SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Eligibility

Queens undergraduate students are eligible to submit papers up to a year after their graduation. Papers with authors outside of Queens will need to contact quest@queens.edu. Students will need to have a faculty mentor as part of their submission. Students are able to submit up to two papers. Papers already submitted in other journals will not be accepted.  

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The Quest Journal accepts original papers of qualitative, quantitative, and rhetorical research. Articles need a clearly identified methodology from which they are working and follow the submission guidelines listed below. Literature reviews that contain meta-analysis with a methodological approach are the only type of reviews that are eligible. 

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Format

• APA Format 7th Edition ​​​

  • ​Citations included

  • Calibri, 12-point font 

  • Double spaced​

  • One-inch margins 

  • Page numbers and last name in the top right margin 

• PDF File Format 

• Word limit up to 5,000  

• Graphs, figures, images, and tables must be high-quality files 

• Emphasized words should be italicized not bolded 

• No hyperlinks

 

Sections

• Cover page

  • Page Number

  • Title of Paper

  • Name

  • Department, University Affiliation

  • Class year

  • Faculty Mentor

• Abstract

  • 250 words or fewer 

  • At least 3 key words 

• Introduction  

• Methods *

• Results/Discussion *

• Conclusion

• Acknowledgements

• References

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* These sections in the body of the paper may follow the conventional genre rules for the discipline of the paper. 

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All submissions should be the authors original work and produced without the usage of Large Language Model generative AI tools. 

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