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Submissions are accepted year-round from students enrolled at a secondary school in the Okanagan Valley. There is no fee. First decisions are sent within four weeks of a complete submission. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian must acknowledge publication before your work goes online. For this reason, OSRI will provide a digital permission form for parents/guardians after your acceptance.

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Author

Full name

School

Grade

Co-authors, if any

Name, school and grade for each. Each co-author must have contributed materially.

Manuscript

Title

Format

Study type

Link to manuscript

Ideally a shared Google Doc with comment access, or alternatively a PDF in a shared folder. Remove your name from the file itself.

Abstract or summary

250 words or fewer. For a mini-paper, one or two sentences.

Origin of the work

Ethics

Did the study collect any data from people?

If yes, shortly summarize the study design

Who took part, how they were recruited, what they were asked, what was recorded, whether anything could identify them, how consent was obtained, and whether the school gave permission. The Ethics Review Panel assigns the tier from a corroboration of this description and the methodology section; see the ethics standard. You may respond with bullet points.

Adult supervisor, if any

Name, role and email. Required for yellow-tier studies; the supervisor will be asked to co-sign.

AI disclosure

AI disclosure statement

Name each tool used, what it was used for, and how you verified its output. Write "None" if no AI tools were used. See the policy.

Declaration This work is my own, has not been published elsewhere, and every source is cited. I have read the submission guidelines and the ethics standard, and the description above is accurate. If accepted, I agree to publication under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. I keep copyright. I understand that OSRI ethics review is not IRB or REB approval.

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Before you submit

What happens next

You will receive an acknowledgement within one week. If anything is missing, the editor will tell you exactly what. A first decision follows within four weeks of a complete submission.

Not sure which tier your study is?

Describe the design in the ethics section as fully as you can. The panel assigns the tier; you do not need to decide. If you are unsure whether a topic is red-tier, ask before collecting any data.

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