Submission Guidelines

Students may submit written or visual work from their classes or from independent research projects conducted with faculty.

All submissions should be submitted electronically using Longwood's Digital Commons INCITE: The Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship Initial Submission site.

Submission instructions for your INCITE submission are on the Submission Guidelines page.

Your submission (written or visual) must include:

• Name
• Email
• Department
• Faculty supervisor
• Title of your submission 

Submission Type 

All student work should be read by their instructor before submission.

Student research submissions may include, but are not limited to:

• Senior seminar research papers/projects
• Original research projects
• Literature reviews
• Research papers done for coursework
• Translations
• Write ups of any other type of research study
• Research proposals
• Research articles
• Original written creative work including:
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Plays

Guidelines for Individual Disciplines

Art History: Chicago style

Business and Economics: MLA or APA style

Communication Studies: APA style

Education: Citations for submissions should follow the appropriate journal style for your sub-discipline. Consult with your instructor.

English: MLA style

Health-related Fields: AMA style

History: Chicago/Turabian style

Kinesiology, Therapeutic Recreation, Health, and Physical Education: APA style

Math: 

• The American Statistical Association Style
• The Mathematical Association of America 
• Association for Computing Machinery

Modern Languages:  MLA style

• Papers should be submitted in the language in which they were written, with a 150-word abstract in English
• Properly format diacritical and punctuation marks

Music: MLA or Chicago style

Sciences: Citations for submissions should follow the appropriate journal style for your sub-discipline. Consult with your instructor.

Social Sciences: APA style