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.

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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 assign first publication rights to the above-named manuscript, in all forms, to COABE upon its acceptance for publication in the COABE Journal. I warrant that the manuscript is my original work and is not AI-generated, though typical digital writing tools may have been used for clarity and flow. I confirm that the manuscript appropriately acknowledges and cites the works of others. I further confirm that the manuscript has not been published, accepted for publication, or is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

I warrant that this work does not infringe on the copyright or statutory rights of others and contains no libelous statements. I agree to indemnify COABE's consulting editors, staff, and officers against all costs, expenses, and damages arising from any breach of these warranties in connection with this manuscript. I acknowledge that COABE is relying on this statement in publishing the manuscript.”

Licensing Agreement

In the event that this article is accepted for publication, I, the Author, retain copyright and hereby grant to COABE a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive license to publish the manuscript and all accompanying supplementary materials in all forms and media. I agree that the article will be published and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. If I am one of several co-authors, I confirm that I am authorized to grant this license as their agent. This license includes the right to supply the article in all electronic, online, and indexing systems.

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