The Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal (SURJ) is now accepting manuscript submissions for the Spring 2010 issue. SURJ is an interdisciplinary journal published annually that seeks to provoke curiosity and intellectual exploration across both the Stanford community and at leading institutions nationwide. Papers should be 1500-2500 words in length and written for a very well-educated general audience. Highly technical manuscripts may be submitted for consideration but may need to be thoroughly edited if selected for publication. The deadline for submission is February 9, 2010.

Note: Please make sure you fill out and submit an Author Agreement Form along with your paper. Click the link below to download:
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• Social Sciences Specific Guidelines
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1. Submit papers via e-mail to surj0910@gmail.com. SURJ Editorial Staff will then confirm receipt, request hard copies of your paper, and a signed copy of the Author Agreement Form.
   
2. Please include an abstract (approx. 150-200 words in length) with your research.
3. Length should be no longer than 2500 words (approx 10 typed double-spaced pages). Shorter papers are welcome. However, we are open to considering papers over the 10-page limit should there be difficulty in shortening them. Contact one of the Editors-in-Chief beforehand should this be an issue.
4. We strongly encourage submission of graphs, illustrations, etc that are applicable to your research. These count toward the 10-page limit only in the Humanities.
5. Acceptable submissions do not necessarily have to be summaries of ongoing or past research projects. We also accept research-oriented papers from Stanford classes.
6. Please make sure pages are numbered.
7. Please make sure your name ONLY appears on the front page of the paper. This will help in the name-blind selection process.
8. Please submit your paper in 1.5- or double-spaced format.

1. End references should be numbered consecutively in the order they appear in the article. In text, identify reference with superscript number-not parentheses.
2. Do not include personal communications or unpublished work in reference list; they should appear in parentheses in text. However, if something has been accepted by a publisher but not yet published, you can include in the reference list with (in press) at the very end of citation.
3. Include the names of all authors when there are three or fewer; if more than three, list the first three only followed by "et al." No comma preceding.
4. Invert author's names, using first name initials, no commas or periods.
   Skipper JCA, Kittleson DJ, Hendrickson RC et al.
5. Abbreviate journal names (according to Index Medicus) without periods and without italics.
   J Immunol or Natl Acad Sci USA or J Exp Med or Blood or Cancer Res, etc.
6. Arrangement of journal references is as follows: Author(s). Article title/description. Journal name and year; Volume number:page range.
   (Please note punctuation: commas between authors-no "and," no comma between journal name and its year, semicolon after year, colon after volume number with no space to page range, which takes an en dash [one larger than a hyphen].)
   Skipper JCA, Kittlesen DJ, Hendrickson RC et al. Shared epitopes for HLA-A3 restricted melanoma reactive human CTL include a naturally processed epitope from Pmel-17/gp100. J Immunol 1996; 157:527-534.
7. When referencing books, please use the following information/order, again note punctuation: Author's name. Book title. City of publisher: Name of publisher, year:page range.
   Humelsine JM. The Eleventh Gene. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1999:74-83.
8. When referencing chapters of a book, use the following: Author's name. Chapter title. In: Book editor's name(s), ed(s). Title of book (edition number if any). City of publisher: Name of publisher, year:page range.
   Humelsine JM. Isolation of Single-Chain Fv in Antibody Binding Site. In: Sampson T, Heffernan M, eds. The Eleventh Gene. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1999:9-17.

1. Identify references with superscript number at the end of cited sentence.
2. When citing something not included in the reference list, such as a personal communication or unpublished document, use parentheses at end of sentence.
   The survey research lacked both reliability and validity (Roberts B, unpublished dissertation, 2000).
   The biased results wreaked havoc (Anderson K, e-mail communication, August 17, 2000).
3. When cross-referencing material, also use parentheses: (See Table 3.) or (For more information, see pp. 31-42.)

1. Number style differs between regular text and scientific/math information. For writing generally in the article, spell out numbers 1-9, use numerical thereafter. Always spell out a number that begins a sentence.
2. Always use numerical for all measurements, years, ages, dates, percentages

1. Periods and commas go inside quotes always; colons and semicolons outside quotes.
   "The world is asunder," Professor Jacks said.
   "The world is asunder": a defeatist remark.
2. Use series comma with three or more items in list.
   Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Baker, and Mary Gordon are my favorite writers.
3. Period goes inside parentheses if it's a separate complete sentence; outside parens if information is part of larger sentence.
   Prague's baroque charm is fading (there's a Dunkin Donuts in Wenscelas Square).
   Prague's baroque charm is fading. (See Figure 11.)
4. Surnames ending in "s" take an extra apostrophe "s" when possessive.
   The Jones's new home; Ted and Mary Simons-the Simons's dog.
   Todd and Kim Abbott-the Abbotts' new home; the computers' modems.
5. Use a semicolon for a related complete sentence, which is always lowercased. Use a colon as a defining statement or list. Capitalize after a colon if it is a complete sentence, lowercase if it's a listing.
   The mapping of the Genome holds promise for future cures; it could also hold harm in the wrong hands.
   To map all the genes in the human body, scientists employed three basic techniques: dissection, isolation, and reconfiguration.
   There is still much research to be done: Scientists have to determine which genes are related to which diseases.