About the Journal

Emic is a magazine run out of UF's Anthropology Department, originally founded by students on the executive board for the Undergraduate Florida Anthropology Student Association. Emic is a mixed-media magazine focused on bolstering the original and academic works of undergraduates through a digital platform.

 

Focus and Scope

Emic values the creativity and personal nature of its submissions and welcomes non-traditional storytelling mediums as a method of conveying the diversity of human experience through an interdisciplinary lens. Emic self-identifies as “an anthro-zine centered around culture, biology, history, and society; everything that makes us human.” Emic offers early content-dissemination experience to undergraduates to demystify academic publishing, and uplift motivated students in a professional sphere. 

Open Access Policy 

Emic provides immediate open access to its content. There are no publication charges, and all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in Emic without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author for non-commercial purposes. Nonetheless, reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein requires credit to the original publication source. 

Copyright to Your Publication  

As described in the author agreement, authors retain copyright to their publications. As an open access journal, we disseminate all content under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Self-Archiving Policy 

Emic permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit its publication in Emic. 

Preservation Policy 

Content published in Emic will be preserved by the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. Content will be preserved indefinitely, unless a specific request for removal of a specific item is directed to the journal managers. Content is also preserved in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) and CLOCKSS. 

Plagiarism Statement (General) 

Emic does not accept articles containing material plagiarized from other publications or authors.  

For the purposes of this policy, plagiarism is defined as copying of or reliance on work — including text, images and data — by others or yourself without proper attribution. Please be aware that you can plagiarize yourself; you must provide proper attribution in all cases where your previously published material or previously used data or images are included in your manuscript.  Emic does not consider the following situations to be plagiarism when proper attribution is made: 

• Translations into English of a previously published paper not in English;
• Publication of all or part of a revised thesis or dissertation;
• Publication of a paper previously made public as a conference presentation, white paper, technical report, or preprint

Emic follows workflows developed by the Committee on Public Ethics to deal with cases of plagiarism.  

Copyright Notice

By submitting to Emic, the author(s) agree to the terms of the Author Agreement. All authors retain copyrights associated with their article contributions and agree to make such contributions available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 upon publication.  

Conflict/Competing of Interest Statement 

Conflict of interest exists when a participant in the peer review and publication process as an author, reviewer, or editor has ties to activities that could inappropriately influence their judgment about the validity of submissions. Therefore, Emic requires all authors and reviewers to declare any conflicts of interest that may be inherent in their submissions. For example, financial relationships with industry through employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, expert testimony, either directly or through immediate family, are usually considered to be conflicts of interest. However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual passion. Public trust in the peer review process and the credibility of published articles depend in part on how well conflict of interest is handled during writing, peer review, and editorial decision making. Bias can often be identified and mitigated by careful attention to the methods and conclusions of the work. Financial relationships and their effects are less easily detected than other conflicts of interest. Participants in peer review and publication should disclose their competing interests, and the information should be made available so that others can judge their potential effects for themselves. 

• Authors: Upon submission, authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that might bias their work, or lack thereof. They should acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to the work. They should also provide a list of potential reviewers for which there is a likely conflict, so editors are able to avoid inappropriate review requests.  

• Reviewers: External peer reviewers should disclose to editors any conflicts of interest that could bias their opinions of the submission, and they should disqualify themselves from reviewing specific manuscripts if they believe it appropriate. Additionally, reviewers are forbidden from using knowledge of the work, before its publication, to further their own interests.