Frequently Asked Questions

Ideally, we can streamline the process to be completed within a few months of submission:

• Editor connects your manuscript to faculty/graduate reviewers – 3 weeks
• Reviewers submit round 1 review comments – 2 weeks
• Authors submit round 1 revisions – 2 weeks
• Reviewers submit round 2 review comments – 2 weeks
• Authors submit round 2 revisions – 2 weeks
• Editors send copyedited manuscripts to author – 2 weeks
• Authors submit copyedited revisions – 2 weeks
• Editors send typesetted manuscript to author – 2 weeks
• Authors confirm typesetted manuscript – 2 weeks
• Manuscript is added to the next available publication – varies in time

However, this is not a strict guide. We understand reviewers and authors may require more time to complete their revisions and address necessary comments, which may include an extra round of review. Authors are encouraged to submit revisions on time and we thank you for your patience if your manuscript requires more review or extra time for copyediting and typesetting.

If you require more time for your review or revision, we are flexible to an extension, please email your corresponding editor!

Copyediting: Second stage in the review process where the editorial team helps edit the manuscript for reading clarity. CJUR is multidisciplinary, so our aim is to provide an external perspective on whether certain sections should be reworded or clarified.

Typesetting: Third and last stage in the review process where the editorial team formats the manuscript to be publication ready. This is the version available for readers found under Articles tab.

Yes, if there you are able to obtain faculty endorsement and you meet all of our eligibility criteria.

In the submission form we require the signature of at least 1 faculty member in your relevant discipline that supports your publication. This means that you have asked an expert in the field to thoroughly review your manuscript and offer feedback to ensure accuracy, clarity, and overall quality. This supervisor does not necessarily need to be listed as an author for the manuscript.

Faculty endorsements may include professors or principal investigators, but excludes graduate students.

We only accept submissions from authors who have graduated in the current or previous academic calendar year. We are currently in the 2024/2025 academic year.

• If you graduated in the 2022/2023 academic year or earlier, unfortunately you are no longer eligible to submit to CJUR
• If you graduated in the 2023/2024 academic year, you are eligible to submit to CJUR

The posting, reproduction, transmission or other distribution or use of the article submitted or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption (see below) or by written agreement of the Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research, requires credit to Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research as copyright holder (e.g., Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research © 2024).

The failure of the Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between the Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.

The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission from the Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:

1. Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author.
2. Storage and back-up of the article on the author’s computer(s) and digital media (e.g., external hard drives, back-up servers, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s);
3. Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;
4. Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)’s place of employment (e.g., a biochemistry student at the University of British Columbia can have her article appear in the University British Columbia’s Department of Biochemistry online publication series)