St Catherine’s Academic Review (SCAR)

St Catherine’s Academic Review (SCAR) is a student led, interdisciplinary journal publishing book reviews, research articles, and essays in the mathematical, physical, and life sciences (MPLS), social science, and humanities.

Our aim is to highlight the academic excellence and innovation available from the members of St Catherine’s College, and share it on an open access, peer reviewed platform. As such, all our published articles are freely available online, and articles are published continually as they are reviewed and accepted.

For members or alumni of St Catz interested in publishing an article with us, please see our guidelines page for more details or submit an abstract below.

We are now accepting submissions from members of St. Catherine's College for articles from any academic discipline to be published in our second issue. Articles should be original research or shortened versions of already-published works (extended abstracts) are welcome. The deadline for submissions is Sunday 24 March 2024. Papers must be formatted according to the style guide of the relevant section. They must be no longer than 15 pages including references. Papers will be evaluated by the relevant section editors.

In the case of extended abstracts and secondary publications, it will be the author’s responsibility to ensure that they hold the rights to re-publish their work in SCAR. Similarly, the author will be entirely responsible for their adherence to ethical and editorial guidelines.

Up to five papers will be accepted per section and authors will be notified no later than Sunday 21 April 2024. Should a submission be accepted, an open peer review process will commence. The author will be allowed to suggest up to three peer-reviewers, and asked to submit a statement disclosing any conflict of interest. In the case that a submission is not accepted, authors are welcome to re-submit in the following year. Only one single-authored article can be submitted per author.

Please keep in mind that the acceptance of a paper does not guarantee that it will be published. A paper’s publication is contingent on the outcome of the peer review process. Should the outcome be positive, authors will be given until Saturday 19 October 2024, to implement any suggested changes and submit a final version of their work. Papers will then move to the copy-editing and production stage. We expect to publish the second issue of SCAR by Saturday 7 December 2024.

SCAR accepts articles from both current members and alumni of the college (for multi-author papers, only one of the authors must have a connection with the college). Each section follows a different style for references and grammar.

MPLS

For articles belonging to the MPLS (Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences) section, authors are asked to follow the Numerical style. For any enquiries, send us an email.

Social Sciences

For articles belonging to the Social Sciences section, authors are asked to follow the APA style. For any enquiries, send us an email.

Humanities

For articles belonging to the Humanities section, authors are asked to follow the MLA style. For any enquiries, send us an email.

Book Reviews

As book reviews are not expected to be references-heavy, no specific style is required. Please note that there is a separate MS Word template for book reviews. For any enquiries, send us an email.

We strongly prefer that articles be sent in LaTeX format. However, we also provide an MS Word template. Both templates can be found below. Articles should not exceed 15 pages including references. If your article includes any kind of tables, they should be created in editable form within the file and not included as image files. If your article features pictures, you should both include them within the file and send the files separately to your assigned editor. We also ask you to use the UK standard spelling.