Call for Artwork
Deadline: May 31st, 2023
Commissioning Fee: $200 (to be split among artists)
For the forthcoming edition of Landmarks, we are looking for visual and graphic submissions to be featured on our cover and throughout the publication. This is an opportunity to share your (fully credited) work with your peers, and to think creatively about some the research topics featured in the journal, including:
- The impacts of global food production on urban development in China
- Corn and Agribusiness in Guatemala
- Decolonial mapping and Indigenous sovereignty in North America
- Private property and new models of land relations
- Regimes of dispossession in Guatemala and the Philippines
- New urbanism and suburban fantasy in Florida
- Inclusionary Zoning in Toronto
- The political economy of Milkweed
- Forest Carb Stocks in the Koffler Reserve
- Migrant activist slogans and the politics of listening
In previous issues, we have included photos and illustrations on our covers. This year, we would like to expand the range of visual materials on the cover and throughout the journal, so we encourage artwork submissions that can expand the mandate of Landmarks and showcase the range of creative thinking in the human and physical geographies.
Please send us your original photos, illustrations, painting, collages, video stills, digital / graphic work and any other analogue / digital visual interpretations of the themes above by May 31st, 2023.
Send your submission by email to landmarks.journal@gmail.com as a .jpg or pdf (7.25” x 9.25”) . In the body of your message, you may include a few written points describing your piece and how it connects to the topics listed. If you would like to submit an illustration or visual for a specific paper, please let us know from the selection above and we will send the paper for your reference. Artwork selections will be notified in early June as production begins.
Please send any questions/inquiries to landmarks.journal@gmail.com.
We look forward to reviewing your submissions!
Call for Papers [closed]
Deadline: February 17, 2023
The Toronto Undergraduate Geography Society (TUGS) is excited to announce our call for paper submissions for the eighth annual edition of Landmarks: The Journal of Undergraduate Geography.
Landmarks is a peer-reviewed publication featuring some of the outstanding work by our undergraduate students across four streams of
geography: Human, Physical, Environmental, and Geographic Information Systems.
This is a terrific opportunity to share your work and gain experience with the process of editing for publication. Additionally, it will allow people from different research areas to read and gain exposure to your work.
To check out previous issues, visit https://landmarksjournal.geog.utoronto.ca (the website will be updated shortly!).
If you are interested in submitting, please review the following criteria before sending your paper.
Submissions
Three broadly defined types of publications will be accepted (see below). We are particularly interested in submissions stemming from GGR, JGU, JIG, and JGE courses at the 200 level or above.
Where applicable, all papers should include comprehensive in-text citations and a reference list or bibliography that is consistently formatted according to a standard academic reference style.
- Research Reports – suggested range of 1500-2500 words
These are typically a version of a culminating term paper that has entailed significant research, drawing on primary and/or secondary sources. Depending on the field and subject matter, papers may also include the manipulation of data in the form of modeling, charts, graphs, tables, or maps. - Opinion/Reflection Papers – suggested range of 1000-1500 words
These may take a variety of different forms but are fundamentally textual and should clearly express and support an argument. - Visual storytelling
We are including this new category in our 2023 issue: photo essays, graphic nonfiction, cartography, and so on. These should stem from coursework.
Peer Review Process
The Landmarks peer review process entails several stages.
- All submissions are initially screened by the Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief for the basic submission criteria.
- All submissions meeting the basic requirements are then distributed for “blind peer review” in which an anonymous version of the paper is reviewed by a minimum of two Editors.
- Papers are selected for inclusion in the journal based on recommendations from the reviewers. All selected papers must then undergo a two-stage editing process that consists of the following:
- a one-on-one review meeting between the author and an assigned Editor from an appropriate stream, and
- a final copy-editing review overseen by the Managing Editor. Authors must complete both editing stages for their papers to be included for final publication.
Author Guidelines
All papers must be submitted via email to landmarks.journal@gmail.com with the following:
- Subject heading: “Landmarks Submission [Author Last Name] – [Paper Title]”
- A short note on the context from which the submission derives (course name, semester, instructor if applicable)
- An attached .doc or .docx version of the submission. Do not submit .pdf files
- It is expected that the author(s) will have completed preliminary editing prior to submission. Please note that, if your paper is selected, the following edits will be required for publication to occur:
- Edits of content, structure, and style that take into consideration the feedback from the assigned Editor
- Final copyedits based on feedback from the assigned Editor and the Managing Editor, including attention to proper formatting and APA citation style
Please direct any questions/inquiries to landmarks.journal@gmail.com