Submission Requirements
If you are interested in submitting your work to JOSHUA, we request that you adhere to the following guidelines:
- We accept articles from current undergraduate students. If you are a graduate student or recent alumni of The University of Alabama, we will consider your article if the majority of your work was done while you were an undergraduate at UA. Undergraduate students from other institutions may submit; however, priority will be given to those who conducted their research at UA.
- Your name, e-mail address, and phone number must be included.
- Your submission must relate to science or health.
- Your work must be sponsored by a faculty member. We request that you please review your manuscript with your faculty sponsor before submission. Make sure your faculty member reviews the entirety of your submission’s content, including the citations.
- The length of your submission must be between 2000 and 4500 words. We will accept longer submissions if the author can limit the submission to the required length for the publication, and any extra material is able to be published online.
- Figures, charts, and graphs are encouraged but not required. (Note: The final printed color of figures will be mostly black and white.) Please refer to this resource for table and figure format. Each figure must have a caption that includes the figure number and a brief description, preferably one or two sentences. The caption should follow the format “Figure 1. Figure caption.” The caption should be understandable without reference to the text.
- Please adhere to the following pixel guidelines for images: 300 dpi, minimum for a picture; mixed line and picture images, between 300-600 dpi; line only, 600 dpi minimum.
- Your paper must contain an abstract.
- For original research, please use this template for submission. You may have subsections within each major section of your paper, but we request that each submission has all of the bolded sections included on the template.
- For literature reviews, please adhere to this resource for guidance. Each literature review is required to have at least the following sections: introduction, body/discussion, and conclusion. However, feel free to include methods and results sections if applicable. The template for literature reviews can be found here; if any sections will not be utilized, please remove them. Please also note that section descriptions may not be completely applicable to literature review construction.
- During the editing process, your submitted document will be converted to a Google document in order for suggested comments to be made. After each round of edits, your work will be returned to you for you to decide whether or not to accept each suggested change. Please be sure to familiarize yourself with how suggestion mode in Google documents begins before your paper is returned to you.
- The deadline for submission is Friday, March 15th, 2024 at 5:00 PM CST.
- E-mail submissions to joshua.alabama@gmail.com with the subject line “Full Name’s 2024 JOSHUA Submission.”
Citation Guidelines
Internal References:
Previous studies of the let-7 family of miRNAs in C. elegans came to a similar conclusion [1,2].
References Section:
JOSHUA utilizes the Vancouver Style as its citation style of choice. This is the style employed by most biomedical and health-related journals. Resources regarding citation in this style are included below, and we ask that you please refer to them in order to submit a complete and accurate references section with your submission. References should be listed in the order you cite them within the text of your article, not alphabetical order.
https://library.viu.ca/citing/vancouver
https://dal.ca.libguides.com/CitationStyleGuide/Vancouver
https://guides.library.ualberta.ca/citing/vancouver
- Reference using a number inside brackets [ ] that corresponds to the references section at the end of your submission.
- Punctuation always follows the citation. It never precedes it.
- If more than one citation is required, use the same set of brackets and separate the numbers using a comma with no spaces between.
- Examples follow:
Previous studies of the let-7 family of miRNAs in C. elegans came to a similar conclusion [1,2].
References Section:
JOSHUA utilizes the Vancouver Style as its citation style of choice. This is the style employed by most biomedical and health-related journals. Resources regarding citation in this style are included below, and we ask that you please refer to them in order to submit a complete and accurate references section with your submission. References should be listed in the order you cite them within the text of your article, not alphabetical order.
https://library.viu.ca/citing/vancouver
https://dal.ca.libguides.com/CitationStyleGuide/Vancouver
https://guides.library.ualberta.ca/citing/vancouver