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Author Guidelines

We are accepting submissions until 10th January.

All submissions should contain original work that has not been published previously and is not currently under consideration at any other journal.  Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere.

For all submissions, where aspects of physiology have been reimagined for the purposes of creativity, please include a scientific statement with your submission to clarify the current understanding of the topic.

Who can submit

Submissions are accepted from students and novice writers.  Students may be under- or post-graduates, or anyone who is within one year of graduating.  Novice writers are considered to be those who have not traditionally published a novel-length fiction or non-fiction book, or a collection of short stories or poetry.  Authors of individual short works and self-published authors are eligible to submit.

We encourage submissions from anyone with a background in physiology or a related subject, as well as from creative writers and artists with an interest in physiology.

What to submit

PhysiOdyssey accepts a wide range of submissions, as long as the work has a physiology theme.  We are looking for educational, quirky, fun and thought-provoking pieces, and accept fictional insights, historical perspectives, contemporary advancements or even speculative futuristic ideas.  Send us your corporeal curiosities; your anatomy adventures; your visceral visions.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The text is 1.5-spaced; uses a 12-point font; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format with PDFs if required. Images should be sent as png or jpeg files.
  • The submission has not been previously published. If it is before another journal for consideration please let us know if it accepted.

Short stories and essays

Please submit stories or essays of up to 2000 words.  Submissions should be in Word, OpenOffice or RTF format, with a sensible font and 1.5 line spacing.  If you wish to include images with your submission, please send these as jpeg or png files.  We will contact you for high resolution (300ppi) images if these are required for printing.

Poems

Please send poetry of up to 40 lines in Word, OpenOffice or RTF format.  If your poem has a particular format in which you’d like it to be presented, you may also wish to include a pdf copy to represent this.  Please only send one poem per submissions window.

Artwork and Graphic Narratives

Artwork originating in any medium should be submitted as a jpeg, png or gif file.  We are happy to consider photographs, figures, illustrations, collages and paintings on a physiological theme.  Supporting documentation, including descriptions and scientific statements, should be submitted in Word, OpenOffice or RTF format, with a sensible font and 1.5 line spacing.

Graphic narratives should be no more than two A4 sides and should be submitted in a format that suitably represents the work (e.g. Word, png, jpeg).  We will contact you if we require your work in a different format.

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