Submissions
This page is designed to help you ensure your submission is ready for and fits the scope of the journal.
Before submitting you should read over the guidelines here, then register an account (or login if you have an existing account)
About
Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities and arts, disability rights advocates, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that the field of disability studies embraces. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society. (ISSN: 1041-5718; eISSN: 2159-8371)
Focus and Scope
Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities and arts, disability rights advocates, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that the field of disability studies embraces. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society. (ISSN: 1041-5718; eISSN: 2159-8371)
Submission Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- Authors need to be members of the Society for Disability Studies in order to submit a manuscript. SDS memberships are on a sliding scale, starting at $5/month, and cancellable at any time. If you are not currently a member, please sign up here before submitting your manuscript: https://www.patreon.com/SocietyforDisabilityStudies.
- To ensure the integrity of the peer-reviewed, you must anonymize your document properties (file info) as well as the text of your document. Avoid or minimize self citations (you can reintroduce them after the peer review). When you cannot avoid a self citation, refer to your work in the third person. Also remove any acknowledgments or references to funding sources until after the peer review.
- In addition, you must remove author info from the file properties of your Word document.**
Instructions:- Microsoft Office: In File Properties, remove author identification.
- Word for Windows/ Word 365: Go to File > Info > Check for Issue (menu to the left of "Inspect Document").
- Click "Inspect Document," make sure to check the box next to "Document properties and Personal Information," and then click "Inspect" at th bottom of the dialogue box. If there is a red exclamation mark next to "Document Properties and Personal Information" it will give you the option to "Remove All," which you should click.
- Word for MacOS: go to Tools > Protect Document > Remove personal information for this file on save > click OK, and then save the file. Before submitting your file, please re-open the document and check to make sure all personal information has been removed.
- In addition, you must remove author info from the file properties of your Word document.**
- To ensure the accessibility of the journal's content, all images or figures must be accompanied by a text description.
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Articles must correctly conform to a standard citation and reference format: APA, ASA, Chicago, or MLA.
For formatting and style issues not related to citations (indentation, formatting of quotations, punctuation, etc.), consult the Chicago Manual of Style. We may reject submissions with too many errors or that do not adhere to a standard citation style, so proofreading and consultation of the appropriate citations style guide is strongly recommended.
In keeping with the Chicago Manual of Style, authors should always use double quotation marks (“), not single quotation marks (‘). The only time authors should use single quotation marks is when there is a quote within a quote. This is true for both the text and citations. In addition, commas and periods come before quotation marks whenever there is not a parenthetical citation (APA or MLA) that requires a different order.
- To comply with the terms of the publisher's Crossref membership, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) must be included with references when they are available. To check for DOIs, you can use the Free DOI Lookup form on the Crossref website. By checking the box, you assert that you have included DOIs where applicable. If there is no DOI make sure to use a stable URL and test it from a browser where you are not logged in to your university account (many authors provide URLs that require a login to their university library account).
- Make your document accessible. All submissions should:
- be double-spaced, including abstract, quotations, and citations (single spacing is not accessible)
- be left-aligned, with indented paragraphs
- not have extra spaces between paragraphs
- use 12-point font size or larger
- use fonts such as Calibri and Times New Roman that are easy to read. Avoid fonts like Garamond that are difficult to read.
- place quotations in-text unless they are more than one hundred words, in which case they are set off as block
- quotes (specific exceptions can be made for dialogue and other special circumstances --see Chicago Manual of Style for guidance on this and other formatting and style issues).
- Article submissions must include a one-paragraph abstract (double-spaced) and a list of keywords. This may not be necessary for some submissions, such as creative works.
- Write for a general disability studies audience, not just for people from your own discipline. Most readers outside your field will want to get right to the material that is most interesting and original; they will not want to wade through a lengthy literature review section at the start of your paper. It is better to weave discussions of relevant literature into your paper as you make your arguments. It is also better to minimize jargon and make your writing accessible to a wide disability studies audience.
- All figures, charts, graphs, and images must include alt text. See below for more detailed guidance.
- Contributors may not submit articles with AI-generated content unless they are using it to illustrate artificial intelligence, and then only when clearly identified and with the express written permission of a DSQ editor.
