As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
All submissions must have been written during your time as an undergraduate student and will be peer-reviewed and edited by ANU academic staff.
If not still an ANU undergraduate student, you must have graduated no more than one year prior to submission date.
Author Guidelines
We accept a variety of written articles (below). Please indicate which applies to your article upon submission.
Essays:
up to 5,000 words
make a significant contribution to scholarship through the complete and thorough analysis of the literature on a relevant topic
Research papers:
up to 5,000 words
use original research to answer a novel research question
Student experience pieces
up to 2,000 words
outline a student research experience gained during undergraduate training at ANU. This can be based on participation in a field school, intensive or lab-based course
All references should be in Council of Biology Editors (CBE) citation style, which is used in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (AJPA). Please review earlier issues of The Human Voyage and CBE or AJPA to standardise reference (in-text and in-list) formatting.
All authors will need to run all accepted papers through Turnitin.
Once an article has been accepted, authors will need to submit a pdf of the entire Turnitin originality report
work will not be saved by turnitin, since it is just a practice site
it is fine if the article text-matches to the same article submitted by the same author for an undergraduate ANU class
If the article contains copyrighted images from other published sources, permission will be needed before the image can be used in a published article. If all images, graphs, and tables are the author’s own creation, authors will need to explain somewhere in the document that no permissions were necessary as the figures/tables are original and were created by the author. See ‘copyright notice’ section.
Copyright Notice
If the article contains copyrighted images from other published sources, permission will be needed before the image can be used in a published article.
once the article has been accepted, contact the authors or journal to request permission
provide a copy of the approval email/form
If all images, graphs, and tables are the author’s own creation, authors will need to explain somewhere in the document that no permissions were necessary as the figures/tables are original and were created by the author.
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