COABE Journal Submission Form

COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education seeks to be the resource adult educators turn to for learning and inspiration. Researchers, advocates, administrators, teachers, and other practitioners are invited to submit manuscripts to the journal.

The journal is organized around themes and published twice a year and emphasizes innovative ideas, resources, research, and practitioner experiences that support the field of adult education. The COABE Journal seeks manuscripts focusing on various adult education settings and applications, including, but not limited to adult basic education, high school equivalency, high school completion, workforce education and training, English language acquisition, correctional education, and teacher training and development.

All submissions must follow the guidelines and style of the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Check here for general paper formatting, grammar, and citation and references guidelines. Please review the COABE Journal Style Guide prior to submitting your article.

Important Information: All authors are recognized in the Journal and also receive a free issue of the Journal that their work is published in. Please include all appropriate contact information.

Upload figures and appendices

If your manuscript contains figures or image-based appendices, please upload the source files here to ensure the highest quality publication. Files should be .jpg format at the largest file size/highest image resolution possible.

All checkboxes must be checked in this section to finish your submission.

Author Agreement

“I hereby confirm the assignment of first publication rights to the manuscript named above in all forms to the Coalition on Adult Basic Education if and when it is accepted for publication in the COABE Journal. I warrant that my manuscript is original work and has not been accepted for publication by another periodical. I further warrant that my work does not infringe upon any copyright or statutory rights of others, does not contain libelous statements, and that consulting editors, staff, and officers of the Coalition on Adult Basic Education are indemnified against all costs, expenses, and damages arising from any breach of the foregoing in regard to this manuscript. Finally, I acknowledge that the Coalition on Adult Basic Education are relying on this statement in any publishing of the manuscript’s information.”

Assignment of Publishing Rights

In the event that this article is accepted, I hereby assign to the Coalition on Adult Basic Education the copyright in the above specified manuscript (government authors not transferring copyright hereby assign a non-exclusive license to publish) and any accompanying tables, illustrations, data and any other supplementary information intended for publication in all forms and all media (whether known at this time or developed at any time in the future) throughout the world, in all languages, for the full term of copyright, to take effect if and when the article is accepted for publication. If I am one of several co-authors, I hereby confirm that I am authorized by my co-authors to grant this License as their agent on their behalf. For the avoidance of doubt, this assignment includes the rights to supply the article in electronic and online forms and systems.

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