From Annie Selden:

Since I believe a lot of others who may want information on where to publish, here is as much information as I personally can gather up.

But first, some general advice. It is not a good idea to complete a manuscript before you decide which journal to submit to. Not only is it a question of APA style, etc., but different journals publish different kinds of articles. I know from serving on the JRME Editorial Panel that manuscripts that are generic or "recycled" do not usually make a good impression on the reviewers (a.k.a. referees). Of course, if one truly has the exceptional paper that moves the field forward, reviewers would still give a positive review.

Annie Selden
ARUME Coordinator

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Annie's List (in no particular order)

• Mathematical Thinking and Learning Editor: Lyn English
  Queensland University of Technology
  Victoria Pk. Rd., Kelvin Grove
  Brisbane
  Queensland 4059
  Australia
  e-mail: l.english@qut.edu.au Information for contributors to Mathematical Thinking and Learning can be found at: http://www.fed.qut.edu.au/mtl/contrib.html
• Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics Editor: Jean Schmittau
  School of Education and Human Development
  State University of New York
  P.O. Box 6000
  Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
• Educational Studies in Mathematics Editor: Kenneth Ruthven
  Dept. of Education
  Cambridge University
  Cambridge CB2 1QA
  United Kingdom Educational Studies in Mathematics has a "volume and issue summary" page at: http://www.wkap.nl/jrnltoc.htm/0013-1954
• Journal of Mathematical Behavior Editors: Carolyn Maher & Robert Speiser
  Graduate School of Education
  Rutgers University
  10 Seminary Place
  New Brunswick, NJ 08901
  Phone: 732-932-8548
  e-mail: cmaher@rci.rutgers.edu JMB has a web page with some general information at: http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/6/2/0/2/0/0/
• Information for contributors to the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education (JRME) can be found at: http://www.nctm.org/jrme/info/info.for.contributors.html The editor-elect is Ed Silver and all manuscripts are to be sent to him at NCTM.

Other journals (besides JRME) that publish articles related to mathematical teaching, learning, pedagogy, etc. (again, in no particular order):

• If your paper had to do with the mathematical learning/teaching of undergraduates, you can submit it to:

  Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education -- a set of volumes that appears when a sufficient number of good papers have been submitted.

  Editors:
  Ed Dubinsky
  Department of Mathematics
  Georgia State University
  30 Pryor Street
  Atlanta, GA 30303-3083
  Phone: 404-651-0642, 404-897-1401
  e-mail: edd@zeus.cs.gsu.edu

  Alan H. Schoenfeld
  School of Education
  University of California
  Berkeley, CA 94720
  e-mail: alans@socrates.berkeley.edu
  

  Jim Kaput
  Department of Mathematics
  University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
  North Dartmouth, MA 02747
  e-mail: JKAPUT@umassd.edu

• If your paper has to do with statistics education, information on the Journal of Statistics Education can be found at: http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/
• If your paper has to do with computers and mathematical learning/teaching, you can submit it to:

  Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching

  Editor: Ed Dubinsky
  Department of Mathematics
  Georgia State University
  30 Pryor Street
  Atlanta, GA 30303-3083
  Phone: 404-651-0642, 404-897-1401
  e-mail: edd@zeus.cs.gsu.edu The journal has a web page at: http://www.aace.org/pubs/jcmst/

  International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning

  Editorial Chair: Seymour Papert, MIT, USA.
  
  Editor-in-Chief: Richard Noss, Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
  Executive Editor: Michelle Artigue, Paris, France.
  Andy A. diSessa, University of California at Berkeley, USA.
  Celia Hoyles, Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
  Uri Leron, Dept. of Science Education, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (ARUME member, email is: uril@techunix.technion.ac.il).
  Uri Wilensky, Center for Connected Learning and Computer Based Modeling, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA Information about the journal is located at: http://www.wkap.nl/aims_scope.htm/1382-3892

  Journal of Science Education and Technology

  Editor: Karen C. Cohen
  Journal of Science Education and Technology
  Educational Technology Center
  Harvard Graduate School of Education
  Cambridge, MA 02138
  
  Tel: 781-237-3351
  E-mail: cohenka@hugse1.harvard.edu Kluwer's webpage of information for JSE&T is at: http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1059-0145

 

• If your paper has to do with preservice or inservice teachers and mathematical learning/teaching, you can submit it to:

  Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

  Editor: Thomas J. Cooney
  The University of Georgia
  Mathematics Education
  105 Aderhold Hall
  Athens, GA 30602
  Information about the journal is located at: http://www.wkap.nl/aims_scope.htm/1386-4416 Author instructions can be found at: http://www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA1386-4416
• If you want to submit to a journal that is not as overwhelmed with papers as JRME, try:

  Mathematics Education Research Journal

  editor: Associate Professor Mike Mitchelmore,
  Faculty of Education,
  Macquarie University
  NSW 2019
  Australia Webpage: http://sunrise.eng.monash.edu.au/MERGA/pubs.htm#journal

  Additional journals, subsequently added to the list by Annie:

  The Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education

  Editors: Gila Hanna and Derek Hodson
  The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto

  The Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education is an international forum for the publication of articles written in a variety of styles, including (but not limited to): research investigations using experimental, qualitative, ethnographic, historical, philosophical or case study approaches; critical reviews of the literature; policy perspectives; and position papers, curriculum arguments and discussion of issues in teacher education. For further information, contact the Editors at OISE/University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6, Canada.

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  Alan Schoenfeld's note:

  Hi All,

  ---'s note raises some important issues. I'm glad Annie Selden has responded, because she said some of the things I wanted to say. Let me echo them, and say a bit more.

  It's the case in mathematics, but much more the case in education, that journals have their own styles and values. For example, there are articles I would submit to the Journal for Research in Math Ed (JRME) but not to the Journal of Mathematical Behavior (JMB), and vice versa. More importantly, given a particular body of data, I would write the work up differently if I were thinking about submitting it to JRME or JMB.

  As an editor and a member of numerous editorial boards, I can tell you that I've gotten a huge number of submissions that I've recommended be rejected out of hand - because the content, or the way the article was written, didn't fit the journal. When it's clear that the author hasn't done the least bit of "homework," reviewers get offended: whether it's justifiable or not, their attitude is, "why should I labor over my review when the author didn't even take the trouble to check out the journal?"

  The bottom line: do your homework. That means more than just getting the instructions for authors, which often cover technicalities (length, format) and a few fundamental principles (for example, Research in Collegiate Math Ed, which I co-edit with Ed Dubinsky and Jim Kaput, wants manuscripts that can be read by both mathematicians and education researchers, meaning that jargon should be kept to a minimum). Getting the instructions for authors is step 1. Step 2, which is much more important, is to go to the library (or interlibrary loan) and take out 3 or 4 issues of the journal. Read them! Look at the articles, see what the general organization is, what kinds of arguments and data they tend to favor. One journal may tend to publish statistical data, and be short on interpretation; another may do statistics, but have lots of interpretation; another may be happy to accept "qualitative" data, but want multiple lines of interpretive argument... (Along another dimension, a particular journal may publish all its articles beginning with 150-word abstracts. Imagine the what goes through reviewers' minds if your article doesn't have one...).

  Think about your data, and about which journal seems most suited for them. Then write up your article in the style that (a) best does justice to the data, and (b) is best suited for the journal you've chosen. When the article is done, write a careful cover letter that indicates to the editor that some thought has gone into your choice of the journal. Having done so, you'll have a better paper, and you'll have increased the chance of seeing it published.

  Cheers,
  Alan Schoenfeld

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