Submission Guidelines

  • Please Register (create a username & password) on the site to submit your work.
  • When you register:  For "Affiliation" you can list University of Colorado Boulder and/or a research lab with which you are affiliated.
  • Please Log in to submit additional work after you register

General Submission Requirements:

  • Remove all personal information from submissions, including name, course name, professor name, etc.
  • Essays, papers, and thesis submissions must include proper citation format (e.g. MLA, APA, or Chicago), in the form of a bibliography or works cited page, footnotes, and/or in-text citations, as appropriate to the work. On the submission form, please indicate what citation format you are using.
  • Submissions of any length are accepted.  Works of maximum length of 2500 words will be included in the print version of the Honors Journal.  Longer works submitted may be displayed in full in the journal's digital edition (http://www.colorado.edu/honorsjournal/) with only an abstract or short excerpt in the print edition.
  • All text submissions (papers, essays, or poems) should be submitted as a Mircosoft Word document (.doc or .docx), not a pdf.
  • Only submit your own work (do not submit someone else's work on their behalf).
  • Do not submit any work for which someone else holds the copyright (e.g. images, text, music, video clips, etc.).
  • Please direct any questions to honors.journal@colorado.edu.

Art Submission Requirements:

  • Please submit all art images as a .jpeg file
  • Artwork in which the name cannot be removed will be excluded from the requirement to remove all personal information from the piece
  • Submissions must be high-resolution (at least 300 DPI)
  • When prompted by the "Abstract" box on the submission form, please provide: art or media type of the submitted piece, dimensions (height x width x depth in inches) of the artwork, an Artist's Statement, and note if your work is part of a series.

Open Media (e.g. digital art, music or audio, video, dance, documentaries, film, musical or theatrical or dance performances, set design, advertising, and art produced through other means) Submission Requirements:

  • Please submit all image-based art as a .jpeg file
  • Artwork in which the name cannot be removed will be excluded from the requirement to remove all personal information from the piece
  • Submissions must be high-resolution (at least 300 DPI)
  • If you have any questions about submitting film or other forms of open media, please contact honors.journal@colorado.edu.
  • When prompted by the "Abstract" box on the submission form, please provide: art or media type of the submitted piece, dimensions (height x width x depth in inches) of the artwork, an Artist's Statement, and note if your work is part of a series.
     

*Note – all physical copies of media submissions must be free of personal information as well. In the case of DVDs, CDs, or USB drives, please include a cover letter with your personal information attached. Please include the submission title somewhere on the DVD, CD, or USB drive.