Times New Roman, all capitals, 14p, bold, centred), abstract (the same as on title page)
• Main text starts on next page (paginated as “3”)

Formatting Guidelines

• Double-spaced throughout
• Wide margins
• Font: Times New Roman, 12p (main text)
• Headings:
- First-order headings: Times New Roman, all capitals, 12p, bold, centred)
- Second-order headings: Times New Roman, 12p, bold, first letter in main words capitalized, left
- Third-order headings: Times New Roman, 12p, italics, left
• Paginate throughout (centred footer, Arabic figures, starting on page 2, i.e. “2”)
• Avoid footnotes; avoid endnotes
• In-text references according to APA style guide
References

• References, starting on a separate page after the main text (first-order heading: REFERENCES), in alphabetic order, according to APA style guide
Tables & Figures

• Tables and figures (in this order) follow after the references, on paginated separate pages for each individual table/figure. Indicate preferred place in text by, for instance:

—————————————————————————————

Take in Table 1 here

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Queries

• For all queries, please consult APA style guide (possibly 6th Manual), which, for instance, can be found at:

- In-text references: http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocAPACitations.html
- Reference list: http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocAPAReferences.html

Some Helpful Suggestions

In your full papers, please remember to:

• Present a review of the previous literature in your field.
• Describe explicitly and clearly the theoretical contributions of your paper.
• Describe implications for practice and/or research.
• In case your paper takes up a general phenomenon in a special context (such as ‘Educational innovation in Malaysia’ or ‘Democratic Leadership in Kuwait’), then, please consider the following:

(a) review the literature on the general phenomenon as such or in other contexts;
(b) describe why you study the certain phenomenon in this specific context;
(c) describe what it is, in the specific context, that plausibly might lead to novel conclusions; and
(d) how the described context has affected the results of your study; connect explicitly the findings of your study to the specific context so as to bring out the Asian perspectives, theories and models.

Timelines

Please, note that for several of the Journal Special Issues, we are planning to get them published during fall 2012 or early 2013, which means that those who would like to get their papers published in these have to be prepared for some hard and intensive revision work during 2013 (starting in January-February, 2013).

We wish this to be a scholarly enriching and rewarding experience for all.

Publications 2011                                           Publications 2012