2025/2026 Guidelines

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Submission Guidelines

Manuscript submissions for the Spring 2026 edition are now open until December 20, 2025, 11:59 PM MST. To submit an article, please submit you manuscript as a PDF or DOCX under the "Submission" tab on this website. See "Submission Process" below for more details.

  • All currently enrolled University of Arizona undergraduate students can submit papers. We regret to say that we cannot accept work from students who have graduated in Summer 2025 or earlier. December graduates are welcome to submit papers, though the journal will not be published until May 2026.
  • We accept work from any undergraduate field of study but preference may be given to individual works that synthesize multiple disciplines and intersect with the arts or humanistic social sciences (essays, theoretical pieces, and original research will all be accepted).
  • Preference will also be given to work that is written for a generalized academic audience, with the goal that students from different disciplines will be able to learn from each other.
  • Academic research pieces should be approximately 3,000–7,000 words.
  • Because AJIS is interdisciplinary, we will accept citations in APA, Chicago, or MLA format. Our one rule is that the citation style is used correctly and that it is consistent throughout the entire paper.
  • We encourage students to submit pieces of original research that were initially written for a class, including Capstone papers, theses, and other research essays, as well as works done outside of class, so long as they have not been previously published in a journal, and were written while the student was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona.
  • Submitters will be informed of their application status in mid-January. Our review system works via multiple rounds of revision; if the paper is selected to continue undergoing review, you will receive additional details on further steps to take with your paper between mid-January and up until publication in May 2026.

 

Submission Process

  • Articles must be submitted as a PDF or DOCX under the "Submission" tab on this website by 11:59 PM MST on December 20, 2025.
  • Images should be embedded in the article and uploaded as individual files. Accepted file formats are TIF, JPG, PNG, PDF. For the best quality, ensure a file resolution of at least 300 dpi. Do not include captions or titles within the figure files themselves. In other words, captions should only be in the manuscript file.
  • Please title your manuscript as "[Last name]_[First name(s)]_[ManuscriptTitle]"
  • Please title figure files as "[Last name]_[First name(s)]_[Figure#]_[AdditionalDescriptiveInformation]"
  • Any questions can be sent to rii-ajis@arizona.edu

 

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