Who Can Write an Article?

Anyone can submit an article to J. Immat. Sci., and your article can be on any subject, as long as it meets these two criteria:

• It has to be funny

• It has to relate to some branch of science, at least tangentially

How to Submit an Article

The first thing you should do is download one of our article templates. We do all our work in MS Word, so its easier for us if you can use Word too, but LaTeX is ok too, if you have lots of equations. These templates contain all the specific instructions you’ll need to help you write.

Some general pointers for your article are:

• Be as funny as possible, as fast as you can. Grab the reader with a joke in the first couple of lines (even better if it’s the title), and keep the laughs coming.

• Keep it brief. Ideal article length is 1.5-2 pages, but there’s no minimum/maximum length.

• Use plenty of original, high-resolution images if you can.

• If you’re using stock photos, make sure they’re free from copyright (get them from Wikimedia Commons, Pexels or Pixabay, etc)

• Don’t use AI for anything! After consulting our readers, we’ve banned all AI-generated content from our journal.

Once your article has been written, email it to goodenough.immaterial.science@gmail.com, and we’ll start the beer-review process. This will entail fixing the inevitably-fucked formatting from our shitty templates, and trying to make your paper as funny as it can be. If you’re happy with our edits, we’ll publish your paper on our social media feeds, and then include your paper in the hardcopy at the end of the year. To show our appreciation for our authors, everyone who submits a paper gets a free hardcopy (Volume of their choice) of the journal mailed to them.