Carefully review the following guidelines before submitting your work.

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts may be submitted to When You Need Books® by: 

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• Online submission using the Manuscript Submission Form. ​​

• Email to editor@whenyouneedbooks.com with attached files. 

  • Manuscripts submitted by email must include the following elements: 

• Cover page

• Suggested Title and Category for your work

• Your name and contact information

• Your manuscript (typed in 12 pt Times New Roman) as  a single file in one of the following file formats:  DOC, DOCX, PDF

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• Accompanying images in the following file formats:  JPG, PNG, PDF, SVG

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Click here to download our Cover Page Template.

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Terms of Submission

Only one work per submission will be reviewed. We will not review or consider for publication more than one submission at a time.

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All works must be submitted via the Manuscript Submission Form or email. Postal mailed submissions will not be reviewed or considered for publication.

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Any narratives submitted as personal accounts must be 100 percent factually accurate and not based on fiction. 

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Authors must change the names of people mentioned in their narratives in order to protect their privacy.

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Authors must provide links or references when citing studies, other people’s writings, or websites.

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Submissions that contain obscene, insulting, derogatory terms and/or racial and ethnic slurs, biases, and stereotypes will not be considered for publication.

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Any materials submitted to When You Need Books® that promote, support, or endorse a specific political party, candidate, or political agenda will not be reviewed or considered for publication.

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Only manuscripts that have never been published before, have never been accepted for publishing, and are not currently being considered for publishing by any other print or electronic publisher will be reviewed. 

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[Certification of Authorship]

Manuscripts will only be accepted for review if submitted by the person listed as the corresponding author.

Plagiarized work, work that overlaps with other manuscripts, will not be reviewed for publication. Overlapping material includes a work whose substance significantly duplicates that of another author's work.

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[Copyrighted Material] 

Authors must provide credit to the original author(s) and acquire permission from the copyright owner(s) if they want to use text, figures, tables, graphs, or charts that have already been published or will be published elsewhere in their work. Prior to publication, it is the author's responsibility to obtain all necessary permissions. If the author is not the owner of the copyright, this also applies to previously published works by the author. Any charges related to using data from another source must be covered by the author. 

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Any inquiries concerning the status of submitted works or questions about accepted manuscripts should be forwarded to status@whenyouneedbooks.com 

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