Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • I have reviewed the submission categories as listed in the author guidelines.
  • All files must be anonymized and uploaded separately under their specific type.
  • The submission files are in OpenOffice or Word format. (PDF is not accepted)
  • Text is single-spaced and in one of the following fonts: (12pt) Times New Roman, (11pt) Georgia, (11pt) Calibri, (11pt) Arial.
  • Submission has been formatted to the current APA 7th edition publication standards. Any submission incorrectly formatted will not be accepted for review.
  • All tables, charts, and graphs are indicated in the main article file where they are to be placed. Each type are saved as their own separate file & you will be asked to upload them individually in the next step.
  • Has ChatGPT been used at any point in this research? If yes, indicate how it has been used in the 'Comments for Editor' below.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

Author Guidelines

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

Journal Topic Areas Examples

  • Application of career theories
  • New approaches, techniques and theories
  • Career development in various populations
  • Career and family interactions
  • Workplace and workforce issues
  • Career issues in K-12 and post-secondary
  • Career counselling techniques, interventions and approaches
  • Career transitions (school/work, school/university, career change, career/retirement, etc)
  • Career education
  • Qualitative and quantitative methodologies
  • Cross-cultural research
  • Intervention and counselling evaluations
  • Career development policy development

Additional Information for Contributors:

Evaluation of manuscripts include criteria such as:

  • significance and currency of the topic;
  • contribution to new knowledge in the field;
  • appropriateness of the methodology or approach;
  • canadian or international focus;
  • and clarity of presentation.

Dependent on topic, reviewer availablity, and submission rates, the review process on average takes 2-3 months from submission to publication decision. If approved for publication, articles are slotted into the next issue with available category slots.

All uploaded files must be anonymize (how to ensure all files are anonymized), formatted to current APA 7th edition publication standards, & have correct & working DOI and URL links (see submission checklist).

Publication Categories

Copyright Notice

The Canadian Journal of Career Development uses the Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative 4.0 International license CC By-NC-ND 4.0. Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright to their work and grant the Canadian Journal of Career Development the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the above 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 post their work to an institutional repository, publish it in a book, or online with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. If depositing into a repository, we ideally request you use the individual PDF version of the published article.