Submissions to KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies must be uploaded on this website. Authors can track their submissions and communicate with the editorial team through the online journal management system. We do our best to move submissions through review and editing as quickly as possible, but please note that KULA has a very small editorial team, with most of the work done by one of the co-editors-in-chief, so this process may take longer than at journals with larger editorial teams. If you have any issues or questions about submitting your work, please reach out at kulajournal@uvic.ca.
Submissions cannot have been previously published nor be under consideration at another journal, but we welcome submissions of papers that have been loaded onto preprint servers as long as authors retain copyright to the preprint and any works developed from it. When you submit to KULA, you should declare that a preprint is available and provide the link to the preprint. If your submission is published, please update the information associated with the preprint to indicate that the final version has been published in KULA and link to the final published version using the assigned DOI. Contributors are also welcome to deposit versions of their work in institutional or other repositories.
We reserve the right to reject submissions that do not demonstrate respect and sensitivity in addressing subjects that pose a risk of harm to marginalized communities. We also reserve the right to remove articles after publication if we learn that an author has expressed discriminatory views that conflict with our commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization, and reconciliation.
Contributors are free to decide what constitutes authorship for their submissions. We recognize that much knowledge is social and community-based and that scholarship is often a collective activity. Contributors listed, therefore, might include collaborators who did not necessarily contribute to the writing of the manuscript but who were co-creators in other valuable ways (e.g., student research assistants, community partners, Elders and Knowledge Keepers). We also do not expect authors’ names to be listed in terms of ranked authorship. We invite authors to state explicitly in their submission how each author contributed to the work using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CrediT).
However, all contributors listed must have agreed to publish the manuscript and given approval to have their names appear on it. The corresponding author is the primary contact for the editorial team and is responsible for ensuring that all contributors have agreed to be listed as co-authors on the submission. The corresponding author is also responsible for keeping their collaborators updated on developments during review, editing, and production.
Submissions should be double spaced and use a 12-point font. Please format your submission with elements in the following order:
*Please number all pages.
For research articles, methods articles, commentaries, and teaching reflections, the editors will remove identifying information such as your name, affiliation, acknowledgements, etc. for anonymous peer review. If you refer to or cite your own work in your submission, please try to do so in the third person. For more information about peer review, please see our page on Peer Review.
Contributors are responsible for obtaining necessary permissions for material included in their work. Where relevant, please include statements that permissions were secured or identifying the license under which the work is allowed to be reproduced.
Please note that we are a very small editorial team, so while we try to put submissions through review and editing as expediently as possible, we are grateful for contributors’ patience if we encounter delays.
Authors grant KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies the right of first publication of their work but retain copyright, with their work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). Under that license, others may share the work if they acknowledge the work’s authorship and initial publication in KULA.
Authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to a repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies.
Authors grant permission for their work to be indexed in full text form in commercial indexes and non-commercial indexes.
Contributors will always have the opportunity to approve the final copyedited version of their submission and its metadata before it goes to typesetting. They will also be asked to sign off on the proofs of their submission once it has been typeset. Requests for minor changes post-publication can be accommodated in some cases but should not be for stylistic reasons. Major changes that would require a submission to be re-typeset cannot be accommodated.
Please contact kulajournal@uvic.ca if you believe that an article requires a correction.
KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies is published by the University of Victoria Libraries. We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
