Submission guidelines

The review process

The Human Prospect is a magazine-style journal. It publishes a broad range of content that includes features as well as academic-quality articles and book excerpts.

Submissions should be generally consistent with the mission of the Institute for Science and Human Values (ISHV), available on the ISHV Web site.

Your submission will be reviewed by the managing editor. If the managing editor finds your article to meet the minimal criteria it will be forwarded on for review by an associate editor. The associate editor may be given several weeks to conduct a review. Then the managing editor considers the associate editor’s feedback and makes a recommendation to the editor regarding publication. Submissions may be accepted and edited for publication, returned for major changes, or deemed unsuitable for publication at that time.

Where to send your manuscript

Articles must be submitted by electronic mail (preferably as an attached word processing or text document) to humanprospect@gmail.com.

Style

All text should be single-spaced in an easily readable font such as Times New Roman. Use American English spelling, grammar and punctuation. Style should follow The Associated Press Stylebook. Be concise. Avoid the passive voice and redundancy. Avoid generic terms and superlatives such as interesting or great.

In general, use direct statements and avoid indirect statements. For example,

Instead of: It should be pointed out that formal education is essential to early childhood development...

Use: Formal education is essential to early childhood development...

Instead of: It would be good to keep in mind that Sagan considered himself a deeply spiritual person...

Use: Sagan considered himself a deeply spiritual person...

Instead of: As we know, Carter was an unpopular president...

Use: Carter was an unpopular president...

If your submission includes citations, format them according to The Chicago Manual of Style. Use endnotes, not footnotes or in-text citations. Do not include a bibliography or works cited section unless you need to acknowledge sources that are not cited directly in the endnotes.

For quotations longer than 100 words, use a right-and-left indented block quotation format.

Titles, headlines, taglines, and captions may be changed or removed during the editing process. Use section titles in bold to indicate section breaks.