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Author Guidelines

Mapping the Impossible accepts academic papers of between 3000 and 5000 words, excluding the bibliography.

Since this is a student journal, authors must be current students or within one year of graduation when they submit their articles.

All submissions should be well-written and clearly structured. The editorial team will carry out basic copy editing but submissions that contain a substantial number of typographical or grammatical errors will be returned to the author for revision. All submissions should be written in English. We can accept submissions written in American or International English, provided that the chosen form is used consistently throughout.

Mapping the Impossible uses MLA 8, and has an in-house style guide and sample references.

Submission Preparation Checklist

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 article is between 3000 and 5000 words, excluding the bibliography.
  • 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.
  • You are eligible to submit to the journal, i.e., you are a current undergraduate or (post)graduate student at any higher education institution, or you are within one year of graduation.
  • You have provided your eligibility below under Comments for the Editor with your current or most recent degree title and the month and year of your actual or expected graduation.
  • No part of the research or writing of the article has been completed with the use of artificial intelligence chatbots, e.g. ChatGPT

Articles

Mapping the Impossible exclusively accepts academic papers of between 3000 and 5000 words, including references but excluding bibliographies. For the full list of policies, please see our Journal Policies page.

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