Submit Your Work to Keystone

To submit a manuscript to be considered for publication by Keystone Journal, send an email to Chief Managing Editor Lawrence Eppard (at leeppard@ship.edu) with the following:

• Subject of email:

  • “[Corresponding author’s last name] Keystone Journal Submission”

• Body of email:

  • The title of your manuscript.

  • Your manuscript’s abstract.

  • The names and email addresses of all contributing authors. Please indicate which person is the corresponding author.

• Email file attachment:

  • Your manuscript as a Microsoft Word file. Make sure to follow our submission guidelines when completing your manuscript.

An email will be sent to the corresponding author upon receipt of their submission. The Managing Editors will send a second email within 45 days of submission to provide the decision regarding the suitability of the manuscript for publication in KJ. Submissions can be accepted without revisions, invited to revise and resubmit, or rejected. If revisions are necessary these must be completed within 30 days of receipt of KJ’s decision and a letter accompanying the revised manuscript must address the revisions made.

We publish original manuscripts as well as material that has been published elsewhere first. If a manuscript has already been published elsewhere, however, the author must state this at the time of submission, have already taken all necessary steps to avoid copyright violations, and provide all of the appropriate permissions and proof to KJ. Keystone Journal is not responsible for any copyright violations—it is solely the author’s responsibility to prevent possible copyright conflicts.

If human subjects or living animals were used in the research, the research protocol must have been approved by the Institutional Review Board or Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at your respective institution.

KJ is published under a Creative Commons-Attribution-Noncommercial license and the authors retain the copyright. Authors do not need to seek KJ’s permission to reprint their own KJ articles elsewhere since they own the copyright.