Submission Guidelines
Students may submit written or visual work from their classes or from independent research projects conducted with faculty.
All submissions should be submitted electronically using Longwood's Digital Commons INCITE: The Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship Initial Submission site.
Submission instructions for your INCITE submission are on the Submission Guidelines page.
Your submission (written or visual) must include:
- Name
- Department
- Faculty supervisor
- Title of your submission
Submission Type
All student work should be read by their instructor before submission.
Student research submissions may include, but are not limited to:
- Senior seminar research papers/projects
- Original research projects
- Literature reviews
- Research papers done for coursework
- Translations
- Write ups of any other type of research study
- Research proposals
- Research articles
- Original written creative work including:
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Plays
Guidelines for Individual Disciplines
Art History: Chicago style
Business and Economics: MLA or APA style
Communication Studies: APA style
Education: Citations for submissions should follow the appropriate journal style for your sub-discipline. Consult with your instructor.
Health-related Fields: AMA style
History: Chicago/Turabian style
Kinesiology, Therapeutic Recreation, Health, and Physical Education: APA style
Math:
- The American Statistical Association Style
- The Mathematical Association of America
- Association for Computing Machinery
Modern Languages: MLA style
- Papers should be submitted in the language in which they were written, with a 150-word abstract in English
- Properly format diacritical and punctuation marks
Sciences: Citations for submissions should follow the appropriate journal style for your sub-discipline. Consult with your instructor.
Social Sciences: APA style