Policies

Still to be added

• Retraction & Correction policies (after discussion, provided by UMN Libraries)

Submission Process

In order to be eligible for submission, the first author of the paper must be a current University of Minnesota undergraduate at the time of submission. Other undergraduate students, graduate students or professors may be included as secondary authors. Students should keep in mind that they are not guaranteed publication at any point in the revision process.

All submissions must comply with the submission guidelines available on the journal’s website. Submissions must include a completed article. The author must not include their name or any other identifying information on the article itself. Because MURAJ aspires to represent the entirety of the University of Minnesota Undergraduate community, preference will be given to manuscripts submitted from academic disciplines that are not already represented; however, this preference is not a conclusive factor in the decision; quality of submission supersedes the particular area of study.

Formatting Requirements

• 250-word abstract, regardless of medium; i.e., non-text submissions still require the abstract
• .docx, 12-pt, Times New Roman, double-spaced, 1-inch margins
• File naming
  • Authors submit files with standardized, non-anonymous format (e.g. x500_TextBody, x500_Abstract, x500_Image1, etc.)
  • No self-identifying information (e.g. references to name(s) of author(s)) may be present in the submission outside of the file name itself.
• Captions and labels for each image
• Citation style:
  • Biological and Health Sciences: Cell
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences: APA
  • Mathematics and Computer Science: APA
  • Social Sciences and Education: APA
  • Literature and English: MLA
  • Fine Arts: MLA
  • Diversified Studies: APA
  • Law and Political Science: APA
  • Architecture and Design: APA

Open Access Philosophy of MURAJ

MURAJ is an open access, web-based journal. Manuscripts accepted for publication are posted on the web site immediately upon final acceptance. As an open access journal, MURAJ does not require authors to transfer full copyright ownership to the journal as a condition of publication. Authors will grant a nonexclusive license in their work to MURAJ and the University of Minnesota Libraries. Such a license gives MURAJ and the Libraries the necessary rights to publish, distribute, archive, and preserve the work. However, since the license is non-exclusive, all of the rights will still also belong to the creator, who may make any use they wish, and may grant other licenses as desired. The result of this license agreement is that the author, MURAJ, and the Libraries will each have broad rights to the work.

Copyright and Use of Articles

Authors will grant a nonexclusive license in their work to MURAJ and the University of Minnesota Libraries. Such a license gives MURAJ and the Libraries the necessary rights to publish, distribute, archive, and preserve the work. However, since the license is non-exclusive, all of the rights will still also belong to the creator, who may make any use they wish, and may grant other licenses as desired. The result of this license agreement is that the author, MURAJ, and the Libraries will each have broad rights to the work.

In addition, authors will choose to assign a Creative Commons license to their work:

CC BY - Creative Commons - Attribution. This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. Users will not have to contact you before making use of your work, although you will retain copyright ownership.

CC BY-NC - Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. Non-commercial users will not have to contact you before making use of your work, but because you will retain copyright ownership, commercial users may contact you for separate permissions.

For permission for other uses, or questions about use, please contact the editors at muraj@umn.edu.