The Bilingual Research Journal (BRJ) is published three times each year and covers a wide range of topics relating to bilingual education, bilingualism in society, and language policy in education. The journal contains three sections: research and essays, the traditional formats of scholarly discourse; research in practice, which documents the experience of teachers and other practitioners; and book reviews.

Submissions are encouraged from scholars and practitioners in a wide range of areas: language assessment, policy analysis, instructional research, language politics, all forms of bilingual education, bilingualism and biliteracy, language planning, critical theory as applied to language issues, action research, sociolinguistics, second language teaching and learning, etc.

As the official organ of the National Association for Bilingual Education, BRJ editorial policy reflects the intrinsic and inherent value of bilingualism, biliteracy, and linguistic democracy. We embrace the Helsinki agreements of 1975 in which 35 modern democracies, including the United States, agreed to respect the rights of language communities to maintain and use their languages of origin. We oppose “English-only” laws and other forms of linguistic restrictionism. BRJ accepts manuscripts written in English or Spanish. Articles written in Spanish need not be translated, although a two-page abstract in English is requested.

The editors request that manuscripts submitted for the research section be a maximum of 30 computer-produced pages, double spaced, in 12-point type, using 8.5 by 11 inch paper, with one inch margins all around. Papers intended for the "research in practice" section should be limited to a maximum of 15 pages including references. Book reviews should be from 5 to 7 pages long, including references.

For research papers, authors must follow the style manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition), submit a title page, and, on a separate page, a one paragraph abstract.

Your title page must include the following:

• Full name of the author(s)
• Conventional mailing address
• Email addresses of author(s)
• Telephone number of author(s)
• Fax number of author(s)

Manuscript files must NOT contain page numbers, headers, footers, etc., and should NOT bear the author’s name or other identity other than on the title page.

The work in the "research in practice" section need not comport to the formats used for scholarly articles.

Authors are advised that the BRJ does not accept manuscripts in hardcopy, therefore we encourage authors to prepare and submit electronic versions of their work.

Contact the editors to find out the preferred way to submit manuscripts electronically. The preferred format for electronic file submissions is MS Word for Windows.

Authors who use the Macintosh platform may submit materials in one of the common Macintosh file formats. MS Word for Mac is preferred. Authors who work with other wordprocessing programs should submit their materials in RTF, or “rich text format.” When using RTF be aware that it may not support all of the formatting instructions found in a full featured, word processing program. It is important that charts, tables, drawings, etc. be submitted in one of the standard graphics formats. Statistical graphs and charts are best in MS Excel format. Submit all graphics, including Excel graphs, using a separate file for each and annotate the entry point in the text accordingly, e.g., “Insert Table 3 here.”

Please include on the title page of your submission your most recent mailing address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address where you may be reached.

If your manuscript requires any kind of specialized characters (i.e., languages in scripts other than the romanized alphabet, diacritical marks, or specialized symbols). Please send a copy of the fonts used to create these characters.

All materials published in BRJ are protected by copyrights assigned by the authors to the National Association for Bilingual Education unless otherwise noted at the foot of the first page of the printed version of an article. Because the online edition is identical in content to the hardcopy version, the online edition is covered by the same copyright protection. The usual permission to quote in reviews and to excerpt in other scholarly papers are hereby granted. For other uses please contact the editors.

BRJ Online and its hardcopy equivalent are products of a partnership between NABE and the Southwest Center for Education Equity and Language Diversity at Arizona State University. Information on subscribing to the paper version of BRJ is at http://brj.asu.edu/subscribe.html.

The editors and staff of BRJ may be contacted by using our "Feedback" page. We prefer that authors contact us by e-mail instead of telephone.