Audience

The readership of Ought consists of scholars, artists, educators, and members of the general public who are interested in autism and autistic people. It is an open-access journal that exists in digital format only.

Formatting Requirements

Scholarly Articles

• Manuscripts should be submitted in APA format.
• Do not include a separate title. Do include an abstract and a suggested a title for your work.
• Do not include page numbers, headers, or footers.
• Do not use footnotes.
• For written works, submit your file as a single document (Word or PDF) with figures, tables, and appendices included in the document. Figures, tables, and appendices may be altered or omitted to fit the layout. In general, the journal will include 2-3 images or figures per article.
• Please use one-inch margins, Times New Roman 11-12 point font, including figures, tables, and appendices. Please double-space your article, including long block quotations. Do not add additional spaces between paragraphs.
• Please include only high-resolution images in your document. If images are copyrighted, please obtain the permission of the original creator and include his or her name. If images are too large for submission, please contact the editors.
• Indicate subheaders in your manuscript with boldface, Times New Roman, 11-12. Do not use a different font face or a larger size.
• Typical Ought articles are between 3500-5000 words. Manuscripts that fall outside of these parameters will likely be rejected.

Other Written Genres

• Please use one-inch margins, Times New Roman 11-12 point font.
• Indicate subheaders in your manuscript with boldface, Times New Roman, 11-12. Do not use a different font face or a larger size.
• Please follow acceptable practices that pertain to the genre.

Visual Works

• For visual works such as photography or artwork, please submit a zip file containing high-resolution JPG files.
• Please include an artist’s statement about each submission.
• Videos are welcome. Please submit the original video file.

Style Preferences

• Titles: please italicize, rather than underline, whenever necessary.
• Dashes: please use em dashes (—) with no additional spaces between dashes and words.
• Hyperlinks: Please do not include hyperlinks or email addresses within the body of your article. These can be added to the reference list if necessary.

Citations and References

• All in-text citations and references must adhere to APA formatting style. Manuscripts that do not follow this format will be rejected.
• Online sources: whenever possible, use the print citation rather than the online citation. When referring to exclusively online content, please shorten the URL to its most basic information.
• When in doubt, please use Google Scholar to provide the proper APA citation.

Other Preferences

• While Ought encourages collaborative authorship, manuscripts submitted by more than three authors can be unwieldy to credit and cite. Any authors beyond three may be treated as contributors rather than authors.
• Please do not submit unedited pieces of dissertations, which will be rejected out of hand.