Submissions
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 work is the creation of the author(s) listed. The work of others (e.g. quotations, paraphrasing) has been referenced according to academic practice at La Trobe University.
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The submission DOES NOT contain images created by and copyrighted by others.
Any images included have written permission to republish, or come with a Creative Commons licence.
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The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF file format (text submissions).
Cover art: The submission file is in JPEG format.
Supplementary image files will be uploaded as JPEG files (upload to supplementary files option).
- The text is in Australian English and sources are referenced using the Author (Date) method (also known as Harvard method), as outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- Contribution of this assessment piece has been discussed with the lecturer participating in the journal project (or has been discussed with the Journal Editor).
American Literature
This section is curated by Sofia AhlbergUnderstanding Youth
Curated by Paulina BillettCover images
Artowrk submitted for consideration for Snapshot covers will be selected according to relevance to the theme of the journal edition. Selection is at the discretion of the editor(s).
Artwork must:
- be uploaded into the online journal system (OJS) in JPEG format
- be medium-to-high resolution.
Artwork contributors will be required to set their work in the Snapshot cover template (in Photoshop), ensuring consistency of style for title design (template provided by editor after selection decision is made). Contributors will also be required to agree to the copyright conditions of the journal.
Test section
This section is for the purpose of testing workflow only. NO material in this section should be published.Copyright Notice
Submission terms
Words in bold are explained in the 'further information' section.
Snapshot is an open access journal published by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University.
By submitting your work you agree to the following submission terms. As outlined in Author Guidelines, publication is at the discretion of the editors.
Terms
1. You grant La Trobe University a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to publish, reproduce and communicate the work in Snapshot, in any form associated with the reproduction or communication of Snapshot, and to modify the work with your approval. Subject to paragraph 6 (below), this licence includes the right for La Trobe University to make the work available to others under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
2. Subject to paragraph 6, you assert your right to be acknowledged as the original author of the work.
3. If you publish the work elsewhere, you agree to acknowledge in that publication that the work was first published in Snapshot.
4. You warrant to La Trobe University that:
- the work is original (your own work) and that La Trobe University's use of the work as outlined in these terms and conditions will not infringe any third-party rights; and
- the work is not defamatory.
5. You understand that these terms are a binding legal agreement, and you have either obtained independent legal advice prior to agreeing to these terms or have chosen not to obtain independent legal advice. You confirm that you have agreed to these terms of your own free will.
6. If requested by you:
- La Trobe University will make the work available to others under a Creative Commons Attribution No-Derivatives 4.0 licence instead of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; and/or
- La Trobe University will publish your work anonymously.
Please include this request in the ‘Comments for the Editor' box below.
Further information
Open access means that:
- Snapshot is available for free to anybody;
- Snapshot's content can be shared, distributed, printed and modified according to the Creative Commons Attribution licence conditions;
- Authors retain copyright in their work;
- Authors are not paid for their contributions, nor are they required to pay to be published; and
- Journal content is housed on La Trobe University's servers, as facilitated by the library.
A non-exclusive licence means that you can enter into a non-exclusive arrangement with another publisher to publish the work, but you cannot enter into an exclusive arrangement with another publisher to publish the work.
The work means any written work, images or other material provided by you to Snapshot.
The terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence are further described on the Creative Commons website. However some key points are:
- anybody can share the work, without seeking permission from you; and
- anybody can adapt the work before sharing it, but they must acknowledge that you were the original author, and note what changes they made.
The terms of the Creative Commons Attribution No-Derivatives 4.0 licence are further described on the Creative Commons website. However the key difference between it and the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence is that it restricts others from making changes to your work and then sharing it.
The warranty given by you that no third-party rights will be infringed means that you confirm that you have not plagiarised somebody else's work (reproduced somebody else's words, ideas or findings, or presented them as your own without acknowledging them). Plagiarism includes:
- direct copying or paraphrasing from somebody else's work without acknowledging the source;
- using facts, information and ideas derived from a source without acknowledgement; and
- producing work in collaboration with other people without acknowledging their input.
The warranty given by you that the work is not defamatory means that you confirm that the work does not contain material about a person that lowers the person's reputation in the eyes of ordinary reasonable members of the community.
For further information about these terms or how to obtain independent legal advice please contact La Trobe University's Student Union Student Legal Service.
