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Author Guidelines

COVER LETTER

AUTHOR INFORMATION 

  • The author(s) should provide their institutional correspondence (e.g., student or alumni email). If the author(s) are an independent scholar (no affiliated educational institution), personal email address (at the author's own risk) will suffice for correspondence. 
    • Should author correspondence change, the author agrees to update the BSUJ throughout and following the publication process at bsujmru@gmail.com

BSUJ & COMMUNITY

  • How is your manuscript relevant to the BSUJ? How does your research relate to the behavioural sciences? What novel contribution does your research make? and scientific research?
  • Who is your intended audience? How might your research be potentially beneficial, or potentially harmful?

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

  • Author should disclose any potential conflicts of ethics (e.g., funding, relationships with journal, editor or reviewer, similar publications, locations of similar data, copyright permissions (see next section) and steps taken to resolve conflict)

COPYRIGHT DISCLOSURE

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is being considered for publication elsewhere, in a journal or venue with restricted copyrights
    • All submitted material is in accordance with the copyright laws used by the venue where the material has been submitted previously
  • Authors should include citations and references of any number of similar articles to the manuscript being submitted for publication 
  • Authors must obtain and provide all necessary permissions to reproduce (in print and electronic form) any copyrighted work (e.g., test materials, photographs of people, data for re-analysis)
    • Permissions must be submitted with manuscript or sent to the editor before the manuscript is accepted for publication.
  • See Copyright Notice (below) for more information.

 

DECLARATION OF DATA & SUPPLEMENTARY FILE UPLOAD

  • Please submit all data files used for re-analysis, to prepare tables and figures, or links to supplementary data
  • Please indicate whether there are data or supplementary files with the manuscript 
    • If there are, also indicate the files uploaded

Note: Examples of supplementary data: 

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/resources/supplemental-material 

ENSURING AN ANONYMOUS REVIEW

  • Authors must confirm that no documents (except for the cover letter) contain identifying information in order to ensure an anonymous peer-review process

ETHICS

  • If human or animal participants were involved, the author(s) must provide:  
  1. the name of the ethics board (EB), and
  2. study approval number(s) provided by the EC
  • If participants were involved, author(s) should submit their manuscript to EB/Human Research Ethics Board (HREB) for ethical approval, and acknowledge the EB/HREB approval in their cover letter

 

 

MANUSCRIPT & SUPPLEMENTARY FILES

BASIC FORMATTING 

  • The manuscript is 20 pages or less double spaced (not including cover, title, references, abstract)
  • The abstract must be 200 words or less, and contain keywords
  • Author(s) must ensure that citations match reference list and reference list matches citations
  • Tables and figures are used where appropriate to reduce text and increase comprehension and ease of reference to material.
    • Tables and figures must be described in text for accessibility 
    • See more about table and figure formatting under Technical Aspects

Note: Choosing between tables, figures, and text:

http://www.editage.com/insights/tips-on-effective-use-of-tables-and-figures-in-research-papers 

BSUJ PUBLICATION STYLE

  • The submission files are in .doc, .docx, .tiff, .jpg, .txt, .R, .SPSS or compatible high quality sharable formats. Manuscript files are in .doc, .docx or a compatible, editable format.
  • Submissions should use APA (7th Edition) citing and format
  • Authors are responsible for ensuring correct formatting of figures, tables and images.
  • Please prepare figures, tables and images with optimal resolution settings. 
    • Do not use tab or space in table formatting as this distorts the table in typesetting. Instead use the insert table feature in your word processor. 
    • If inserting equations or mathematical graphics, please use a third-party software to ensure conversion to high quality resolution, as typical Word maths software does not produce high quality graphics.

TECHNICAL ASPECTS

  • Where available, please provide URLs, DOIs and hyperlinks for the citations, references, and supplementary data. 
  • Links to references and supplementary data are embedded as hyperlinks in the manuscript and full links in references.

 

Recommended Resources & Guidelines 

Mount Royal University Library - APA 7th Ed. Guides *(Editor Recommended)*

APA 

Additional Formatting and Citation Resources: 

For information on Creative Commons:

Other Informative Resources 

Publication Process for Undergraduates and Behavioural Sciences

Includes advice, guidelines, checklists, and information on the publication process; is peer-reviewed.

Fluid Publication 2022

Accepting manuscripts on any topic in the behaviour sciences!

See Submission Guidelines for submission criteria at: https://mrujs.mtroyal.ca/index.php/bsuj/about/submissions

Art, Graphics, & Media Submissions

Submission portal for cover art, banner art, and other non-manuscript submissions to the BSUJ.

See Submission Guidelines for submission criteria at: https://mrujs.mtroyal.ca/index.php/bsuj/about/submissions

Intersectionality and Healthcare (Special Edition)

See Submission Guidelines for submission criteria at: https://mrujs.mtroyal.ca/index.php/bsuj/about/submissions

 

 INTERSECTIONALITY AND HEALTHCARE (BSUJ SPECIAL EDITION)

Centring the experiences of Black women, Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) coined the term “intersectionality” to highlight how various identity-related factors (i.e., racialization, gender identity and expression, sexual identity and expression, disability, status of impoverishment, etc.) each contain barriers created and sustained by social, political, economic (and other) systems of power.

Crenshaw (1989) emphasizes that overlapping identity factors (with a critical focus on the experiences of Black women) are thus accompanied by overlapping barriers, which influence a person or community’s life experiences, access to care, and overall well-being.

This framework can be extended to virtually all areas of Westernized healthcare, as identity factor-related barriers (i.e., medical racism, medical transphobia, cishetsexism, etc.) are overwhelmingly and consistently present.

Examples of Relevant Topics

  • Disproportionate access to mental healthcare
  • Supervised consumption sites as critical infrastructure
  • Inaccessibility of trans and intersex-informed care
  • Gender affirmation as healthcare and suicide prevention
  • Colonial violence and associated healthcare barriers
  • Ageism in healthcare
  • Racial bias in medical testing and treatment
  • Gatekeeping in sciences and medical fields
  • Access to trauma-informed care
  • Intersectional education for prospective medical professionals
  • Representation in healthcare
  • Access to interpreters and translators
  • Alternatives to law enforceament in wellness checks
  • Public housing as healthcare
  • Racialization of drug policy
  • Accessible public washrooms as healthcare
  • Affordable childcare as healthcare
  • Access to comprehensive healthcare benefits
  • Paid leave for health and mental health-related illness
  • Easily-accessible food security as healthcare
  • Costs of pharmaceuticals and treatments
  • Personal experiences and challenges within the healthcare system
  • Decriminalization of sex work and sex workers as healthcare
  • Access to regulated (untampered and consistently-dosed) drugs
  • Harm-reduction approaches
  • Distributions of COVID-19 vaccines
  • Disproportionate impact by COVID-19 policy and financial subsistence
  • Chronic pain stigmatization
  • Access to assistive technologies and equipment

 

Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 8, 138-167. (no DOI found). https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1989/iss1/8

This call was written by Shayla-Rose Somers, who is a white, disabled, queer, non-binary, neurodivergent person, and journal editor for the BSUJ.

 

Copyright Notice

Note: The author is prepared to hold their copyright under Creative Commons, meaning the author retains copyright and agrees to open sharing of their manuscript for educational purposes. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before, during, or after the publication process with BSUJ, as it can lead to productive exchanges, reviews, and citations of published work. 

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

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