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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 in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • The texts discusses a disorder as it relates to special education, whether via a literature review or personal research.
  • The text discusses the impact of the laws surrounding this disorder.

Author Guidelines

The Undergraduate Journal of Law & Disorder accepts manuscripts written in APA format. Sources should be scholarly articles or books. A typical citation for a journal article would look like this: Nacher, J., Guirado, R., & Castillo-Gomez, E. (2013). Structural Plasticity of Interneurons in the Adult Brain: Role of PSA-NCAM and Implications for Psychiatric Disorders. Neurochemical Research, 38(6), 1122-1133. Usage of supplementary files will not be accepted without prior discussion with and approval by the journal’s faculty advisor. This journal does not charge an article processing or submission fee.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. By submitting to The Undergraduate Journal of Law & Disorder, the author grants to The Undergraduate Journal of Law & Disorder the non-exclusive right to reproduce, translate (as defined below), and/or distribute your submission worldwide in print and electronic format and in any medium, including but not limited to audio or video, as licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

2. The author agrees that The Undergraduate Journal of Law & Disorder may, without changing the content, translate the submission to any medium or format for the purpose of preservation.

3. The author agrees that The Undergraduate Journal of Law & Disorder may keep more than one copy of this submission for purposes of security, back-up and preservation.

4. The author represents that the submission is his/her original work, and that s/he has the right to grant the rights contained in this agreement. The author also represents that his/her submission does not, to the best of his/her knowledge, infringe upon anyone's copyright.

5. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non- exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.