Instructions to authors

INFORMATICS IN EDUCATION is a peer-reviewed journal that provides an international forum for presenting the latest original research results and developments in the fields of informatics and education. It is a satellite journal of the international journal INFORMATICA (http://www.mii.lt/informatica/) with a specific focus on education. The journal will promote making contacts among researchers in informatics and practical educators both in the Baltic countries and that in Eastern and Central Europe where a distinctive methodology of teaching and learning informatics has been developed and is of great interest. INFORMATICS IN EDUCATION is published biannually (in April and October).

Submission of Manuscripts

The submitted manuscript must be accompanied by "Author's guarantee form" concerning work presented for publication. Please return the completed and signed original of this form by mail or fax.

All papers submitted for publication in this journal must contain original unpublished work and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Any manuscript which does not conform to the requirements will be returned.

The journal language is English. No formal limit is placed on the length of a paper, but the editors may recommend the shortening of a long paper.

Each paper submitted for the journal should be prepared according to the following structure: 1) a concise and informative title; 2) the full names and affiliations of all authors, including e-mail addresses; 3) an informative abstract of 70-150 words; 4) a list of relevant keywords; 5) full text of the paper; 6) a list of references; 7) biographic information about the author(s).

All illustrations should be numbered consecutively and supplied with captions. They must fit on a 124 X 194 mm sheet of paper, including the title.

References cited in the text should be indicated in brackets, e. g., for one author - (Jonaitis, 1999), for two authors - (Jonaitis and Petraitis, 2002), for three or more authors - (Jonaitis et al., 2002). If necessary, the page number may be indicated as (Hubwieser, 2001, p. 25).

The list of references should be presented at the end of the paper in alphabetic order. Papers by the same author(s) in the same year should be distinguished by the letters a, b, etc. Only Latin characters should be used in references.

Please adhere closely to the following format in the list of references.

For books:

Hubwieser, P. (2001). Didaktik der Informatik. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Schwartz, J.E., Beichner, R.J. (1999). Essentials of Educational Technology. Allyn and Bacon, Boston.

For contribution to collective works:

Batissta, M.T., Clements, D.H. (2000). Mathematics curriculum development as a scientific endeavor. In: Kelly, A.E., Lesh, R.A. (Eds.), Handbook of Research Design in Mathematics and Science Education. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Pub., London, 737-760.

Plomp, T., Reinen, I.J. (1996). Computer literacy. In: Plomp, T., Ely, A.D. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia for Educational Technology. Pergamon Press, London, 626-630.

For journal papers:

McCormick, R. (1992). Curriculum development and new information technology. Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education, 1(1), 23-49. http://rice.edn.deakin.edu.au/archives/JITTE/j113.htm

Dzemyda, G., Kurasova, O. (2002). Comparative analysis of the graphical result presentation in the SOM software. Informatica, 13(1), 23-49.

For documents on Internet:

International Olympiads in Informatics (2008). http://www.IOInformatics.org/

Hassinen, P., Elomaa, J., Ronkko, J., Halme, J., Hodju, P. (1999). Neural Networks Tool - Nenet (Version 1.1). http://koti.mbnet.fi/~phodju/nenet/Nenet/General.html

Authors must submit electronic versions of manuscripts in PDF to the editors. The manuscripts should conform all the requirements above.

If a paper is accepted for publication, the authors will be asked for a computer-processed text of the final version of the paper, supplemented with illustrations and tables, prepared as a Microsoft Word or LaTeX document. The illustrations are to be presented in TIF, WMF, BMP, PCX or PNG formats (the resolution of point graphics pictures is 300 dots per inch).

Contacts for communication:

Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
Akademijos str. 4, LT-08663 Vilnius, Lithuania
Phone: +370 5 2109 732
Fax: +370 52 729 209
E-mail: valentina.dagiene@mii.vu.lt

Internet Address

Informatics in Education provides an early access to the articles by placing PDF files of the papers on the Internet. All the information about the journal can be found at: http://www.mii.lt/informatics_in_education/

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