Author Guidelines

Voices of Teachers and Teacher Educators’ largely gives space to contributions with different
experiences, questions, suggestions, perspectives as well as critical comments on different
aspects of Teacher Education and Schooling for publication. Ideas developed in the text must
be clear and coherent; the argumentation must be convincing. The paper must be clear and
bring out the points examined in the text so that the reader can have a clear idea of the
author’s perspective. The language of the text should not be full of jargon or with gymnastics
of technical words. It should be purposeful, relevant and understandable for the audience of
the journal.
The length of the article is expected to be around 5000 words, in extreme cases it should
not exceed 7000 words. While there is no lower limit, the contribution must not be exposition
of a point of view/uncritical/hypercritical presentation of an experience. Preferably the
papers should be approximately 3000 words. The paper must include an abstract and
proper referencing.
As per the policy for inclusion of articles in Voices of Teachers and Teachers Educators
no contribution with a similarity index higher than 4 to 5% on Urkund would be taken for
review. The author(s) must ensure that the paper that they submit has less than a 4 to 5%
similarity index on Urkund. There are online mechanisms to check for the similarity index,
so please check before you send it. For those who are citing other author’s work or their own
work, please ensure that there are not many quotes from any previously published text. You
can not take any material from any published work including your own. You must keep the
amount of material you cite to the minimum, and give reference to the original. Whatever
you wish to write in the paper should be linked to your own work and written in your words.
You must give credit for the work that you refer to and can, if central to your paper, make its
essence available, but this cannot be through the use of the text from the work as it is. We
would also urge you to do the Urkund test at your end if possible and attach the report so
that the process of review is quicker.