Submissions
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 submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format using the template provided.
- The text has been spell checked and grammar checked.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 10-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Commentary
Scholarly discussion of a topic of interest to the forensic science education community that includes the opinions of the authorLetters
Responses to previously published manuscripts in the JFSE which contribute to or elicit discussion on a subject without overstepping the bounds of professional courtesy.Communication
Updates or extensions of previously published topics or short article. May also scholarly describe a website, software application, media item, or other use of technology that enhances teaching and learning.Activity or Laboratory Experiment: College Educators
Description of hands-on activities that can be done in the classroom, laboratory, or other informal setting.Book Review
Reviews of educational text of concern to the forensic science educatorDemonstrations
Description and procedure for an actual or virtual demonstration for teaching scientific concepts.Errata
This section is for correcting mistakes in previously published papers.
Scholarship in Times of Crisis
We are living through unprecedented challenges to tradditional teaching, and in all likelyhood will see fundemental changes in how we teach from here on out. This section is to highlight teaching plans, methods, and techniques that have been updated in times of crisis, as well as novel methodologies and lesson plans designed specifically to address teaching challenges.
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