Roman Christiaens: This is Roman Christiaens. I'm the current managing editor of About Campus until my term ends in 2025, and I will move you through this presentation on tips for submitting your manuscript to the magazine.
Roman Christiaens: The About Campus Magazine is focused on enriching student learning, and is published in partnership with ACPA: College Student Educators, International and SAGE journals.
Roman Christiaens: This presentation will provide you with important guidance on how to format and successfully submit a manuscript, including what we look for in pieces how to navigate our ScholarOne submission site, examples of recent articles, and the do's and don'ts of manuscript submission.
Roman Christiaens: Because of its voice, relevance tone and citational approach, About Campus
Roman Christiaens: is a special magazine that may have a different feel than your typical peer reviewed publications. About Campus aims to provide a space for dialogue amongst colleagues with different perspectives who share a passion for student learning in post-secondary education.
Roman Christiaens: Our magazine strives to tell stories that explore innovative pedagogies and practices that influence the experiences and lives of college students in and out of the classroom.
Roman Christiaens: An About Campus article blends, narrative, storytelling, and scholarship to explore a topic related to our shared agenda of enriching student learning.
Roman Christiaens: As you are considering About Campus as a publication venue for your article, it is important to consider the story you want to tell and its practical application to educational environments.
Roman Christiaens: You will want to think about infusing your personal voice into the manuscript.
Roman Christiaens: The relevance of your work to the current context of higher education, and how you can provide liberatory alternatives to readers around the issues you are focused on.
Roman Christiaens: The magazine has a unique approach to referencing other works in our pieces. So when formatting your piece for submission, we recommend familiarizing yourself with our citational approach before submitting by reading recent articles and reviewing our online submission guidelines.
Roman Christiaens: Our website (aboutcampus.myacpa.org) hosts a range of useful information about the magazine. We advise that you explore our website pages to get a sense of the magazine, whether or not your manuscript would be a good fit for About Campus
Roman Christiaens: and how to format your submission. Accordingly, on our website, you can find information regarding our aims of scope which was recently updated to reflect our specific focus areas. You can learn more about who's on our editorial board. You can find our current issue, and we have a specific web page for information and guidelines on submitting your manuscript.
Roman Christiaens: You can also find information about our 'Round About Campus podcast and contact information for editors, including a link to our journal contact form, where you can submit questions and information about the managing editor open office hours, another avenue for you to ask your questions about the magazine.
Roman Christiaens: Since our magazine is co-published by SAGE journals, you can find more information on the magazine through their hosted website, using the web link on this screen.
Roman Christiaens: Our manuscript features five manuscript types with two different word, count lengths. As you are thinking about submitting to About Campus, it is important that your piece aligns with one of our manuscript types. Features, which are 4,000 to 5,000 words, provide an in-depth look at issues in a range of areas affecting higher education.
Roman Christiaens: They draw upon current literature to offer appropriate background for the issue, present results of new research and explore new perspectives.
Roman Christiaens: In Practice articles, Taking the Pulse, Views from Campus and Bottom Line articles are between 1,800 to 2,400
Roman Christiaens: words.
Roman Christiaens: In Practice articles profile innovative campus practices that foster student learning, describing best practices in a college or university setting. Each article describes the purpose, context, and players involved in implementing the practice.
Roman Christiaens: Taking the Pulse articles examine one of the most essential but also most challenging issues involved in successful educational practice: how to determine whether students are learning, These articles profile assessment
Roman Christiaens: practices that are accessible to a wide audience and useful in a variety of contexts.
Roman Christiaens: Views from Campus have candid 1st person portraits and stories that model how educators work with students in various contexts to promote learning. These stories shed light on the special issues and challenges faced by those who live and work on our campuses, students, faculty and staff alike.
Roman Christiaens: Bottom Line articles bring readers attention to a particular issue or challenge facing higher education.
Roman Christiaens: Authors clearly state their position, draw upon evidence as necessary to make their case and show how the issue or challenge affects student learning.
Roman Christiaens: As you are formatting your manuscript, it's important to pay attention to the elements of voice, language, citational approach and word limits. Since we use a masked review process for our magazine, you must ensure that your main manuscript file does not have any identifying information, including author's name within the text, location, university affiliation, and self citations of published work.
Roman Christiaens: The platform that we use for About Campus submissions is ScholarOne which may be familiar to you given that many other peer reviewed publications also use this system. You can access ScholarOne using the website, mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aboutcampus.
Roman Christiaens: If you do not already have a profile created with ScholarOne, you will need to create one first and then you can submit your files.
Roman Christiaens: As mentioned previously, you must ensure your main manuscript file does not have any identifying information
Roman Christiaens: in ScholarOne. You have the option to upload a second document, where you can include the article title in your contact information.
Roman Christiaens: Should the manuscript be accepted and moved towards publication, you'll be asked to upload another document with pull quotes, which I'll share more about soon.
Roman Christiaens: We highly recommend familiarizing yourself with a magazine by reading several of our pieces. This ensures that your manuscript aligns with our aims and scope, formatting guidelines, and the magazine's focus on student learning.
Roman Christiaens: The three highlighted articles on your screen are exemplar pieces in recent issues
Roman Christiaens: from Volume 30 of the magazine.
Roman Christiaens: These highlighted articles cover a wide range of issues, perspectives, and implications for those of us invested in student learning.
Roman Christiaens: You can find the links to these articles where this video is posted on our website.
Roman Christiaens: Should your manuscript be accepted and moved to the revision stage, you will be asked to provide pull quotes for your piece. These are a unique feature in the magazine in which specific quotes in your manuscript are highlighted for emphasis and reader effect.
Roman Christiaens: Pull quotes are no more than 20 to 25 words, and each page of the manuscript features one pull quote.
Roman Christiaens: When you submit your revised manuscript. You will also need to submit a second document with your selection of pull quotes.
Roman Christiaens: You will need to designate the second document as the pull, quote, document in ScholarOne when you submit your final revised manuscript.
Roman Christiaens: Before you submit your manuscript, make sure to review our do's and don'ts. First,
Roman Christiaens: it's important that you do use first
Roman Christiaens: person voice, and stories in your manuscript. Second, don't include any personal identifying information in your masked main manuscript file. You have the option in ScholarOne to upload a second file where you can include personal identifying information. Do read our aims and scope to ensure your manuscript aligns with the mission of our magazine and our focus on student learning.
Roman Christiaens: Do not use APA or Chicago style references. Instead refer to our citational approach and recent articles for guidance on how we cite other works in our pieces.
Roman Christiaens: Do contact the editors via email, our contact form or the managing editor open office office hours with any questions that you may have.
Roman Christiaens: And finally, don't submit your manuscript before ensuring it aligns with a particular manuscript type and its corresponding word limit.
Roman Christiaens: Thank you for taking the time to view this video on tips for submitting your manuscript to about campus. Here's our contact email in case you want to get in touch with the editors. Also, we highly recommend you check out our 'Round About Campus podcast, a monthly podcast focused on deepening commitments to transformative, educational praxis. Dr. Alex Lange, at Colorado State University, and the magazine's executive editor, Dr. Z Nicolazzo at the University of Arizona, are the co-hostesses for the podcast.
Roman Christiaens: The focus of season 2 was to allow listeners behind the scenes of the About Campus magazine
Roman Christiaens: as Alex and Z talk with people who are doing the work of the magazine, including myself, authors, board members, and reviewers. Season 2 episodes are a fantastic resource for learning more about the magazine, and our process, as well as insight from current and past authors about writing for the magazine.
Roman Christiaens: Thanks again for learning more about About Campus and happy writing!