Submission Guidelines
Oracle publishes scholarly articles, essays, and reviews on a broad range of issues related to the development of fraternity and sorority members as both undergraduates and alumni and that advance the knowledge of the fraternity/sorority movement.
Research articles for Oracle should stress the underlying issues or problems that stimulated the research; treat the methodology concisely; and, most importantly, offer a full discussion of results, implications, and conclusions. We also encourage the submission of thoughtful, documented essays or historical perspectives.
Oracle focuses on articulating research involving fraternity and sorority members at the collegiate, alumni, inter/national organization, and volunteer advisory levels. Manuscripts should be written for the student affairs generalist who has broad responsibilities for educational leadership, policy, staff development, and management. Articles on specialized topics should be written to provide the generalist with an understanding of the importance of the program to student affairs overall and fraternity/sorority advising specifically; such an article should not take the form of a program specialist writing to a program specialist.
Subject matter should be of interest to college and university staff and faculty, higher education scholars and policy makers, and others interested in the fraternal movement. We welcome articles, letters, reviews, and other documents that help educators in colleges and universities make decisions or gain insight into ways to promote more effectively the education of college students. Research based, practical, and theoretical manuscripts are all encouraged from students, researchers, practitioners, and those with an interest in the development of higher education students.
Submission guidelines are as follows:
- The suggested manuscript length is 2,000-3,000 words (approximately 15-20 pages double spaced inclusive of references, tables, and figures);
- Add an author autobiography of approximately 100 words;
- Submit an abstract of approximately 200 words (for papers);
- Double space the submission, including quotations; and
- All documents must be prepared within the guidelines of the latest edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
Articles not considered under our peer review process for publication in
Oracle may be submitted to the Association’s quarterly magazine,
Perspectives, for consideration by that Editorial Board. Please indicate at time of submission if you do not want your article to be considered by
Perspectives.
Submit articles via
email as Microsoft Word attachments. Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to
Oracle the right to publish and to distribute those texts electronically, to archive those texts, and to make them permanently retrievable electronically. Authors retain the copyright of their texts. After accepted texts appear in
Oracle, authors may republish their texts subject to written approval from the Editor.
Questions regarding
Oracle should be directed to the
Editor.