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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.

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).
The submission file is not a PDF. Exceptions can be made for artwork. Contact USURJ@usask.ca if you have questions.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements that are consistent with the format and citation style most used in the discipline being submitted. Please specify your documentation style (e.g., APA, MLA...). If you are submitting artwork, write, NA.
The author must provide 4-6 keywords that characterize the submission's content and provide terms for indexing the submission.
The undergraduate author or artist (or corresponding author or artist) must sign and adhere to the conditions outlined in the publication agreement, which must be uploaded with the submission.
The author(s) or artist(s) confirm(s) that required research ethics approvals have been granted for research with human or animal subjects.
Author Guidelines have been followed for submissions.
You created the work whilst a University of Saskatchewan student within the last two years.

Author Guidelines

Complete submission of Research Snapshots or Research/Review Articles to USURJ requires that you upload the following two documents:

Upload 1: Submission File

Guidelines for Research and Review Articles

In addition to the guidelines listed in the Submission Preparation Checklist, Research and Review Articles must adhere to the following guidelines:

  • A title is provided that indicates the topic of the work.
  • The author must submit an abstract that should be no longer than 250 words. An abstract is a very condensed version of the submission. It states the main point of the article, review, or research paper in five to seven sentences. It will appear at the top of the first page of the article. Readers use an abstract to decide whether the author’s topic or approach interests them.
  • Authors must provide 4-6 keywords that characterize the article content and provide terms for indexing the submission.
  • For regular submissions the author(s) should suggest two faculty members who would be appropriate to review the article. If they are unsure about who to suggest, they should talk to their supervising professor and/or the department head for suggestions. Suggestions can include graduate students or non-U of S faculty. IMPORTANT: Contacting the potential reviewers will compromise the anonymous review process. Do not suggest the supervising professor as a reviewer. Please contact us if you have any issues with this step! The guidelines on Ensuring Anonymous Peer Review must be followed.
  • For special issue submissions, an open, collaborative, peer review process will be applied to accepted work. For each author, please supply a short biographical note of 250 words or less. Please consider including a statement of positionality. If your article moves forward for consideration, you will be introduced to the members of the expert guest panel.
  • There are no restrictions on number of references* or figures used.
Guidelines for Research Snapshots

In addition to the guidelines listed in the Submission Preparation Checklist, Research Snapshots must adhere to the following guidelines:

  • A title is provided that indicates the topic of the work.
  • A maximum of 400 words (excluding references and the supervisor’s statement).
  • A maximum of 10 references*.
  • A maximum of 2 figures, including images, graphs, charts and tables.
  • All results and conclusions must be the author’s original work.
  • Authors are encouraged to reflect on their research experience.
  • Providing a short, 50- to 100-word supporting statement from the supervising professor is strongly recommended. This will be published along with the snapshot to contextualize and show the importance of the student work.
  • Authors must provide 4-6 keywords that characterize the article content and provide terms for indexing the submission.

Important considerations:

  • Publishing part of an ongoing research as a Research Snapshot does not bar the author from submitting a full research or review article on the same topic later on.
  • If results published in the Research Snapshot are to be included in an article later, the results taken from the Research Snapshot must be cited appropriately.
  • Research Snapshots are not considered peer-reviewed publications.

*References: As USURJ is a multidisciplinary journal, it does not prescribe a specific format for references and citations (such as APA, MLA, or Chicago). Instead, authors should use whatever documentation style is common in their discipline (such as APA, MLA, or Chicago) and take care to use it consistently. 

Upload 2: Publication Agreement

Fill out a USURJ publication agreement (be sure to read it carefully as it contains very important information regarding ethics, author rights, and co-authorship). You can photograph it (save as a common file type, such as a jpeg), or scan it.

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