About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Electronic Journal of Music in Education (EJME) was founded in 1998 and is published every six months. We accept articles of research (preferably) and intervention studies that relate music and education. EJME is aimed at professionals and students of musical education; Has the objective of improving the quality and organization of music education in educational institutions. Access to this journal is open, which means that authors and readers can archive copies of articles in open repositories provided that information about authors and publishers is maintained. Likewise, parts of published articles may be used, provided the source and authorship are duly cited.

Peer Review Process

The Electronic Journal of Music in Education welcomes submissions for publication. These will be reviewed by the editorial board. The purpose of the review is to ensure that the articles comply with the journal's rules and policies. If they do not pass this review, they will be returned to the author for correction, who must submit the article within a period of no more than 10 days once it has been corrected. Once the article has been approved by the editorial committee, it will be sent for external review. After this phase, the editorial committee will decide on its publication.


If the manuscripts pass the editorial review, they will be submitted for external evaluation using the double blind judge system (anonymity of the judges to each other and anonymity of the authors). Reviewers can find HERE a tutorial on the review process through the platform.


The document may result:



  • Rejected for publication: the author may not resubmit the manuscript.

  • Re-evaluable: the author may resubmit the manuscript after a reasonable period of time (minimum two weeks) and after making the changes considered by the reviewers (maximum four weeks). This will involve a new submission through the LEEME platform. If within one month no response-submission has been received from the authors, it will be considered that they have chosen not to make a new submission and, therefore, the journal will proceed to remove it from the platform.

  • Publishable with modifications: the author must make the changes suggested by the reviewers and submit to a second round of review. It may reach a third round of evaluations and, once the changes have been approved by the reviewers, it will be reviewed by the Editorial Team for final acceptance or rejection.

  • Accept submission: the author must make the changes suggested by the Editorial Team before publication of the document.



Criteria for action by the Editorial Committee, in accordance with the above:


Reviewer 1                  Reviewer 2                                           FINAL DECISION


Accepted                       Accepted                                                Accepted                       


Accepted                       Publ. with modif. (PWM)                          Second round submission, up to three rounds


PWM                             PWM                                                      Second round submission, up to three rounds


PWM                             Rejected                                                 Rejected 


Rejected                        Rejected                                                Rejected 

Open Access Policy

Up to issue 38 of this journal, the editorial policy was open access for reading, but with limitations on distribution without permission of the publisher. As of the number 38, this editorial policy has changed to open access without limitations. Open access means "free public Internet access, allowing anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or use for any legal purpose, without any financial, legal or technical barriers, other than those that are inseparable from Which means accessing the Internet itself "(definition of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, BOAI).


The authors maintain the right "of control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly recognized and quoted" (BOAI). Full or partial contents of the articles published in this journal can be used, with the only condition of citing its authorship and source of publication.


 This magazine does not apply rates of any kind.

Indexed

Journal refereed on Musical Education indexed in: 



 


Ethics

The journal will monitor any of the following dishonest practices:



  • Production of results (when fictitious data are presented).

  • Forgery (when data is manipulated or changed).

  • Omission (when information is deliberately hidden).

  • Plagiarism (when presenting information, ideas or data of other authors as own). Two forms of plagiarism will be taken into account: the direct copy of a text without the use of quotation marks or citation of the source; The modification of some words of the text, paraphrasing or without sufficient identification of the source.

  • The detection of plagiarism and previously published material is done before sending manuscripts to the judges; Is done automatically by means of specialized search engines (Urkund, Ephorus) and are licensed by the institution that owns the co-ownership of this magazine.

  • When required, institutions that have funded the investigation of an article must grant a publication permit. In all cases, authors should cite any funding institution or other organizations that have helped to carry out the work.


Whenever possible, the authorization number of the Ethics Committee of the institution that endorses the research should be included in the text of the article.


If there is evidence of dishonest practices, the EDITORIAL BOARD will take the appropriate measures mentioned in the following section.

Pro-ethics measures

Identification of unethical behavior or dishonest practices.



  • An ethical misconduct or dishonest practice is reportable at any time to the journal's editorial board by anyone, whether author, reader, reviewer, editor, publisher, or publishing company. Examples of malpractice are those cited in section 4.1 of this guide, but are not limited to these.

  • In reporting such actions and in order to initiate an investigation by the editorial board, the complainant (author, reader, reviewer, editor or publisher) must provide evidence. In this case, the editorial board is obliged to address both the complaint and the subsequent allegations until a resolution of the problem is reached.

  • In the case of a complaint, the editorial board must make a decision, gathering any evidence and allegations and avoiding dissemination of the issue until a decision is made to initiate an investigation.

  • In case of serious ethical misconduct, the institution for which the accused works will be informed and the editorial board will make this decision in the light of the available evidence and expert consultation.


Actions to be taken in case of unethical behavior or dishonest practices.


Depending on their seriousness, the measures to be taken by the editorial committee in case of detection of ethical misconduct or malpractice may be:



  • Informing the author or reviewer where an inadequate application of acceptable ethical standards appears.

  • The publication of a notice in the journal warning readers of the malpractice or ethical misconduct and giving details about it. Along with this: 1) a link to the article in the masthead of this news item; 2) watermarking the PDF of the article with the word "Retracted"; 3) an initial page in the article containing the retraction note.

  • A formal letter to the head of the department or director of the research agency that funded the project, reporting the inappropriate behavior of the authors.

  • A formal retraction or withdrawal of a publication from the journal, together with an informative letter to the author's department chair or reviewer (if applicable), a notification to the indexing services, as well as a notification to the readers of the publication.

  • The prohibition of authors from publishing in the journal for a certain period of time.

Tutorials authors reviewers

In the following links, you can download different tutorials for submitting an article, for editing the article once it has been approved, and for revising an article:


Sponsors

The editorial team of the journal thanks the support of the following agencies:

Journal History

Created in 1998, this journal is devoted to scientific studies on music education either didactic applications or applied research.