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The International Journal of Child, Youth, and Family Studies (IJCYFS) is a peer reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary, cross-national journal that is committed to scholarly excellence in the field of research about and services for children, youth, families and their communities.  This journal takes an inclusive approach and publishes articles about basic and applied research using quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods; position papers; literature reviews; research reports; briefing papers; book reviews and letters to the editor.  IJCYFS seeks to foster and support the dissemination of knowledge about children, youth, families and their communities and the challenges they face.  This journal welcomes guest editors and writers who wish to publish special issues that provide in-depth, innovative information about global concerns that impact children and youth, their families and communities.

Select issues from this box: Select ... Volume 3, No. 4 Volume 3, No. 2-3

 

Editorial Team

Editors
Dr. Sibylle Artz, University of Victoria
Jennifer White, University of Victoria Editorial Board

Members
Jim Anglin, University of Victoria
Jessica Ball, University of Victoria
Gordon Barnes, University of Victoria
Natasha Blancet-Cohen, Concordia University
Tullio Caputo, Carleton University
Ted Dunlop, Ryerson University
Grant Charles, University of British Columbia
Les Foster, University of Victoria
Francis Hare, Ryerson University
Marie Hoskins, University of Victoria
Wassilis Kassis, University of Osnabrueck
Mark Krueger, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Varda Mann-Feder, Associate Professor, Concordia University
Richard Mitchell, Brock University
Shannon Moore, Brock University
Veronica Pacini-Ketchebaw, University of Victoria
Michaela Paul, University of Osnabrueck
Alan Pence, University of Victoria
Steve Redhead, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Shlomo Romi, Bar-Ilan University
Daniel Scott, University of Victoria
Duane Seibel, Thompson Rivers University
Hans Skott-Myhre, Brock University
Susan Strega, University of Victoria
Richard Sullivan, University of British Columbia
Michel Vallee, Carleton University
Shelly Whitman, Dalhousie University
John Winterdyk, Mount Royal University

Journal Contact

International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies
c/o School of Child and Youth Care
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 1700
Victoria, British Columbia
V8W 2Y2

Principal Contact
Sibylle Artz, PhD
Editor
UVic, School of Child & Youth Care
c/o School of Child and Youth Care
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 1700
Victoria, British Columbia
V8W 2Y2
http://www.uvic.ca/ijcyfs

Phone: 250-721-6472
Fax: 250-721-7218
Email: sartz@uvic.ca

Support Contact
Sibylle Artz
Phone: 250-721-6472
Email: sartz@uvic.ca

Author Guidelines

PLEASE SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS DIRECTLY TO THE CO-EDITORS AT: sartz@uvic.ca

Submissions
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as Word or RTF document and may be up to 35 double-spaced, pages in length and sent directly to Sibylle Artz, Editor sartz@uvic.ca. Submission of an original manuscript to the Journal will be taken to mean that it represents original work not previously published, that it is not being considered elsewhere for publication. Authors must take full responsibility for all figures, etc, and present them as camera-ready copy.

Abstracts
For each article, the author must provide a 100-200 word abstract in English. These summaries should be placed immediately below the paper title, author and institutional affiliation.

Author Bio
The author(s) must supply a brief (25 word) bio giving name, rank, institution, institutional address, and email address. For example, Sibylle Artz is Professor of Child and Youth Care at University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2. Email: sartz@uvic.ca

General Formatting
Style of presentation should conform to the guidelines outlined in the latest version of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Manual). References must be included with all submissions; these too should follow the guidelines outlined in the APA Manual.
http://library.uvic.ca/instruction/cite/documents/APAStyleQuickGuideFeb2010.pdf

Manuscript Layout
Wherever possible, the paper should follow the traditional layout: introduction (motivation, problem identification and a short literature survey), present investigation (background, method, materials, subjects and results), and conclusion.

Title page
Organize the title page in the following way: 1) title of manuscript, 2) name of author(s), 3) name of department(s) and institution(s), and 4) name and full postal address of the corresponding author who also acts as 'Guarantor' for all parts of the paper.
The title should be informative and accurate and at the same time trigger the interest of the reader. A short running head will be derived from the title to appear on each page of the paper.

Language
All articles should be written in English - British or American as long as consistency is observed.

Conflict of interest and funding
Authors are responsible for disclosing financial support from the industry or other conflicts of interest that might bias the interpretation of results.

Ethics and consent
When reporting experiments on patients or animals, please indicate whether the procedures followed were approved by your local ethics committee and/or in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm).
Author Publication Agreement

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).

• The article, or any part thereof, is in no way a violation of any existing original or derivative copyright.

• The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.

• The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses).
  All URL addresses in the text (e.g., IJCYFS) are activated and ready to click.

• The text adheres to the journal's formatting requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

• The text, if submitted to a peer-reviewed section (e.g., Articles), has had the authors' names removed. If an author is cited, "Author" and year are used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of author's name, paper title, etc. The author's name has also been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.

Copyright Notice
Authors contributing to the International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies agree to release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported license. This licence allows anyone to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear.

Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal right of first publication.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.