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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Please read carefully before checking this box: The submission has not been previously published, nor is it currently before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • Research Submissions: My project was approved by the appropriate committee (Human Ethics, Institutional Review Board, or Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee).
  • Title Page/Author Information: I submitted a separate word document with the following information for all author(s):
    Author Name, (degree(s), AHIP, etc.), Title/Position, Library, Employer, City, State, ORCID, email
  • Images, Figures, Tables, Graphics: Figures, images, and illustrations are uploaded separately as standard letter size with file type PNG or TIFF. Figures, Images, Tables, and Illustrations are labeled consecutvely as (Figure, Image, or Illustration X) at the appropriate place within the text. Legends are placed at the bottom of the manuscript after the references.

    Table(s) should be clearly labeled in the text (e.g., Table X) and they remain in the manuscript.
  • All Peer Reviewed submissions must be anonymized. Not anonymizing your document pre-submission increases the turnaround around time.
  • Multi-authored submissions completed the CReDiT Document as outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Submission files must be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format. Submitting the incorrect file type delays the submission to review processing time.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Instructions to Authors, Submission Pages, or Submission Templates.
  • All citations for the submission conform to the most current edition of Vancouver. All in-text citations are indicated with () and placed before the final punctuation mark. DOIs, if available, have been provided. Web-only references include URLs and access date.
  • Authors attest to reading and following the Hypothesis Artificial Intelligence guidelines.

Author Guidelines

To submit an article or other item for consideration, contributors should ensure that the following criteria are met. We welcome inquiries about possible submissions.

Author Information

We ask author(s) to submit a separate word document, which includes the following information, for each member of the Author Team:

  1. Author Name
  2. Degree(s)
  3. AHIP (if applicable)
  4. Title/Position
  5. Library
  6. Employer
  7. City, State
  8. ORCID (if applicable)
  9. Email

Reference Style

Hypothesis uses the Vancouver citation style and () are used to indicate in-text citations.

Images, charts, graphs, figures, and tables 

Images, charts, figures, illustrations, and graphs may be in black and white or color. There is no limit on the number of such element allowed, but all included should be clearly referred to in the text (e.g, Table 1) and consecutively numbered. Legends or descriptions for all images, figures, and illustrations should be placed on a separate and blank page at the bottom of the manuscript. All images, figures, and illustrations must be saved as standard letter size and the file type must be PNG or TIFF. These files must be uploaded separately from the manuscript. 

The Production Editor and Editor reserve the right to create Appendixes for oversized images, figures, etc, which will not fit in the standard letter size sheet of paper (8.5 inch or 21.59 cm by 11 inch or 27.94 cm). Author(s) should contact the Editor, if they plan to include and oversized image, figure, etc.

CRediT Author Statement

Multi-author submission teams are asked to complete the CRediT Author Statement. This statement should precede the references section of the submission.

Research Approval

For any human subject or animal submissions, authors should indicate Human Ethics, Institutional Review Board (IRB), or Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) approval.

Anonymizing/Blinding Your Manuscript

Any references written by a member of the author team should be redacted.

Any references to employer(s), program(s), or something a peer reviewer mght recognize and use to identify you should be removed.

Contact hypothesisj@protonmail.com with any comment, questions, or concerns.

Visual Connections

Every submission should include two files (Image, text). Incomple submissions will be returned to the author and will delay the process.

File name: Use letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens. Special characters such as commas are acceptable. The name of the author and/or affiliations should not be included in the file name.

Format

  • For images, please send in .jpg, .gif, or .png format only and should be less than 500 KB.
  • Poetry and prose should be submitted in as text files.
  • File name: Use letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens. Special characters such as commas are acceptable. The name of the author and/or affiliations should not be included in the file name.
  • File size: Submit image files of less than 500 KB.

New and Emerging Researchers

To qualify for the New and Emergining Researchers Submission Category, authors must meet the following requirements. The submitting author must:

Not be listed as an author on more than three multi-authored peer reviewed publications or be part of a multi-author submission category for the first time.

The submissions can be a Voices of Experience, Brief Report, Failure, or Visual Connections. For authors, who are interested in Methods Moment, please contact hypothesisj@protonmail.com to discuss your idea pre-submission.

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All works in Hypothesis are licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. Authors own copyright of their articles appearing in Hypothesis. Readers may copy articles without permission of the copyright owner(s), as long as the author(s) are acknowledged in the copy, and the copy is used for educational, not-for-profit purposes. For any other use of articles, please contact the copyright owner(s). 

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