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Author Guidelines

Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL welcomes original articles of any length regarding scholarship that pertains to academic librarianship and libraries. Research-based content will receive preference, but Codex will consider non-research articles as well. All articles should be submitted electronically to the Codex website or can be submitted to lowe@ulm.edu. Articles should include a cover letter with the author’s name and contact information and a 150-200 word abstract, including author-generated keywords. The cover letter should be the only document that contains the author’s name; the manuscript and all its related documents should be completely anonymous.

Codex also welcomes both annotated bibliographies and materials reviews (preferably related to LIS).

Submissions should be double-spaced and 12pt Times New Roman. Codex employs the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition. The tone of the articles may be formal or informal.

Hyperlinks are encouraged where appropriate and content is freely available. Examples, pictures, figures, tables, appendices, or multimedia files should be submitted as separate documents from the manuscript. Electronic images should be sent as low-resolution jpegs rather than being embedded in the manuscript. If the article is accepted, then high-resolution tiffs or jpegs may be used.

Codex will not consider articles that have been concurrently submitted, nor articles that have been published elsewhere.

This journal utilizes Creative Commons licenses for copyright considerations, and authors of articles selected for publication will be required to agree to a copyright and licensing agreement form before articles can be published. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission(s) to reproduce any material(s) for which they do not hold copyright, as well as for providing appropriate permission(s) and acknowledgement(s). Authors are responsible for the cost of these permissions.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided. Other hyperlinks have been checked, are active, and lead to the intended site, document, or object.
  4. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements of the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).
  6. My name and contact information only appear in the cover letter. This only applies to articles; if you are submitting a review, go ahead and check this box regardless.
  7. I have included a abstract of 150-200 words, as well as a listing of author-generated keywords. This only applies to articles; if you are submitting a review, go ahead and check this box regardless. Your abstract for the review will include: author(s), last name first; title of material being reviewed; place of publication; publisher; date of publication; number of pages; ISBN; and cost of title.
 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

    1. 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.

  1. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

 

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