Overview

Hypothesis is an open access peer-reviewed journal. Our Editorial Team is comprised of volunteers from the Medical Library Association and other Professional Associations. We are excited to work with new, up-and-coming, and established Health Science researchers.

Hypothesis accepts submissions year round. The Editorial Team will notify the author(s) of the anticipated issue date, when the submission moves to copy editing. Authors, who have a predetermined deadline for promotion, tenure, or so forth, should contact the Editor pre-submission.

Author(s) are asked to use the Vancouver citation style and to use superscripts for all in-text citations.

If you have ideas about who should submit to Hypothesis or a topic that Hypothesis should feature in a future issue, consider emailing hypothesisj@protonmail.com.

Submission-to-Production Timeline:

From submission-to-notification, the Peer Review process takes between 4-8 weeks. Please adhere to the Author Guidelines and Submission Preparation Checklist to ensure timely review of your submission.

Copy editing takes about 2-4 weeks. Author(s) will receive a Copy editing proof and they are asked to review and to submit changes within 2 weeks time.

Finally, the Galley is created and sent to authors, who get one week to review and to request minor changes (e.g., punctuation, title adjustments, etc.).

The Editorial Team and Editor will be in touch and field questions at each stage of the publication process. Please note: To ensure that our issue gets published on time, the Editor or Editorial Team might shorten your "review" time for Copy Editing and Review of Galleys.

If you have any questions, please contact the Editorial Team.