All submissions to Inquiry should be written for readers in the entire University community as well as the general public. For authors in the sciences, Scientific American is a good model for level and style of writing; for the arts and humanities, Atlantic Monthly provides a similar model.
All drafts and manuscripts are to be submitted as Microsoft Word documents, double-spaced, in standard 12-point font and with pages numbered. Images such as graphs, tables or photographs are to be submitted as separate image files, such as JPEG (.jpg) files. Video and audio clips may be included as zipped (.zip) files, but must not exceed five megabytes in size.
Following the text of the article or commentary, the author should briefly acknowledge all help or support, including financial, that he/she received while carrying out and writing up the research project.
For in-text citations and references, authors should use the parenthetical documentation style appropriate to their discipline: APA, MLA, or Chicago (or ASA). (No superscripts, please.) However, all textual footnotes, if needed, should be incorporated into the body of the article. The list of references (called "References"), which follows the acknowledgment, should be to only those cited in the article. If you have questions, please ask the Inquiry staff for help.
The final form of research articles and commentaries should follow this format:
- Title—useful and interesting
- Name(s) of author(s)—as you want it/them to appear
- Text—with subject headings of main sections (when needed)
- Acknowledgment—of all help or support, including financial, you received in doing and writing up your project, especially from your mentor(s)
- References—to sources cited in your text using the style appropriate to your discipline
