Publishing On This Site

If you have been invited you publish on this site (e.g., an ENVS honors thesis), please follow these steps.

1. Preparing your paper
   • First, make sure your paper has been carefully copyedited and checked for spelling and grammar mistakes. We will not copyedit your paper, so any mistakes will persist in the published version.
   • Next, do ensure your paper does not include copyright violations. This is something your ENVS instructor has likely discussed with you already; if questions, ask them! In general, utilization of materials produced by someone else (e.g., images) in a paper such as a thesis falls under fair use provisions, and thus does not violate copyright; but this is something you must always be aware of and responsible for. If you’d like to explore details, see here for images (which as “exhibits” would fall under fair use), and here and here more generally for sample guidelines designed for graduate students publishing theses.
   • Save your paper in Microsoft Word format. There are no specific formatting requirements (e.g., font style, spacing, or citations) other than what your instructor has required, with one exception: the ENVX template uses the header and footer area, so please remove your current header and footer if you have one. (Don’t worry about footnotes; they will go right above the footer.)
2. Creating a new ENVX publication from template
   • Download this current version of the ENVX Microsoft Word publication template. Double click to open it (it should say e.g. Document1 at top; make sure you’re not editing the original template!). This is the ENVX publication you will edit below.
   • Open your paper (in Word). Soon, you will select all, copy, and paste into the new blank document as per instructions below.
3. Editing the ENVX publication
   • Open the header (View > Header and Footer) and replace (a) “Abbreviated Title in Headline Style Capitalization” with your actual title (do not exceed one line overall with the header), and (b) “Firstname Lastname” with your name (middle initial/name optional as desired). Do not change the page number!: this is an automatic field that we will finalize once all publications for a volume have been collected. Also, make sure to maintain the original template formatting: you can do this by choosing Edit > Paste Special… and pasting the raw text of your title and name.
   • At the top of the first page, replace (a) “Full Title in Headline Style Capitalization” with your full title, (b) “Originally published as…” text as needed (don’t replace ENVS contact info; you will not reveal your contact info anywhere here), (c) “Suggested citation” with your details (except for page numbers, which we will finalize), (d) “Firstname Lastname” with your name as above, and (e) “Abstract goes here” with your abstract, again making sure to maintain the original template formatting for all these elements.
   • Now replace “Remainder of text goes here” with the contents of your paper. If your paper starts with preliminary material such as a table of contents, lists of figures, etc., insert a page break and start this at the top of the second page. If your paper starts right off with the text, go ahead and place this immediately below the horizontal line under the abstract.
   • You do not need to reformat your paper style to match the standard information on the first page or the header/footer. It’s okay, for instance, if your publication uses a different font than the template font, so long as the styling of the header, footer, and standard information on the first page is maintained.
   • Go through the entire publication and check to make sure that page breaks work. You may need to introduce new page breaks as required. Remember that you will accept full responsibility for the content and formatting of your publication!
4. Submitting the publication
   • Simply email the finalized Word document to us. We will edit page numbers to make them unique per volume, save your file in PDF format, upload it to the ENVX site, and embed your publication in a brief post introducing you and your publication.
   • If you would like to cite your publication, note the volume and issue (month) in the footer, and page numbers in the header; you may optionally add the URL of the post to which it is attached. A sample citation in Chicago author-date format would be: Lastname, Firstname. 2017. “Full Title in Headline Style Capitalization.” ENVX: Environment Across Boundaries 1 (May): nn–nn [page numbers to be finalized by editors]. /2017/05/15/full-title-in-headline-style-capitalization/.