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Greetings! On behalf of the American Library Association's New Members Round Table, the Endnotes Committee is pleased to announce the latest call for papers to Endnotes: The Journal of the New Members Round Table. Please feel free to pass this call along to your faculty, staff, and students who may have an interest in publishing with us.

About Endnotes

Endnotes is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that welcomes and encourages submissions from LIS students, early career professionals and researchers and first time writers. Endnotes encourages LIS students to consider their research papers and projects and convert them into journal articles. Part of Endnotes' mission is to give first-time contributors experience with the peer-review process. 

Guidelines for Submission

Articles should range from 2,000 to 6,000 words and be written by LIS students or early-career library professionals. Endnotes welcomes research papers, technical papers, conceptual papers, case studies, and literature reviews. More information on these types of articles is available in our complete submission guidelines.

Topics that might be appropriate for Endnotes include, but are not limited to: 

• Graduate student research and projects
• Early-career research and projects
• Training and mentoring
• Job searching or hiring
• Developing leadership and management skills
• Library instruction and assessment
• Developing new collections or services
• Working with specific community groups
• Committee work and development - at your library or university, regionally or nationally
• Reviews of new books or other educational materials such as websites

How to Submit

Please submit completed manuscripts to our electronic form.

Those interested in discussing an idea for an article are encouraged to contact the editor, Carrie P. Mastley, at nmrtendnotesjournal@gmail.com to determine if the proposed article fits the publication scope. 

Submission Timeline

Manuscript submissions are due no later than January 31, 2022. Initial responses to manuscript submissions are typically sent out a month after the submission deadline. If selected for peer review, reviewers are given two weeks to evaluate a submission. Typically, 2-4 weeks are given for manuscript revisions between each peer-review evaluation. The publication date for Endnotes issue 11.1 is tentatively set for June 30, 2022.

Paper ideas and manuscripts may be submitted outside of this timeline, but are not guaranteed publication in the 2022 issue.