Submission Guidelines

Who can submit to Majāl?

Any student enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar can submit their work. Alumni may submit for up to 3 years following graduation. Co-authors may be enrolled on any Carnegie Mellon campus, and faculty may co-author with students. Faculty may not appear as first author.  

What can I submit?

Majāl welcomes submissions in three categories:

  1. Formal student research: These submissions may come from student theses, Meeting of the Minds projects, capstones, collaborative projects with faculty, independent studies, individual student research with a faculty mentor, or another non-course context. These submissions are reviewed according to their discipline with a focus on methods and contribution. 
  2. Course-based work: These submissions may come from a wide variety of courses and are intended to showcase the breadth of scholarly learning happening across the CMU-Q campus. Majāl consults with the assigning faculty member to understand the goals of the assignment, and accordingly the editorial team sends out the assignment for reviews with appropriate instructions. 
  3. Student-faculty co-authored collaborations: These submissions may emerge from research or other projects co-authored by students and faculty. Note that students must lead the publication process and must appear as first authors.  These submissions are reviewed according to their discipline with a focus on methods and contribution. 

When do I submit?

Majāl accepts submission on a rolling basis throughout the year. Please refer to our homepage news and announcements for issue-specific deadlines.

How do I submit?

  1. Create a log-in using your Andrew email for the Janeway Publishing Platform. The account registration process will generate a confirmation email with a link that you will need to click to activate your account before you can log in. If this email does not appear in your in-box, please check your spam folder.
  2. Log into the Majāl journal site and begin a new submission through the Janeway manuscript management system. You will provide your contact details, information about your submission, and ultimately submit your manuscript.
  3. We request that you submit your manuscript as a MS Word document (DOC or DOCX); however, you may also submit TXT or ODX files. Note that we will anonymize your paper by removing your name and any identifying information from your manuscript file before sending it for review.
  4. Feel free to choose any copyright option, as we will review options with authors during the publication process and you can change your selection later. 
  5. Students will have to attest that their work is original, and they will have to identify funding sources (if any) for their research.

What happens after I submit?

The review and mentoring process is slightly different for each submission type.

In short, the editorial team will confirm the submission, assign a Majāl mentor to the student, develop a "Review and Mentor plan," and support the author through a review and revision process. Students will revise based on expert reviews and editorial board feedback, often several times. Upon completion of the review and revision process, manuscripts may be accepted formally by the editorial team and published in the next issue.

For further detail, please see Review Processes.