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The International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies (IJCYFS) is a peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary, cross-national journal that is committed to scholarly excellence in the field of research about and services for children, youth, their families, and communities.
All original research and feature articles are reviewed by two members of the Editorial Advisory Team using a double-blind reviewing process. Authors are asked to ensure any personal identifiers are included on a separate cover page only so articles can be sent out for blind review.
Each submitted manuscript is evaluated on the following basis:
The researcher(s) confirm that they have followed ethical standards for research involving human participants such as the statement on Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans for Canadian researchers. All papers reporting human studies must state in the methods section that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee contact, in addition to the approval number. For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal. Examples of Ethics Approval statements:
Examples of Statement of Informed Consent:
The journal requires all authors to declare any conflict of interest that may arise from the publication. A conflict of interest is any relationships or spheres of interest that may directly or indirectly influence or bias the work. if a conflict exists, authors must insert a statement at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references.
The International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies requires all authors to acknowledge their funding source(s) under a separate heading or state that the research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors. Example: The study was supported by XXX Foundation/Institution under the YYY research program.
The International Journal of Child, Youth, and Family Studies provides immediate open access to its content to support the public good. We pursue open access for expanding equity, impact, reach, and knowledge advancement. The journal is published under the Open Access model (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International license) and is, therefore, free for anybody to read and download, and to copy and disseminate for educational purposes. Articles will be posted online immediately as they are ready for publication.
The International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies journal is published 2 times a year (Spring and Fall). We operate under a continuous publication or “publish-as-you-go” model, which means that we no longer wait to accumulate several articles into an issue before publication. Publishing articles on the go will reduce publication lag for our authors and make the newest research available to our readers more quickly.
To ensure equitable access to publising opportunities, the journal does not require any APC or submission charges for authors.
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license and is, therefore, free for anybody to read and download, and to copy and disseminate for educational purposes. Articles will be posted online immediately as they are ready for publication. An example of attribution to use is as follows:
The article, {insert article title}, by {insert author name(s)} has been reproduced from the International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Please link to the article title directly to the article location on the website.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the Journal's published version of their work (e.g., post on personal website or to an institutional repository) with acknowledgement of its initial publication in the International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies.
The journal utilizes the PKP Preservation Network (LOCKSS system) to create a distributed archiving system to create a permanent archive of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.