Information for Authors

Information for Authors

Are you a student who's considering submitting your research to Reinvention?
Here are a few key points you need to know before submitting your work. 

We're open to submissions now through the On-line Submission Form.

We welcome submissions from all undergraduate students, from any institution and from any country. Papers can be based in any subject or discipline as long as the author(s) are undergraduate students.

We also publish collaborative papers which celebrate collaborative work between staff and students. If you have been involved in a joint staff-student project and / or have written a joint paper please submit it to us, clearly stating that it is collaborative work and we will consider it for publication. Please note the lead and corresponding author on collaborative pieces must be an undergraduate student.

To ensure that only undergraduate work is published, but in order not to exclude work carried out for dissertation, submissions will be accepted up to around 6 months beyond graduation.

This journal does not charge article submission or article processing charges (APCs). 

If you'd like to discuss your research paper before submission please email: reinventionjournal@warwick.ac.uk 

Please ensure you adhere to the submission criteria by reading the following. 

Format:
Content:
  • between 2,000 and 5,000 words in length, not including the abstract, bibliography and any appendices;
  • as interactive as possible and to include tables, diagrams and links to films, photographs and other websites where appropriate;
  • original written material. Permission will be required to publish a paper that has already been published or submitted for review elsewhere;
  • prepared according to the Style Guide on this website and appropriate permissions must have been obtained to reproduce any copyrighted images or content. This includes the main paper, footnotes, titles, tables, and quotations.
Not acceptable:
  • Papers which do not adhere to the criteria and in a suitable format for a peer-reviewed journal, including essays. It's well worth reading the associated guidance documents.
  • Work which does not conform to the journal style guide. For guidance on how to write for publication consult the Submission Guidance
  • Work produced for assessment during a student's degree before the assessment has been completed.
The editorial process:

If a paper is accepted for publication, we work to get the paper ready in a timely manor. We cannot specify when the paper will be published until all the editorial and academic peer reviews, and all edits, are complete. The full process can take anywhere between six to eighteen months. Please note that most manuscripts will require some amount of editing and revisions from the author following the review stage. This will require a certain amount of time and commitment from the author.

The following steps offer guidance only in understanding Reinvention’s editorial procedures and their manuscript’s progression towards publication. The process is subject to change from time to time.

1. Editorial review
The submitted manuscript is reviewed by the editorial board, who decide on scope, suitability and originality. It is also reviewed to ensure key elements relating to the Style Guide have been sufficiently addressed. Submissions failing to sufficiently meet these criteria will be declined and returned to their author with advice. Manuscripts passing this stage are accepted for consideration and review.

2. Editorial assignment
Manuscripts accepted for consideration will be assigned to an editor to guide it through the review/peer-review and copyediting process.

3. Identifying reviewers
The editor is responsible for locating and engaging 2 to 3 academic peer reviewers, to collate feedback for the author to develop the manuscript. Locating suitable and willing reviewers may take some considerable time for any manuscripts dealing with new, emerging or unusual disciplinary areas. Potential peer-reviewers are under no obligation to accept an invitation to review. Hence, many different scholars may need to be approached before a sufficient number of them accept the assignment.

4. Review
Once peer-reviewers have accepted, the anonymized article is released to them to review. Normally, they have just under a month (4 weeks) to complete the review, but as many of our reviewers are busy academics, on occasion, they may require extensions to this period. The Editors will endeavour to notify authors when there is a lengthier than anticipated delay in obtaining review feedback.

5. Author revisions
The Editor will collate reviewer comments, and in consultation with the Editor- as necessary, decide whether to accept the manuscript for publication, require author revisions, seek further reviews or decline from consideration. Where minor or major revisions are required, editors inform the authors of recommended amendments required to their manuscripts. Authors are normally expected to resubmit their work within either a 2–4 week (minor revisions) or 4-8 week (major revisions) period. Authors requiring an extension on this timescale, for personal or professional reasons, should discuss this with their editor.

For major revisions, once the author resubmits their amended manuscript, it is normally returned to the original reviewers to consider if it has been sufficiently improved and offer further suggestions for improvements. Authors will then have a further opportunity to revise their text, after which the editor normally makes a final publication decision. For minor revisions, this decision will happen following the author’s first revised text resubmission.

6. Editorial decision
Following review feedback, along with any required author revisions, and normally in consultation with the Editorial Board, a decision will be made whether to accept the manuscript for publication or decline it as unsuitable. The editorial decision is final, although authors will be offered advice on any further modifications needed before a manuscript can be reconsidered by Reinvention.

7. Copy editing
Manuscripts successfully accepted for publication move to be copyedited and formatted for publication by their editor. This involves the text, and any additional content, being placed into the Reinvention publication template. Editors may also offer recommendations for further improvements for clarity and will consult with authors over making these final modifications. After this stage the editor will perform a final proofread and then declare the manuscript pre-publication ready.

8. Production
Ahead of the issue's publication, the Editorial team review the pre-publication ready manuscript and makes any final layout adjustments to harmonise it with the Reinvention publication standards. This includes: adding page numbers, DOIs and any further biographic or metadata information on each author. They will also check that copyright permissions requirements have been observed on included third-party materials. On occasion they may need to contact an author if there are any aspects which require clarification.

9. Publication
Finally, the fully formatted manuscript will be published as an article in the next available issue of Reinvention.