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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not previously been published nor is under consideration with another journal.
  • The submission is in an appropriate file format
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is in correct format (as defined by author guidelines)
  • The text adheres to stylistic and bibliographic requirements (as defined by author guidelines)
  • Copyright clearance has been obtained for any 3rd Party content included in submission (this is a mandatory requirement)
  • The project supervisor has approved the submission, review and eventual publication of this paper.
  • If applicable, the paper is an essay that was previously submitted as part of assessed course work at LJMU.
  • The paper is not plagiarised or generated by AI.

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts from any discipline, faculty or school, the only criterion being that research was conducted at LJMU. The LJMU INSPIRE Journal will not accept any manuscript for research conducted outside of LJMU.

The LJMU INSPIRE Journal is a yearly publication. Once articles have passed the peer review and copy-editing stages, they will be published online. Below is a list of the types of publications the LJMU INSPIRE Journal accepts:

  • Original Articles 
  • Review Articles 
  • Conference reviews 
  • Exhibition reviews and critiques 
  • Interviews 
  • Book reviews 

Please read the the full Author Guidelines before submitting your paper. 

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