the quint

Author Guidelines

General Submission Guidelines

the quint, housed at the University College of the North, is a wide-ranging forum for scholarly articles and other essays, creative writing, and artwork with a view toward creating a useful, inclusive conversation for everyone by dessiminating work that is written in accessible language and reflects a diversity of disciplinary approaches, subjects, and analyses of interest to scholarly readers and the public at large. Material from or about the North is particularly welcome.

Manuscript Submission

Scholarly articles and other essays should range between 15 and 25 pages of double-spaced text, including all images and source citations. Longer and shorter submissions also will be considered. Bibliographic citation should be the standard disciplinary format. All submissions (which should be accompanied by a short biography) will be forwarded to a member of the editorial board. Manuscripts must not be previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere while being reviewed by the quint’s editors or advisory editors.

E-copies of manuscripts should be sent to Dr. Sue Matheson (smatheson@ucn.ca), hard copies to the quint, University College of the North, P.O. Box 3000, The Pas, Manitoba, Canada, R9A 1M7. E-copies of manuscripts should be formatted in Word or RTF. Artwork and images should be formatted in digital format, JPEG, TIFF, or PDF.

Permissions

Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission from original copyright owners of figures, tables, or quotations of 500 words or more that will appear in the journal.

Copyright

Contributors to the quint agree to transfer a one-time right to publish their work to the publisher. Copyright is retained by the individual authors of manuscripts and artists of works accepted for publication in the quint.