All submissions are due by February 1st, 2024. Please submit all content through our Google Form. See below for official submission guidelines.
Official General Guidelines:
As an undergraduate research journal, we accept submissions by current students or alumni who have graduated within the last 19 months and all submissions must have been authored prior to graduation. Individual submissions may have multiple student contributors, but we do not accept submissions that have faculty coauthors.
To be considered for publication, submissions must have the endorsement of a faculty member of the author’s home institution.
Dignity seeks to appeal to a broad, interdisciplinary audience. As such, all submissions containing technical or discipline specific language should have adequate explanation of terms, so as to be readable by a general audience.
All submissions must be submitted through the Google Form below. Please follow the formatting guidelines and enter your submission using the descriptions below in accordance with the type of scholarship. The editorial board utilizes a double-blind peer review process. Once submitted, please refrain from contacting the editorial board on the status of your submission as we will contact you directly.
It is the responsibility of the author to inform the editorial board if their work has been previously published elsewhere in any form.
Content Specific Guidelines:
Guidelines for specific types of content are as follows:
Scholarly Article
Scholarly articles are works of original undergraduate research that focus on human rights connections and phenomena. This may include senior capstones and theses, synthetic essays that offer new perspectives, and other written scholarly work.
- Must include an abstract that is no longer than 150 words.
- Can be no longer than 8,000 words including references and endnotes.
- Articles and research notes should adhere to 1 inch margins throughout the entire document.
- All text, including endnotes and references, should be written in 12 point font, double spaced regardless of type face.
- Figures, tables, charts and artwork must be included in an appendix at the end of the final document with appropriate captions and citations according to our House Style Guide.
- All pages, including references, must be numbered.
- All citations should be properly formatted in Chicago Author-Date style. A sample citation can be viewed here:
- https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html
- Must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.docx)
Review Article
Review articles are written works that aim to highlight new human rights scholarship that is not limited to traditional book reviews but also includes a variety of media, both fictional and non-fictional. This may include media reviews of recent novels, movies, TV shows, and plays.
- Can be no longer than 750 words
- All text, including endnotes and references, should be written in 12 point font, double spaced regardless of type face.
- All pages, including references, must be numbered.
- All citations should be properly formatted in Chicago Author-Date style. A sample citation can be viewed here: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html
- Must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.docx)
Poetry
Poetry includes short works that provide creative expression of topics and perspectives involving human rights. Poetry can be written in prose or verse, and can be fictional, symbolic or based on actual events.
- If desired, may include an artist’s statement of no more than 150 words.
- Can be no longer than 1,000 words
- Poetry should fall within 1 inch margins throughout the entire document
- If there are multiple pages, all pages must be numbered
- If other works are cited, all citations should be properly formatted in accordance with Chicago Author-Date format. A citation sample can be viewed here. https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html
- If there is specific formatting integral to the piece, this should be indicated when submitted. Any unspecified formatting will be placed in 12 point Josefin font, single spaced.
- Must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.docx)
- If this will cause formatting issues, please include an image of the formatted piece at the bottom of the Word document.
Visual Media
Poetry includes short works that provide creative expression of topics and perspectives involving human rights. Poetry can be written in prose or verse, and can be fictional, symbolic or based on actual events.
- If desired, may include an artist’s statement of no more than 150 words.
- Can be no longer than 1,000 words
- Poetry should fall within 1 inch margins throughout the entire document
- If there are multiple pages, all pages must be numbered
- All citations should be properly formatted in Chicago Author-Date style. A sample citation can be viewed here: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html
- If there is specific formatting integral to the piece, this should be indicated when submitted. Any unspecified formatting will be placed in 12 point Josefin font, single spaced.
- Must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.docx)
- If this will cause formatting issues, please include an image of the formatted piece at the bottom of the Word document.
Other
Because of our mission as an interdisciplinary journal, we do not want to limit you to the submission types listed above. Human rights scholarship is vast and ever-expanding and we want to provide a space for undergraduates to explore the field in new and exciting ways. Whether you have recorded an original song that connects to the themes of human rights, choreographed an interpretive dance about a contemporary rights issue, or crafted something entirely unique, your submissions would make a welcome addition to the journal. We would only request that this submission follow the general guidelines listed above and come in a form that can either be physically printed in our print edition or posted to our website.