Submission Requirements

Basic Requirements

1. Articles must be between 2000 and 6000 words long, excluding the bibliography and abstract.

2. The first page of the paper should consist of only the title of the paper and a brief abstract of up to 1000 words.
   What’s an abstract, again?
   An abstract is a short summary of the content of your article. They’re often used in academic literature to give readers a quick overview of your research area, your question, your argumentative strategy and your conclusions. For example, if you’ve written an article on the ethics of abortion, when we say that we’d like the first page of the paper to contain only the title of your paper and an abstract, we mean that the first page of the attachment to your email, before starting your essay, should just say:
   
   “Is abortion justifiable on the grounds of self-defense?” (or your title)
   followed by a short summary of what you say in your article.
   
   We’d like the body of your essay, i.e. from “In this essay, I will explore whether abortion is justifiable…” onwards, to start at the top of the second page of your document.
   
   Articles should be attached to an email sent to u.g.phil.journal@sheffield.ac.uk. The body of the email should contain your name, study institution, year of study and article title. The subject must be: “FAO EDITORIAL ASSISTANT – SUBMISSION TO PHILONOUS”. Please note no identifying information should be included in the article itself.

3. Articles should be carefully checked for spelling and grammatical errors before submission. Typos don’t look great, but don’t worry too much: we are nice, forgiving people. 

Formatting.

• No double spacing or change from default setting in terms of either line or letter spacing.

What are “default” settings?

I agree that this word is quite vague and frustrating because it’s not clear what we’re looking for. Basically, it means to not use particularly uncommon settings. So, on Microsoft Word, we’d like you to use either: 1.15 or 1.5 line spacing, as these are both standard. Here is how you can do it:

Microsoft Word 2.0 is what we mean by “double spacing”.

• Font must be in Calibri and be size 11.

• Indents should either be 0.5 done through your word processor or not done at all. Do not use the tab key.

• New paragraphs should be noted through only a single empty line. Indenting is optional as stated above.

• Emphasis should be done with italics only, not bold.

• You are welcome to use footnotes to add extra content to the essay, but this is included in your word count.

• Articles should be submitted as one of these file formats: .doc, .docx. We do not accept PDF files for editing reasons.

• All internet links should be working hyperlinks.

Referencing

• All papers should be correctly referenced and include a bibliography. Do not separate the bibliography into “works cited” and “additional reading” or any other such categories.

• Our journal will be published with all articles in the Harvard referencing style as footnotes on each page, but if your referencing is complete in another referencing style, it is not a requirement when submitting to change this. However, please note that you will be required to change your referencing style to Harvard if your article is accepted.

• Check your DOI hyperlinks work.

Images

• Use of images is allowed, but they must be in black and white and relevant to the content of the paper itself. All pertinent copyright rules which might apply to the image (requiring artist credit for instance) must be included in the submitted paper.

Additional Information

• You may submit work that was written for a course, or work that you wrote in your own time: we don’t mind! All that matters to us is that you wrote the work on an area of philosophy during your time as an undergraduate. Note that this also means that, if you’ve already graduated, you can submit work that you wrote as an undergraduate.

• All papers are subject to review. This review process is double-blind with no identifying information of author or editor disclosed to anyone other than the Anonymization Editor who will ensure all personal data is kept confidential until a decision has been made regarding acceptance.

• We will permit brief revision to be made prior to publication, based upon feedback from our editors, however regret we are not able to provide feedback on all submissions.

• By submitting your paper for review, you give permission for us to publish your work should it be accepted. All rights remain with you as the author. However we would ask that if your paper is subsequently republished credit is given to PhilonoUS as the first publication.

If you have any other queries, you’re welcome to get in touch via u.g.phil.journal@sheffield.ac.uk. We’re here to support you.

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