AICUR-J Submission Guidelines

 

How do I submit?

  • Be sure you thoroughly review all the guidelines on this page.
  • Submit your paper in a Word format.
  • To submit a research paper or essay, complete and submit the University of Limerick Marketing and Communication Media Release Form (link below) which gives us permission to publish your work electronically on our website. NOTE: AICUR-J cannot process submissions in PDF format, so please be sure your submission is a Word document.
  • [Link to form here]
  • Submit your paper and the form to writingcentre@ul.ie. Put AICUR-J Submission in the Message line.

 

AICUR-J is accepts work from all disciplines. We organise submissions into four faculties:

  • Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Business Studies
  • Education
  • Health Sciences
  • Science and Engineering

Fine Arts submissions such as visual or performance arts and creative writing are accepted. How these works are to be uploaded to our journal can be negotiated. Email: writingcentre@ul.ie

 

Who can submit?

Authors must be enrolled at an accredited institution of higher education in Ireland at the time of submission. 

Why publish in AICUR-J?

  • Becoming published looks good on your résumé and may influence employment and graduate school acceptance.
  • Experiencing the publishing process prepares you for postgraduate opportunities later, should they decide to further their education.
  • Engaging in the peer-review process gives you valuable insights revision strategies that work. 

What is the process?

After submitting your work and your release form, you will hear from our managing editor within a week or so. An editorial board will make an initial decision on whether to accept the piece. We will set a deadline of three months after the conference. As the AICUR conference is usually in April, it is expected that first drafts will be submitted by mid-June. Each year, a deadline will be communicated at the conference. If accepted, the review process takes an average of 10 to 15 weeks, meaning that the final drafts will be ready for publication by, at latest, sometime in late September to early October.

We are committed to helping you to professionally present your best work. Even if your work is not selected for publication, we hope that you will find the process invaluable.

Costs to you?

None.

AICUR-J’s publication policies:

Review Process

All submissions are read by a member of the editorial staff. Work is shared with academic staff with expertise in your area to get their assessment of the quality of the research and recommendations for improvement if any. If accepted, a team of referees will review the submission and recommend a course of action for the work. 

Important:

The work must not be under consideration, in part or in whole, by any other publisher, nor should the work have already been published in any citable form.

Submission to AICUR-J implies that the authors has read and agreed to its content and that any experimental research reported in the manuscript has been performed with the approval of an appropriate ethics committee.

Research carried out on human subjects must comply with the UL Ethics rules.

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Selection

AICUR-J reserves the right to reject submitted work at any time during the review process.

 

Media Release Form