Author Toolkit

On this page you will find all the documents we send to our authors during the acquisitions process. This ranges from our manuscript submission guidelines to our marketing questionnaires. If you are a current author, the forms you need should be available below. If you are interested in submitting a manuscript for review, you should begin by reading the manuscript submission guidelines and sending a proposal to our acquisitions team.


Submission Guidelines

The University of Cincinnati Press publishes interdisciplinary scholarly monographs and theory-to-practice books that concern issues of social justice. These publications can be short-form or long-form books, print or electronic, and we welcome authors seeking to publish in open access formats.


For a full set of guidelines for manuscript submissions or proposal submission, download our guidelines by clicking the corresponding button to the right.


Manuscript Submission Guidelines


Proposal Submission Guidelines

For guidelines on how to format images and text, please download the workflow for submissions file which will assist you with the appropriate formatting practices for your submissions.



For submissions involving Adobe Photoshop files, please download the guidelines for rendered images.


Workflow for Submissions



Guidelines for Rendered Images


Accessibility

The University of Cincinnati Press and Cincinnati Library Publishing Services are dedicated to promoting and providing accessible digital content. One avenue of this is creating alternative text captions for all images used in a project.




Please download the accessibility guideline files for the mandatory alt text practices, to be included in your submissions.



Accessibility Guidelines


Author Questionnaire

The author questionnaire allows us to gather important information about your contacts, plans for your manuscript, and how best to place your scholarship in contemporary discourse. Most importantly, this information is brought to our Faculty Advisory Board as part of the review process for manuscript, and it is used to help guide our peer-review process. Click the button on the right to download the form.

Author Questionnaire


Digital Content Exploration Form

If your manuscript is going to make use of enhanced digital elements like video or online annotations, then you will need to fill out our digital content exploration form. This form is a wish list for enhanced publications that helps us better organize efforts for designing and funding your project. Click the button on the right to fill out the form.

Digital Content Exploration Form


Permissions Log

The permission log should be used to track permissions for all charts, data sets, images, etc. that will be used in the final manuscript.
Click the button on the right to download the log.

Permissions Log


Copyright, Fair Use, and Permissions Information

Basic information about copyright, fair use, and gathering permissions can be found on the Policies page.


Language Considerations

The University of Cincinnati Press publishes social justice books.  It is our mission is to use language in all our books that are neither offensive nor dehumanizing. If you have questions, please contact your acquiring editor. 

Recognizing and adjusting language to be inclusive and justice-centered in publications is not a small task nor one that should be taken lightly. Please download the guidelines here.

Language Considerations


Marketing Questionnaire

The marketing questionnaire allows us to gather essential information for announcing your book, planning events, applying for prizes, and identifying appropriate outlets for reviews.
Click the button on the right to download the questionnaire.

Marketing Questionnaire