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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.

  • Academic practices for font, stylistic continuity, research practices,and ethical standards have been followed.
  • The submission file is a PDF, OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format—or presentation formats must be in video and/or audio format.
  • A signed author contract will be submitted as a supplemental document in this system or sent to Sue McFadden, smcfadde@iue.edu. (The link to the author contract can be found in the section, "What happens after my work is submitted?")
  • Readable/viewable information is provided that is free from grammar, spelling, and ethical issues. This includes adherance to copyright.

Author Guidelines

JSRIUE accepts submissions in APA 7th addition. Here is an APA Common Reference Examples Guide & an APA Student Paper Checklist. For specific fields, like mathematics, we will work with the author's subject style. AUTHOR CONTRACT must be reviewed, filled-out, and submitted to jsriue@iue.edu or to the journal dashboard. Each author is responsible for correct grammar and follows ethical practices of authoring, including ethical research practices. 

All images, charts, etc. not created by the author, must have written approval from the original copyright holder(s) to be part of the journal article. THis approval must be added to your submission record. Links to images could be used. 

What type of work is eligible to be published in JSRIUE? Submit these: Literature review; Research paper/report,; Creative work; Reflection on an education-travel experience; Reflection on the process of finding information and producing a poster/visual presentation; A developed audio/automated PowerPoint based on a poster/visual presentation; Other visual presentations (video/zoom); Writing about a research project as a research article (Work with faculty mentor for: IRB approval, research ethical requirements, and article content/structure); If the research is not ready to be published, write an article describing your experience in completing your part of the project; Recorded presentation of your Student Research Day oral presentation (PowerPoint/video/zoom).  If you have questions about whether your work will be accepted, contact Sue McFadden, Managing Editor

What happens after my work is submitted?
After completing an Author Contract, submitted student work is vetted in a peer review process by faculty research advisors and the editorial board.

  • Faculty Research Advisor/Mentor/Faculty is responsible for content vetting.
  • Section Editors and Journal Editors work to help students perfect a publishable product.
  • Layout & copy editors provide continuity and publication standards.
  • Managing Editor & Co-Editors provide oversite and assign submissions.

The OJS-USW system manages this process. Each author has their own dashboard to work with journal staff to review, be accepted, edit, and perfect each submission. Specifically, this is the selection/publication process for submissions, options for reviewers, and editors to work with each submission, make suggestions, and accept or reject the submissions. From the dashboard and as an author you may visit your profile page and make additions/corrections to your status, profile, bio, etc.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to Open Access publication and the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attributions 4.0 International  (A CCBY 4.0 Deed) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.  Additional CC options include:
    CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC,  CC BY-NC-SA, and CC BY-NC-ND. If you wish to use one of the more specific licenses, indicate this during the submission process. (updated 12/20/2023 smc)

  2. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
  3. Student authors waive FERPA rights for only the publication of the author submitted works.
    Specifically:     Students of Indiana University East voluntarily agree to submit their own works to The Journal of Student Research at Indiana University East, with full understanding of FERPA rights and in recognition that for this one, specific instance they understand that The Journal of Student Research at Indiana University East is Public and Open Access. Additionally, the Journal is viewable via the Internet and searchable via Indiana University, Google, and Google-Scholar search engines.