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Author Guidelines
SURG accepts original research and review articles from all disciplines. Please follow these steps if you wish to submit your paper for consideration:
- Author an original research or review article as an undergraduate student at the University of Guelph.
- Get approval to submit your paper from your faculty supervisor. Co-op students also require employer approval.
- Ask your supervisor to register on our website and upload your submission. Your supervisor normally serves the role of corresponding author, whether or not his or her name appears on the author list. Alternatively, students can upload the submission if the supervisor sends a separate note of support. In case of technical difficulty e-mail surg@uoguelph.ca.
- The SURG editorial team will contact you regarding required revisions and article proofs prior to publication.
Specific Requirements
1. Please use the SURG template for preparing your submission.
2. Include an abstract of no more than 300 words.
3. Limit the number of words to 6000 and the number of elements (figures, tables, text boxes etc.) to eight (8). Reserve any additional information for the supplementary material.
4. References must follow a citation-sequence format. Numerical citations, numbered in order of appearance, should appear in-text and be enclosed in square brackets before the punctuation mark. References are listed in full at the end of the submission. (Students are advised to use a reference manager such as RefWorks, EndNote or Reference Manager.) Lettered end notes may be used as well to denote further detail such as specific page numbers for direct quotations.
5. Insert tables and figures at the end of the article. Images must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Aim to use a lossless format such as TIFF or PNG, although high-quality JPEG is acceptable.
6. If tables and figures from previously published works are used, the author is responsible for getting permission to republish the figures.
7. All direct and indirect funding for the research by a granting agency must be acknowledged.
8. Articles must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document (*.docx preferred). If you make extensive use of equations, please ask for our LaTeX template.
9. Submissions must be approved by the faculty supervisor of the undergraduate student.
10. Submissions will acknowledge the faculty supervisor and list as authors others who assisted in the authorship of the article, including graduate students.
11. Submissions must be in English. Articles in other languages must be accompanied by a short English article; the original article will then appear as a supplement.
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.
- This submission follows the Author Guidelines.
Copyright Notice
SURG is an official publication of the University of Guelph, and therefore falls under the University's Terms of Use. Papers by students are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Canada License.
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