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Submission Preparation 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.
  • The author/s have read the Journal's Ethics and Malpractice Statement and the submission has not been previously published in full or in part (including via a conference), nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).   Please also note the Journal policy on Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC). If your submission is available on a preprint platform please let the editor know in the ‘Comments for the Editor’ having noted the Preprint Policy. All articles submitted to the Journal will be subject to checks for plagiarism using iThenticate plagiarism detection software.
  • The author/s understand they retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International Licence (CC BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word.  Please do not upload PDFs
  • Any URLs in the body of the submission or in the reference list have been checked as active.
  • All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.  An additional document should be uploaded with figures and/or images displayed independent of the text to assist with layout editing.  Reuse of images or graphics from another source requires permission from the copyright ownerPlease consult guidelines for information on figures and tables/images and illustrations.
  • If submitting an article:  All information or text that could identify the author/s (and their institution/s) has been removed for the 'anonymous' version of the submission. Please note - de-identification means the identiy of the author/s and the institution/s must be removed (or replaced in the text with a marker such as 'XXX')
  • The submission has been proof-read, professionally edited and is publication ready. (A comprehensive content edit is not provided by the Editorial team and submissions not meeting the professional standard of a scholarly article will be returned to the author/s)
  • Inclusion of an ‘Acknowledgement’ section inidcates the source of research funding or other institutional support that facilitated the research (if applicable).
  • Attempted to include Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) where possible.  This Journal uses CrossRef - a reference linking service.  For full instructions on how to add DOIs to each reference please consult the Student Success Author DOI guidelines.  Please note - the latest APA guidelines (7th edition) request that a DOI should be included in references (particularly when referencing other journal articles). Submissions will be returned if there is no attempt to include a DOI that pre-exists for a journal article reference)
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines and complies with the APA referencing system - 7th edition

Author Guidelines

Themes

This journal provides the opportunity to disseminate current research and innovative good practice about students’ tertiary learning experiences, which are supported by evidence.

The journal themes align with the STARS ethos (Students, Transitions, Achievement, Retention and Success):

Students – Who are they?  What are their needs?  What works for different cohorts?  Strategies for broader social inclusion and increasing participation in tertiary education; participation of first nation peoples

Transitions – Pathways to tertiary education, transitions into (the first year experience), during (work integrated learning) and from tertiary education, including graduate employability and capstone experiences

Achievement – Strategies promoting student achievement including curricular and co-curricular reform, employability, gamification and simulation enhanced learning

Retention – Program, discipline, whole of institution, inter-institutional and sector collaborations designed to improve student retention, threshold skills and concepts

Success – Student engagement, technology enhanced learning, understanding students expectations and realities, psychological wellbeing, application of learning analytics

Please download the Student Success Author Guidelines for a full outline of criteria and format requirements

Submission Types (Research Articles and Practice Reports)

Please include a cover letter (in 'Pre-Review discussions') clearly explaining the significance, and relevance of the work to the Journal's readership. The Journal recieves a high number of submissions and a cover letter will assist in the pre-review process.

Student Success publishes three issues a year with one issue linked to the annual STARS Conference. 

Research Articles - should comply with the expectations of a research article and have a strong empirical or theoretical foundation and present new knowledge or findings, or report on the application of existing knowledge to a new domain.  Articles that focus on discipline-specific initiatives should clearly identify elements that are transferable to other domains or how the specific initiative makes a contribution to the broader knowledge base.   Full papers are required at the time of submission and if accepted by the editorial team will undergo a double, blind peer review.  Refereed papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages including title, author details, abstract, body and references.

One copy of the article should be submitted:

An anonymous version where all information identifying the author(s) has been removed to allow it to be sent to reviewers.  Please note - de-identification means the identity of the author/s and the institution must be removed (or replaced in the text with a marker such as 'XXX') - also note that author details need to be deleted via properties (word doc).

As a supplementary file please submit a one page summary document containing title, author/s, affiliation/s and abstract

Note: You can submit multiple supplementary files (tables, figures, images etc.)

Practice Reports - should report on practical initiatives or the early outcomes of research projects.  They are an opportunity to focus on the applied aspects of Student Success initiatives and innovations.  Although a comprehensive literature analysis is not required, it is crucial that Practice Reports clearly show how the topic relates to or builds on existing knowledge and practice.  Practice Reports should explain why it was done, what was done, how it was done, and the impact (or expected impact) of the initiative.   Importantly, Practice Reports require authors to identify the connection with transferable themes and principles of practice into other contexts

Practice Reports should not exceed nine (9) pages including title, author details, abstract, body and references.

ONE complete text version should be submitted clearly labelled "PRACTICE REPORT".

Quality Expectations

All submissions will be initially reviewed by the Journal Editorial Panel and are expected to:

  • Refer to previous relevant published works;
  • Adhere to the journal themes around student engagement in tertiary education;
  • Be of a high professional standard;
  • Be proof-read and publication ready*;
  • Meet the guidelines of the relevant submission type; and
  • Comply with the format guidelines.

Submissions that do not meet these initial requirements will be returned to authors for correction before being sent for review.

*Student Success aligns to the annual STARS Conference – a not-for-profit event with all revenue going directly to the publication of three issues of the Journal each year.

 

Please download the Student Success Author Guidelines for a full outline of criteria and format requirements

If you are submitting your paper to a special issue, please download the Special Issue Guidelines for authors

 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1.   Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). This Licence allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2.   Authors have obtained all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any third-party copyright materials included in submissions.
3.   Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. This can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

 

Privacy Statement

Personal information (as that term is defined in the Information Privacy Act 2009) collected by the journal will be used exclusively for publication purposes and unless required by law, will not be shared with any other party. The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.  

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.

Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.