Submissions
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.- The submission meets the journal’s stated Aims and Scope.
- The submission is written in widely accessible language, free of field-specific jargon and unnecessarily technical language.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration. If the submission uses the same primary data set and has been published or already accepted for publication with another outlet, the cover letter details how the present submission differs from the other manuscript(s) in terms of range, scope, and theoretical and/or practical significance.
- The submission adheres to the relevant word limit for its submission type.
- The submission files adhere to the journal’s formatting requirements and are in either Microsoft Word/OfficeOpen (.docx) or OpenDocument (.odt) format.
- The author(s) have included a cover letter in the “Comments to the Editor” box that (1) affirms that the submitted research complies with the journal’s stated Publication Ethics policy; (2) provides three recommended peer reviewers who are well qualified to assess the submission’s quality, but who have no direct familiarity with the work; and (3) discloses any and all conflicts of interest.
Original Articles
Original Articles are unsolicited full-length submissions that present well-developed conceptual/theoretical arguments and/or present analyses from one or more research studies.
Original Articles may have one of three word limits, depending on their content:
- Original Articles may not exceed 8,000 words if they present quantitative analyses from single studies or purely conceptual/theoretical arguments.
- Original Articles may not exceed 10,000 words if they present quantitative analyses from multiple studies.
- Original Articles may not exceed 12,000 words if they present qualitative analyses or findings from multi-method studies.
Brief Reports
Brief Reports are unsolicited short-form submissions that present single findings from individual research studies or present replications of previous research.
Brief Reports may not exceed 3,500 words.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews are solicited short essays that provide a summary and critical assessment of one or more recently published book(s) relevant to the work published in BATS. If you are interested in submitting a review to BATS, please email a brief introductory message and copy of your CV to editor Thomas J Billard at bulletin@appliedtransstudies.org.
Book Reviews may not exceed 1,500 words.
Copyright Notice
The following is an agreement between the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (the Journal) and the submitter (the Author), governing the work currently being submitted, including the primary contribution as well as any supporting materials such as an abstract, data sets, media files, figures, or tables created by the Author and any co-authors (the Submission).
The Journal is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to readers or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
1. As consideration for publication in the Journal, the Author grants the Journal the following rights:
1.1. A non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free right to publish, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform and distribute the Submission in perpetuity throughout the world in all means of expression by any method or media now known or hereafter developed; and
1.2. A non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free right to license others, including databases or printing vendors, to do any or all of the above on a non-exclusive basis.
2. The Author represents and warrants that:
2.1. The Author is the author of the Submission, or is authorized to act on behalf of the author(s) and copyright holder (if different from the author(s)), and has the power to convey the rights granted in this agreement.
2.2. If the Submission has multiple authors, the other authors are identified in the Submission, and the Author will inform the other authors of the terms of this agreement.
2.3. Any textual, graphic or multimedia material included in the Submission that is the intellectual property or work of another is identified and cited in the Submission.
2.4. If the Submission reproduces any material that is the intellectual property of another, the Author has received permission to publish that material in the Submission, or the material is being incorporated based on an informed, reasonable, and good faith application of fair use.
2.5. The Submission is the original work of the Author(s). To the best of the Author’s knowledge, it does not contain matter that is obscene, libelous, or defamatory; it does not knowingly violate another’s right of privacy, right of publicity, or other legal right; does not contain false or misleading statements; and is otherwise not unlawful.
2.6. The Submission has not been previously published, and is not pending review elsewhere. If this is not the case, the Author will provide the Journal with information about the other locations where the Submission appears or is pending review. Prior distribution of a Submission does not mean a Submission will not be considered for publication; the Journal is primarily concerned with other appearances in similar publications.
2.7. If the Author is a student, the Author agrees to share their work and waive any privacy rights granted by FERPA (https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html) or any other law, policy or regulation, with respect to the Submission, for the purpose of publication. If the Author has any student co-authors, the Author will obtain a signed copy of this agreement from those co-authors.
2.8. The Submission complies with all relevant Journal policies and submission guidelines provided on the Journal’s website at the time of submission, including any policies on conflict of interest, informed consent, human and animal rights, or appropriate content.
3. Indemnification
The Author will indemnify and hold the Journal harmless against loss, damages, expenses, awards, and judgments arising from breach of any of the above warranties.
4. Author’s Rights and Obligations
4.1. Nothing in this agreement constitutes a transfer of the copyright by the Author. As such, the Author retains all rights not expressly granted herein, including but not limited to, the right:
4.1.1. To reproduce and distribute the Submission, and to authorize others to reproduce and distribute the Submission, in any format;
4.1.2. To post the Submission in an institutional repository or the Author’s personal or departmental web page.
4.1.3. To include the Submission, in whole or in part, in another work.
4.2. If the Author distributes the Submission on another website or in another publication (as described above), the Journal will be cited as the source of first publication.
5. Rights for Readers
The Journal and the Author agree that the Submission will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), or other later version of the same license, that allows others to copy and redistribute the Submission, as long as they provide appropriate credit to the author(s) and do not use the Submission for commercial purposes. Anyone who uses or redistributes the Submission under this license must indicate any changes that were made, must link to the license, and cannot imply that the author(s) endorse them or their use. Anyone who translates, adapts, or builds upon the Submission may not distribute the modified material. More information about this license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
6. Termination
The Author agrees to the terms of this agreement for the Submission being considered for publication. If the Submission is declined, this agreement is terminated.