Copyright Notice
This Author Agreement for Disability Studies Quarterly ("Agreement") is entered into by and between The Ohio State University, on behalf of its University Libraries ("Publisher"), and the author ("Author").
For good and valuable consideration, Publisher and Author agree as follows:
- Author hereby grants to Publisher the right to publish, reproduce, distribute, translate, transmit, and display his/her submitted work and an abstract thereof ("Work") in Disability Studies Quarterly in whole or in part and in all formats and all media, as well as to ensure accessibility of works under University policy and current web accessibility standards. Author also hereby grants to Publisher the right for Publisher to enter into agreements with third parties that grant such third parties any or all of the rights that Author has granted to Publisher herein. The aforementioned rights may include the rights necessary to index and abstract the Work. The Author agrees that any subsequent publication of the Work will credit Disability Studies Quarterly as the site of first publication and provide a link to Disability Studies Quarterly. This Agreement is subject to the terms and expectations outlined on Publisher's website ( http://go.osu.edu/publishing-services ).
- Author represents and warrants that: (1) they are the creator and rights holder of the Work; (2) Publisher's exercise of the rights granted to Publisher herein will not infringe or violate any copyright or any other right of a third party; (3) if the Work contains any third party content, they have obtained the unrestricted permission of the copyright owner or that use of third party material is allowed because the material is in the public domain or an appropriate fair use analysis has been performed and there is a reasonable belief that use is permitted; and (4) the Work contains nothing libelous or otherwise unlawful. Author hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Publisher and its trustees, officers, employees, agents, and subgrantees from all claims related to Publisher's exercise of the rights granted to Publisher herein or related to the subject matter covered in Author's representations and warranties.
Disability Studies Quarterly is published under a CC BY 4.0 license, to allow for certain types of reuse without permission. By submitting this agreement, the Author agrees to apply a CC BY 4.0 license to the Work upon publication.
Peer Review
All articles and creative works are reviewed by peers who have the appropriate knowledge and expertise. When we receive a new submission at DSQ we read it first, as editors, and then determine 2-4 peer reviewers for each submission. We contact those reviewers and begin by requesting a review back in 4 weeks time. Reviewers don't always respond quickly (or even agree to do the review) and thus, additional reviewers, or nudges for initial reviewers, must often follow. It is not uncommon for the peer review process to take up to 6 months although we do our best to move a new submission through the process as quickly as possible.
If you have not heard anything back from the DSQ editors on the status of your submission in 8-12 weeks time, you should always feel free to contact us and we will update you regarding the review process for your submission.
Once we have reviews back, we read those reviews and the original submission once again; we make careful consideration in our regular editorial meetings about the next steps forward. A DSQ Editorial Decision Letter then goes back to the author/s. If it is a Revise & Resubmit, we indicate the extent of those revisions (and include the original peer reviewer comments). We generally ask for a revision in 3 month's time; we also ask that such revisions also include a cover letter from the author/s that details the revisions that were made.
Final publication decisions are made by the Editor/s based on information gathered from the peer reviews and the success and extent of the revision that is re-submitted.
Licences
The following licences are allowed:
- Copyright
© the author(s). All rights reserved. - CC BY 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. - CC BY-ND 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. - CC BY-NC 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. - CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. - CC BY-SA 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. - imported
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Publication Fees
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Publication Cycle
DSQ is published by The Ohio State University Libraries four times a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.
