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Author Guidelines

There are two calls for submissions at present:
1) Reinvention core issues publish April and October, this is open to submissions from any student author, with research on any subject.

2) Reinvention is developing a special issue on AI and the Final-Year Research Experience: Transatlantic Perspectives. Call for submissions will close early January 2027. This issue is scheduled to published summer 2027. Read more about the call here: Call for Papers: AI and the Final Year Research Experience

Reinvention journal would like to encourage authors to make their work as understandable, accessible and as interactive as possible to include, where relevant, tables, diagrams, images and links to films, photographs and other websites where appropriate.

Research articles should be between 2,000 and 5,000 words in length and critical reflection articles up to 2,000 words in length, not including the abstract, keywords, glossary, references, appendix and bibliography.

Papers will be published on the understanding that the material is original. All material, including footnotes, titles, tables, and quotations, must be prepared according to the style guide on this website and appropriate permissions must have been obtained to reproduce any copyrighted images or content.

Manuscripts submitted which do not aim to follow the Style Guide will be returned to the author(s) for review and amendment before resubmission.

Papers may be based on work that has been produced for assessment during a student's degree but will only be considered if the assessment has been completed.

For guidance on how to write for publication, it may be helpful to consult the websites in related links , top tips and workshops.

Students wishing to discuss a possible submission should contact the Editor at reinventionjournal@warwick.ac.uk. Submissions should be made through the on-line submission form on this site.

When you create an account and log into the Open Journal System platform, you will you reminded of the submission requirements with a submission checklist.

The submission checklist should be used to confirm that your submission adheres to the journal’s submission and style guidance. Please do not submit an essay – we do not accept work in essay format and these will be rejected. If your work does not satisfy all of the criteria listed, it will be rejected and returned to you.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • Abstract: Between 100 and 200 words
  • AI and Authorship: Use of AI must be declared, if AI use it detected and not declared the submission will be returned to the author for amendment to ensure the authorship is by the researcher student. For more information see AI and Authorship.
  • Assessment: Work is not based on work that has not yet been submitted for assessment, the paper has already been submitted for assessment or has been assessed. 
  • Ethics: Confirm that my research is in accordance with ethical approval as set out by my institution/affiliation.
  • Images: All images embedded in my paper have also been given clear file names and have been attached to this submission as separate files.
  • Keywords: Around 6 keywords are included.
  • Length: I am submitting an original research paper between 2,000 and 5,000 words long, or I am submitting a critical reflection between 1,000 and 2,000 words long. (For both types of submissions, the word count does not include abstract, references and appendices). 
  • Original work: The material in my paper is original and has not been published or submitted for review elsewhere. If produced as part of a larger research group or project, I confirm that I have authorisation from the project supervisor to publish on this work.
  • Permissions: I have permission to reproduce all images or other copyrighted material within my paper (for assistance/advice contact the journal team)
  • Referencing: My referencing adheres to Reinvention’s style guidance. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • Submission file: The work is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Undergraduate work: I am an undergraduate student or my work was carried out when I was an undergraduate and I graduated within the last 6 months
  • Settings Style: The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. The text is double-spaced; uses Arial font, size 11 point; 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.
  • Glossary: I have included a glossary of subject-specific or technical words with brief, one-line definitions.
  • Cover page: The first page must be the cover page, including the authors' names, institutions, submission title and if the paper is to be considered for a particular special issue or section. 
  • OJS account on submission: Ensure contact data and Affiliation (Institution) are included. 

Special Section: Liberal Arts Northern Network

This section is for all papers from authors and institutions that are part of the Liberal Arts Northern Network and is inclusive of other papers from the Liberal Arts. 

Special Issue: AI and the Final-Year Research Experience

Papers are invited for submission to the established and peer-reviewed journal Reinvention, for a special issue on how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do final-year undergraduate research.

The call is open to all undergraduate researchers, from any discipline and any institution. The issue will be fully open access, so it is free to submit and free to read. Submissions will be peer-reviewed and supported by a student-led transatlantic Editorial Board from Elon University and the University of Warwick.

