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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.
  • By submitting any kind of contribution to this journal, the author declares to have read and accepted the copyright notice available on this website
  • The author declares that their contribution follows RSAJournal's stylesheet (MLA7)
  • The author declares that their contribution is original, not published elsewhere, and not produced by an A.I.
  • If the contribution includes pictures/other media, the author declares to have cleared any copyright issues
  • The author declares that the submission is not under evaluation by another publication, nor will be sent to other publications for evaluation before RSAJournal has made an editorial decision
  • The author declares that the file submitted for consideration has been anonymized in all its parts, metadata included, in order to ensure a blind peer review process
  • The author will upload a bionote (150 words) as a separate word file titled SURNAME_bionote

Author Guidelines

Submissions for the General Section must be sent by January 31 to be considered for the issue of that year (e.g., contributions sent by January 31, 2025, will be evaluated for the 2025 issue, published in September).

Submissions must be in English and should not exceed 40.000 characters (including spaces, notes, and works cited). Authors should send their submission through the Submission page, creating an account if it is their first submission. Authors are invited to follow the journal's style sheet in preparing their manuscripts. Manuscripts should be submitted typeset in Times New Roman, 12 pts, double-spaced.

Please, refer to the style sheet BEFORE submitting a contribution.

We kindly ask authors to check that the submitted file is completely anonymised in all its parts, metadata included, in order to ensure a blind peer review process. A short bionote (150 words) should be uploaded as a separate file titled "SURNAME_bionote" within the same submission. 

For accepted manuscripts, RSAJournal provides a .docx template to facilitate typesetting the essay according to the journal's layout. 

Copyright Notice

RSAJournal applies a CC BY 4.0 license to all its contributions as of issue 37 (2026) (it previously applied a CC BY-NC-ND licence). 

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain their copyright, subject to the CC BY 4.0 license granted for publication of their contribution in RSAJournal. Therefore, they are allowed to republish their contributions freely.
  • RSAJournal kindly asks that the authors acknowledge the initial publication of their contribution in this journal.

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