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Submission Preparation Checklist

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.
  • 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, RTF, or WordPerfect 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, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Author/Researcher Eligibility requirements:

  • Submissions will be solicited from current TTU undergraduate students or those who have graduated within the past academic year.  
  • Submissions will be accepted that are written/produced by individuals, groups, or faculty/student partnerships. 
  • At least 50% of the content should be produced by students.
  • Submissions will be accepted from any discipline/degree program offered at TTU.
  • Authors may submit no more than 2 submissions per cycle. 

Submission Criteria:

  • Submissions will be accepted in the form of written manuscripts (no more than 5000 words in length); digital artifacts (e.g. video), and creative works (e.g. poetry, photography).
  • Submissions must follow all applicable rules for copyright.
  • Submitters will be required to indicate, via a submission check list, that they have followed standards for format and blinding.
  • Submission must utilize, when applicable, an appropriate form of citation (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago). APA is preferred.
  • Submissions must include an abstract and key words. 

Copyright Notice

Authors submitting a paper to the Journal of Creative Inquiry automatically agree to confer a limited license to the Journal of Creative Inquiry if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication. This license allows the Journal of Creative Inquiry to publish a manuscript in a given issue. Authors have a choice of:

1. Dedicating the article to the public domain. This allows anyone to make any use of the article at any time, including commercial use. A good way to do this is to use the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication Web form; see http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2?lang=en.

2. Retaining some rights while allowing some use. For example, authors may decide to disallow commercial use without permission. Authors may also decide whether to allow users to make modifications (e.g. translations, adaptations) without permission.

3. Retaining full rights, including translation and reproduction rights. Authors may use the statement: © Author 2016 All Rights Reserved. Authors may choose to use their own wording to reserve copyright. If you choose to retain full copyright, please add your copyright statement to the end of the article. Authors submitting a paper to the Journal of Creative Inquiry do so in the understanding that Internet publishing is both an opportunity and challenge. In this environment, authors and publishers do not always have the means to protect against unauthorized copying or editing of copyright–protected works.

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