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Submission Guidelines
for LATCH Journal (for LCS, see below)
All submissions must be written in English and organized according to the
MLA (6th ed.) method of format and
documentation. The acceptable length of submissions is roughly from
ten to thirty single-spaced pages, including notes. The writing
style must render the essay accessible to the generally educated
layperson; therefore, the initial instances of technical jargon or diction
germane to one academic discipline, if such terms are necessary to the
argument, should be defined in context or in footnotes.
Discriminatory or socially inappropriate language will be rejected.
All submissions must be
MSN Word documents and must be sent electronically via email attachment to
openlatchpublications_at_gmail.com
or pneel1_at_kent.edu. The submission must be titled, but under no
circumstances may the author's name appear in the submission itself,
including self-referential citation. Instead, the author's name
along with an abbreviated title of the submission must be placed in the
subject line of the email, and the author's name, the full version of the
title as it appears on the first page of the submission, and a note about
which documentation style is being used must appear in the message of the
email itself.
Review Process
Once a submission reaches LATCH, the receiving editor sends a reply email
verifying receipt of the submission, removes all computer-generated author
tags from the document, and initiates the review process. Once the submission has been reviewed, the author will
receive an email informing him or her of the results. Please allow six
weeks after the receipt of the submission for the
review process to be completed.
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Deadline
Submissions will be accepted anytime, and their review process will start
immediately, but only submissions received before
mid-July will be considered for publication during mid-November of that
same year. This is to make sure that the reviewers have six weeks to
examine the submissions, that the accepted papers have six weeks for
revision, and that the webmaster has one month to post final drafts.
LATCH Collection
Series (LCS)
The current editors of the LATCH journal usually solicit essays for LCS
volumes whose themes or points of focus have been determined by the
editors. In these cases, an editor for the volume is picked and the
chapters are written by various contributors. However, if an outside
author or editor has a collection of work (creative or critical) and
thinks that it may be suited for LCS, then he or she should contact
openlatchpublications_at_gmail.com
or pneel1_at_kent.edu
with a summary of the volume's content and, if the collection is critical,
a proposal detailing how the work can contribute to already existing
publications. Work that is already completed is preferred over work that
is still only partially complete.
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