Invitation to Submit a Manuscript to the 2025 Summer Quarterly Issue
The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching, Volume 9, Issue 2
The Mentoring Institute at The University of New Mexico

Theme: “Sustaining Mentoring Communities of Practice”

Dr. Nora Dominguez, Director
 Dr. Mary Barbara Trube, Chief Editor

Call for Proposals

Manuscripts for the 2025 Summer Quarterly Themed Journal of the Chronicle of Mentoring & Coaching are now being solicited. The Summer 2025 issue will present articles based on the ongoing research, project and program development, and theory generation of authors and researchers related to the theme “Sustaining Mentoring Communities of Practice.” You are invited because your previous work, as a paper and presentation for colleagues at a previous Mentoring Institute annual conference at UNM in Albuquerque, NM, were deemed to be contributions to the field. In addition, your topic is related to the theme of the upcoming 2025 Summer publication. The target date of publication for this peer-reviewed, themed journal is 28 June 2025.  The schedule of dates leading up to publication are listed at the end of this invitation.

Authors are invited to submit a full article of approximately 5500-6000 words based on their previously successful manuscripts and presentations about their research, projects, models, interventions, and programs related to mentoring communities of practice. As a previous presenter and author, each invitee belongs to a community of scholars and practitioners who actively work to retain, engage, develop, and empower others. We believe that this commitment to the mentoring community will be further demonstrated by each contributor’s review of one-to-two articles submitted by fellow authors. This will ensure that each manuscript will undergo a double-blind review, which is valued in professional and academic communities. As previous presenters, authors have an account with the Mentoring Institute and will be able to access the portal to submit and retrieve papers. Any co-authors, who are not in the UNM Mentoring Institute system, will need to register to have access to the system. Registration is mandatory and there is no fee for registering.

If you would like to contribute an article based on the theme as the sole author or with your previous or new or additional colleagues, for the Summer Quarterly CMC, 9(2), we encourage you to submit an abstract. Please include author’s(s’) name(s) and affiliation(s), email address(es), a telephone contact number for the lead author, and a working title for the manuscript. We encourage you to also include 3-5 key words related to the article. The Abstract is due in the Mentoring Institute system by April 20, 2025. The Draft Article Without Identifiers is due May 10th. Blind peer reviews will begin May 15th and end on May 22nd 2025. (By “double-blind review” we mean that the draft article you submit is free from identifiers and the [minimum of] two readers/reviewers cannot identify you or the place where the mentoring/coaching/leadership took place.) The primary purpose of this review is for giving and receiving of information about article content, the body of literature written about your topic, suggestions for strengthening the work, and so forth. Comments and suggested may include helpful hints related to APA.

Final manuscripts should include the author’s(s’) name(s), affiliation(s), abstract, 3-5 key words, acknowledgements (if grant funded), introduction, review of literature, program/project/study, findings/results, discussion, conclusion, and references. References are followed by authors biographical sketches in approximately 150 words. Final papers are due June 5th, 2025. If tables, charts, or figures are needed to convey content of the article, they should be within the dimensions of the page, portrait style with one-inch margins, headers, and footers. These items are placed in the appendices, and the location for their placement within the document should be highlighted. Every effort will be made by the editorial staff to place them within the narrative, however, if that is not possible, tables, graphs, and figures will be located in the Appendix(ces).

Authors will be able to begin retrieving their feedback as it is uploaded into the system by the reviewers; authors do not need to wait until the final date to retrieve the drafts. The final manuscript should be submitted as ready for publication. Below is the current schedule for CMC 9(2):

You may SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT by accessing the website at https://mentor.unm.edu  . Click on the publication link in the horizontal menu and go to “my CMC” in the drop-down menu. Sign in to your Mentoring Institute Account. Once you are in your CMC, you will see “Submit Abstract” and the button for the 2025 Summer Issue.

We are excited about your potential contribution to the CMC 9(2) Quarterly Summer issue! A DOI number will be assigned just prior to publication, and the lead author will be notified after publication via email. It is important for all authors to be registered with the Mentoring Institute to retrieve their articles for their records. Please know that previously published issues of the CMC may also be read online. Enjoy! Please forward all queries to btrube@unm.edu

Sincerely,

Barbara

Mary Barbara Trube 
Editorial Consultant, Chief Editor 
The Mentoring Institute 
The University of New Mexico 
btrube@unm.edu