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Author Guidelines

Please submit using our email (theuvicalbatross@gmail.com) and not the website submission portal.

Submission Guidelines

  • The submission is an original undergraduate scholarship written by an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria (UVic) in British Columbia, Canada.
  • The submission is a literary research essay and falls under the scope of the UVic English Department.
  • Manuscripts should be submitted in a standard editable document format, preferably .doc(x). Please do not submit .pdfs
  • Manuscripts should be anonymized before sending to theuvicalbatross@gmail.com. Please remove any identifying information from your submission, but include your name, year of study, and program of study in the body of your email.
  • Manuscripts should be double-spaced with one-inch margins, and written in Times New Roman 12 point font.
  • The Albatross uses the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (8th edition) and the Canadian Oxford English Dictionary.
  • Manuscripts should be 1500-3000 words, excluding bibliography. Authors should include a brief abstract (not exceeding 100 words) summarizing their subject or argument.
  • Students are limited to one submission per call for papers. The Albatross reserves the right of first publication.
  • Illustrations are accepted where pertinent to the essay. Where applicable, authors must secure digital files or high-quality scans and reproduction rights.

Copyright Notice

Any submissions made by the author to the Albatross are in agreement of release under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported license. This license permits The Albatross as well as others to share this work through any means for non-commercial purposes given that proper attribution is given to the author as well as the publisher.

Authors retain copyright of their work.

By submitting their article to The Albatross, the author grants the The Albatross the rights for first publishing.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

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The names and email addresses entered here will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. All essays are to be sent to theuvicalbatross@gmail.com anonymously.