Submission Processes

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Canadian Art Teacher works with a double-blind peer review process. Each manuscript is blind and reviewed by at least two reviewers with feedback provided to authors upon completion.  If revisions are required, authors will be expected to submit a revised manuscript to address and delineate the revisions and changes.  

This process is designed for:

• Academic professionals (professors, assistant professors)

• Those with extensive publishing experience

If you elect to submit your work for CAT's peer review process, you are requested to prepare your work so that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.  Authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. 

TITLE PAGE:  Submit the Title Page containing the Author's details and Blinded Manuscript with no author details as 2 separate files.  This should include the title, authors' names and affiliations, and a complete address for the corresponding author including telephone and e-mail address.

MANUSCRIPT: Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review, such as:

• Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2020]” .

• Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation-related identifier

• Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper.

• Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows:  ‘[Anonymous, 2020]’.

• For blinding in the reference list:  ‘[Anonymous 2020] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’

• Remove references to funding sources

• Do not include acknowledgments

• Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized.

PEER MENTOR PROCESS

Canadian Art Teacher is committed to creating an inclusive publishing experience.  We acknowledge that not all artists, teachers and scholars have experience submitting and publishing their work within national journals.  We aim to complicate the current hegemonic publishing practices by offering editing and publishing support via our peer mentor process.

If your work is accepted for publication via the peer mentor process, experienced editors from CAT will work directly with you to give you conceptual feedback on your ideas and intentions, organizational feedback on your writing voice, style, and logistical support to ensure that your work follows academic publication guidelines

This process is designed for:

• Those who are inexperienced with the publishing process

• Working Undergraduate/Secondary Teachers 

• Artists 

• Graduate or Ph.D. students 

• Undergraduate/Secondary students

Please note, with respect, due to the output of time and care that the CAT editors are taking with your work, if you choose to participate in the mentoring process, it is expected that you will continue with the progress until its completion; publishing your work with CAT.