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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.  Each author is responsible for correct grammar and follows ethical practices of authoring, including ethical research practices (no plagiarism, no AI generated, writing, has human/animal research approvals, IRB,  etc) . 

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. 

AI (artificial intelligence) usage must be identified and approved by the editorial staff prior to article editing.  Submitting an AI created paper is prohibited. This policy does not prevent the use of AI and AI-assisted technologies in research methods, if common in the field. A complete description of the use of AI must be provided in the methods section if this is the case. 

What type of work is eligible to be published in JSRIUE? Submit these: Literature review; Research paper/report;  Reflection on an education-travel experience; Reflection on the process of finding information and producing a poster/visual presentation;  Writing about a research project as a research article (Work with faculty mentor for: IRB approval, research ethical requirements, and article content/structure). If you have questions about whether your work will be accepted, contact KT Lowe at liblearn@iu.edu.

What happens after my work is submitted?
After completing an Author Contract, submitted student work is vetted in a peer review process by  the student editorial board during the fall semester. Students will be notified by the editors if their submissions will be accepted.

What if I don't want to be published in the Journal, but would like my work archived in ScholarWorks? All students are welcome and encouraged to place their final research papers, capstone projects, thesis papers, or PowerPoint presentations into IU ScholarWorks! Contact Beth South at liblearn@iu.edu for assistance.

 

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. 
  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.