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Thank you for joining us in editing an issue of the journal New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, Practice, Research, Jossey-Bass Publishing (JBP).

A defining focus of the journal is the relationship among theory, research and practice, and the accessibility of the articles for all practitioners, regardless of their experience with theory and research. 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.

• Have you sent the authors the letter of agreement, author guidelines, sample manuscript, and asked for them to send you a 2-line bio and a 250 word max summary of the article?
• Have you written a Table of Contents, including title of each article, authors and co-authors, and a brief description (30 words) of each article (this is different from the "head note" description that the authors will write of their own manuscripts)?
• Have you written a 250 word Summary for each article to appear in the front section of the journal? Alternatively, have you asked the authors to do so?
• Have you written the Back Cover Notes, 250 words on the theme of the issue?

Does each manuscript have a(n):

• Title
• Byline of all authors and co-authors
• Brief (2 line) bio for all authors
• Summary of article (this "head note" goes at the top of the title page ? this has also been used as a space where authors place a short quote to introduce their articles
• Endnote format, with references listed at the end of the article in numerical order rather than alphabetical?
• Proper APA-style citations (link to APA website)
• Have you kept within the 30,000-35,000-word limit for all material, including titles, bylines, and references?