How to Submit to the SRJ: Format & Content
Before submitting by clicking “Submit Now” and creating your BePress account, please ensure compliance with our scope, content guidelines for submission type, and style guide found on this page, as well as our policies. Submissions that do not meet the style guide or content guidelines will be returned immediately to authors for corrections.
Scope, or “What do we publish?”
SRJ welcomes submissions of original research (primary and secondary), critical essays, academic book reviews, and evidence summaries covering theory, policy, application, or practice which advance intellectual inquiry in the field.
Any current graduate student can submit work. And, if you submit a piece while still in school, you can keep working with us on your submission even after you graduate!
Research manuscripts
Research manuscripts should investigate an original idea, set of ideas, or circumstance, and may be empirical, critical, or theoretical in nature.
Here is an example research manuscript that was published in the SRJ
Book reviews
Book reviews should address scholarly works published within the last three years that represent current research in LIS, archival studies, or records management.
Reviews should identify the core question of the work, summarize the answer posited by the author, and contextualize the work within current academic research or practice. View a list of suggested titles for review here. This is not an exhaustive list; authors are free to review any title that falls within the journal’s scope.
Here is an example book review that was published in the SRJ
Evidence summaries
Evidence summaries should follow the specific format as identified by the editorial team via Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP), and concisely discuss a current piece of research.
Here is an example of an evidence summary that was published with the SRJ