Journal of Hate Studies

Publication Types

JHS publishes the following types of scholarly work:

• Scholarly Articles: Peer-reviewed articles of significant new research in hate studies. Typically 5,000-8,000 words.
• Editorials: Short pieces by the editorial or invited guests that discuss trends, major developments in the field, and news of note or introduces the themes of a JHS issue.
• Student Voices: Peer-reviewed works by undergraduate students.
• Reviews: Scholarly assessments of books, films, exhibits, performances, and other contributions to hate studies. Typically 800-1200 words. Contact the editor to volunteer to write a review or recommend a recent or forthcoming book, film, exhibit, or performance relevant to hate studies for review.

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Authorship

Manuscripts are submitted online. After submitting, the author can track the submission and communicate with the editors via the online journal management system. When a manuscript is co-authored, the order of authors will be published as it appears on the initial submission. All authors must give prior approval to have their name attributed to the submitted files and agree to the publication. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all authors qualify for, and have agreed to, authorship of the submission. They are also responsible for informing all co-authors of relevant editorial information during the review process.

In keeping with ICMJE criteria for authorship, JHS requires that every author has

• made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work
• contributed to drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content
• provided final approval of the version to be published
• agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved
• agreed to be named on the author list and approved of the full author list

Those meeting some but not all the above criteria deserve acknowledgment but should not be listed as an author. This includes those who provide funding, administrative support, language editing, or proofreading or research group supervisors. If a manuscript is accepted for publication, the corresponding author will be responsible for procuring written permission from those acknowledged to ensure that they agree to their contribution being honored in this way.

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AI Policy

Journal of Hate Studies values the contributions of humans as observers, collectors, and analyzers of data; as authors and other kinds of creators; and as readers and reviewers who help ensure that high-quality scholarship is made to the public. For this reason, as well as because

• generative artificial intelligence (AI) poses a grave threat to our environment, harm that is disproportionately felt by populations that historically were and today remain disproportionately victims of structural oppression;
• generative AI, as a predictive model, reproduces inequalities and injustices that hate studies in particular seeks to ameliorate and elevates the already-known, thereby suppressing innovative ideas and the contributions of lesser-heard voices;
• large language models are often trained on corpora that include academic writing without acknowledging the work of scholars;
• generative AI often incorporates large chunks of texts from other works without citing them, both plagiarizing from scholars whose work we seek to recognize and preventing us from holding scholars accountable for their ideas; and
• large language models often produce incorrect and damaging information, especially when producing writing about the kind of cutting-edge content JHS seeks to publish and promote.

JHS fosters an environment where generative AI tools are not used by editors, authors, or reviewers. Very simply, we value the unique contributions of people, not AI, and seek to advance the best work that people can do without imposing the harms caused by AI.

Our Commitments

Authors submitting manuscripts to Journal of Hate Studies must acknowledge any use of generative AI in their research, including in formulating ideas, collecting and analyzing literature, and generating and revising texts, images, and translations, and authors understand that the use of generative AI is may disqualify their work from publication in JHS.

Scholarship about AI as it relates to the study of hate are welcome and encouraged.

Likewise, manuscript reviewers and editors are prohibited from using AI tools to analyze manuscripts or write manuscript reviews. Authors place trust in editors and reviewers, vulnerably sharing hard and often very personal work, and we return that trust by offering only thoughtful, engaged, authentic reviews written by human readers.

Failure to disclose the use of generative AI may result in retractions of publications, among other corrective actions, even if the content published does not contain errors or plagiarism caused by AI use.

Authors and reviewers who find themselves struggling to research and write without the use of generative AI are encouraged to contact the managing editor or editorial board chair for support. JHS’s larger mission includes increasing scholarly interest and competency in hate studies, and supporting writers is part of that work.

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Style and Formatting

JHS encourages submissions from a range of disciplines and so accepts submissions and publishes manuscripts in several styles: APA, CMS (footnotes, endnotes, or author-date), and MLA, as is appropriate for the discipline of the manuscript. Guidance from APA, MLA, or CMS should inform all style choices, including formatting, spelling, and in-text and bibliographic citations.

First and Last Page

Whether the citation style calls for it or not, the first page of each manuscript must include only:

• the title and subtitle, if any
• abstract of up to 250 words
• a list of up to 6 key words.

The final page of the manuscript should include the following, to the extent that they are relevant:

• A list of supplementary files and publicly available data, linked to the main publication, with corresponding number, title, and description. Supplementary files should always be referenced in the text so that their value to the reader is clear. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, supplementary files will not be typeset or proofread by JHS editors and so must be in their final form. They will be assigned a DOI and linked to the JHS website.
• acknowledgments, if any
• a statement of competing interests, if any
• a statement of funding, if any was provided
• a statement assuring readers that any research with human or animal subjects was completed in accordance with appropriate ethical guidelines, such as the Helsinki Declaration of Protection of Research Participants, the Belmont Report, or other discipline- and nation-specific guidelines
• The author is responsible for obtaining all permissions required prior to submission of the manuscript. Permission and owner details should be mentioned for all third-party content included in the submission or used in the research.

Maintaining Anonymity

Manuscripts undergo a double-blind review process, so authors should avoid identifying information in the documents they submit. However, they should include citations to their own work, when relevant, provided that those citations do not reveal their identity; in cases where authors refer to their own work in the first person, they should redact the title of their work and remove other information that would reveal their identity.

Preparing Your Manuscript

JHS encourages author fastidiousness in ensuring both the accuracy of their writing in both content and format. We value the time of our reviewers and do not want them to use their precious reading time distracted by lower-level errors in writing, formatting, and citing. Additionally, careful proofreading before submission ensures that authors receive feedback focused on substantive issues, not lower-level errors that are best corrected before a manuscript reaches reviewers. If you are concerned about lower-level issues, such as formatting citations, contact the editor for recommendations for writing coaches, editors, or proofreaders who can help you improve your manuscript and strengthen your writing skills.

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