Submissions

Author Guidelines

Aims and Scope

The Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (BATS) publishes timely research focused on identifiable and pragmatic social, cultural, and political issues of relevance to transgender people, both at the individual and collective level. The journal welcomes research from diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, and from all contextual areas. However, research that is focussed on biomedical aspects of clinical practice with transgender patients is not appropriate for BATS; for such research, we refer prospective authors to the International Journal of Transgender Health and Transgender Health. The journal will consider biomedical and/or health research with primarily social, cultural, and/or political implications (e.g., health communication, health and human rights, public health policy, etc.).

BATS is committed to publishing research oriented toward the identification, analysis, and, ultimately, improvement of the material conditions of transgender life. To that end, published articles should clearly address both academic and nonacademic publics, and they should clearly present both the theoretical and the practical implications drawn from the research. Moreover, articles should be written in widely accessible language, free of field-specific jargon and unnecessarily technical language.

Style and References

To make initial submission as easy as possible, authors may follow any conventional style guide and associated citation format, such as MLA, APA, or Chicago. If a manuscript is accepted or invited for revision and resubmission, authors will be asked to style their manuscript according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, Author-Date system. Footnotes should be used only where necessary to provide supplemental information that does not fit into the flow of the main text. Manuscripts should follow either the New Oxford American Dictionary, 3rd edition or Oxford Dictionary of English, 3rd edition for spelling. Authors may employ either US or British English spellings, as long as they are consistent within a given manuscript. See the journal’s full style guide here.

Formatting

Manuscripts should be submitted on a standard letter-size paper (i.e., A4 or 8.5x11”) and should be double-spaced throughout (including abstract, main text, references, etc.). Manuscripts should also be blinded, which is to say they should not contain any information that would identify their author(s). Accordingly, references to authors’ previous work should be made in the third person. Excessive self-citation is also discouraged.

Manuscripts should be submitted as two documents, each containing several components:

1. Cover Page. The Cover Page is not blinded. It should include:
1. Full title of the manuscript;
2. Each author’s complete name and institutional affiliation(s), as well as a 50-word biography for each author;
3. An email address for the corresponding author;
4. Any acknowledgements (including complete funding information and grant numbers, if applicable);
5. An abstract of 150 to 200 words; and
6. Five keywords.
2. Main Document. The Main Document is completely blinded and its pages should be numbered throughout. It should include:
1. Full title of the manuscript;
2. An abstract of 150 to 200 words;
3. Five keywords;
4. Main text of the manuscript, organized with headings and subheadings, as necessary;
5. References;
6. Any tables and figures, either in-line in the main text or placed after references with in-text indications of approximate placement; and
7. Any appendices.

For all relevant quantitative analyses, effect sizes (e.g., Cohen’s d, Pearson’s r, eta-squared) should be supplied. Authors are also encouraged to include full descriptive statistics and correlation matrices in appendices.

Authors may, at their own discretion, include with their submission relevant research materials, data sets, and/or any other materials that enhance the transparency of the research process.

In addition to these submission documents, authors should include a cover letter in the “Comments to the Editor” box. This cover letter should affirm that the submitted research complies with the journal’s stated Publication Ethics policy and should provide three recommended peer reviewers who are well qualified to assess the submission’s quality, but who have no direct familiarity with the work. Additionally, you must disclose any and all conflicts of interest in the cover letter.

Publication Ethics

Authors should observe high standards with respect to publication ethics as set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics. Falsification or fabrication of data, plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the authors’ own work without proper citation, and misappropriation of the work are all unacceptable practices. Any cases of ethical misconduct are treated very seriously and will be dealt with in accordance with the COPE guidelines. All research employing human subjects must have been conducted with the authorization and approval of an Institutional Review Board, an Ethical Review Board, or some other credentialed research ethics committee.

Members of the journal’s editorial team (including assistant editors and editorial board members) are welcome to submit papers to BATS. These submissions are not given any priority over other manuscripts, and editorial team members’ affiliation with the journal has no bearing on editorial decisions. If an editorial team member is an author on a submission, they will have no involvement in or access to confidential information on the editorial process.

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