- Submit: Please visit the Scholastica Submission Portal after reading these guidelines and policies to upload your work: https://app.scholasticahq.com/journals/undergraduateresearch/manuscripts/new
- Style Guide: Please use the correct style guide for your discipline. UR recommends using owl.purdue.edu for citation formatting.
- Submissions cannot exceed 20 pages single-spaced. Submissions must use automatic line numbering.
- Images: All images should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size. Preferred formats include: PS, JPEG, PNG, or in Word (Docx).
- Equations: If you are submitting your manuscript as a word document, please ensure that equations are editable.
- Originality: All work must be original to the author.
- Instructions for Submission: (see below for files to be submitted)
- Format: Submissions should be in Word (DOC/DOCX) or PDF format, and 12-point Times New Roman, with 1" margins.
- Abbreviations: As a general rule, only standardized abbreviations and symbols should be used. If unfamiliar abbreviations are employed, they should be defined when they first appear in the text.
- Trademark names should be capitalized and spelling verified. Chemical or generic names should precede the trade name or abbreviation of a drug the first time it is used in the text.
- Submission Authors: should include their name and institution/affiliation on the cover page. Since this is a blind review, the authors names should not appear anywhere else (other than the cover page).
- Abstract: Please include a brief abstract (150 to 200 words) of your work. The abstract should be interesting, readable with varied sentence structure, and be written in active voice. Avoid using technical terms that few readers are likely to understand. If using technical terms, include definitions.
- Keywords: Please include 4-6 keywords (which will help with digital indexing).
- Upload: Please upload the primary files in the primary manuscript portal
- Supplementary material: Supporting files, including supplementary datasets, IRB verification, or any additional supporting material, can be submitted in the supporting files field.
FILES TO BE SUBMITTED:
The following should be submitted in SEPARATE files when submitting through the manuscript portal.
- Author declaration file. (see below) (Each author needs to submit a separate file.)
- Cover page with author names, mentor names(s), and affiliations.
- Abstract with keywords.
- Complete BLIND manuscript with references. (no names /institutions in the document)
- Additional supporting files. (if applicable)