How to Submit
- Please submit your review online using OJS and the submission URL that was included in your invitation to review.
When assessing a manuscript, please use the following categories:
1. OBJECTIVES AND MAIN ARGUMENTS
Is the subject of the manuscript within the scope of the journal? Does the title clearly and sufficiently reflect its content? What are the manuscript’s objectives and main arguments? What larger conceptual or theoretical points does it make? Is this a new and original contribution? Are the interpretations and conclusions sound and justified by the data? What does the manuscript add to our understanding of British Columbia?
2. SOUNDNESS OF SCHOLARSHIP AND METHODOLOGY
How well is the manuscript researched, argued, and organized? Are the illustrations and tables necessary and acceptable? Are the references adequate and are they all necessary?
3. SIGNIFICANCE
How important is it that this manuscript be published? How significant is its contribution to understanding aspects of British Columbia?
4. AUDIENCE
Who is the audience for this piece? Will it attract broad and/or potentially new audiences to BC Studies? Is likely to appeal to non-academic listeners/readers?
5. GENERAL JUDGMENT
Do you have any suggestions for improving the manuscript? How accessible is it to readers? Do you suggest any additions or amendments (words, phrases) or an introductory statement that would increase the value of this paper? Do you suggest any reductions to the paper, or deletions of any parts? Would the manuscript be more effective if reconceptualized, reorganized, shortened, or tightened up? Please be as specific as possible.
*If you would also like to make comments on the manuscript itself, please upload the annotated manuscript to OJS along with your review.
6. RECOMMENDATION
Please let us know whether, in your best judgment, the manuscript should be:
Accept Submission,
Revisions Required,
Resubmit for Review,
Resubmit Elsewhere, or
Decline Submission