Submissions

WOW Review publishes original reviews on global and multicultural books on the following schedule for issue themes and submission deadlines. Each submission is sent for blind review. Please check to see that the book has not previously been reviewed at our Alphabetical listing of all books reviewed by WOW Review.

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About

WOW Review: Reading Across Cultures is an electronic, peer-reviewed journal of Worlds of Words Center of Global Literacies and Literatures containing critical reviews on children’s and adolescent literature that highlights intercultural understanding and global perspectives. This journal is available to anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles or use them for any other lawful purpose within our guidelines and according to stated copyright.

Focus and Scope

WOW Review: Reading Across Cultures is an electronic, peer-reviewed journal of critical reviews on children’s and adolescent literature that highlights intercultural understanding and global perspectives.

Submission Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided.
  4. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of references and quotations. Authors should make sure they are correct, in substance and style.
  5. The text is double-spaced; uses Times New Roman 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review (below) have been followed.

 

Ensuring a Blind Review

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this press, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

  • The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.
  • With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.
  • With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain the copyright for Contribution but grant permission for WOW to publish the manuscript in an issue of the electronic journal WOW Review per the following licensing: WOW Review, a publication of World of Words, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The Journal is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to readers or institutions who may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text under the copyright assignment without asking permission from the publisher or author.

WARRANTY: The Author warrants that the Contribution is original with them; that it contains no matter which is libelous or is otherwise unlawful or which invades individual privacy or infringes any proprietary right or any statutory copyright; and they agree to indemnify and hold WOW harmless against any claim or judgment to the contrary. Further, the author warrants that theyhave the right to retain copyright and have not granted copyright to anyone else. The authors acknowledges that the Contribution may include an educational record under FERPA and expressly consents to the use of such content under this Agreement.

REQUESTS TO REPRINT: Any requests to reprint the Contribution, or any parts thereof will be forwaded to the author. WOW will not grant requests for reprinting. A credit line, “first published in WOW Review,” with the URL should be added to any reprint.

Peer Review

Manuscripts submitted to WOW Review will undergo single-anonymous peer review. To facilitate this process, names of the authors should not appear in the body of the manuscript or in any headings or citations. The title page with author contact information should be submitted in a separate file from the body of the manuscript. If there is more than one author, the title page should indicate who the main contact person is. The review process will take up to two months.

Licences

The following licences are allowed:

  • CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Publication Fees

Journals published or hosted by the University of Arizona Libraries' Publishing Program do not charge author publishing fees. All journals hosted by the University of Arizona Libraries are fully open access, with no charges to access or to publish.

Publication Cycle

Wow Revew publishes quarterly.

Sections

Section or article type Public Submissions Peer Reviewed Indexed
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