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General Guidelines:

Please read through the guidelines below before submitting. The Google Form for submissions is linked at the bottom of this page.

As an undergraduate research journal, we accept submissions by current students or alumni who have graduated within the last 12 months. 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 co-authors.

Dignity seeks to appeal to a broad, interdisciplinary audience. As such, all submissions containing technical or discipline-specific language should include adequate explanation of terms, so as to be readable for a general audience.

All submissions must be submitted through the Google Form linked at the bottom of the page. Below are content-specific guidelines that detail the formatting requirements for each type of submission. 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.

Only one submission-per-contributor will be considered per volume. If you submit more than one piece of work, only the first one received will be considered. If a work has been previously published elsewhere, it is still eligible for publication in Dignity. It is the responsibility of the author to inform the editorial board of previous publication.

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 and be double-spaced, regardless of typeface.
  • Figures, tables, charts, and artwork must be included in an appendix at the end of the final document.
  • 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.
  • Must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.docx).
Review Article

Review articles are written works that aim to highlight new human rights scholarship. Reviews are not limited to traditional book reviews, as a variety of fictional and non-fictional media is valid to review. 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 and be double-spaced, regardless of typeface.
  • 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.
  • Must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.docx).
Creative Prose and Poetry

Creative Prose and Poetry are short works that creatively express 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 Chicago Author-Date format. A citation sample can be viewed here.
  • If there is specific formatting integral to the piece, this should be indicated upon submission. Any unspecified formatting will be placed in 12-point Josefin font, single-spaced.
  • Must be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.docx).
    • This may cause formatting issues. Please include an image of the properly formatted piece at the bottom of the Word document.
Visual Media

Visual media includes all image-based submissions. This may include hand-crafted pieces, photographs, digital imagery, and other visual media that reflect on human rights. Connections to human rights must be explicit in an artist statement.

  • Must include a title and an artist statement of no more than 500 words.
  • Must include a description of the piece, including materials/processes used.
  • If other works are cited, all citations should be properly formatted in Chicago Author-Date style. A sample citation can be viewed here.
  • Must be submitted in a high-resolution image format (.jpeg or .png) and fit on a 8.5 x 11 in. page at a minimum resolution of 300 DPI (pixels/inch).
    • This translates to landscape pieces being a minimum of 2,550 pixels wide, and portrait pieces being a minimum of 3,300 pixels tall. If resolution is an issue, please make note of this in the submission form.
      • Please note: All visual media pieces will be considered for cover art.
Other

In line with our mission as an interdisciplinary journal, we do not want to limit submissions to the formats 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 else entirely unique, your submission would make a welcome addition to the journal. We only request that this submission follows the general guidelines listed above and comes in a form that can either be physically printed in our print edition or posted to our website.

Submission Form:

Please submit all content through our Google Form.  Be sure to read through the guidelines above before submitting, and note that we function on a rolling submissions basis. Works submitted past our submission deadline for the upcoming volume will be considered for the following volume.