Submission Guidelines
Eligibility
Quaesitum considers papers on any research conducted by undergraduates at the U of
M. Authors may be current U of M students, participants in U of M summer research
programs, or students who have completed their undergraduate programs within the past
3 semesters. Papers may be single or co-authored, but at least one primary author
must have been an undergraduate student at the time the research was conducted. In
cases where students are members of a larger research team, the paper should reflect
the students' contribution to the larger project.Content
Submissions should not be creative manuscripts. Instead, they should present analysis of some type of data. In the case of collaborative research with faculty, papers should focus on the students' contribution to the larger project.While there is no minimum or maximum length for submissions. We understand that different disciplines have different norms and that the length of submissions will vary. Eight-thousand words or less is preferred, however.
Any research involving human subjects should have received approval from the appropriate Institutional Review Board (IRB). Authors (in consultation with their faculty sponsors) are responsible for adhering to IRB guidelines.
Copyright
Submissions may not be under review for publication elsewhere. Authors retain copyright of their work and may publish their papers elsewhere after their Volume of Quaesitum is published, provided the requirements of all parties are satisfied. Given the hard work that our editorial team puts into each paper prior to publication, if you publish your work elsewhere we ask that you in include an acknowledgement of Quaesitum and its editorial staff.
Deadline for Submissions
The deadline for submission is the Friday after the first day of the Spring semester. Late submissions will be considered, but in some cases may be published in the following volume.Format
1. Remove all occurrences of the author(s) name from the manuscript.2. Submit a cover sheet as a separate document that contains the following information:
(1) name of the author or authors,
(2) date,
(3) title,
(4) citation style,
(5) faculty sponsor*, and
(6) your paper's category (according to the groups below)
- Life and Health Sciences
- Physical and Applied Sciences
- Math/Computer Science/Engineering
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Humanities
- Professional
*The faculty sponsor is someone who supervised the research or provided some kind of guidance for the paper.
3. . Upload an abstract of 150 words or less to Scholastica.com
4. Manuscript formatting
- Upload your manuscript as a .docx or .doc file. (Let us know if your academic discipline uses a different format.)
- Single-space the body of the text.
- Use size 12 Times New Roman.
- Include page numbers.
- Include a references page that follows the appropriate citation format for your field of study.
- Please single-space all submissions. Other than that, manuscripts should follow the formatting conventions for your discipline (italics, punctuation, capitalization, footnotes, citation style).
- Use greyscale whenever possible.
- Tables should be no more than 5 inches wide.
- Avoid extremely small letters/details whenever possible. These can become too small to read if we have to shrink the figure/table to fit within the 5" page width.
- Provide a number and title for each figure and table.
- Place all figures and tables in your manuscript.
- Files must be a minimum of 300 pixels per inch (ppi).
- Also upload each table and figure in a separate file.
- Files must be a minimum of 300 pixels per inch (ppi).
- Figures should be in PNG, PDF, JPEG, TIFF or EPS format.
Submit Your Research Paper
Upload your manuscript and additional files at:
https://app.scholasticahq.com/journals/quaesitum/manuscripts/new