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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 has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Review the Copyright Agreement

Author Guidelines

Scientia Canadensis invites submissions of original articles on the history of Canadian science, technology, and medicine. Article manuscripts should not be currently under evaluation for publication by another journal.

 Manuscripts articles may be written in English or French, and should not exceed 9,000 words. Please consult with the editor regarding word-limits for other types of content such as research notes, forums, or roundtables. All manuscripts should be formatted using double-spaced Times Roman 12-point text with margins set to “Normal.”

All manuscripts must contain the following elements:

  • Title
  • Author name(s)
  • Author email address(es)
  • Abstract of no more than 100 words.
  • Keywords (5) that broadly identify the article’s subject matter and approach
  • Author bio appended to the end of the article

Graphics, tables, and figures

  1. All images must be accompanied by a signed permission form, which will be sent by the editors to the author. If the image is from an archive that provides allows for royalty-free use, please insert the link to the image in the form provided.
  2. All images, regardless of whether they are photographs, maps, tables, or drawings, must be labeled sequentially as “Figures” (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3).
  3. All figures must also be accompanied by a descriptive caption, followed by a credit indicating the source. Credit information must include:
    1. The image title: Archival images, for example, often have a title, so please verify the archive or copyright holder.
    2. The date of the image and the source. Please verify with the archive or copyright owner this citation.
  4. Save and attach all images as separate files. Images should be saved as JPG files at 300dpi or 3000-pixel width. Line drawings or other vector-type images should be saved and submitted as EPS files. Please do not submit images in or as a saved Word file.
  5. Please insert in your MS. the recommended position of the figure in the body of the text (e.g. “Insert figure 1 here”), but please do not insert images into the manuscript.
  6. Please submit a separate Word file for Figure captions and credits.

References

Please format references as consecutively numbered endnotes. Endnotes must be complete and uniform according to the Chicago Manual of Style.  For more on the formatting of notes please visit:  https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html

Articles

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Copyright Notice

The Editors and Editorial Board of Scientia Canadensis requires authors to publish the Work under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY NC ND 4.0) that allows others to share, copy and redistribute the material in any format, as long as it is not for commercial use, as long as they credit the Author for the original creation, and the redistributed material is not derivative.

These rights include:

  1. The right to publish the article in print or electronic form or in any other form appropriate to its role as a scholarly organization dedicated to the development and diffusion of knowledge.
  2. The right to grant republication rights to itself or others in print, electronic, or other form. Any royalties above $200 will be divided equally between the author and the CSTHA.
  3. The right to administer permission for libraries to place the article on reserved reading lists, in print or electronic form, for the use of students in particular courses.

You, as author, also retain the following rights:

  1. The right to use the Article in your own teaching activities.
  2. The right to include the Article in your own personal or departmental institutional database or on-line site, or in in your institutional repository provided the repository is institution specific and not a discipline-based database that accepts contributions from outside the institution.
  3. The right to list this article among your publications list in Access Copyright, which will pay royalties to you, based on a 50-50 split with the Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association.
  4. The right to publish the article, or permit its publication, in whole or in part, in any other publication of your own, including any anthology that you might edit. For all rights granted in this paragraph, you agree to credit Scientia Canadensis as the original publisher of the article.

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