New Directions For Evaluation: Preparation of Journal Issues After Proposals Are Accepted

Guest editors whose proposals have been accepted should keep these guidelines in mind when preparing their journal issues:

1. Refer in the text to each manuscript as an article or paper, not as a chapter.
2. With some exceptions, New Directions for Evaluation follows the style guidelines described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association [APA], 7^th edition (https://apastyle.apa.org/).
3. Manuscripts should be prepared using Microsoft Word (12-pt. font on double- or single-spaced pages—whichever the editor-in-chief prefers).
4. Review and follow the current APA style for headings within each manuscript. (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/headings)
5. Review and follow the current APA style for in-text citations within each manuscript. (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations)
6. Review and follow the current APA style for tables and figures within each manuscript. (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/tables-figures)
7. A properly formatted (i.e., APA style) reference section should be included in each article. (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references)
8. Review and follow the current APA style for grammar within each manuscript. (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar)
9. Review and follow the current APA style for the mechanics of style within each manuscript. (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/mechanics-style)
10. Review and follow the current APA style for bias-free language within each manuscript. (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language)  
11. Except for page numbers, use no headers or footers.
12. First page of each manuscript should include: the paper title, author names and author affiliations (in the order they should appear), author ORCiDs if applicable, and who correspondence on the article should be directed to (only one person may be designated).
13. Include a 1-paragraph abstract (150-250 words) at the beginning of each article.
14. Use a two-part table and figure numbering system, showing both the article and the table or figure number (e.g., the first table in Article 1 should be shown as “Table 1.1”).
15. Include figures and tables at the end of the appropriate manuscript files. (Wiley Publications, the publisher, does not render new artwork.)
16. It is unnecessary to follow the old convention of noting in the manuscript where the tables and figures should be placed (e.g., “Insert table 1.1 about here”).
17. Avoid using footnotes (incorporate the material into the text). If necessary, footnotes may be placed at the end of the article before the references.
18. Cite articles within the issue as “Author(s) name, this issue.”
19. Include a one-sentence biographical statement for each author at the conclusion of each article, without a heading for the statements. Biographical statements are required for every author of an article, even if an author has contributed to more than one article.
20. Articles appearing in the journal should cite relevant evaluation literature, including and especially published work appearing in previous NDE issues. Manuscripts that fail to cite any evaluation literature, or that fail to provide a convincing rationale in their manuscript on why evaluation literature is not cited, will be returned to guest editors to be addressed by manuscript authors.
21. Prepare a table of contents, with a one-sentence synopsis for each article, as shown in any recent issue of the journal.
22. Prepare the Editor’s Notes. The Notes are the only part of the issue that is free to all viewers of Wiley’s journal website (including non-subscribers to the journal).  Guest editors should consider whether they want to include extensive background material in the Notes for a potentially wide audience to read.
23. Include an issue abstract of no more than 250 words for the back cover.
24. NDE guest editors do not prepare the indexes for their issues.
25. At an estimated 425 words per published journal page, and accounting for how many pages are comprised of tables and figures, an issue should not be longer than 115 journal pages, not counting the front matter and the index. Guest editors will be held closely to these limits.
26. Submit drafts of the entire issue (including table of contents, Editor’s Notes, papers, and back cover text) in a single google drive or OneDrive folder with all of the draft article files included in the shared folder. Please do not share a bunch of separate folders with each article in them or send the articles over email. A template for this shared folder will be provided by the editor-in-chief.
27. The quality of the journal issue is ultimately up to the guest editor(s); however, the editor-in-chief will review the manuscripts in a timely manner and return for revision any that have egregious errors.
28. Unless other arrangements have been made with the editor-in-chief, once the editor-in-chief has reviewed the manuscripts and any revisions have been made, the guest editors will receive emailed invitations for the table of contents, the Editor’s Notes, and the back cover to upload via ScholarOne, the journal’s submission system. The corresponding author for each article will also receive an emailed invitation to upload their article via ScholarOne system.
29. A Copyright Transfer Agreement  (CTA) for every article is completed by the corresponding author on behalf of the whole writing team. This is done within the ScholarOne system.
30. If copyrighted material is included in any of the chapters, the corresponding author must upload all permissions to the ScholarOne system when uploading the manuscript. A permission request form is available for your use: https://www.eval.org/Portals/0/Docs/JB%20Permission%20Request.pdf.