Submissions

This page is designed to help you ensure your submission is ready for and fits the scope of the journal.

Before submitting you should read over the critical guidelines here, including the Submission Guidelines. Then register an account (or login if you have an existing account).

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About Us

WUJUR (the Washington University Journal of Undergraduate Research) is WashU’s premier student-run organization and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to student research and the discovery of knowledge, across all disciplines. We promote the appreciation of student research within the broader student body, while fostering excellence, passion, and curiosity. WUJUR publishes a semesterly journal, in print and online, with student works from all fields.

Focus and Scope

WUJUR publishes work from current WashU students, WashU faculty and staff, WashU alumni, and in exceptional cases, other individuals. Works are eligible to be submitted under one of the two following categories:

Original Research: Undergraduate Research Works and Projects

We recommend that these works range from 500 to 10,000 words. We accept a wide variety of original works. This includes anything from poster length to paper length.

Reviews: Review Articles 

We recommend that these works range from 300 to 3,000 words. Students have flexibility with how broadly they might focus their Review, depending on the length.

Submission Checklist

Read and consent to the following. The submission process is straightforward. First, make sure you have read through the essential publication background information and submission/guidelines information, including the Submission Guidelines. By proceeding with the submission process, you confirm the following:

  • I have personally contributed a significant proportion of the writing and research to this project.
  • I understand the publication background information and pertinent submission information.
  • I have completely read and understood the Submission Guidelines.
  • I have read and understand the Copyright Notice information, found below.

 

Prepare the following. In the next sections, the following information will be collected, and should now be prepared:

  1. Name, Current Status at WashU, WashU Email
  2. Information on Your Research Project
    1. Is this Original Research or a Review?
    2. The relative length of your work (word count)
    3. Field of study, and its Division (Arts/Humanities; Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering; Social Sciences)
    4. Submission title
    5. Approx. 150-300 word abstract
    6. The WashU faculty member who advised this work, if relevant
    7. Your level of contribution to this work
    8. Is this work published or under consideration for publication in a different journal?
  3. Confirmation That You Understand the WUJUR Submission and Review Process
  4. Your Manuscript Submission (refer to the Manuscript Template and Submission Guidelines)

Copyright Notice

You will grant WUJUR the right to reproduce, publicly distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and sublicense the Work in electronic and print editions of WUJUR. Copyright in the work remains with the Author.

You retain the right to withdraw your Work during the revision process, and you may also request to withdraw your Work after publication if you have valid reasoning. You retain the right to publish your work elsewhere after publishing in WUJUR.

You have informed all relevant mentors, principal investigators, or research supervisors who oversaw or contributed to the creation or development of the Work that the Author intends to publish the Work in WUJUR; and resolved any concerns regarding authorship, intellectual property, research data, or other matters that could impact publication. 

WUJUR requires that the Author determine, prior to publication, whether it is necessary to obtain permission from any third party who holds rights with respect to any photographs, illustrations, drawings, text, or any other material (“third-party work”) to be published with or in connection with the Work. Copyright permission will not be necessary if the use is within fair use, if the work is in the public domain, or if the rightsholder has granted a Creative Commons or other license. If either the Author or WUJUR determines for any reason that permission is required to include any third-party work, the Author will obtain written permission from the rightsholder.

You may opt to have your work distributed under a Creative Commons license, if desired.

Peer Review

This journal operates a triple anonymous peer review policy (Authors, Reviewers, and Handling Editors blinded).

Licences

The following licences are allowed:

  • Copyright
    © the author(s). All rights reserved.
  • CC BY 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-ND 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-NC 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
  • CC BY-SA 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Publication Cycle

This journal is published twice per year, at the end of each semester.

Sections

Sections submission information
Section or article type Public Submissions Peer Reviewed Indexed
Original Research Yes Yes Yes
Review Yes Yes Yes