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Guidelines for Prospective Authors

If you wish to submit a paper for publication in the UMBC Review, please note the following guidelines carefully. Due to the tight production deadlines for publishing the Review, we cannot accept papers that do not meet these guidelines. To be published in the UMBC Review, it is necessary that your research was completed at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as an undergraduate student. In most cases, papers exceeding 30 double-spaced pages will not be considered.

All papers submitted for publication in the Review must be in the form of a packet to be submitted to the UMBC Review office in ACIV, 489. This packet must include:

  1. Information Form: |

  2. Advisor Recommendation Form |   and letter of recommendation from your advisor in a sealed envelope with your advisor's signature over the seal.

  3. The original typescript of the paper on plain white paper. The paper should be bound with a paperclip (No Staples). The type should be double-spaced. All citations should be in the proper format of your discipline (MLA, APA, etc.).

  4. A paragraph that introduces your paper and explains how you came to study this particular topic. This should not exceed two hundred words. The point of this paragraph is to demystify the process of doing research or creative work for UMBC Review readers.

  5. An electronic copy of your paper in .doc format, emailed to the editors at umbcreview@umbc.edu.

  6. Once your paper has been accepted for publication, we will request that you submit a copy of your paper electronically to our Blackboard site - this must be in Microsoft Word. If your paper contains graphs, images, or formulae, we suggest that you submit the text of your paper in Microsoft Word, and submit your graphs or formulae in separate files, as is common practice in the sciences, and notify us of the program you used to create them.

Papers may be submitted to the UMBC Review at any time during the year. The Review is published once a year in April. Papers submitted by September 24 will be considered for the upcoming issue. Papers submitted after Sept. 24 will be considered for the following issue.

If you have any questions about these guidelines, please e-mail the editors at UMBCReview@umbc.edu or Dr. Raphael Falco at falco@umbc.edu.