Submissions are open to articles that are Canadian and international in scope. The Journal is open access, multi-sectoral, and welcomes articles that deal with career development in its broadest sense. Authors are encouraged to submit articles dealing with career development in the corporate, non-profit, secondary education, post-secondary education and government sectors.

The Journal was made possible through the generous contributions of The Counselling Foundation of Canada, CERIC and Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 

Open Access Journal & Publication Fees

The Canadian Journal of Career Development has been Dimond open-access from our launch in 2002. This means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author (see Creative Commons licensing below)

There are also no fees charged to authors for submission or publication of accepted articles. 

Peer Review Policy

Unless indicated, our Journal uses a Double-Blind Peer Review process. Neither author’s & reviewer’s will know of each others identity. This ensures that personal biases or conflicts of interest are removed from the evaluation process.  We also work to ensure that reviewers are not from institutions that authors are also from. 

Copyright Policy & CC Licensing

Copyright in the article is vested with the Authors' under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - Creative Commons International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)  Under this license: 

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Canadian Journal of Career Development right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal

2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, in a journal or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.