The special issue is scheduled to publish June/July 2027. It sits alongside a companion special issue of Perspectives on Undergraduate Research and Mentoring (PURM), exploring the same questions from the academic staff perspective.

What we're looking for

The final-year project is where many students first work as researchers. In the US, this might be a capstone or a senior thesis. In the UK, a dissertation. Generative AI has entered every stage of that process, often faster than guidance, supervision or assessment has kept up. We want to hear from the students doing that work. This issue is not a home for research that simply happens to involve AI, we want work on how AI shaped the process or experience of doing final-year research.

Who can submit

Current undergraduate students and recent graduates, broadly within a year of finishing their degree.

Submissions should be based on undergraduate work. We are happy to consider exceptions. Get in touch if you are unsure.

We welcome submissions from any discipline and any institution.

Submissions might explore:

  • Choosing a topic, framing a question, or searching the literature with AI.
  • Using AI in data collection, analysis, coding, or modelling.
  • Writing, drafting, and responding to feedback.
  • Supervision, and how AI changed conversations with supervisors or advisors.
  • Academic integrity, disclosure, and institutional policy in practice.
  • Access and equity: who has the tools, the skills, and the confidence to use them.
  • Confidence, identity, and belonging as a researcher.
  • Disciplinary differences in how AI is used and judged.
  • Differences between US and UK approaches to final-year research.
  • Deciding not to use AI, and why.

These are starting points, not limits.

Accepted formats

Research articles
 Original research. 2,000-5,000 words, excluding abstract, keywords, glossary, references and appendices. Abstracts are 200-250 words.
Critical reflections

A reflective account of your own final-year research experience, grounded in relevant literature. 500-1,000 words, excluding abstract, keywords, glossary, references and appendices. Abstracts are 200-250 words.
Book reviews

Reviews of books on AI, research, or higher education. Around 500-1,000 words. Co-authored reviews and paired reviews offering different perspectives are welcome.

 

Copyright Notice

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing through any medium of communication those illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Authors are also responsible for adding these permissions to the acknowledgement footnote that precedes all other notes or crediting the source and copyright of photographs or figures in the accompanying captions.

The journal's policy is to ask authors to grant us the licence to publish their work, which gives us the exclusive right both to reproduce and/or distribute their article (including the abstract) in printed, electronic or any other medium, and in turn to authorise others (including Reproduction Rights Organisations such as the Copyright Licensing Agency and the Copyright Clearance Center) to do the same. In return the author(s) assert their Moral Right to be identified as the author, and we promise that we will respect their rights as the author(s). That is, we will make sure that their name(s) is/are always clearly associated with the article and, while they do allow us to make necessary editorial changes, we will not make any substantial alteration to their article without consulting them.

Copyright remains with the author(s), however, the author(s) authorise us to act on their behalf to defend their copyright if anyone should infringe it, and to retain half of any damages awarded, after deducting our costs. The author(s) also retain the right to use their own article (provided they acknowledge the published original in standard bibliographic citation form) in the following ways, as long as they do not sell it or give it away in ways which would conflict directly with our interests. The author(s) is/are free to use their article for the internal educational or other purposes of their own institution or company; mounted on their own or their institution’s website; posted to free public servers of preprints and/or articles in their subject area; or in whole or in part, as the basis for their own further publications or spoken presentations.

If you have any queries about copyright please contact the Journal Manager, at reinventionjournal@warwick.ac.uk

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The data on this form relates to your submission to Reinvention: an International Journal of Undergraduate Research. The date and time of your submission, your identity and the work you have submitted will all be stored, but will not be used for any purpose other than communicating with you about the journal and your submission. If your submission is accepted and published then your submission will be stored whilst in publication. If your submission is not accepted then we will retain your submission for two years, after which time it will be destroyed. You have the right to withdraw consent of submission at any time, however in doing so we will be unable to work towards publishing or to publish your work. By submitting your work you agree to the terms stated here.