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Honors College Journal of Teaching and Research

Policies

Contents

Philosophy of Honors College Journal of Teaching and Research

For more information, please see Honors College Journal of Teaching and Research Aims and Scope page.

Who Can Submit?

Undergraduates have up to one year after graduating from college or university to submit their paper to the Honors College Journal of Teaching and Research. Only undergraduates are eligible to submit to the Honors College Journal of Teaching and Research.

  1. All submissions must be original work.
  2. Each submission must include a letter of support and authenticity from a full-time faculty mentor.
  3. Submissions should include a separate page listing the corresponding author’s name and email address, the names of additional authors, the faculty mentor’s name and email address, and the school affiliation.

Faculty mentors may assist students in preparing their work for the journal by helping them consider a wider audience (such as non-majors or those unfamiliar with the discipline), ensuring clarity in each sentence, adjusting the length, crafting an accessible thesis, and mentoring students on how to transform an assignment into a publishable manuscript.

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General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. By submitting material to Honors College Journal of Teaching and Research, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Honors College Journal of Teaching and Research. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Honors College Journal of Teaching and Research, please contact the editors.

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Formatting Requirements

Honors College Journal of Teaching and Research does not have specific formatting requirements for articles upon initial submission. However, there are guidelines for formatting the final submission. Please refer to the Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for more information. While there is limited technical support, it is ultimately the author's responsibility to provide an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format), or as a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or RTF file that can be converted into a PDF

It is important to note that due to the current state of technology, there are no guarantees that (PDF) documents will be fully compatible with all hardware and software configurations that readers may use.

This document outlines the typesetting and layout requirements for the final manuscript submission to the Honors College Journal of Teaching and Research.

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Rights for Authors and Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Attribution and Usage Policies

Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship, requires credit to Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship as copyright holder (e.g., Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship © 2025).

Personal-use Exceptions

The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:

  • Storage and back-up of the article on the author's computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s);
  • Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;
  • Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)'s place of employment.
  • Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author.

People seeking an exception, or who have questions about use, should contact the editors.

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General Terms and Conditions of Use

Users of the Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship website and/or software agree not to misuse the Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship service or software in any way.

The failure of Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.

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