Students whose work is published will also have the satisfaction of seeing their work in a competitive scholarly forum.  In addition, publishing your work in a "refereed" academic journal will give you an advantage in applying to graduate and professional schools.  Your school may also award you credit for your participation in this process. Finally, students who publish with Lexicon will generally be invited to serve on the Editorial Board or otherwise help with the production of the journal.

All authors published in Lexicon will have the opportunity to engage in an ongoing conversation about their contribution with the journal’s readers through an electronic forum.

We do not review work that has been previously published elsewhere, in part or whole - unless you receive explicit permission from the editors, in advance.  All work submitted to Lexicon, must be original; by submitting to Lexicon, a student is affirming that the submission is solely the student's (and any co-authors') product.

How to Submit
Undergraduates typically get published in Lexicon in one of three ways:

• First, we offer a regular, competitive submissions process open to any undergraduate student.  We seek essays (usually 500 – 1,500 words in length and a bit less formal in tone than our articles) and articles (usually 2,000 – 5,000 words in length).  Please submit your work electronically, following these guidelines. 

• Second, faculty may identify student essays suitable for publication.  While a faculty member must send an email suggesting an essay for publication, students should, obviously, make their professors aware of this option.  Faculty wishing to identify an essay for publication should contact us at bpeabody@fdu.edu or gadsden@fdu.edu., with the student essay attached or with the name and contact information for the student.

• Finally, the journal’s editors will also, on occasion, invite contributions from particular student, faculty, and professional authors.

Student submissions will be preliminarily screened by the journal’s editor and then evaluated “blind” (that is, by reviewers who do not know who you are) by a panel of faculty and students.

The process of crafting a paper for publication is intellectually demanding, time consuming, and rewarding.  A student whose paper is accepted for publication in Lexicon should work with faculty at their home institution throughout the editing and production process.  They will also be assigned an additional faculty mentor by the editors in chief of the journal.  Students will work closely with their mentor to identify problems and questions in their paper that need additional research, analysis, and thought.  The journal editors reserve the right to offer other suggestions and ask for further work on the paper.

All Lexicon authors retain the copyright to their work; we do require authors to acknowledge Lexicon in future publications based on their work.