Publication Requirements
Submission of Presentation for Publication
All submitted proposals that are accepted by the Bay Honors Consortium (‘BHC’) Proposal Committee and that are presented at the Bay Honors Research Symposium (‘BHRS’, ‘the Symposium’) are eligible for publication in Think You?!, The Journal of the Bay Honors Research Symposium. The lone exception to this is if the BHRS was not able to be held in a given year due to extenuating circumstances; in this case, the BHC may decide to allow all proposals that were accepted in that year to be allowed for publication without having been presented at the Symposium.
All presenters who wish to submit their presentation for publication in Think You?! must follow the requirements below. If the requirements are not met, the presentation may not be admitted into publication. It is the responsibility of the presenter(s) to meet the requirements exactly as stated in this document. At this time, only essays will be accepted directly into the journal; all videos must be posted on YouTube in accordance to the instructions below. All submissions and required documents must be submitted to the Think You?! Publishing webpage.
Finally, no double publication will be allowed, meaning that a presenter’s work must not already be published elsewhere.
Required Documents
All presenters who wish to submit their work for publication will include the following documents:
- Essay and/or Video Presentation (see requirements below)
- Artwork Entry and Publication Form—completed and signed by both the presenter(s) and the mentor, and scanned as a PDF.
- If there is more than one author for a given presentation, then a signed form must be submitted by all authors; the mentor only has to sign one of the forms, and indicate that there were other authors on the project. See the form for details.Adobe Digital Signature is most preferred method of signature. Scanned copies of signed forms are also acceptable.
- No photographs of forms are allowed. Please use a PDF scanning app, such as Adobe Scan, camScanner, and smallPDF.
- If there is more than one author for a given presentation, then a signed form must be submitted by all authors; the mentor only has to sign one of the forms, and indicate that there were other authors on the project. See the form for details.Adobe Digital Signature is most preferred method of signature. Scanned copies of signed forms are also acceptable.
- Interview Subject Release Form (if necessary)—completed and signed by both the (lead) presenter and any subjects of the still-graphic, video, or audio presentation.
- Adobe Digital Signature is most preferred method of signature. Scanned copies of signed forms are also acceptable.
- No photographs of forms are allowed. Please use a PDF scanning app, such as Adobe Scan, camScanner, and smallPDF.
- Photo of student presenting the paper—either at the Bay Honors Research Symposium or staged in a classroom with similar arrangement. Photo should be no more than 5MB.
Essay Presentations
- All documents must be no more than 5MB.
- All documents are to be submitted in Microsoft Word “.docx” format.
- All documents will be typed with the following formatting:
- Font: Arial or Helvetica, 11 point, black. No serif fonts, nor Calibri, please.
- Page settings: Margins set at ½-inch on all sides (‘narrow’ setting), 8 ½” x 11” page, all text aligned to the left side.
- Title settings: All paper titles will utilize Heading Style 1, with 16-point of the same font, bolded. Subtitles will continue with the same style. Author and mentor bylines will be below, utilizing Heading Style 2, with 16-point of the same font, bolded and italicized. Both title and author/mentor lines will be centered.
- Section and sub-section headings: Both section and sub-section headings will be flush left and in black. Section headings will be in 14-point of the same font, bolded and underlined. Sub-section headings will be in 12-point of the same font, bolded and italicized. It is strongly advised to use the Heading Styles functions, with Heading 3 being used for section titles and Heading 4 used for subtitles.
- Paragraphs: no indentation; line spacing set at 1.15.
- Endnotes and/or footnotes: in standard format for your discipline.
- References and citations: in standard format for your discipline. Any direct citation that is more than four (4) lines of text long should be set off using the Quote setting on the style guide, with ½” indent on both the left and right side, and a reduction of the font size to 10.5-point. The text should be italicized.
For instructions and examples for MLA, APA and Chicago Manual of Style, please see Purdue’s Online Writing Lab.
- All publication submissions are to be one document. If a paper includes pictures, the pictures need to be embedded into the document with a caption included beneath the picture. This caption must be no more than 2 sentences long, and must be written below the image using the ‘Insert Caption’ function. If you can add alt-text, great; if not, that will be done for you.
- The document submitted will have a file name of the following format: FirstNameLastName_ProjectTitlePaper.docx. For example: SarahHarmon_WhatIsLanguage.docx.
Video Presentations
- All video presentations are to be posted onto YouTube. The URL for the video will be sent to the submissions email address for Think You?!, so that it can be linked to our website.
- We strongly recommend that presenters upload their video to YouTube as an Unlisted video. This ensures that the video is only reachable through the link.
- Video submissions will be of professional style and quality. No shaky videos or videos with faulty video or audio will be accepted.
- The video presentation should include an introduction, either verbally stated at the beginning or as a title slide at the beginning of your video.
- The video presentation will go under review by the editor of Think You?! If the content is not deemed acceptable, it will not be linked to the Think You?! website.
Contact Information
If there are questions or comments about Think You?!, submissions or any other aspect of these projects, please contact the Editor, Dr. Sarah Harmon.
- Email: harmons@smccd.edu
- Address: Dr. Sarah Harmon, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Cañada College, 4200 Farm Hill Boulevard, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Office hours: Please schedule through my Calendly scheduler