MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Please note: This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents at this time. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.

Form. Manuscripts should conform to the conventions specified in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th Edition) (1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036). Printed manuscripts must be typewritten, double-spaced on 81/2 x 11-inch (or A4) white paper, with numbered pages. Page 1 should contain the title of the article, author(s) name(s) (without degrees), affiliation(s), a short title not exceeding 45 characters and spaces, and the complete mailing address of the person to whom correspondence should be sent. Page 2 should contain an abstract of 100-150 words. Language should be accessible for a wide range of readers of English wherever possible.

Authors should be sensitive to the use of terminology that might be obsolete or offensive to readers. Abbreviations should not be used, other than as described in the APA Manual. Endnotes (to be published as footnotes) should conform to APA standards and they should be used only when absolutely necessary. Tables should conform to APA standards. Do not type any vertical lines. Every column must have a clear heading. All illustrations are considered as figures and must be supplied in a finished form ready for reproduction upon acceptance. Consult the APA Publication Manual. Illustrations in color can be accepted only if the authors defray the cost.

References. The following examples show style of capitalization and punctuation for journal articles, books, and edited books (underlining does not appear in electronic forms, please consult APA Publication Manual):

• Armstrong, D. F., Stokoe, W. C., & Wilcox, S. E. (1995). Gesture and the nature of language. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  
• Furth, H. G. (1964). Research with the deaf: Implications for language and cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 62, 145-164.
• Marschark, M. (1997). Lies, hearing loss, and videotape: evaluating the stories told by and to deaf children. Invited symposium presentation, Australian Human Development Conference, Adelaide, Australia, July.
• Meadow-Orlans, K.P. (1987). An analysis of the effectiveness if early intervention programs for hearing-impaired children. In M. J. Guralnick & F. C. Bennett (Eds.), The effectiveness of early intervention for at-risk and handicapped children (pp. 325-362). New York: Academic Press.

Please go to the manuscript preparation guidelines for further instruction regarding preparing a manuscript for publication.

Funding. Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding.'The following rules should be followed: the full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’; grant numbers should be given in brackets; multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma; agencies should be separated by a semi-colon; no extra wording like 'Funding for this work was provided by ...' should be used; where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'. An example is given here: ‘National Institutes of Health (CB5453961 to C.S., DB645473 to M.H.); Funding Agency (hfygr667789).’

CHARGES

Authors will be invoiced for all charges at the time of print publication. The Journal does not have page charges. Authors are charged $600 for each figure printed in color: acceptance of these charges is required at the time of online submission, when authors designate those figures that should appear in color.

COPYRIGHT

It is a condition of publication in the journal that authors grant an exclusive license to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the license agreement, authors may use their own material in other publications, provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication and Oxford University Press is acknowledged as the publisher.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY

At the point of submission, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education policy requires that each author reveal any financial interests or connections, direct or indirect, or other situations that might raise the question of bias in the work reported or the conclusions, implications, or opinions stated - including pertinent commercial or other sources of funding for the individual author(s) or for the associated department(s) or organization(s), personal relationships, or direct academic competition. When considering whether you should declare a conflicting interest or connection please consider the conflict of interest test: Is there any arrangement that would embarrass you or any of your co-authors if it was to emerge after publication and you had not declared it?

As an integral part of the online submission process, Corresponding authors are required to confirm whether they or their co-authors have any conflicts of interest to declare, and to provide details of these. If the Corresponding author is unable to confirm this information on behalf of all co-authors, the authors in question will then be required to submit a completed Conflict of Interest form to the Editorial Office. It is the Corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that all authors adhere to this policy.

If the manuscript is published, Conflict of Interest information will be communicated in a statement in the published paper.

AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY FROM MAY 2005

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.

OPEN ACCESS OPTION FOR AUTHORS

Starting in July 2005, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education authors have the option, at an additional charge, to make their paper freely available online immediately upon publication, under the Oxford Open initiative. After your manuscript is accepted, as part of the mandatory licence form required of all corresponding authors, you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay to have your paper made freely available immediately. If you do not select the Open Access option, your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will not be charged.

For those selecting the Open Access option, the charges for the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education vary depending on the institution at which the corresponding author is based:

Optional Oxford Open charges:
For a corresponding author based at an institution with an online subscription to the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education:

• Regular charge per paper - £800 / $1500
• List B developing country charge* - £400 / $750
• List A developing country charge* - £0 / $0

For a corresponding author based at an institution that does not subscribe to the online journal:

• Regular charge per paper - £1500 / $2800
• List B developing country charge* - £750 / $1400
• List A developing country charge* - £0 / $0

*Visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/devel/ for list of qualifying countries.

The above Open Access charges are in addition to any page charges and color charges that might apply.

If you choose the Open Access option you will also be asked to complete an Open Access charge form online. You will be automatically directed to the appropriate version of the form depending on whether you are based at an institution with an online subscription to the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. Therefore please make sure that you are using an institutional computer when accessing the form. To check whether you are based at a subscribing institution please use the Subscriber Test link for the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.

Please see these guidelines for reuse of Oxford Open content.

PERMISSIONS FOR ILLUSTRATIONS AND FIGURES

Permission to reproduce copyright material, for print and online publication in perpetuity, must be cleared and if necessary paid for by the author; this includes applications and payments to DACS, ARS, and similar licensing agencies where appropriate. Evidence in writing that such permissions have been secured from the rights-holder must be made available to the editors. It is also the author's responsibility to include acknowledgements as stipulated by the particular institutions. Oxford Journals can offer information and documentation to assist authors in securing print and online permissions: please see the Guidelines for Authors section. Information on permissions contacts for a number of main galleries and museums can also be provided. Should you require copies of this, please contact the editorial office of the journal in question or the Oxford Journals Rights department.