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| Contributors | A Note from the Editor-in-Chief for Contributors
New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, Practice, and Research is a quarterly publication focusing on contemporary issues challenging the field of youth development. A defining focus of the journal is the relationship among theory, research, and practice. In particular, NDYD is dedicated to recognizing resilience as well as risk, and healthy development of our youth as well as the difficulties of adolescence. The journal is intended as a forum for provocative discussion that reaches across the worlds of academia, service, philanthropy, and policy. In the tradition of the New Directions series, each volume of the journal addresses a single, timely topic, although special issues covering a variety of topics are occasionally commissioned. We welcome submissions of both volume topics and individual articles. All articles should specifically address the implications of theory for practice and research directions, and how these arenas can better inform one another. Articles may focus on any aspect of youth development; all theoretical and methodological orientations are welcome. |
For Potential Authors Since our readership crosses the fields of academic research, policy and practice, the writing style of New Directions for Youth Development must be accessible as well as informative. A busy practitioner who may not have an extensive research background should be able to pick up useful, thought-provoking information from each chapter. Please keep this idea of accessibility in mind as you write your chapters, headnotes, summaries, and bios. If you would like to be an author, please submit first a draft of an abstract of no more than 1,500 words, including a two-sentence synopsis of the article; send this to the managing editor. For Potential Editors Since our readership crosses the fields of academic research, policy and practice, the writing style of New Directions for Youth Development must be accessible as well as informative. A busy practitioner who may not have an extensive research background should be able to pick up useful, thought-provoking information from each chapter. If you would like to be an issue editor, please submit an outline of no more than four pages that includes a brief description of your proposed topic and its significance along with a brief synopsis of individual articles (including tentative authors and a working title for each chapter) to the managing editor. |