Update: Applications of Research in Music Education brings research in music teaching and learning close to everyday practice, enabling teachers to apply the results of research readily in music classrooms and rehearsal halls. Authors submitting manuscripts should refer to the following guidelines: 

1. Manuscripts must be research-based.

2. Manuscripts may present a single research study or a review of the literature.

3. Manuscripts must be comprehensible to music teachers untrained in research methodology and statistics. Thus, writing should be as free of research jargon and statistical terminology as possible. A quantitative manuscript that eliminates specialized jargon associated with statistics must be accompanied by a not-to-be-published addendum that provides complete statistical information. Reviewers must have access to all relevant data and analyses in order to assess appropriateness, accuracy, and interpretation.

4. Manuscripts must emphasize the interpretation of research and the application of research results in the music classroom or rehearsal hall. Bringing the usefulness of research into the foreground for the reader must be a high priority of the author. This applies also to reviews of literature, in which authors should make every attempt to synthesize research results and avoid presenting simple study-by-study reports.

5. Articles should be unique and not published elsewhere. In accordance with the Code of Ethics, submitting a manuscript indicates that it has not been published previously and is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, either in its entirety or in part.

6. Authors should comply with APA ethical standards (www.apa.org.ethics/code2002.html) and institutional and federal regulations in the treatment of human subjects.

7. Quantitative manuscripts must conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed., 2001). Nonquantitative and historical studies may conform to APA style or to The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., 2003). Authors may not mix styles within a manuscript.

8. Authors should submit four copies of typed, double-spaced manuscripts, which normally should not exceed 20 pages, along with an abstract of approximately 150 words. Authors should also submit 4 to 6 keywords relating to their article's content. Type size should be no smaller than 12 points (double-spacing should include 28 points total for a line of text and the following line). Figures and drawings should be camera-ready.

9. To preserve the author's anonymity in the review process, the manuscript should include no clues as to his or her identity or institutional affiliation. The author's name, address (including e-mail, if available), and institutional affiliation should appear only on a separate cover sheet. Manuscripts not conforming to this stipulation will be returned.

10. Manuscripts should be addressed to:

Ruth V. Brittin, Update Editor
University of the Pacific
104 Buck Hall
3601 Pacific Ave.
Stockton, California 95211-0110