Sections
| Section or article type | Public Submissions | Peer Reviewed | Indexed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Articles | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Creative Works | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Commentary Section: Disability Studies and Public Health Education | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Issue: Disability Studies in Public Health and the Health Professions | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Technology Part 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Forum: Million Dollar Baby | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Technology, Part 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Freakery, Part 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Pedagogy in Disability Studies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Policy and Law, Part 1: International Disability Law | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Policy and Law, Part 1: Empirical Studies of Employment and Economic Advancement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Policy and Law, Part 1: Welfare Models | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Emerging Issues in the Study of Disability Policy and Law, Part 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Freakery, Part 2: Book and Film Reviews | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Freakery, Part 2: General Papers | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Freakery, Part 2: Commentary | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Emerging Issues in the Study of Disability Policy and Law, Part 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cultural Commentary | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability Studies in German Speaking Countries | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Education | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Religion and Spirituality: | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Freakery, Part 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Religion and Spirituality, Part 2: Commentary | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Theme Section: Religion and Spirituality, Part 2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tributes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability Blogging | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: The State of Disability in Israel/Palestine | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability in Canada | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Food Studies and Disability Studies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Section: Poetry | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability in Japan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Section: Disability and History | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom, Pt. 8: Accessing Spaces and Histories | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom, Pt. 7: Disability Autobiography and Representation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom, Pt. 6: Intersections with Gender and Sexuality | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom, Pt. 5: Writing Autism in the College Curriculum | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom, Pt. 4: Researching & Writing a Disability Perspective | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom, Pt. 3: Reflections on Disability | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom, Pt. 2: Disability Studies as Agent of Change | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom, Pt. 1: Introduction | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Selected Papers from UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a Call for Action | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| A Multinational Review of English-language Disability Studies Degrees and Courses | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Disability in Kenya: The Nairobi Workshop: Disability, Communities, and the State | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Disability in Kenya: The Nairobi Workshop: Disability and Culture: Folklore, Religion, and Identity | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Disability in Kenya: The Nairobi Workshop: Personal Narratives and Reactions to the Workshop | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Disability in Kenya: The Nairobi Workshop | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Disabled Shakespeares | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity: Roundtables | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity: Book and Film Reviews | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity: Creative Works | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity: Interviews | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity: Cultural Commentary | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity: Peer-Reviewed Articles | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Autism and the Concept of Neurodiversity: Prefatory Matter | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Learning Disabilities | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Interviews | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2009 SDS Zola & Senior Scholar Award Winners | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability and/in Time | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Article | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SDS Senior Scholar | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Mediated Communication | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: International Articles | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Work and Disability: Toward Re-conceptualizing the 'Burden' of Disability | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Movement Politics | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: New Conversations in Disability Studies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Disability and Madness | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Self-Reflection as Scholarly Praxis | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Creative Works/Cultural Commentary | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Social Sciences, Policy, and Applied Research | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Museum Experience and Blindness, Part 1: Best Practices | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Museum Experience and Blindness, Introduction | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Report from the Field | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Forum: On the 50th Anniversary of Goffman's Stigma | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Disability and Rhetoric | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Section: Irving K. Zola Award Winner for Emerging Scholar in Disability Studies, 2014 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| III. Locations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| II. Energies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| I. Shifts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Growing Disability Studies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Humanities, Arts, and Media | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Section: Irving K. Zola Award Winner for Emerging Scholar in Disability Studies, 2012 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Museum Experience and Blindness, Part 3: Personal Accounts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Topic: Museum Experience and Blindness, Part 2: Curatorial Perspectives | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Section: Zola Award Winners | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Selected Syllabi and Class Assignments | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Feeling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Doing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Being | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Speaking Back... | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paradoxically Speaking... | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Historically Speaking... | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Re-vision-ing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Expanding our Field of Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Expanding the Visual Archive | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Staging Disability | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| (Il)Legibility | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| World Disrupters | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Disability's Ever Presence | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Embracing Neurodiversity | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Resisting Diagnosis | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| What's in a Name? The Critical Crossroads of Disability Studies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sustenance and Sustainability | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Special Issue: Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Re-Reading | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Book and Media Reviews | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Citizenships | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Epistemologies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Living Disabled/Disabled Lives | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Disability Disrupted/Rethinking Disability | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Coming Out, Staying In | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Performance | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Creation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Re-Framing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Challenges to Normalcy | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Re-Imagining | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Global Politics | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Access | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Section II: Revisitations, Revisions | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Section I: Reorientations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Representations of Disability in Film | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Articles | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Creative Works | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Section I: Kinship | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Section III: Knowledge Making | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Section I: Reorientations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Section II: Revisitations, Revisions | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Section III: Survivance & New Directions | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Neurodiversity, Past and Present | Yes | Yes | Yes |