About the Journal

Focus and Scope

We strive to meet our mission by accepting the following types of contributions in both French and English:

  • Research Articles on all aspects of the theory and practice of evaluation, including methodology, evaluation standards, implementation of evaluations, reporting and use of studies, and the audit or meta-evaluation of evaluation.
  • Research and Practice Notes that provide practical examples of how particular methodologies or procedures are applied within the particular contexts.
  • Roots and Relations (R&R) Contributions that honour the lineage, grow the kinship, and sustain the intergenerational legacies of Indigenous wisdom and practices in evaluation.
  • Book Reviews of volumes less than two years old.

Please note that the CJPE does NOT publish evaluation summaries or reports. The purpose of the journal is to advance thinking in our field - if you have been involved in a unique evaluation project, the journal is interested in your reflections on the process (e.g., practice note), an empirical investigation of the impact your approach had (e.g., research article) or another innovative account of the experience.

Further information may be located under the Information for Authors section.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

This journal does not have APC or any submission charge.

Author Self-Archiving Policy

This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both before and after publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit their publication in this journal.

Funding Acknowledgement

This open-access forum could not be possible without the support of our funders. We acknowledge the generous support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for their ongoing support of our publication.

Funding and Conflict of Interest

The CJPE requires all authors to acknowledge their funding source(s) under a separate heading or state that the research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors. 

The journal requires all authors to declare any conflict of interest that may arise from the publication. If any conflict exists, authors must insert a statement at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest.’

Language

CJPE is delighted to accept submissions in both French and English. Papers will be published in the language in which they were received; however, abstracts will be published in both languages. Authors are responsible for providing this translation.

English submissions may use either British or American English, but the usage must be consistent throughout. Please check spelling and grammar before making a submission.

Open Access Policy

CJPE provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 license (CC BY-NC 4.0) and is therefor free for anybody to read and download, and to copy and disseminate for education purposes.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Publication Frequency

CJPE is published 2 times a year.

Publisher

The owner/publisher of CJPE is the Canadian Evaluation Society, which is a non-profit corporation registered in Canada. The journal is hosted and supported by the University of Victoria Libraries.

Standards and Ethics

We expect authors to follow the International Standards for Authors published by COPE. CJPE takes issues of copyright infringement and plagiarism in publication very seriously. We will seek to protect the rights of our authors and investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles in order to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. We reserve the right to check submitted articles with duplication-checking software. Where an article is found to have plagiarised other work or included copyright material without permission or acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing a correction, retracting the article, contacting leadership within the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies, or taking appropriate legal action. The manuscript must be original material that has not been published and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. If your article is derived from a thesis or dissertation, please provide the name of the institution to which it was submitted, the date of submission, the author(s), and the supervisor. 

The researcher(s) confirm that they have followed ethical standards for research involving human participants such as the statement on Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans for Canadian researchers. All papers reporting human studies must state in the methods section that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee contact, in addition to the approval number. For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.

Authors publishing content representing or using Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous data or any Indigenous cultural elements are required to comply with the OCAP principles: Ownership of Indigenous groups and communities over their cultural knowledge, data and information, Control over all aspects of research and information management processes that impact them, Access to information and data about themselves, and Possession (physical control of data) (https://fnigc.ca/).