Instructions for reviewers
Thank you for agreeing to review this article. The following questions may help you in providing feedback to the author:
In evaluating the manuscript, please consider on the following, along with any additional insight that you wish to add:
- Relevance to the aims of JPME (relevance need not mean conformity; JPME welcomes submissions that illuminate, extend or challenge its orientations and assumptions);
- Originality and contribution to the field of popular music education.
- Soundness of the scholarship;
- Clarity of organization and presentation of ideas;
- Strength of arguments and conclusions;
- Relation to previous research in the field, and the appropriateness of references;
- Additional suggestions or amendments that will further enhance the value of this manuscript for JPME readers
Decision choices include:
- Accept Submission: The submission will be accepted without revisions.
- Revisions Required: The submission will be accepted after minor changes have been made.
- Major Revisions Required and Resubmit for Review: The submission needs to be re-worked, but with significant changes, may be accepted. It will require a second round of review, however.
- Decline Submission: The submission will not be published with the journal.
Please offer additional comments and provide feedback to authors about faults in their paper and specific suggestions for improvements. Even if the article is rejected, your comments may result in greatly improved resubmissions, or new submissions, to this journal or other journals at a later date. Your anonymous status may make it seem like a thankless task, but the peer review system is critical to the quality of academic journals. As an author, I’m sure you have appreciated the feedback you have received in the past as a result of the peer review system.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.