Editorial Standards

Editorial Requirements

Editors will at all times adhere to the following rules:

1. All submissions will be read in full and all submissions will be considered for publication without bias in terms of authorship or content so long as the content is relevant.
2. Deadlines are just that. If articles are not submitted by the deadline, there is no requirement that they be published or considered for publication until after that issue is released. If this is the case, they will be considered with equal weight to those submitted for that issue.
3. There is no guarantee an article submitted will be published, however submission of material for consideration for publication entails the author(s) agreement with the copyright agreement. As such, they may be published in the issue for which they are submitted or any future issue.

Permissable changes to submitted material

In order to maintain consistency across all our publications, we may edit your submissions within the following guidelines. At all times editors will respect the intellectual content and points made by a publication and all changes made must be made for one of the following reasons:

1. Correcting or harmonising spelling, grammar or numerical/scientific elements of a paper to British English and English number formatting.
2. Making a point more clear by altering overall sentence/paragraph structure. This process should not change the meaning of any phrase within the paper or the paper as a whole and authors should be given the chance to approve these changes before publication to ensure transparency and accountability.
3. Reworking, touching up, cropping, rescaling or otherwise editing figures to make them appropriate for a given publication medium and The Post Hole's style guidelines. With regard to graphical representations of data, we may request original datasets used to generate figures in order to create a more consistent look for figures throughout the publication. These data will be used only for this purpose and will not be released or published without the express consent of their owner.

Editors will never put words (or anything else) into the mouth of an author.